1913. 
'THE RTJRA.I> NEW-YORKSR 
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The Rural Patterns. 
’When ordering patterns always give 
number of pattern and measurements 
desired. 
The. first picture shows 7679, semi¬ 
princess dress for misses and small wo¬ 
men, 16 and 18 years. 7765, tucked 
kimono, 34 to 42 bust. 7691 blouse with 
Robespierre collar, 34 to 42 bust. 7477, 
four-piece envelope skirt 22 to 30 waist. 
7400, boy’s suit, 2 to 6 years. 657, em¬ 
broidery design. 7560, boy’s French 
suit, 6 to 10 years. 
Second group includes 7753, tucked 
blouse or shirt waist, 34 to 44 bust. 
7605, surplice blouse with Robespierre 
collar, 34 to 42 bust. 7658, one button 
semi-princess dress, 34 to 44 bust. 7768, 
four-gored skirt for misses and small 
women, 14, 16 and 18 years. 7749, six- 
gored skirt for misses and small wo¬ 
men, 16 and 18 years Price of each pat¬ 
tern 10 cents. 
Vacuum Cleaners. 
Is it not just possible that more 
women are overworked on the farm 
than men? But why is this true? The 
principal reason is that man performs 
his labor with machinery while woman 
does her many tasks by hand. Labor- 
saving devices in the home cost only a 
fraction of what the machinery for farm 
work cost. Man uses his high-priced 
implements only a short time during the 
year, while much of the machinery to 
lighten woman’s work is used at least 
once a week. If the farmer knew of a 
machine that would do a part of his 
farm work as thoroughly as the vacuum 
cleaner does its work would he do with¬ 
out it? - No amount of “elbow grease,” 
in fact no unassisted human power, can 
remove the dirt these machines pump 
out. The thoroughness with which they 
do their work will make any woman 
their friend. Our section of the coun¬ 
try is very muddy, and a large amount 
of this dirt is necessarily tracked into 
the home. For this reason when we 
moved into our new home a few years 
since we had no carpets tacked to the 
floor—rugs in every room except kitch¬ 
en, pantry, dining room and bathroom. 
On these floors we have linoleum, as 
we think it more sanitary for the rooms 
in constant use. This arrangement 
proved very nice, especially in the bed¬ 
rooms, as these rugs can be removed at 
any time the floor is mopped. Then the 
room is just as clean as immediately 
after the Spring house cleaning when 
carpet is used. 
Before we purchased our hand 
vacuum cleaner, dusting the bare floor 
(border or finished floor around the 
rugs), was quite a task. No matter 
how often we removed the rugs and 
beat them there was always some dust 
that would settle on the floor and make 
dusting every day necessary. But such 
a change as the vacuum cleaner made 
the past Winter! The children can play 
even tag in the living room without 
kicking up a cloud of dust. The truth 
is we were ashamed when the cleaner 
was first used on our living-room rug, 
ashamed of the great amount of dirt 
and dust we had been harboring, while 
we were endeavoring to have a sanitary 
home. One of the nice features of these 
machines is that they make no dust; in 
fact you can dust and then sweep. To 
dust while sweeping is a great advan¬ 
tage to the curtains, wall paper and fur¬ 
niture. “Isn’t the cleaner hard on the 
carpets?” is often asked, but we think 
it no harder than the broom. Dirt 
and dust will cut a carpet out. These 
machines have no equal in cleaning pil¬ 
lows, mattresses or upholstered furni¬ 
ture. It is astonishing the amount of 
dirt they can take out of a mattress. We 
cleaned a%comforter we had over a mat¬ 
tress and did it much more easily and 
thoroughly than we could have done it 
by washing. A friend of ours took a 
quart of dirt out of an old lounge with 
her machine. House cleaning, garden¬ 
ing, and little chickens will soon be here 
and although we have many windows to 
wash, curtains to launder, etc., still we 
think the battle will not be so hard this 
year as we will have no rugs to beat— 
thanks to the vacuum cleaner. Machin¬ 
ery is now almost the only help that can 
be procured for the farm home. But 
isn't it really the most economical anrl 
the best? M. c. b. 
Soap Troubles. 
The housewife who has recently had 
a failure in making hard soap, may 
remedy the matter if she will add just 
enough boiling water to her soap to 
heat it and get it into a liquid condition 
again, then add more dissolved lye, one- 
third of a can, and stir well. In case 
the soap is not a hard soap it will be a 
good soft soap. The trouble was caused 
by the excessive fat. In making hard 
soap, four and one-half pounds of clean 
caked fat is sufficient to one pound can 
of lye, and five pounds for soft soap. 
In all soap making, the fat should be 
heated to the boiling point, then add 
baking soda to cause an effervescent ac¬ 
tion, skim, let cool a little, strain 
through cloth into dishes to cake hard, 
when the fat will be in a clean shape 
to cut and weigh easily, using just the 
amount desired. In adding borax or 
any powder, dissolve with the lye and 
strain into an earthen pitcher. 
MEDORA CORBETT. 
Weigh grease and melt, then use a 
small portion to dissolve borax. Let 
soap stand a week or longer away from 
dampness, but where the wind will help 
dry and harden. If in a board box it 
can be removed by pounding on bottom, 
making small waste. Letting grease 
stand after adding borax helps cleanse 
grease and make soap whiter. If lye 
remains in kettle after soap has been 
poured in mold or box add enough 
grease to thicken. A box 12x18x4 inches 
soaked in cold water can be preserved 
from year to year, and saves time. Soak 
box in water before pouring in soap; 
wipe off all surplus water, m. d. p. 
Homemade Rugs. 
We make most everything from toma¬ 
toes; I’m so glad to see that olives are 
made (not born the way I used to think 
they were). We will have some olives 
next Fall if the tomatoes grow. But 
just now I have the rug craze. I'm 
wishing for a rug for my dining room. 
Matting and grass rugs are too frail for 
such constant use; the hemp rugs, also 
the paper fibre ones, are quite good. A 
friend of mine tells me that homemade 
rugs are “all the go,” so my eyes have 
only been for them lately. Let me tell 
you what I have seen. In an old lady’s 
room were two large braided rugs, the 
larger nine by seven, both elliptical. She 
did every stitch herself, and was very 
proud of her work. Another woman 
has some crocheted rugs; she uses a 
large wooden hook and crochets the rags 
in strips, then sews them in the shapes 
she wishes. Sometimes she crochets them 
as you would a mat. the first way is 
preferable though. One woman turned 
her worn-out tapestry carpet and painted 
it; this was very serviceable. A rug 
which looked like fur (something as to¬ 
matoes look like olives), was made from 
bran sacks (gunnysacks). It was dark- 
red and very- pretty. The cloth was cut 
in strips and fringed on both sides; it is 
left solid through the center to be 
stiched to the foundation.. Of course 
the old-fashioned rag carpet, the much 
despised rag carpet, of our grandmoth¬ 
ers is very pretty now. What I liked 
best was a drawn-in rug made of two 
large bran-sacks. For a center this was 
filled in with rags colored like grapes. 
Delaware grapes; then the border was 
sewed on and in the border was worked 
a grapevine and leaves in light brown 
color. The lady who made this rug, 
when I exclaimed over the hard work 
in it, said it was very simple, and easy. 
She saved rags and rags, then colored 
them her favorite color. She drew 
these in with a hook. I think she said 
her husband made the hook from an 
umbrella rib. She made the pattern her¬ 
self. She. tried to persuade me that 
anyone with eyes, hands and a little time 
could make rugs, marking the pattern in 
was easy. Take any figure you like, 
paste on stiff paper, cut out and you 
have it to mark around. h. s. 
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We also make Furnaces and Gas Stores. Special 
Cataloene on request. 
Emergency Frosting. —Use one table¬ 
spoon of thick sweet cream, stir thick 
with granulated sugar. Spread on cake 
before cake is entirely cold, not when 
cake is taken from the oven, but when 
partly cold. A. J. P. 
Michener, Veltfort & Van de Cop 
ENGINEERS 
Designs and Estimates for farm improvements, 
Plans and Specifications for concrete structures, 
silos, dams, small waterpower development, 
drainage and y,eneral engineering work. 
705 Lamar Street, Wilkinsburg, Pittsburg, Pa. 
Do You Need Farm Help? 
We have many able-bodied young men, both 
with and without farm experience, who wish to 
work on farms. If you need a good, steady, sober 
man, write for an order blank. Ours is a phil¬ 
anthropic organization and we make no charge to 
employer or employee. Our object is the encour¬ 
agement of farming among Jews. 
THE JEWISH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 
176 Second Ave., /V. V. City 
Uniicnl(nnnnr-l'oT house in country: 
40 m n es fromNewVork 
in Westchester Co. Family-—2 adults. No objec¬ 
tion to small child. L. H., care Rural New-Yorker 
Working Married Farmenv°nted re on 
farm near Hackensack. Wife to help in house. Ad¬ 
dress.with experience, ages, reference and all partic¬ 
ulars.Will pay good wages. G. H , care Rural New-Yorker 
UUANTED—A few single men for farm work. None but 
** competent men that do not drink will be em¬ 
ployed. White Horse Farms, A. K. Heath, Mgr.. Paoti, Penn, 
IN ABLE YOUNG M AN-graduate—with a 
** good knowledge in poultry and gardening, wauls 
a position. - R. A., care Rural New-Yorker 
S ituation Wanted —Specialist, Poultry-man and Apiar¬ 
ist: young man 24: does not use liquor or tnba<-'-<>. 
Can furnish the best of references. S. W., careR. N -Y. 
A Willing Worker 
on ihe Farm 
If the work is cleaning, 
in house, dairy and barn, 
nothing cleans quicker 
or better than Old Dutch 
Cleanser. 
Many Uses and Full Directions 
On Large Sifter Can — 10c. • 
