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THE RURAL* NEW-YORKER 
The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns always give 
number of pattern and measurement de¬ 
sired. 
The well-cut work apron shown in 
No. 6656 is made with the front and side 
portions. The side portions are fitted 
by means of darts and are extended to 
6656 Work Apron, Small 32 or 34, 
Medium 36 or 38, Large 40 or 42 bust. 
form the straps. The pockets are ar¬ 
ranged over the side portions and are 
joined with them to the front. The 
straps are designed to be buttoned into 
place. The quantity of material required 
for the medium size is 4)4 yards 24 or 
27, 3 Vi yards 36 inches wide. The pat¬ 
tern 6656 is cut in three sizes, small 32 
or 34, medium 36 or 38, large 40 or 42 
inches bust measure; price 10 cents. 
The small block gives a variety of 
useful patterns. 6716, girls’ box plaited 
dress, sizes 2 to 8 years. 6699, fancy 
tucked blouse, 34 to 42 bust. 6605, 
child’s dress with bloomers, 2, 4 and 6 
years. 6706, empire house gown, 34 to 
42 bust. 6596, seven-gored skirt, sizes 
22 to 32 waist. Price 10 cents each. 
He (man) is curious to wash, dress 
and perfume his body, but careless of his 
soul. The one shall have many hours, 
the other not so many minutes. This 
shall have three or four new suits in a 
year, but that must wear its old clothes 
still. If he be to receive a great man, 
how nice and anxious he is that all 
strings be in order? And with what 
respect and address does he approach 
and make his court? But to God, how 
dry and formal and constrained in his 
devotion! In his prayers he says, thy 
will be done. But means his own. At 
least acts so.—William Penn. 
Good Housekeeping in West Virginia 
A few weeks ago I read in The 
R. N.-Y. a letter from “Jonathan Car¬ 
mel” inquiring the cost per capita for 
groceries and meat when vegetables, 
eggs, chickens, milk and butter were all 
supplied at home. He asked (as I re¬ 
member) if $2.50 apiece per week would 
be sufficient, and requested some of the 
housekeepers to answer him. I have 
been looking ever since for some good 
woman to give her experience, but not 
one has spoken. Mrs. C. W. D. has had 
a “shower” of answers concerning her 
iron pot. Why has our brother’s ques¬ 
tion been left unanswered? Can it be 
that no farmer’s wife who keeps an ac¬ 
count of expenses has time to write to 
the paper? I have kept an account of 
expenses pretty faithfully ever since I 
was married. I think that is the only 
way to carry on the business of house¬ 
keeping intelligently and economically. 
I used to be fortunate enough to live 
on a farm, but for the last few years— 
since prices have been higher—have had 
to live in town and buy all vegetables, 
fruit, milk, butter and eggs—in short, 
every article of food. We have had to 
pay 40 cents a pound for butter most of 
this Spring, and milk is from eight to 
10 cents a quart. Our family consists 
of five—my husband, three hearty boys 
of 10 , 13 and 15 years, and myself. For 
the months of January, February, March 
and April we have spent $49.66 for eat¬ 
ables, which is about $2.50 a month for in 
each of us. One dollar would cover the 
cost of soap, starch and blueing used in 
that time. One article of food of con¬ 
siderable importance is not contained in 
my accounts of January, February, 
March and April, the potatoes (the 
mainstay in vegetables), as I bought 
them in the Fall to supply us all Win¬ 
ter. I paid 90 cents a bushel and in four 
months I calculate we ate $4.63 worth 
of them. It would make about 23 cents 
more per month for each person. I sup¬ 
pose every housekeeper will understand 
that the expense of home-canned and 
preserved fruits would not come in thes 
months I have named. My figures—$2.50 
each a month—counted in only eatables. 
To be exact it was $2.48, and the 23 
cents for potatoes would raise it to $2.71. 
As the price of potatoes has fallen, it 
was not economy to buy them as I did; 
but I am not sorry, as I bought them 
directly from a farmer, and as a general 
thing the farmer does not get pay enough 
for his labor. The commission merchant 
and grocer make too large a profit. I 
buy cereals and some other groceries 
from a mail order house—bake all our 
bread—bake pretty good cake without an 
egg, never use more than two in a cake, 
and economize in many ways. If we 
bought our bread, six five-cent loaves 
would not last us over four meals— 
hardly that. We would pay $1.30 a 
week for bread, whereas the materials 
for making enough bread to last us a 
week cost not more than 30 cents. Of 
course the gas to bake it costs some¬ 
thing. 
No money goes for tobacco or liquor, 
and we live well, but do not indulge in 
expensive fruit or vegetables out of sea¬ 
son. We eat meat only once a day, and 
that ordinarily from the cheaper cuts. 
I would add that my husband has been 
from home some of the time, but we 
have had friends in to eat with us oc¬ 
casionally, and we all have good appe¬ 
tites. 
I suppose that it is hardly necessary 
for me to say that I do not waste food. 
I never throw away a scrap of bread. 
Even the crumbs that fall from the loaf 
when cutting are saved to use in pan¬ 
cake batter, soups, croquettes or some 
other of the many dishes calling for 
bread crumbs. I cut my bread on a 
paper, then pour the crumbs into a paper 
bag (which I keep in a dry place), then 
fold the paper over the bread knife and 
leave it on a corner of the kitchen table 
where it is ready to be opened and used 
at the next meal. When bread is fresh 
there are many crumbs, but when old 
scarcely any. 
I can sympathize with the sister who 
wanted to know some time ago what was 
the matter with her homemade soap. My 
last was just like hers—solid to the bot¬ 
tom and when dried shrunk wonderfully 
and was covered with a white lye-like 
substance. I now have a recipe by Eliza¬ 
beth Weber which I believe is a good 
one. Dissolve one pound caustic soda 
in one gallon soft water and add five 
pounds of cracklings, rinds or other 
grease. Keep cold water handy to throw 
in if the soap should boil over. Boil 
slowly from 1*4 to two hours, or until 
grease is all dissolved. Add 1J4 gallon 
of water, bring to a boil and put in salt 
enough to separate the lye water and 
the soap, probably one-half pound. Stir 
until salt is thoroughly dissolved, then 
dip deep with spoon and if the mixture 
you get is separated distinctly like curd 
and whey it has enough salt and is ready 
to pour out to harden. Do not use more 
salt than necessary. “Caustic soda” is 
an essential. Your druggist can furnish 
it, and any surplus should be at once 
sealed in a glass jar, as the air causes 
it to dissolve. It is not economical to 
use good clean grease for making soap. 
Fat from fried and boiled meats is ex¬ 
cellent to use in cooking, and a careful 
housekeeper does not allow good grease 
to become rancid. Cracklings and pork 
rinds are legitimate materials for soap. 
I use more suet for cooking than lard, 
as it is cheaper and probably more 
wholesome. Beef suet is too hard for 
pie crust, but if you mix the leaf suet 
with some fat off the beef, put water 
with it and let it boil for an hour be¬ 
fore the water evaporates, it will not be 
so hard. Some mix the suet with lard. 
Lately I have been getting only three or 
four pounds at a time of clean suet, and 
before rendering it wash carefully, trim¬ 
ming off all bits that I would not like 
to eat. Then after rendering I put the 
cracklings through a food chopper and 
use this in my “johnny cake.” Two gen¬ 
erous tablespoons of this in your corn 
bread will make it nice and crisp without 
an egg. 
I am always eager to learn something | 
new and helpful in my line of work— 
housekeeping and cooking—and I find 
many useful hints in Tiie R. N.-Y. I 
think that the problem of homekeeping 
all its length, breadth and depth— 
upon which depends the proper nutrition 
of husband and children and their health 
of body, mind and spirit—worthy of en¬ 
gaging the best efforts of any woman. 
MRS. G. b. w. 
Reflect often upon the instability of 
things and how very fast the scenes of 
nature are shifted. Matter is in a per¬ 
petual flux. Change is always and 
everywhere at work; it strikes through 
causes and effects, and leaves nothing 
fixed and permanent. And then how very 
near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, 
the past and the future, in which all 
things disappear. Now, is not that man 
a blockhead that lets these momentary 
things make him proud, or uneasy, or 
sorrowful, as though they could trouble 
him for long?—Marcus Aurelius. 
He that can apprehend and consider 
vice with all her baits and seeming 
pleasures, and yet abstain and yet dis¬ 
tinguish and yet prefer that which is 
truly better, he is the true warfaring 
Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive 
and cloistered virtue, unexercised and 
unbreathed, that never sallies out and 
sees her adversary, but slinks out of the 
race, where that immortal garland is to 
be run for, not without dust and heat. 
Assuredly we bring not innocence into 
the world, we bring impurity much 
rather; that which purifies us is trial, 
and trial is by what is contrary.—John 
Milton. 
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F ruits 
Canned Whole 
Look Best 
The Atlas E-Z Seal Jar (illu¬ 
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similar fruits whole. 
It isn’t longer necessary to cut such 
fine fruits into small pieces and have 
a mushy looking mass in the jar. Fruits 
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look as fine as when fresh picked—hand¬ 
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