1913 . 
'THIS RURAL NEW-YORRr.I 
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The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns always give 
number of pattern and measurements de¬ 
sired. 
The first gffoup shows 7809 girl’s one- 
piece dress, 8 to 12 years. 7752 girl’s 
dress, 6 to 12 years. 7769 girl’s Rus¬ 
sian costume, TO to 14 years. 7695 girl’s 
dress, 10 to 14 years. 7739 girl’s double- 
breasted coat or reefer, 6 to 12 years. 
The second group includes 79S0 fancy 
collar, one size. Three-quarter yard of 
material 21 inches wide, one-half yard 
44 for No.»-l, with 2% yards* of ruffling; 
2% yards of embroidery or lace five 
inches wide for No. 2 with one yard of 
ruffling. 7964 infant’s plain slip, one 
size, with long or short sleeves. 616 ein- 
large 42 or 44 bust, with separate half- 
sleeves and cap*. 6945 child’s one-piece 
apron closed on shoulders, four to eight 
years. 7978 girl’s apron, six to 12 years, 
with plain or gathered bretelles, with or 
without pockets. Price of each pattern 
10 cents. 
Starch Beads. 
I have a fram'd who has some very 
pretty beads made of starch and salt. 
Will you tell me the process? K. E. l. 
This is a poser; we have never heard 
before of starch and salt beads. Will 
some one who knows the process tell us 
about it? 
Green Tomato Jam. —Four pounds 
green tomatoes, four pounds loaf sugar, 
one cup water, two ounces preserved gin¬ 
ger. Wash tomatoes and cut in pieces; 
add remaining ingredients and cook until 
clear, about two hours. Strain through 
coarse strainer to remove seeds. Fill 
sterilized jars and seal. This is a favor¬ 
ite recipe with us. m. m. b. 
Childrens’s^Day at a State Fair. 
This year I decided to attend the 
State Fair on children’s day. Friends 
tried to dissuade me. “Why, you will not 
enjoy it at all. It will be a bedlam of 
the poorest kind of children, white and 
colored, going simply because they are 
admitted free. Wait until the ‘Big Day.’ 
You will meet all your neighbors there 
then. No? Don’t you care anything 
about meeting with your friends?” 
Well, yes, indeed, and I would rather 
be with them on their play days than 
at any other time; for that is the only 
way we can really learn to know one 
another. But I knew of a certain little 
girl, 12 years of age, who hud never been 
in a railway coach or trolley car or to a 
country fair; and I had figured that I 
could collect a very good rate of interest 
on a few* dollars if I were to take this 
girl for a day through new scones and 
show her some of the things that girls 
of her age were accomplishing with their 
hands and their brains, in needlework, 
canning, poultry raising and even in 
working the soil. And my day proved a 
delightful one. It became known in the 
neighborhood that I was going, and a 
small crowd of children was entrusted to 
my care. A democratic little crowd it 
was, too, ranging from our most prosper¬ 
ous farmer’s daughter and son, with their 
embroidered linens, down to my little 
adventurer—plain as gingham and frec¬ 
kles could make her. The study in child 
nature began for me almost as soon as 
we were seated in the car. I saw little 
Master White Linen, aged seven, crouch 
into a heap and pass for five, and his 
pretty sister, past 12 ask for a half-fare 
ticket. Little Miss Gingham had heard 
the age limit discussed among the chil¬ 
dren and had also heard the planning of 
the scene just mentioned. I had given 
her some money to pay her own fare be¬ 
fore we had left the little train shed: 
this day was to be a lessen in traveling 
to her. The good-natured conductor, 
who knew us all, soon came to her. 
“Well, little woman, you travel free, don’t 
you? Isn’t your father a fireman on the 
main line?” 
“No, sir, that’s my uncle.” 
“Oh so, so; then you want a half-fare 
ticket, dou’t you ?” 
“No, sir, I am 12 years old.” 
“Well, well now,” he said, much 
pleased, “you are bound to be a woman !” 
and lie punched her full-fare ticket. 
This performance, with a little varia¬ 
tion was repeated on the trolley cars. 
The boy* and his sister, despite my re¬ 
monstrances, succeeded in “beating” their 
way, and giggled about it afterward. My 
little poor girl seemed not to breathe quite 
easily until she had paid her nickels. 
Pretty good start on the journey of life, 
little Miss Gingham! 
These country fairs are of wonderful 
educational value to children. Occasion¬ 
ally we saw a woman, wandering about, 
examining the exhibits, without a word 
of comment or information to the chil¬ 
dren in her charge. But, as a rule, the 
little groups here and there were absorb¬ 
ing practical knowledge that would help 
them and inspire them all through life. 
Little Miss Gingham proved herself a 
true child of the soil. The daughter of 
the prosperous farmer, who prides him¬ 
self on his crops of wheat, was standing 
before a row of bags of grain : 
“This bag of wheat that has second 
prize is much better than that which has 
won the first prize,” she said. 
“But it’s all rye!” said the little poor 
girl, in disgust. It was surprising to 
see how well she knew the names of vege¬ 
tables and fruits and grains. Evidently 
she had studied catalogues, because she 
had no other books, and these things she 
saw were the wonderful catalogue pic¬ 
tures “come to life.” She began to real¬ 
ize that such perfect specimens could 
really be grown. And in my mind’s eye 
I looked years ahead and saw little Miss 
Gingham grown into womanhood and on 
a prosperous farm; and I am sure she 
will then have a picture of a wonderful 
country fair stored away in a little room 
of her mind, a little room such as 
Holmes says is entered by a side door. 
L. S. 
What might be done if men were wise— 
What glorious deeds, my suffering 
brother, 
Would they unite 
In love and right, 
And cease their scorn of one another? 
—Charles Maekay. 
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Range Attachments. It can be furnished 
with tire 6bx at either right or left of oven, 
as ordered, also with the Glenwood Ash 
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barrel in cellar. 
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no filigree or fussy ornamentation, 
just the natural black iron finish— 
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range. 
It Cooks and Bakes 
to perfection and is equipped with every 
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