1913. 
THIS HURAL NEW-YORKER 
1-43 
The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns always give 
number of pattern and measurements 
desired. 
The first group shows 7684 infant’s 
bishop dress, one size. 2J4 yds. of ma¬ 
terial 36 in. wide. 2 l / 8 yds. 44 with \y 2 
vds of edging. 7683 combination che¬ 
mise or corset cover, with open drawers, 
34 to 40 bust. 7688 empire night gown, 
small 34 or 36, medium 38 or 40, large 
42 or 44 bust. 7705 girl’s tucked night 
gown, 4 to 12 years. 7706 child’s under 
coat, 2 to 6 years. 
The second group includes 7162 girl's 
dress, 8 to 14 years. With three-piece 
skirt, collar that can be made square 
or round at the back, with high or low 
shield. 7464 semi-princess dress for 
misses and small women, 16 and 18 
years. 7265, long coat without under¬ 
arm seams for women and misses, 
34 to 36, 3S or 40 bust. 7690 child’s 
coat, 2 to 6 years. 3 yds. of material 
27 in. wide, 1J4 yds. 44 or 52 with 
% yd. of velvet for collar and cuffs, for 
4 year size. 7687 straight skirt for 
misses and small women, 14, 16 and 18 
years. To be laid in fiat plaits, or ac¬ 
cordion or flat plaited by machine, with 
or without yoke. Prices of each pat¬ 
tern, 10 cents. 
Catering for Hired Men. 
In regard to feeding the hired help 
upon the farm it seems to me there is 
no question involved other than the 
producing of plenty of good wholesome 
food, for surely no class of men have 
better appetites. When a man is pitch¬ 
ing 20 loads of manure a day he 
naturally requires more substantial food 
than if he were handing gloves over a 
counter. However, I have never known 
a hired man to object to “light puddings 
and custards,’’ provided they were pre¬ 
ceded by plenty of meat, potatoes and 
other good things. Foreigners some¬ 
times hesitate about eating dishes with 
which they are not familiar, but they 
soon get used to American ways. I 
asked a young man who had worked 
for several “back to the landers,” how 
he liked the meals, and his reply was 
“Too much red tape and not enough 
grub.” All such dishes as macaroni 
and cheese, baked beans, escalloped po¬ 
tatoes with a generous sprinkling of 
thinly sliced ham mixed in and numer¬ 
ous others often discussed in this paper 
are sure to be well received. Try some 
good old-fashioned apple dumplings 
with plenty of cream and sugar for 
dessert. bettie wier. 
Economy and Comfort with the 
Fireless Cooker. 
A farmer never make a success of his 
business, unless he has the necessary 
tools and farm implements with which to 
work; neither will the farmer’s wife 
become a successful housekeeper and 
home-maker until she gets the necessary 
things to help her along in her work. 
We women on the farm could make our 
lives much brighter and pleasanter and 
our work much lighter if we would stop 
doing, “the same old thing, in the same 
old way,” and try some of the new 
ways and inventions for different kinds 
of housework. Foremost among the 
modern and most useful conveniences, 
I would place the fireless cooker and 
roaster, for I am a fireless devotee, and 
you would be, too, if you only realized 
their benefits. Some of their special ad¬ 
vantages are economy of fuel, time, ef¬ 
fort, utensils, food material, nutriment 
and flavor, besides the absence of heat 
and odor throughout the house, and the 
ability to manage your own household 
with much more ease and comfort. The 
fireless stoves will greatly reduce your 
fuel bill, for they will work all day and 
all night if you say so, without one cent 
of expense. They will save money on 
your meat bills, for the cheaper cuts 
of meat are more tender and palatable 
than the expensive cuts cooked on a 
stove. Why is this? Because the cook¬ 
er, being airtight, keeps all the nutri¬ 
ment, all the flavor, all the good right 
in the meat; it cannot escape with the 
steam as when cooked on the stove. 
They will save a tremendous amount 
of time generally lost in pot watching. 
You cannot begin to realize.the com¬ 
fort of preparing a meal without any 
watching or worrying until you have 
used a fireless. Prepare your dinner 
while doing the morning work; place 
it in the cooker and your mind is free 
for other things until time for dinner, 
for there is no danger of its burning, 
boiling over, or overcooking. 
What can you cook in the fireless 
stoves? Almost anything now that they 
have the hot-plate radiators to use in the 
roasters, but they are especially good 
for meats of all kinds, stews, soups, 
cereals, beans,, peas, lentils, dried corn, 
hominy, rice, steamed bread and pud¬ 
dings, boiled vegetable dinners, any¬ 
thing that requires the long slow pro¬ 
cess of cooking to soften cellular tissue, 
bring out flavors and conserve juices. 
There are many good fireless cookers 
and roasters on the market that can be 
bought at a reasonable price, but the 
homemade cookers do the work and 
are easily made. I had a nice bought 
one given to me, but I have helped make 
a dozen or more for my friends, and 
they work just as well as mine, only 
I have the roaster and can fry and 
roast, and this you cannot do in the 
homemade ones. 
For the home construction of a 
cooker with two compartments the fol¬ 
lowing materials are necessary: A good 
strong box about 12 by 12 by 24 inches 
inside measurement, with a flat lid (an 
old chest or trunk will do), a pair of 
strong hinges, castors, a hasp, cooking 
utensils, about a yard of denim or 
other strong cloth, a thin board or some 
heavy cardboard, plenty of newspapers, 
fine excelsior and tacks. The best 
utensils are aluminum with locked 
covers, but granite pails with tight fit¬ 
ting lids do very well and cost much 
less. Get two sizes, as the well-filled 
kettle cooks more efficiently than one 
partly filled. When I want to cook 
only a small portion of food I prepare 
it in a small pail or can, cover it, and 
set it in my larger kettle nearly filled 
with boiling water, let all boil for a 
few minutes before placing in the 
cooker. This is a fine way to prepare 
steel-cut oatmeal or commeal mush. 
Line the box throughout with about 
10 thicknesses of newspaper, tacking in 
place. One thickness of asbestos paper 
used with the newspapers will make 
your box a perfect non-conductor, but 
it will do the work very well without 
it. Pack excelsior in the bottom as 
closely as possible to a depth of about 
three inches. Place in the center of 
each half of the box a jar or pail the 
same shape and slightly larger than 
your cooking kettles, pack excelsior in 
the spaces around these, pack it solid 
up to and slightly above the vessels 
used. Remove them and fit over the 
packing the thin board or heavy card¬ 
board with round holes cut to fit the 
openings. Line all neatly, including the 
openings with the cloth, tacking to the 
inside of the box just above the board. 
Make cushions or sort of mattresses of 
newspaper, asbestos paper, excelsior and 
cloth, that will fit snugly the remaining 
space. Make in two parts so you can 
remove or put food in one compartment 
without uncovering the other. Uo not 
fill these cushions with cotton, for it is 
a good conductor. Fit the lid, put in 
the castors, cover or paint the box and 
your fireless is complete. Keep near 
the stove so it will be handy to get to. 
Nothing could be much simpler and 
the expense is slight. Now all that is 
necessary is to put the food to be 
cooked on the stove in the cooker kettle, 
let boil, transfer to the cooker and go 
on with your other work until meal 
time. Does that sound almost like a 
tale out of the Arabian Nights? It is 
surely much better than the stay-in- 
the-house, stand-over-the-hot-stove, old 
fashioned, tiresome methods of cooking. 
Don’t you think so? Just try it and 
see. 
And not only is the tireless a good 
cooker but also a good cooler. The 
packing that will keep the heat in when 
hot foods are stowed away in it will 
also keep the heat out when cold foods 
are placed in it, so it becomes a sort of 
refrigerator. Another role of this versa¬ 
tile contrivance is that of bread raising; 
it will keep the sponge or dough at 
about the same temperature over night. 
A little practice will make bread rais¬ 
ing a matter of absolute certainty in¬ 
stead of guesswork. If The R. N.-Y. 
readers are interested and would care 
to have them I can give some tested 
recipes for cooking meats, vegetables, 
cereals, etc., in the tireless, or by ex¬ 
perimenting they can find ways for 
themselves. mrs. geo. sheppard. 
Four tilings a man must learn to do 
If he would make his record true; 
To think without confusion clearly; 
To love his fellowmen sincerely; 
To act from honest motives purely ; 
To trust in God and heaven securely. 
—Henry Van Dyke. 
Wftf.m you write advertisers mention Tun 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and a 
“square deni.’’ See guarantee editorial page. 
The recent Announcement that Larkin 
Co. were offering high-grade Groceriesatl5 
to 50$ below the usual retail price, brought 
forth a veritable avalanche of requests for 
the Larkin Cut-Price Grocery Book. Ten 
thousand books were asked for in short 
order. You, madam, may not have seen 
our Announcement. It is not too late, how¬ 
ever, to get a copy of this daring Cut-Price 
Book, which pictures, prices and describes 
some 200 high-grade groceries at astound- 
ingly low prices. 
Send coupon and we will forward your copy of 
the Larkin Cut-Price Book by return mail; it’sfree. 
How We Save You Money 
Wholesale and retail grocers add price to foods 
without adding anything: to quality. Sometimes 
the retail price is more than double the factory 
cost. But those who deal direct with the big Larkin 
Factories pay no profit to jobber or retailer. 
The Famed Larkin Guaranty 
We have won two million steady customers during 33 
years by sheer liberality and fair dealing. For i nstanco, 
instead of boasting’ about our Groceries, we simply say to 
each customer. "USE X THE ORDER AT OUR RISK.” We 
thus let the customer judge our quality. If, after using 
% of your grocery order, you are not satisfied, merely send 
back the remainder. All your money, including freight, 
will be returned. And AT ONCE. 
Samples of Our Bargains 
H lb. Imported tea, choicest growth, 17>£c; 3 lbs. supe¬ 
rior cup-quality coffee, 75c; 1 lb. pkg. corn starch, 5c; 1 
lb. pkg. macaroni, THc; H lb. phosphate baking powder, 
7Hc; pkg. gelatine, 5c; 5-lb. pkg. fancy table salt, 5c; 2oz. 
double strength lemon flavoring extract. 10c; 5 lbs. fancy 
rice, 30c; large can choicest tomatoes, 10c; 5-oz. can Cove 
oysters, 8c; large can apricots, 20c; 1-lb. pkg. Boraxine 
Soap Powder, 6c; 10 bars laundry soap, 25c; 3 lbs. gloss 
starch, 12V£c; large can scouring powder, 5c; 1 lb. assort¬ 
ed chocolates, 30c; largo can Lemon Cling peaches 
(fancy), 22c; large can California pears (fancy). 23c; 
can pork and beans with tomato sauce, 7$$c; large can 
young sweet corn, 9c; % lb. sweet chocolate, 6c; 1-pt. 
jar Queen olives, 20c; 1 pkg. allspice, 2Kc. 
Write Now for This Book 
No matter where you live, you can 
save a lot of money by buying 
your grocery foods on Lar¬ 
kin Co.'s factory- 
to-family plan. 
Write U9 today, 
and Free Book will 
reach yonr homo by 
RETURN MAIL. 
Send the coupon 
below to our nearest 
address. 
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Dept. 1713 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
Chicago and Peoria, 
THIS BRINGS THE BOOK 
Larkin Co., Dept. 1713 
I want to snve money for my family. Please send 
your Out-Price Grocery Book. 
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For 
Harness 
Old Dutch Cleanser dissolves the 
greasy, dirty accumulations where the wear 
and contact comes. It gets under the unclean¬ 
liness on hold-backs, traces and collar, and 
washes it away. Mildewed spots quickly disappear 
without tiresome rubbing. 
Old Dutch Cleanser shortens and lightens all the 
cleaning tasks in the barn and carriage house. Try 
it on the carriage top, the grain bins and feed boxes. 
J 
Many 
Other 
Uses 
and 
Full 
Directions 
on Large 
Sifter Can — 
10 G. 
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