1912. 
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The Rural Patterns. 
The first group shows 7378, tucked 
blouse or shirt waist, 34 to 42 bust. For 
the medium size will be required 2$4 
yards of material 36 inches wice, with 
yard 27 of insertion and 1|14 yards of 
edging for frill. 7362, fancy blouse 
with front closing. 34 to 42 bust. For 
the medium size will be required 2^4 
yards of material 36 inches wide, with 
iy 4 yards 21 for collar and cuffs, 1 yard 
of lace 18 inches wide and 3 l /2 yards of 
velvet banding. 7313, plain blouse or 
shirt waist. 34 to 44 bust. For the 
medium size will be required 2 yards of 
material 36 inches wide. 7238, four- 
piece skirt, 22 to 30 waist. For the 
medium size will be required 3^4 yards 
of material 36 inches wide. 7345, girl’s 
costume. 8 to 12 years, with long or 
three-quarter sleeves. For the 10 year 
size will be required 2]/ 4 yards of ma¬ 
terial 36 inches wide for blouse with 
peplum 2*4 yards 36 inches wide for 
skirt and trimming with £4 yard 36 
inches wide for under waist. 7361, boy’s 
suit. 6 to 12 years, with high or open 
neck and separate shield. For the 10 
year size will be required 4% yards of 
material 36 inches wide, with *4 yard 27 
for collar and 5 yards of braid. 
The second group includes 6935, three- 
piece adjustable chemise. Small 32 or 
34, medium 36 or 38, large 40 or 42 
bust. For the medium size will be re¬ 
quired 2*4 yards of material 36 inches 
wide, 7*4 yards of insertion, 8 yards of 
edging, 1J4 yards of ribbon. 7318, prin- 
cesse combination corset cover and 
drawers. 34 to 44 bust. For the me¬ 
dium size will be required 3*4 yards of 
material 36 inches wide, with 4*4 yards 
of embroidery 5 inches wide, 2*4 yards 
of beading, 11 yards of insertion and 
3J4 yards of lace edging. 7369, night¬ 
gown with body and sleeves in one. 
Small 34 or 36, medium 38 or 40, large 
42 or 44 bust. For the medium size will 
be required 4J4 yards of material 36 
inches wide, with 3*4 yards of inser¬ 
tion and 424 yards of lace as shown in 
large view. 7359, combination corset 
cover and closed drawers for misses and 
small women, 14, 16 and 18 years. For 
the 16 year size will be required 3*4 
yards of material 36 inches wide, with 
3/4 yards of insertion, 6J4 yards of 
edging and 2 yards of beading. 7159, 
five-gored petticoat. 22 to 32 waist. 
For the medium size will be required 
3*4 yards of material 36 inches wide, 
2V a yards 44 inches wide for petticoat, 
2 yards 36 inches wide for circular 
flounce, 3 yards of embroidery 13 inches 
wide for straight flounce, 2J4 yards of 
beading to trim as illustrated. Price of 
each pattern, 10 cents. 
Pea Coal for Domestic Use. 
My folks have used pea coal many 
years and prefer it to any other for any 
purpose. It is used in a modern furnace 
with revolving grate bars intended for 
large coal. Some of our friends are 
sceptical, and once in a while some one 
says it can’t be done, but we do it. 
Another thinks it will form gas and blow 
the door open, but it never has. I think 
it might df> that if a large body of new 
coal should be put on a hot fire and 
shut up too soon, but when carefully 
used it is the slickest fuel you ever saw. 
There is no sifting of ashes—it burns up 
so clean; few clinkers if the fire is not 
allowed to run up to the melting point. 
I don’t have to tend furnace myself; the 
“missus” and grown-up boy distrust my 
ability as a fireman, so all I have to do 
is to cart home the coal in Summer or 
Fall and in Winter go into the woodlot 
and cut the cordwood, cart that home, 
saw and split it, and pile it up straight 
and even in the woodshed. That leaves 
me free to do something else all the rest 
of the time. 
I suppose this matter interests only 
those readers who are supplied with 
Pennsylvania anthracite. Our dealers 
near Boston have many kinds of coal. 
There is Lehigh, very hard; Lacka¬ 
wanna. not so hard; Shamokin, softer; 
red ash and free burning, also a dollar 
more a ton; Franklin, still softer, red 
ash and still another dollar higher. 
These free burning coals are not so 
much more expensive as they seem, be¬ 
cause being lighter they measure out 
more hods to the ton. I know some care¬ 
ful people of small means who consider 
Franklin coal at $9 a ton the cheapest 
coal for cook stove. All the coal when 
loaded at the wharf or yard for deliv¬ 
ery to families is screened. The large 
sizes go over a coarse screen and what 
drops through is screened again over 
medium mesh, and stove or nut size is 
sorted out; the screenings are handled 
once more and pea coal results. What 
is left after that is just 'dirt, slack or 
screenings, and goes to the steam boilers 
where forced draft is used. Every day 
or two the yard laborers collect these 
piles of pea coal of all kinds and dump 
them all together in one bin, and that 
is the bin I want my Winter coal from. 
Where I trade they call it “homemada 
pea.” They have whole cargoes of pea 
coal from the mines. I don’t like it so 
well, and insist on the homemade; there 
is no slate in it, for slate does not break 
up in going over the screen, and the 
mixture of free burning with the harder 
coals is just right. The foreman once 
explained to me that years ago they had 
hard work to sell the pea coal; it went 
as screenings do now to the steam boil¬ 
ers. Then during the coal famine not 
many years ago, at the time of the 
strike, people took anything, and many 
learned to use and like pea coal. Since 
then they cannot make enough of it and 
so buy whole cargoes. If one does not 
know these facts he will almost always 
get cargo coal; it isn’t so good. The 
price is the same. I pay $4.50 and cart 
it myself; it would be 50 cents or a dol¬ 
lar more according to distance if deliv¬ 
ered. We like it just as well in the 
cook stove and the open grate, but hav¬ 
ing a woodlot we do not use coal except 
in a blizzard, when we run a cook stove 
fire all night on account of the water 
circulation to the bath-room. 
I ought to add that we do have a half 
ton on hand of large size coal; it is used 
to start a new fire, just 'to cover the 
coarse grate. It is useful too when fire 
gets in bad shape just to drop a few 
pieces into holes at one side. The half 
ton will last us two Winters when used 
only in this way. We use five or six 
tons of pea coal in a Winter for the 
furnace. 
I would like to say a word about the 
arrangement of bathroom fixtures. We 
often see the copper tank that supplies 
hot water placed near the range in the 
kitchen where it is not ornamental and 
perhaps occupies space that could be 
used for some other purpose.- Nowa¬ 
days, placed horizontally, they are hung 
up near the ceiling over the range. It 
is out of the way, to be sure, but our 
tank is upstairs in the bathroom; been 
there 20 years now. It is the radiator 
that heats the room. Furnace heat from 
the hall helps some, but the 30-gallon 
copper reservoir is the main heater. It 
works fine. Is it hot in Summer? Well, 
there is the window. If it is too hot 
when that is open it must be because it 
is a warm day and we are bound to be 
uncomfortable anywhere. How about 
that extra heat in the kitchen in hot 
weather? Somebody spends more time 
in the kitchen than anyone does in the 
bathroom. It is in Spring and Fall when 
there is no furnace fire that the heater 
in the bathroom comes in handy. Then 
there are chilly mornings and whole 
days of damp weather in midsummer 
when the gentle heat from 30 gallons 
of hot water in that little room is the 
most comforting thing in the home. 
Every occupied house has a fire in the 
cook stove every day; the tank does not 
cool quickly—always comfortable in the 
morning. _ u. s. B. 
Bread from Winter Wheat. 
For more than three years, since com¬ 
ing to Virginia from Wisconsin, I have 
been baking bread of our own home¬ 
grown Winter wheat, taken to the 
nearby mill here and ground, and our 
bread is fine; in fact we like it much 
better than the patent flour. At first it 
was hard for me, and I did have a few 
batches of failures, but as my better 
half is still here, I guess they are for¬ 
gotten. I follow the usual method, but 
use a little more shortening, and follow¬ 
ing, I believe, is the “kink”; I work 
this dough much more than I did the 
patent flour mixture. I work it till it 
leaves the side and bottom of pan as 
clean as a new dollar; then sprinkle in 
a little flour at a time and work some 
more, then let rise and work again. I 
very seldom have bad luck now. 
I must tell of something else here. 
My husband had some whole wheat 
ground for feed; of that just as it comes 
from the mill I make bread and it is 
delicious. Once my husband was in the 
kitchen when I pulled a batch out of the 
oven, and what he said when he looked 
at it was not flattering, but when he ate 
it he said: “My, this is good; the more 
you eat, the more you want.” This mix¬ 
ture is much different from flour; it is 
shorter in handling. I use just flour 
enough to make it out with and follow 
the usual method; being on a farm I 
of course use dry yeast, set over night. 
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Flies! 
Flies! 
Flies! 
Get rid of them and help 
make your home and premises 
sanitary by the liberal use of 
Tanglefoot Fly Paper . 
There is fully one-third more 
compound per sheet on Tangle¬ 
foot than on any other fly paper; 
hence it lasts longest, catches the 
most flies and is the best and 
cheapest fly paper. If you ask 
for “fly paper” or “sticky fly 
paper” you may get a cheap 
imitation that will soon dry up 
or glaze over. Ask for Tanglefoot. 
Sold by Grocers and Druggists. 
TREE TANGLEFOOT, put up in 1, 3. 10 
and 20 lb. cans. 
Wil! protect your trees from all climbing 
insects. 
“FUMA” 
kills Prairie Dogs, 
Woodchucks, Gophers, 
and Grain Insects. 
“The wheels of the gods 
grind slow but exceed¬ 
ingly small." So tho weevil, but you can stop their 
with “Fuma Garbon Bisulphide ” a “ doing 8 
EDWARD R. TAYLOR, Penn Yan, N. Y. 
Anty Drudge to Mrs. Farmer 
Mrs. Farmer—“Well, you still do it, even after I have 
told you how hard it is to rub those stains out. And 
how I have to boil and boil it before it is anywhere 
near clean. And on washday you men complain of 
the sickening* steam from the wash boiler.” 
Anty Drudge—“Stop scolding these poor men. Take 
Anty Drudge’s advice and instead of washing, rub¬ 
bing and then steaming up the house by boiling the 
towels, use Fels-Naptha Soap with cool or lukewarm 
water, and half the rubbing you ordinarily do. Your 
towels will be spotless.” 
Why save your butter and egg money 
for a washing machine ? They’re mighty 
handy, but they save you only the hard 
rubbing on the washboard. 
The easiest way of washing will take 
none of your pin-money. You’ve got to buy 
soap, anyhow, and Fels-Naptha Soap used 
the Fels-Naptha way does away with boil¬ 
ing clothes and the back-breaking drudgery. 
Just rub Fels-Naptha Soap on the 
clothes, roll, soak, and place them in cool or 
lukewarm water. In a half hour the soap 
has done its work. Then a light rub, a 
rinse, blued, and your wash is ready to 
hang out. Full directions on the red and 
green wrapper . 
For full particulars, write Fels-Naptha, Philadelphia 
