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The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns always give 
number of pattern and measurement de¬ 
sired. 
The first group shows 7060 fitted corset 
cover or brassiere, 36 to 46 bust. 7621 
combination corset cover and four-gored 
petticoat for misses and small women, 14, 
16 and 18 years. 7742 fancy yoke night¬ 
gown, small 34 or 36, medium 38 or 40, 
large 42 or 44 bust. 79S1 petticoat with 
straight lower edge, 22 to 32 waist. De¬ 
signed for flouncing or bordered material. 
7088 narrow closed drawers for misses 
and small women, 14, 16 and 18 years. 
With or without frills. 
The second group includes 7062 cuta¬ 
way coat with vest for misses and small 
women, 16 and 18 years. 7061 cutaway 
coat with waistcoat, 34 to 40 bust. 7063 
draped semi-princesse gown, 34 to 44 
bust. With three-piece skirt, elbow or 
long sleeves, fichu or round collar. 7084 
draped one-piece skirt, 22 to 30 waist. 
With high or natural waistline. 7977 
druped two-piece skirt, 22 to 32 waist. 
Closing at side front, with high or nat¬ 
ural waistline. Price of each pattern 
10 cents. 
Crystals in Jelly; Pickle Recipes 
Wanted. 
1. How can crystals be prevented from 
forming in grape jelly? My jelly is firm 
and of very fine flavor and coloring, but 
has now and again a few crystals form 
in the jelly which must be prevented as 
l make it to order for customers. 2. 
Would like a recipe for sliced green toma¬ 
to pickle in olive oil. Would the toma¬ 
toes have to be cooked? 3. I need a recipe 
for whole green tomato sweet pickle. 
MRS. C. E. T. 
1. A common cause of jelly crystalliz- 
iug is too hard boiling. When the syrup 
boils so rapidly that portions are thrown 
up on the side of the kettle they will 
form crystals, and if these are stirred 
back into the jelly they cause the whole 
mass to crystallize in time. Another 
cause is an excess of sugar. When the 
fruit contains a high percentage of sugar, 
the sugar added should be a little less 
than the quantity of juice. In a very 
hot dry season the fruit contains more 
sugar than when the season is cold and 
wet. Miss Parloa says that when the 
fruit is thus rendered more sugary three- 
quarters of a pint of sugar is enough for 
a pint of juice. 
2. We are unable to give the pickle 
recipes asked for. Can anyone furnish 
these recipes for the inquirer? 
Italian Cheese : Soda Crackers. 
Will The It. N.-Y. publish a recipe for 
making Italian cheese and soda crackers 
like we buy from the store? 
SUBSCRIBER. 
Perhaps some of our Italian readers 
will answer the question about the 
cheese. Much Italian cheese is made 
from goat’s milk, but the inquirer does 
not say whether the milk of goats or 
cows is to be used. 
We should also like to hear from any¬ 
one who has made soda crackers, as we 
are unable to give the recipe. 
Cleaning White Beaver Hat. 
Can anyone tell me of any way to 
clean a white beaver hat? It is not very 
badly soiled, but not fresh enough for 
another season’s wear as it is. 
MBS. W. R. R. C. 
French chalk will clean a soiled white 
hat, either felt or beaver. Dust the 
chalk well into the nap, and then shake 
and beat it our carefully. Repeat the 
process several times if it seems neces¬ 
sary. Remember that you must never 
brush a beaver hat; it mats the fluffy 
pile down beyond repair. Shake and 
beat it with a light rod or whisk "and the 
fluff continues erect. 
In My Neighbors’ Gardens—Lawton 
Blackberries. 
The village householder who began life 
in the country can often give us farmer 
folk points upon ways with fruits or 
vegetables. At none of the farmhouses 
known to me am I sure of blackberries 
in their season. There may be bushels of 
them to be picked and marketed; there 
may not be one to help mother out in 
making a pie, or in providing fruit for 
supper. The men either set out a half 
acre or they mow down every one on the 
place and promise a fresh setting “some 
day.” Yet I visit a relative in the vil¬ 
lage, a merchant and a busy man, and 
from late July to well on in August beau¬ 
tiful big Lawton blackberries are likely 
to be offered me. It does not take a 
large area in blackberry canes to provide 
a table supply for one family, and few ( 
are the housekeepers who would not find 
provisioning easier if sure of a quart or 
two of berries each day of their season. 
The Lawton is, of course, a rank 
grower, and to come in contact with a 
cane when unprepared is likely to make 
a man profanely determined to destroy 
every last root upon his place. My vil¬ 
lage friend grows them upon the back of 
his garden plot and all Fall and Winter 
it is a run for his poultry. But in Spring 
the hens are shut out, the dead canes 
trimmed away, the ground dug over 
somewhat and a seeding of various things 
raked in. He seeds with the sweepings 
of his store bins that have held seeds, 
chard, peas, beets, turnip and all sorts, 
with perhaps some rape added to make 
sufficient quantity. Whether one could 
buy such a mixture from another man’s 
bins I do not know, but any sort of low 
growth to shade the ground and later 
add humus to the soil would have a like 
result. The ground is kept from baking 
hard and the blackberry canes have a 
porous mulch all Summer. After the 
last berry is picked the slide into the 
poultry run is opened and the fowls have 
a supply of green food much to their lik¬ 
ing and benefit; their droppings keep the 
soil enriched and their scratching has 
no terror for the blackberry roots. No 
attempt at a systematic Summer short¬ 
ening in of growth is made, and some¬ 
times the work of taking out the old canes 
is done on mild Winter days to help for¬ 
ward the Spring gardening. 
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A Woman 
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of the baby, from month to month, 
for 24 months, and tells, every 
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She is Doctor Emelyn Lincoln 
Coolidge, the Baby Editor of 
The Ladies’’ Home Journal , and 
it is through the personal sendee 
back of the magazine that this 
marvelous work is done with the 
mother readers of The Journal. 
Of all the 21 departments of The 
Ladies’ Home Journal’s personal 
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important, hundreds of mothers 
frankly crediting to Doctor Cool¬ 
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Just now- Doctor Coolidge has over four 
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Each month Doctor Coolidge has a reg¬ 
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A booklet, entitled “The Story of 
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A year’s subscription to The Ladies 1 Home Journal , 
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