1910 . 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
613 
The Rural Patterns. 
A useful blouse for the boy is shown 
in No. 6649. The blouse is made with 
fronts and back and is finished with a 
box plait, at the center of which button¬ 
holes are worked to effect the closing. 
The patch pocket is arranged over the 
left front. The sleeves are made in 
regulation shirt style with overlaps and 
straight cuffs. The rolled-over collar 
finishes the neck edge. The quantity of 
material required for the medium size 
(14 years) is 3% .yards 24 or 27, 2*4 
yards 36 inches wide. The pattern 6649 
is cut in sizes for boys of 12, 14 -and 16 
years of age; price 10 ‘cents. 
One of the simplest of house gowns 
is shown in No. 6650. The blouse and 
skirt are cut in one, making a one- 
piece gown and the closing can be-made 
invisibly or with buttons and button¬ 
holes as liked. One of the pretty in¬ 
expensive printed wash fabrics woven 
with a border makes this one, and the 
6650 House Gown or Wrapper, 
34 to 44 bust. 
border has been cut off. to form the 
trimming, but banding of any sort or 
plain stitching or applied braiding or 
any finish of the sort will be found ap¬ 
propriate. If the full three-quarter 
sleeves are not liked, long plain ones 
can be substituted. The gown is made 
with front and back portions. It is 
laid in plaits over the shoulders and 
gathered at the waist-line. The full 
sleeves are made in one piece eacli, the 
plain ones with upper and under por¬ 
tions. The quantity of material required 
for the medium size is 10 yards 24 or 
27, 6}4 yards 32 or yards 44 inches 
wide with 314 yards of banding. The 
pattern 6650 is cut in sizes for a 34, 
36, 38, 40, 42 and 44-inch bust meas¬ 
ure; price 10 cents. 
Chimney Corner Talk. 
THE CHILD AND THE FOCKETBOOK. 
There are two ways, I take it, of 
looking at money. It is something to 
spend, or something to get hold of and 
hold on to. This, our twentieth cen¬ 
tury, has started in with a tremendous 
pressure along both lines. People are 
spending at a reckless pace and the 
grab and hustle to get more to spend 
is diluting the milk of human kindness 
till it threatens to become weak as water. 
Our grandfathers saved their dimes, 
put their dollars in the savings bank, 
invested every few hundred in first 
mortgages and died rich men because 
they had a few thousands. Some of us 
blame our boys when they are not will¬ 
ing to follow this old-fashioned plan; 
others see that if a man is to get or do 
much good in life lie must not be wholly 
out of step with his generation. We 
want the best for our children; how are 
we to help them to it? Will inheriting, 
sometime in middle life, the thousand 
or so an education would have cost, 
bring the greatest good? 
A few things are certain. We can¬ 
not do better than prepare our children 
to earn, encourage them to save, and 
teach them to spend. Now what will 
you do with that boy or girl of yours? 
Have a plan. The reason so few get 
anywhere in particular is because they 
never aim at anything. If it turns out 
that neither the boy nor the girl wants 
to do the things you have chosen for 
them, your plans have done no harm. 
They will be so much the farther along 
toward the things they decide for. 
Nothing learned is ever wasted. If you 
have taught the boy the elements of 
good farming, though he turn out a 
lawyer, or a store-keeper, or a motor- 
man, he will be the broader man and 
touch life at more points because he 
knows rural problems and conditions. 
And if he lives long enough -he may find 
peace and happiness in ending his days 
as a farmer. It is something half the 
city men are dreaming of doing. And 
let that girl of yours study music, or 
bookkeeping, or millinery, or stenography 
if her heart is set on it. If I mistake 
not, she is a chip of the old block and 
will earn all it costs -back again, and 
more too. If she happens not to marry, 
she will be forty times the happier for 
her independent life, and if she happens 
to marry before the money has been 
earned back, why just look to see its 
worth crop out in her children and home. 
It will all come to light there sooner or 
later. Of this last I am positive, and 
could heap up instances in proof. 
Before you can teach a child to spend, 
you must see that he has the saving 
habit. Nobody spends well who spends 
in driblets. That is one of the bad 
things about the paper of tobacco and 
the pound of candy. They also soil the 
man and ruin teeth, but they build up a 
habit of small spending for things that 
amount to nothing. I would rather see 
a boy or girl extravagant in buying 
some really good thing than know that 
the habit of petty spending had set in. 
Better judgment may come with age 
and experience, but a habit is the mis¬ 
chief and all to get rid of. 
And how can you teach children to 
save and to spend with good sense 
unless you let them have some handling 
of money? The farmhouse has the ad¬ 
vantages there over the city home; there 
may be less cash to get hold of, but 
there is not the constant opportunity to 
fritter it away, and best of all, the child 
can be put in the way of earning by 
actual labor. The flock of poultry is 
the readiest thing in personal property, 
but many small animals can be made to 
yield a profit if properly handled. And 
the farm’s crying need in the way of 
labor! If parents would pay a child 
half it would cost to hire an outsider 
to do certain tasks the little one’s own 
purse would provide shoes and hats and 
an excursion ticket when picnics or a 
really good circus came around. Of 
one thing we may all be pretty certain, 
the next generation will spend on a 
scale that would have staggered its 
grandparents. The best you and I can 
do will be in the way of helping it to 
learn to get greatest possible value for 
its money. Don’t blame the boy or girl 
for mistakes; the time to get anxious is 
only after a child of yours.has made 
the same mistake two or three times 
over. There, you will see, is a tendency 
to be reckoned with, a weak spot in the 
harness to keep the eye on whenever a 
pull through a hard bit of road lies 
ahead. It is to be expected that some 
young people will be too credulous, 
others too eager to show off and stand 
well with their acquaintances, and yet 
others too much inclined to a penurious¬ 
ness that puts a damper on friendships 
and rfarrcJws both interests and sympa¬ 
thies. And at most, we that love them 
have about as much power as has the 
gardener who can prune and fertilize, 
but who,' strive as he may, will not grow 
Kieffer pears that will be highly flavor¬ 
ed, Morello cherries as big and sweet 
as Oxhearts, or Baldwin, apples .that will 
ripen in June. Jonathan carmel. 
"Can yon put the spider web 
Back In Its place, 
That once has been Rwept away 7 
Can you put the apple hack on the bough 
That fell at your feet to-day? 
Can you put the kernel back In the nut, 
The egg In Its dainty shell? 
Can you put the honey back in. the comb 
And cover with wax each cell? 
You think my questions trifling, dear, 
I*et me ask another one: 
Cnn a hasty word be recalled, 
Or an unkind deed undone?” 
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Simpson-Eddystone 
Shepherd Plaids— 
the cotton dress 
goods with perfectly 
fast colors. These 
calicoes have been 
the standard of the 
United States for 
over 65 years. Some 
with a new silk finish. 
If your dealer hasn’t Simp¬ 
son-Eddystone Prints write 
us his name. We’ll help him 
supply you. 
The Eddystone Mfg. Co., Phila., Pa. 
Established by Wm. Simpson, Sr. 
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to Farm House Door 
That sums up the whole story 
when you buy soda crackers by 
name- 
Uneeda 
Biscuit 
As soon as they are baked they are* 
placed in moisture-prool packages. In 
this way they are kept free from dust, 
damp and other harmful conditions. 
This means that you are always 
assured of fresh; clean, crisp, unbroken 
soda crackers no matter where you 
buy them or when you eat them. 
They come in five cent packages. 
(Never sold in bulk) 
NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY 
