1913. 
THIS RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1269 
The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns alivays give 
number of pattern and measurement de¬ 
sired. 
The dolls' patterns will be found use¬ 
ful at the holiday time. 8053 doll’s un¬ 
derwear set, 18, 22 and 26 inches high, 
consisting of night gown, chemise, draw¬ 
ers and petticoat. 7624 doll’s panier 
dress, 18, 22 and 26 inches high. 8056 
baby doll’s set. 18, 22 and 26 inches high, 
consisting of coat, cap, dress and petti¬ 
coat. 8059 doll’s coat set, 18, 22 and 26 
inches high, consisting of coat, cape and 
hat. 8042 jointed rag doll, one size. 22 
inches high. 
8035 girl’s low belted dress, 8 to 12 
years, with straight skirt that can be 
plaited or gathered, with three-quarter or 
long sleeves, with or without shield. 
8054 girl’s low belted dress, S to 12 years. 
8060 girl’s long waisted dress, S to 12 
years. 8034 child's coat, 4 to S years. 
8027 child’s one-piece dress, 2 to 6 years, 
with box plait at front and at back, long 
or thrpe-quarter sleeves, high or low 
shield. Price 10 cents. 
The Home Partnership. 
It is the common complaint among 
women of the farm that their work is 
never done. This is often their own 
fault if it is so, at least I know from 
my own experience that it must be. for 
I have so systematized the affairs of 
our home that I find I have plenty of 
time, and I believe all the members of 
the household will agree with me that 
our lives are much more pleasant than 
hey would be if the system were not in 
operation. While I acknowledge that 
the woman on the farm has been as¬ 
signed her place in the work of main¬ 
taining it. I do not believe that she should 
be a slave of all upon it, and as I am 
as much interested . in the success of 
my farm as my husband, I insist on 
being in charge of the household affairs 
as he is the head of the work in the 
fields, accepting suggestions from him 
just as he accepts suggestions from me. 
In other words, we have a perfect co¬ 
partnership with each assigned to a 
department. 
To my mind this is the only proper 
way to conduct the affairs of a farm 
and the farm home. The one is as 
important as the other. Without the 
pleasant home the farm would not be 
a success, and without the w r ell-conducted 
farm the home would not be a success, 
so that the two must go together, each 
conducted with a view of making the 
most out of the other. The home should 
not be subservient to the farm, nor should 
the farm be subservient to the home. 
On the farm the fields must be plowed 
and planted and cultivated at certain 
times, otherwise the product is notning. 
At the farm home the duties of the house 
should be done under rules just as fixed, 
and by proper consideration by the heads 
of each division of the work of the farm 
these field and home duties can be dove¬ 
tailed so as to fit perfectly and give 
the greatest satisfaction to all. 
Considering the farm and the home as 
a business partnership I have always 
insisted that the home is entitled to 
the control of the proper amount of the 
income which it is my right to expend 
as I see fit. Thus it is that I have : n- 
stalled the home necessities that lighten 
the labor. On the other hand, my hus¬ 
band has had his share of the income 
for the working of the farm, so that 
he has also been able to install the 
modern machinery needed to enable him 
to do his work properly. 
On most farms, I am sorry to say, 
the home part of the farm is the very 
last to be considered. This is the fault 
of the woman at the head of that de¬ 
partment, and, sentiment excluded, it 
is not right. The woman has the right 
and the power to demand that her de¬ 
partment shall have just as much con¬ 
sideration as the other work on the 
farm. I have seen farms where the wo¬ 
man of the house was even expected to 
chop the wood for the fire, as well as get 
the dinners and other meals. That was 
her own faiult. If she had refused to 
get the meals until the wood was laid 
in the woodbox, it would have becu 
placed there. One woman I know had 
asked to have water piped into her 
kitchen, but her husband used all the 
surplus cash in buying implements that 
would lighten his labor. This woman 
had been carrying water into her house 
every day for many years, and she came 
to the conclusion finally that inasmuch 
as she could not have the water piped 
she would carry no more. For two da\ s 
she cooked no meals because she had no 
water in the house. Then her husband 
carried it in and filled the receptacles, but 
at the end of a few weeks.he got tired of 
this work and concluded that after all the 
pipes would be a good investment, and 
the very first money he made from his 
next crop saw the water system installed. 
What one woman could do in that way 
another could do by a good business talk 
with her life partner. 
Now, my husband and I have been 
real partners for many years. I have 
had my part of the money to use and 
I have every convenience that is to be 
had for lightening work that is to be 
found in any city home. I am busy all 
day, but when quitting time comes I 
quit, just as the men do in the fields. 
We have our regular hours for meals. 
They are observed. The household rises 
in the morning at a certain hour, my¬ 
self with the rest. While the men are 
doing their morning “chores,” feeding 
the animals, etc., I am getting breakfast. 
Thus we all begin work at the same 
time. While they are in the fields after¬ 
ward I am busy with my housework and 
am ready for dinner and supper when 
they arrive. Supper comes before the 
evening “chores.” and by the time they 
are through with them I am finished with 
the dishes and my work for the day. 
Thus we all work the same hours and 
afterwards we may amuse ourselves as 
we think best. mbs. m. e. underwood. 
It is No Disgrace 
Not to Know 
Good Form or Etiquette 
Thousands do not know: in cities 
as well as in the country. Most 
of us have not the time to learn: 
others have not had the chance. 
That is why over 23,000 girls and 
women — men, too: hundreds of 
them—wrote last year to the “Good 
Manners and Good Form” editor 
of The Ladies' Home Journal and 
asked what, and how and when. 
And they found out. For this 
editor knows: none better. She is 
a woman born and bred in the 
circles that know good manners 
and good form for every occasion: 
that must know: and she is not only 
glad to tell those who do not know, 
but she has the gift to tell what she 
knows clearly and to the point. And 
every year she tells thousands of 
folks: not in print, but by mail, in 
direct, specific and personal letters. 
This etiquette department is one of the 
most popular and sought-after divisions of 
the personal service that The Ladies' Home 
Journal gives its readers. For twenty years 
it has been going on, until it is safe to say 
there is not a question of etiquette that it 
has not answered a hundred times. Never¬ 
theless, it will answer you or any reader of 
the magazine. Glad to do it, too. And 
without any charge except a postage-stamp. 
A booklet, entitled “The Story of 600,000 
Invisible Hands,” tells something about 
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