1912. 
<THEJ RURAL NEW-YORKER 
669 
The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns always give 
number of patterns and measurements , 
desired. 
The first group shows 7410, surplice 
waist, 34 to 42 bust. With peplum that 
is perforated for shorter length, with or 
without trimming portions and fancy 
collar, with or without under sleeves. 
For the medium size will be required 
224 yards of material 36 inches wide, 
with 24 yard 27 inches wide for the 
trimming portions, 124 yards 18 inches 
wide for chemisette, undersleeves and 
fancy collar. You will note a mistake 
in the number on cut. It should be 
7410 instead of 7310. 7386, tucked shirt 
waist, 34 to 42 bust, with box plait, high 
collar, and long sleeves. For the me¬ 
dium size will be required 224 yards of 
material 36 inches wide. 7169, semi- 
princesse dress for misses and small 
women, 14, 16 and 18 years. For the 
16 year size will be required 424 yards 
of material 36 inches wide, 124 yards of 
all-over lace 18 inches wide, 1% yards 
of satin 27 inches wide, 324 yards of 
ruffling to trim as illustrated. 7400, 
boy’s suit, 2 to 6 years. For the 4 year 
size will be required 2}4 yards of ma¬ 
terial 36 inches wide. 7412, boy’s Rus¬ 
sian suit, 2 to 6 years, with round col¬ 
lar or neckband For the 4 year size 
will be required 224 yards of material 
36 inches wide, with 24 yard 27 for 
collar and belt. 
The second group includes 7416, girl’s 
empire dress, 10 to 14 years, with 
straight edges, skirt to be tucked or 
gathered, sleeves in elbow or three-quar¬ 
ter length. For the 12 year size will 
be required 2% yards of bordered ma¬ 
terial 30 inches wide, and 3 yards 15 
inches wide to make as shown in front 
view. 324 yards 36 inches wide, with 
24 yard of all-over lace 18 inches wide 
to make as shown in back view. 7407, 
girl’s dress, 10 to 14 years, with round 
or high neck, with elbow or three- 
quarter sleeves. For the 12 year size 
will be required 324 yards of material 
36 inches wide, with 4 yards of wide 
lace, 3 Y\ yards of wide banding as 
shown in front view, 5 yards of edging, 
10 yards of insertion and 24 yard 36 
inches wide for frill as shown in back 
view- 7413, empire semi-princess dress 
for misses and small women, 16 and 
18 years- For the 16 year size will be 
required 2 x /% yards of flouncing 28 
inches wide, 24 yard of plain material 36 
inches wide, 1 yard of satin 21 inches 
wide, 224 yards of banding, 324 yards of 
flouncing 17 inches wide, and 24 yard of 
tucking 18 inches wide for chemisette. 
6986, child’s one-piece dress with bloom¬ 
ers, 2, 4 and 6 years, with square or 
round neck. For the 4 year size will be 
required 2 24 yards of material 36 inches 
wide with bloomers^ 124 yards 36 inches 
wide without bloomers, 3*24 yards of 
banding. 6908, child’s French dress, 2, 
4 and 6 years. With straight skirt. For 
the 4 year size will be required 124 
yards of material 3'6 inches wide, 524 
yards of banding. Price of each pat¬ 
tern 10 cents. 
Bedroom Fashions. 
Part I. 
It is “as good as company and a whole 
lot easier,” Pet says, having Bess at 
home on a vacation. Certainly her 
strong young hands on the over-and- 
over, everyday tasks help and invigorate. 
so much that work seems play, and 
when she urges me to slip off for a visit 
somewhere I flatly refuse, for does not 
hearing her tell about fresh scenes and 
people and ways give me change of 
thought enough right where I am? 
Pet follows her sister about like her 
shadow, now pleased to learn about city 
ways and ideas, and now up in arms 
lest anything in her beloved home be 
proved old-fashioned and capable of be¬ 
ing improved upon. This morning as 
she stood wiping the dishes I was wash¬ 
ing, her talk ran upon some new notions 
in bedroom care and furnishings. 
“Have you seen how horridly Bess 
fixes her pillows?” she began. “Just 
laid flat down! And she worked so 
hard to teach me how to make them all 
flat and smooth so they would stand 
up stiff as boards and lean properly 
against the headboard. But now she 
says it is the fashion to lay them down, 
round and fat looking.” 
“That is because, I suppose, on the 
new brass bedsteads a long round bol¬ 
ster covered to match the silken or 
chintz bedspread is the proper thing.” 
“Oh, but she says brass bedsteads are 
out of fashion.” 
“Dear me! Then we can stop wishing 
for one.” 
“Yes, but think of your handsome 
front chamber pillow shams and those 
sham holders we wanted so long before 
we got them. You will have to take 
the shams for stand spreads.” 
“Oh no. I shall keep the bed exactly 
as it is. The high pillows and covers 
are needed to make the high headboard 
look right. But we will tell Pauline 
that she won’t need to buy any when 
she furnishes her guest chamber.” 
“Oh, didn’t you hear Bess and Pauline 
planning that spare room yesterday 
when Pauline was here? Bess says that 
when she comes home next Summer 
they will get out Grandma Ithamar’s 
old wooden beadstead from the barn 
loft and scrape and stain and oil the 
wood, maple they guessed it was, and 
Pauline will have as stylish a mahogany 
bed as any fashionable lady. They said 
there could be three strong slats 
screwed to the under side of the side 
bars to hold the bedstead firm without 
its cords and to rest the springs on. 
And they were planning to get some 
white sheeting and candle wicking and 
make a counterpane like some old, old 
one they say there is a piece of in the 
red chest in the attic. Bess says people 
pay great prices for old colonial needle¬ 
work and they can copy the exact de¬ 
signs of great-grandmother’s.” 
“They might take a linen, hand-made 
sheet for the foundation.” 
“So Bess proposed. But Pauline said 
no. That old linen wasn’t any too 
strong and she wanted hers to last a 
lifetime and be put away in a red chest 
for her great-great-grandchildren. Be¬ 
sides, how they wmuld feel if, after 
half the pattern was worked on, they 
come to a thin place where the linen 
gave way under the stitches.” 
“Wasn’t Bess saying something about 
having a narrow bed and couch in her 
room in place of the full-width bed?” 
“Yes. She says a girl she knows 
has a lovely new two-thirds bed of dull 
finished mahogany with four posts 424 
feet high and acorn-shaped tops. There 
are high head and foot boards sawed 
in scroll tops like beds 50 years agot 
Then the girl has a nice spring couch 
with lots of sofa pillows, and if she has 
a girl visitor she gives up the bed and 
sleeps on the couch herself. So her 
room holds as many people but seems 
much larger and prettier than with a 
big bed.” 
“I remember that Pauline wanted a 
pair of narrow beds for her sleeping 
room, but as her husband’s mother 
gave them her oak set she had to give 
up the plan. She said the making up 
and washing wouldn't be much more, 
because every thing would be narrower 
and easier. And then one sleeper could 
roll himself up in his tons of comforta¬ 
bles and the other be happy under a 
few blankets.” R. ithamar. 
A Warning About Gas or Oil Heaters. 
Oil and gas heaters without outside 
escape for the gases ought to be by 
law forbidden. It is astonishing how 
thoughtlessly they are used. Everyone 
knows that flame rapidly consumes the 
oxygen of the air and rapidly forms 
carbonic acid gas and watery vapor. 
Often poisonous gases are formed when 
combustion is imperfect. A single gas 
oil heater will use up more air than 20 
people. No human being could live an 
hour with one of these heaters in an 
ordinary room if it were not for the 
air that leaks in around the crevices 
and through the porous walls. All such 
heaters must be unqualifiedly condemned 
as in the highest degree dangerous. 
But how different is it with the same 
heater, chimney connected. Now all the 
poisonous gases go up the chimney. The 
oxygen consumed by the flames is of 
necessity and immediately replaced by 
fresh air drawn in through walls and 
crevices. It is an efficient and economical 
way of heating, and the wonder is that 
it is not more used. And yet, though 
thousands of gas and oil heaters are 
sold each year, I do not know where it 
is possible to get one made for chimney 
connection. Abroad they are adver¬ 
tised and recommended. However, any¬ 
one of a little handiness can connect 
these heaters to a chimney, or even run 
a pipe through a circular hole cut in a 
window pane. A drum, coil or other 
heat-saving device may be interposed. 
As a physician I know I am ruining my 
business by giving this advice, but per¬ 
haps it will be better for me hereafter. 
WM. C. DEM TNG. 
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