1912. 
THE RURA-I> KEW-YORKER 
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The Rural Patterns. 
PP hen ordering patterns always give 
number of patterns and measurements 
desired. 
The first group shows 7469, coat for 
misses and small women, 14, 16 and 18 
years. With diagonal or straight front, 
with or without belt. 2~/% yards 36, for 
6-year size. 7487, Norfolk coat, 34 to 
40 bust. 3 l /4 yards 36, % yard 21 inches 
wide for collar, for medium size. 7479, 
semi-princesse dress for misses and 
small women, 16 and 18 years. With 
two-piece skirt and set-in sleeves in full 
or three-quarter length. 4 yards 36, % 
yard 18 inches wide for collar and 
cuffs, for 16-year size. 7474, five-piece 
skirt for misses and small women, 16 
and 18 years. With inverted plaits at 
the sides, high or natural waist line. 
4 V 2 yards of material 36 inches wide, for 
16-year size. 7473, four-piece skirt with 
tunic effect, 22 to 30 waist. With high 
or natural waist line. 2^4 yards 36 for 
upper portion of tunic, 1 yard 27 or 36 
for lower portion, for medium size. 
The second group includes 7518, 
chemise with round, square or pointed 
neck, 34 to 42 bust. With or without 
beading at waist line. 2$i yards of 
material 36 inches wide, 2 l /> yards of 
beading, 3 1 /2 yards of edging as shown 
in large view, for medium size. 7529, 
girl's sacque nightgown, 10 to 16 years. 
With or without applied yoke, with 
elbow or long sleeves, with or without 
collar. 4 yards 36. for 12-year size. 
7511, square yoke nightgown, 34 to 46 
bust. With square or high neck, elbow, 
three-quarter or long sleeves. 5 yards 
36, 2 yards of banding, 3 yards of edg¬ 
ing, for medium size. 7501. girl’s five- 
gored petticoat, 8 to 12 years. To be 
attached to underwaist or finished sep¬ 
arately. 1% yards of material 36 inches 
wide, with 2)/% yards of embroidery 4 
inches wide, 1 % yards of insertion and 
3% yards of edging, for 10-year size. 
7520, child’s night drawers, 2 to 8 years. 
With or without stocking feet, with 
round or standing collar, one-piece full 
or two-piece plain sleeves, 3j4 yards 36, 
for 6-year size. Price of each pattern, 
10 cents. 
Our large Fashion Book for Fall, 
1912, containing 92 pages, illustrating 
over 700 of the season’s latest styles, 
and devoting several pages to embroid¬ 
ery designs, will be sent to tyty address 
on receipt of 10 cents. 
Roses and Things. 
Often have I been told that it was an 
easy matter to root roses in damp sand 
—that even the hardy sorts might be 
propagated in that simple fashion. But 
never have I succeeded in rooting a La 
France, Jacqueminot, or even a Ram¬ 
bler. It therefore surprised and inter¬ 
ested me when told that some Rambler 
clippings thrown away last May had 
been rescued by a neighbor, and in a 
spirit of experiment set at the foot of 
a wall where many of them had rooted 
and were in a flourishing state of 
growth. The curious thing about this 
particular experiment was that the roses 
were set at the foot of a sea wall where 
only salt sedges and the pretty pink 
mallows and such maritime plants were 
growing; not 20 feet away dashed up 
the waves at high tide and Jhe sand 
looked white and pebbly, and as if it 
might taste salt to the tongue. But this 
place was called Spring Rock, and we 
knew that the dampness down there was 
very likely oozings from the spring at 
which seashore cottagers had been glad 
to drink before city water mains with 
hydrants and faucets had caused na¬ 
ture’s humbler offering to be neglected. 
It was a July day, and there were the 
Ramblers apparently settled for per¬ 
manent beauty, and two or three of them 
in blossom. Of course, the storms and 
higher tides of Winter may prove too 
salt for those particular Ramblers, but 
seeing them has given me a determina¬ 
tion to find a damp, cool spot and try 
all sorts of rose cuttings very early next 
Spring, “when the tiny leaves were just 
starting,” as my friend described the 
Ramblers set by the sea wall. 
It is small wonder that the scarlet 
geranium has become quite the most 
popular of all bedding and veranda-box 
plants. What other flower makes so 
sure and so pleasing an appeal to the 
eye? Good cheer is its sturdy note in 
both color and form, and if white gera¬ 
niums are alongside so much the better, 
though marguerites are equally pretty. 
But beware of combining in the same 
bed pink geraniums or blue Lobelias. 
To an eye sensitive for color effects the 
clash is outrageous, and all prettiness 
lost in both scarlet and blue or pink. 
Yet one does see this mistake made 
every Summer by people who might 
have chosen all pink for one season and 
all red for the next, and so made all be¬ 
holders their debtors. On a veranda 
faced up with gray shingles I recently 
saw boxes of scarlet geraniums which 
seemed to spill their green foliage like a 
drooping veil down the gray front from 
the veranda ledge to the ground. A 
closer view showed the trailing vines to 
be German ivy (Senecio scandens) its 
leaves in shade of green and size re¬ 
sembling those of the geranium so 
closely as to give an effect of unity. 
Many of us have bought the green 
and white Vinca when needing a trail¬ 
ing plant for vase or box, and we have 
thought them cheap at 10 or 15 cents 
each, saying that we should probably 
keep the roots over Winter and have 
an excellent supply for years to come. 
I, for one, have never kept a Vinca of 
the white and green sort alive from 
Fall to Spring, though we used to have, 
a tub filled with the variety whose green 
leaves are variegated with yellowish 
markings and by setting the tub into the 
cellar every Autumn preserve the Vinca 
alive. In Summer the tub stood on the 
sawed-off tree trunk near the south 
door, where it was watered freely and 
where the Vinca grew luxuriantly. Per¬ 
haps the reason my later Vincas have 
died was because not set away, roots un¬ 
disturbed, in the receptacle in which 
they were growing. But I have always 
imagined the white and green sort less 
vigorous. Last Spring I was strolling at 
the foot of a friend's garden and saw 
in the corner of a rude hot bed or cold 
frame several thrifty roots of green and 
white Vinca. It had wintered there 
with some half-tender roses and with 
but little care. This gave me an idea 
and I resolved that hereafter when I had 
no cold frame of my own I would beg 
the use of a corner in my neighbor's for 
my Vincas. prudence primrose. 
Tested Recipes. 
Cream Puffs,—One-quarter cup hot 
water, two tablespoons butter, one-third 
cup flour, one egg. Heat the water and 
butter until the water boils. Add the 
flour all at once r '4 mix thoroughly. 
Cook three minutes and when cool add 
the egg unbeaten. Beat until thoroughly 
mixed. Drop by tablespoonful on but¬ 
tered pans. Bake 25 to 30 minutes in a 
hot oven. When cool, open at side and 
fill with cream filling. 
Cream Filling.—One-half cup hot 
milk, two tablespoons flour, one-half 
egg, three tablespoons sugar, one-half 
teaspoon butter, five drops vanilla. 
Moisten the flour with a little cold milk 
and add this to the hot milk. Cook in 
a double boiler 15 minutes. Beat the 
egg and sugar together. Pour the 
thickened milk over the egg, add the 
butter and cook until the egg thickens. 
Flavor when cool. 
Chocolate Pudding.—Two cups bread 
crumbs, four cups hot milk, two ounces 
chocolate, one cup sugar, two eggs, one- 
quarter teaspoon ful salt, one teaspoon 
vanilla. Soak the bread crumbs in one- 
half hot milk. Melt chocolate over hot 
water. Add sugar and rest of hot milk. 
Put mixture with bread crumbs and add 
other ingredients. Bake in an earthen 
pudding dish or in custard cups. Serve 
cold with whipped cream. 
Sponge Cake.—Yolks of six eggs, one 
cup sugar, one teaspoon ful lemon juice, 
grated rind of one-half lemon, whites 
of six eggs, one cup flour. Beat yolks 
until thick and lemon colored, add sugar 
gradually and continue beating. Add 
lemon juice, rind. Beat the whites of 
eggs until stiff and dry and then add 
half of them to the first mixture. Care¬ 
fully cut and fold in the flour and then 
add the remainder of the whites. Bake 
in an unbuttered pan in a slow oven for 
one hour. _ b. f. 
“As an enemy inside the camp is far 
more dangerous than an enemy outside, 
so a wolf in sheep’s clothing is more 
destructive than a lion unmasked.” 
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Drudge Meets an Old Schoolmate 
Anty Drudge —“Well, well, well, when I had this chance 
to take a trip through the country in son-in-law 
John’s auto, I just hoped I would run across some 
of my old friends. How are you, Miranda?” 
Miranda —“Gracious, goodness me, Anty Drudge! I can 
say for you that you ain’t a mite changed except to 
grow up. As for me, I’m clear tired out. Here it is 
come supper time, and my wash just done.” 
Anty Drudge— “Well, here’s where I get out of this auto 
and spend the night. I’m going to talk to you about 
Fels-Naptha Soap, and if you don’t thank me, you’re 
the first woman that hasn’t.” 
There are lots of things about farm life 
that make the city people envy the farmer 
and his wife. There are the fresh eggs, the 
crisp vegetables, the good milk and fine 
country air. 
But there are things the city people don't 
see that make the farmer’s wife wonder if life 
is all honey and roses,—the weekly wash, for 
instance. But if you use Fels-Naptha Soap 
half your wash is done for you. It does away 
with all hard rubbing, and the clothes don’t 
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