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The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns always give 
number of patterns and measurements 
desired. 
The first group shows 7752 girl’s 
dress, 6 to 12 years. With three-quar¬ 
ter or short sleeves. 7763 girl’s Nor¬ 
folk dress, 6 to 10 years. 7769 girl’s 
Russian costume, 10 to 14 years. 7762 
child’s dress, 4 to 8 years. 7668 child’s 
rompers, 2 to 6 years. 
The second group includes 7781 
fancy blouse, 34 to 42 bust. 7764 fancy 
blouse, 34 to 40 bust. 7776 semi-princess 
dres3 with tunic for misses and small 
women, 16 and 18 years. 7596 five gored 
skirt, 22 to 32 waist. 7321 two-piece 
skirt for misses and small women, 14, 
16 and 18 years. Price of each pattern, 
10 cents. 
Children for Childless Homes. 
The State Charities Aid Association 
has a Children’s Department which acts 
as a middleman between the childless 
home and the homeless child. It seeks 
good family homes within a few hun¬ 
dred miles of the city for friendless 
children who are waiting patiently in 
institutions, hoping to be taken to the 
fathers and mothers that they insist on 
believing in, even when they know that 
they have none of their own. It be¬ 
lieves that for every homeless child there 
js a childless home somewhere, that 
homes are meant to bring up children, 
and that if nature denies the owner a 
child Providence provides the foster 
child. Here are a few of the children 
for whom good homes are especially de¬ 
sired at the present time: 
James, eight years of age. a full orphan 
or American Protestant parentage. His 
father died a year and a half ago follow¬ 
ing a surgical operation, and his mother 
had died the year previous at the time 
that a little baby sister was born. The 
baby sister has been adopted, and now 
James thinks it is his turn. He is an 
especially nice little boy, with large brown 
eyes, soft brown hair, a well shaped head, 
good features, and a mentality above the 
average. He has been in an orphan asylum 
since his father's death and finds life very 
monotonous there. 
Edith, a 12-year-old girl of American 
Protestant ancestry. She has grown 
rather fast and is a little delicate and 
anaemic, and in need of a real home, where 
she can go to school and play out of doors, 
not a place where she will be expected to 
help with the housework or the younger 
children. She is an attractive girl with, 
curly brown hair, blue-gray eyes and pleas¬ 
ant manners. Her parents are both dead, 
and there is no relative to offer her a 
home. 
John, 10 years old, of good Welsh stock. 
He has already made up his mind to be 
a clergyman. It was the dying wish of 
his mother, and his talks with her in the 
old days made an indelible impression on 
his childish mind. Since his father's death, 
as there are no relatives to care for him, 
he was boarded in a good country home by 
a lady who, unhappily, died recently, so 
that now he will have to go to an orphan 
asylum unless some good couple will take 
him into their home. He is a good-looking 
boy with blue eyes and brown hair, and 
has a very bright mind and a good dis¬ 
position. 
Maria, a year-old baby girl of Catholic 
parentage. She is an especially attractive 
baby with fair complexion, bright eyes and 
rosy cheeks. Her mother died when she 
was born, and her father has so many 
other children that he can do nothing for 
this little one. As the parents are Catho¬ 
lics. a good Catholic home is desired for 
little Maria. 
Jack, an eight-year-old boy of Catholic 
parentage. He is a motherless child, a 
nice-looking, bright, intelligent, well-man¬ 
nered little boy, who should be placed in 
a good Catholic home. He has been 
boarded in a family for some time in the 
hope that such a home might be found, 
but if none is forthcoming soon, he will 
have to be returned to the big institution 
from which he came, and where he found 
life very monotonous and uninteresting. 
Elizabeth, nine years old, and Max, six 
years old, of Catholic Hungarian parent¬ 
age. I’his little brother and sister lost 
their parents several years ago and have 
been waiting in an orphan asylum, hoping 
that some good couple would take them out 
and bring them up as their own. They 
have been brought up like American chil¬ 
dren, but their looks show their foreign 
race, as they are dark-haired, dark-eyed 
and dark-complexioned. They are good 
looking, healthy children, bright and at¬ 
tractive, and with good dispositions. They 
would fit well into a family home among 
Italians or other people from Southern 
Europe, where they would be brought up 
in the faith of their fathers. 
Anyone interested in these children 
is invited to write to the Children’s De¬ 
partment of the State Charities Aid As¬ 
sociation, Room 82, 289 Fourth avenue, 
New York City. 
Yellow Tomato Preserv'e*. 
I have each year a quantity of the yellow 
plum tomatoes. How are they made into 
preserves? p. w. b. 
The small yellow tomatoes are pre¬ 
served as follows: Weigh the fruit, use 
an equal proportion of sugar, and 1 }/ 2 
tablespoonful of ginger to each gallon 
of preserve. Make a syrup with the 
sugar, ginger, and a little water; let it 
boil, then put in the tomatoes. Cook 
thoroughly, then skim the fruit out and 
put in heated jars, boil the syrup till 
thick as honey, pour over the tomatoes 
and seal. Some housekeepers drain the 
syrup off after three days, boil down 
again, and then pour back over the fruit. 
Another recipe calls for equal weights 
of tomatoes and sugar; put in kettle and 
add the strained juice and rind of one 
lemon for each four pounds of fruit, 
and a little powdered ginger. Cook 
slowly until it jellies when tried on 
a spoon. 
Tomato Marmalade.—Remove the skin 
from four quarts of ripe tomatoes and 
slice. Cut six large lemons in halves, 
lengthwise, and slice very thin. Seed 
one cup of raisins. Put thef tomatoes, 
raisins and lemons into a preserving ket¬ 
tle, in layers, alternating with four 
pounds of granulated sugar. Cook one 
hour on the front of stove. Then set 
the kettle back, and allow contents to 
simmer until it is of the consistency 
of marmalade. Put up, while hot, as 
jelly. This recipe makes about two and 
one-half quarts. When properly pre¬ 
pared no one article will be recogniz¬ 
able. The small yellow tomatoes are 
nice for such use. 
Tomato Mock-Orange Marmalade.— 
Scald and peel large-sized yellow toma¬ 
toes. Cut downward over each seed 
section, press open and remove all seeds 
with the thumb, leaving the pulp com¬ 
paratively whole. To two parts of the 
prepared tomatoes allow one part of 
oranges, slicing thinly. Cover all with 
an equal quantity of sugar and let stand 
over night. In the morning pour off 
syrup and cook down about half, add 
the tomatoes and oranges and cook until 
orange skins are transparent. Seal in 
jelly glasses. 
Sweet Day of Thanks. 
I wish every farmer’s wife might 
read Eliza Calvert Hall’s “Aunt Jane 
of Kentucky.’’ There is a message in 
this book for the young and for the 
old, for the cheerful or for the down¬ 
cast. Each one who reads will absorb 
some wholesome philosophy. There is 
one chapter entitled “Sweet Day of 
Rest,” over which I have laughed many 
a time and cried a little, too, because 
of the very truth in it. We women are 
very apt to indulge our families to a 
great extent on the “rest day,” which 
means no relaxation for us. We should 
try hard to leave undone all unneces¬ 
sary work on that day. However, when 
that resolution is kept, there usually re¬ 
mains a sufficient amount so that the 
Sabbath cannot be called a “sweet day 
of rest.” Yet there is one thing it may 
be, if we so determine, and no one will 
profit more by our determination than 
ourselves. 
I remember well the day that I re¬ 
solved at least to make my Sunday a 
“sweet day of thanks.” I attempted to 
put myself in an attitude of mind that 
would cause me to appreciate the de¬ 
lights with which I was surrounded 
and to put away resolutely all that 
would tend to make my day the least 
bit cloudy. Very material and homely 
things may be delights, if we begin the 
day right. I went, as usual, to our little 
country church and I realized it as a 
greater blessing than I had ever done 
before. This particular little church is 
plain and dignified, within and without, 
over two centuries old. The architec¬ 
ture is along the simplest lines, with an 
absence of fresco and stained glass. 
The unadorned walls and wide, clear 
windows seem to me to need offer no 
excuse to modern designer. After serv¬ 
ice was the usual warm greetings, then 
homeward. In the afternoon we took 
our chairs and books out under the old 
shade trees. Guests came, unexpectedly, 
an automobiling party from the city, 
dusty and hungry. They were driven 
hither, perhaps, because of the despot¬ 
ism of a cook. Country trees and wide 
porches are all well enough, but the 
farm home is bound to suggest some¬ 
thing else to such people. That they 
may not be disappointed, I prepared a 
country meal, and took delight in their 
enjoyment of it. 
After all, I have had no more than 
an hour of quiet during the day, but 
through the working of my mornings 
resolution, am refreshed, and trust that 
the spirit of the day may always carry 
itself into the week. l. s. 
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