1910. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
627 
The Rural Patterns. 
A very pretty and girlish waist is 
shown in No. G583, which can be made 
as a separate blouse, or as part of a 
suit of cambric, percale or linen. The 
waist is made with fronts and back and 
includes one-piece sleeves that can be 
cut in three-quarter length and gather¬ 
ed into bands or made long with open¬ 
ings finished with over-laps and 
straight cuffs, in regulation style. 
6583 Misses’ Shirt Waist, 
14. ».nH 16 vears. 
Either the Dutch collar or neck-band 
can be joined to the neck edge. The 
quantity of material required for the 
sixteen year size is 3 % yards 21 or 24, 
2^4 yards 32 or 2 yards 44 inches wide. 
The pattern 6583 is cut in sizes for 
misses of 14 and 16 years of age; price 
10 cents. 
No 6612 will combine well with any 
style of pleated or paneled skirt to 
make an attractive suit. The waist is 
made with front and backs. There 
are tucks that are stitched for part 
length at the front and for their entire 
length at the hack and the right front 
overlaps the left, the jabot being at¬ 
tached under its edge. The yoke is 
faced with the trimming of silk and 
when the square neck is wanted is cut 
on indicated lines. The sleeves are 
in one piece each, gathered into bands, 
and for the shorter length are cut off 
below the tucks. The quantity of ma¬ 
terial required for the medium size 
is 3J4 yards 21 or 24, 2J4 yards 32, 1 Y\ 
yards 44 inches wide, with Y yard of 
all-over lace and Y% yard of silk to 
trim as illustrated. The pattern 6612 
is cut in sizes for girls of 14 and 16 
years of age; price 10 cents. 
■ Some of Grandmother’s Favorites. 
No matter what one is interested in 
each year adds some items of experience 
and knowledge. I used to see. years 
ago, a pretty little musk-scented plant 
with yellow blossoms over an inch long 
and showing an effective patch of ma¬ 
roon upon at least three of the lips of 
its tubular corolla. It was not especial¬ 
ly fine, yet I loved its musky odor and 
the childhood’s associations it held, and 
when ordering seeds last Spring put 
Mimulus moschatus upon the list. When 
the seeds came up by the hundreds, 
till the pan was crowded full, there 
promised to be enough old-fashioned 
musk plants for all the neighborhood. 
But the first blossoms sent me back to 
my catalogue. My seedling was less 
than a third of the size expected, quite 
another sort of Mimulus. Its flower 
spreads to but a half-inch across, is all 
clear yellow with three faint black lines 
marking the throat, no velvety blotches 
of red, almost no perfume in blossoms 
or leaf. Now I know what Mimulus 
moschatus is, but it is not the musk 
plant of my childhood. Mimulus ringens 
grows wild in our low lands, a pretty 
lavender blue flower. It has the com¬ 
mon name of “Monkey flower” from 
the Greek word Mimulus, “on account 
of its gaping corolla,” says Prof. Asa 
Gray. I have never happened to know 
any country people who knew it by 
that name, or by any name, for that 
matter, though it grows nearly two 
feet high and has rather pretty and 
noticeable flowers. Probably our botan- 
ically-wise editor can tell what sort of 
Mimulus it was I used to see making a 
potful of musky and showily yellow and 
maroon blossoms upon my grand¬ 
mother’s south porch. 
[Probably Mimulus luteus, .which is 
very showy, clear yellow blotched or 
marked in various ways with maroon 
and red. But the true musk plant is 
M. moschatus, with its smaller yellow 
flowers and musky odor. According to 
our experience, the strength of the odor 
varies with individual plants. Eds.] 
My experience with another flower 
common in grandmamma’s garden has 
interested me. Several seasons ago a 
handsome clump of Tiger lilies flour¬ 
ished near the north corner of our 
house, and in a place where no one had 
planted them or could have imagined 
they would thrive. Such big many-blos- 
somed stalks we had never seen before, 
nor have succeeded in growing since. 
1 could think of but one way in which 
they came there. Many, many years 
before there had been a flower border 
not far from the place and during some 
alterations in the house the turf had 
been lately broken up and loosened 
there. Probably some small and in¬ 
conspicuous bulbs had been growing 
somewhere about the spot all the 20 or 
30 years, making little show, but ready, 
when favoring circumstances befriended 
them, to outdo many newer and less 
courageous plants. 
In contrast to this lily experience 
have been my later efforts to grow 
tigers. Though I looked upon that 
cluster at the house corner as a per¬ 
manent possession and carefully guarded 
it from scythe and lawn mower, it sent 
up fewer and fewer stalks till one 
Springtime only a few low leaves told 
of tiger lilies there. But I watched 
for them in other places and had some 
fine stalks amid some stones by the 
roadside and again just outside the 
lawn where a fence had once been. 
When I moved the bulbs in Autumn 
to what I considered more favorable 
quarters, they did well for one or two 
years, and then curled over when half 
grown, and I supposed a worm had 
bored into the stalks. But the follow¬ 
ing Spring I watched in vain; not one 
lily marked the spot. "Insufficient 
drainage” was my decision, though 
Japan liles had endured Winters in that 
border. To cut a whole stalk of tiger 
lilies and stand it straight in a tall vase 
surrounded by a few Iris or day lily 
leaves gives as handsome a table orna¬ 
ment as eye can wish, and when I have 
such a bouquet I enjoy it to the utmost, 
not knowing whether or not I shall 
have one the next season. 
OLD-FASHIONED FLA NT LOVER. 
Tlie Bookshelf. 
A Modern Chronicle, by Winston 
Churchill. In his new novel Mr. 
Churchill leaves politics and history, 
and devotes himself to the American 
girl. His heroine, Honora, is a “climb¬ 
er”—she is determined to rise in the 
world, to achieve wealth and position, 
and from a St. Louis home of modest 
comfort, but obscurity, she works her 
way into the wealthiest and fastest 
society of New York and Newport. 
Honora is beautiful, clever and charm¬ 
ing; she decided early in life what 
she wanted, and she gets it. Her char¬ 
acter is strongly suggestive of Thack¬ 
eray's Becky Sharp, and we are not 
surprised to find that “society” palls on 
her, and proves quite as tiresome as 
her humdrum life in St. Louis. Then 
she gets a Western divorce that she 
may make a new marriage, and is both 
surprised and pained to find that peo¬ 
ple whose opinion she respects will 
have nothing to do with her after¬ 
wards. The new marriage is broken 
by death, and Honora goes back to St. 
Louis to marry a strong and faithful 
man who had given her his affection 
from childhood. We think he deserved 
a better fate. The book is extremely 
fascinating, with its strong character 
drawing and vivid pictures of Ameri¬ 
can social life, and as literature im¬ 
presses us as the finest tiling Mr. 
Churchill has done so far. It is worth 
thought, too, apart from the entertain¬ 
ment it provides. Honora’s career is 
duplicated in many comunities, and 
women of her type are responsible for 
some of the gravest problems now lie- 
fore us in American home life. The 
book is a lengthy one—524 pages—but 
the story carries one along so rapidly 
that it seems all too short. Published 
by the Macmillan Company, New York; 
price $1.50. 
Nut Bread.—Set a sponge of one cup 
entire wheat flour, one cup white flour, 
one-half cake of compressed yeast and 
one cup of lukewarm sweet milk. When 
light add two tablespoonfuls of brown 
sugar, one teaspoon of salt, one-fourth 
pound of shelled hickory nuts or Eng¬ 
lish walnuts, sliced, and enough whole 
wheat flour to make as stiff as can be 
stirred with a spoon. Put in pans, let 
rise one hour and bake one hour. 
There's no mys¬ 
tery about it. 
Macbeth lamp- 
chimneys do not 
break from heat, 
because they’re 
made of Macbeth 
Pearl Glass in¬ 
stead of common 
bottle or window 
glass. 
Macbeth, is on 
my chimneys. That’s my name. 
I would hate to put it on a 
chimney that would make me 
ashamed. 
Macbeth lamp-chimneys are sold by the best 
grocers everywhere. 
My book insures your getting the right chimney 
for your lamp; it also gives suggestions about the 
care oflamps. It is free. Address 
Macbeth, Pittsburgh, 
When you write advertisers mention The 
II. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply ami 
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Fast Washable Brown 
Did you ever know of 
brown cotton dress-goods 
before that would wash 
without fading ? 
Simpson-Eddy stone 
Fast Hazel Brown 
Prints 
are caucoes that stand 
sunlight, perspiration and 
repeated washing without 
the color moving. Beau¬ 
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quality of cloth. 
If your dealer hasn’tSimpson- 
Eddystone Prints write us his 
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you. Standard for over 65 years. 
The Eddystone Mfg. Co., Philadelphia 
Established by Wm. Simpson, Sr. 
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BROKEN CRACKERS are as fresh as whole ones and 
can be bought at $2.50 per barrel f.o.b. Worcester 
(about 511 pounds to the barrel), from the factory of 
NEW ENGLAND BISCUIT CO.,Worcesfer, Mass., 
manufacturers of the famous “Toasted Butter 
Crackers,” “Little Brothers Lunch Biscuit,” etc. 
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WESTERN CANADA 
Prof. Shaw, Well-Known Agriculturist, Says: 
“I would sooner raiso cattle in Western Canada 
i in the corn bolt of the United States. 
. Feed is cheaper and climate better 
for the purpose. Your market will 
improve faster than your fanners 
will produco the supplies. Wheat 
can Ikj grown tip to the 60th parallel 
I [800 miles north of the International 
I boundary]. Your vacant land will 
be taken at a rate beyond present 
conception. Wo have enough people 
in the United States alone who want 
| homes to tako up this land.” Nearly 
707000 Americans 
will enter and make their homes 
in Western Canada tills year. 
1909 produced another large crop 
of wheat, oats ami barley, in addi¬ 
tion to which the cattle exports 
was an Immense item. 
Cattle raising, dairying, mixed farming and 
grain growing in tho provinces ol'Miinl- 
toba, Saskatchewan and Allierta. 
Adaptable soil, healthful climate, 
splendid schools and churches, and 
good railways. For settlers' rates, de¬ 
scriptive literature "Last Best West.” how to 
reach the country and other particulars, write 
to Sup’t of Immigration, Ottawa, Can., or to 
tho Canadian Government Agent. 
J. O. Duncan, Oanndiav Government 
Agent, Room 30. Syracuse Bank Build¬ 
ing. Syracuse, N. Y. 
(Use address nearest you.) (6) 
r 
What Makes Water Rise In a Pump? 
The bright school-boy will tell you it is atmospheric pressure. But do 
you realize that without the aid of the weight of our atmosphere you 
would have to lift the water out of a well or cistern ? The pump sucks 
the air out of the water pipe, creating a partial vacuum and the weight 
of the atmosphere on the water in the well forces it up the pipe to fill the 
vacuum. 
Syracuse “EASY” Washer 
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The clothes, laces, etc. are not pulled or hauled 
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You can’t appreciate how easy and thorough it is un¬ 
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