3910 - 
The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns always give 
number of pattern and measurement de¬ 
sired. 
The boy’s suit shown consists of 
blouse and knickerbockers. The blouse 
is made with fronts and back, and fin- 
THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
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6717 Boy’s Suit, 2, 4 and 6 years, 
ished with a round collar and is held by 
a belt. The sleeves are made in one 
piece each, tucked at the wrists. The 
knickerbockers are of the regulation sort 
and are finished with hems at their lower 
edges in which elastic is inserted to regu¬ 
late the fulness. The quantity of mate¬ 
rial required for the medium size (4 
years) is 3J4 yards, 24 or 27, 2Y% yards 
36 or 2 yards 44 inches wide. The pat¬ 
tern 6717 is cut in sizes for boys of 2, 4 
and 6 years of age; price 10 cents. 
A variety of useful patterns is shown 
in the small picture. 6740, coat with 
shawl collar, 34 to 40 bust. 6753, misses’ 
ing a comfortable living, and the middle 
class constitute their best customers— 
those with the limited incomes, espec¬ 
ially when the women of the homes are 
wage-earners and have little time for the 
re-modeling and weekly repairing of 
clothing. 
Housewives differ greatly, not so 
much in their desire to be strictly eco¬ 
nomical, but rather in their ability to 
prolong the usefulness of woven and 
knit material after they have passed be¬ 
yond their specific service. In the hands 
of some women a worn garment goes 
directly into the ragbag, and when a new 
mop or cleaning cloth is needed, the 
ragbag is raided, and in case the con¬ 
tents of the ragbag have recently de¬ 
parted with the ragman, then something 
yet useful must be sacrificed to an un¬ 
wise ragbag habit. The housewife who 
handles her old garments with economic 
ability places rags in the ragbag to stay 
and for the benefit of the ragman. , It is 
surprising how much old clean material 
can be utilized about a kitchen, aside 
from cleaning and dusting cloths, mops, 
holders and dishcloths. The good house¬ 
keeper who dislikes an unsightly oil- 
lamp and stove cloths, instead of hav¬ 
ing them about, either in or out of sight, 
cuts old garments into pieces, sorts them 
for a box or bag, and then uses as small 
pieces as possible, and drops them into 
the stove. It is the better way to re¬ 
move grease from dishes and cooking 
utensils with a clean old rag, even the 
heel or toe of a clean stocking, and thus 
keep that much grease out of the sink 
and drain pipes or the waste-water pail. 
Using pieces of cloth and dropping them 
into the fire is not only sanitary, but 
both time and hand-saving, even if it 
does mean two or more receptacles for 
rags, and a possible lack of sympathy 
on the part of the ragman for an eco¬ 
nomic and sanitary cult of the ragbag. 
MEDORA CORBETT. 
pajamas, 14, 16 and 18 years. 6729, fancy 
waist, 34 to 42 bust. 6745, three-piece 
combination, 34 to 44 bust. 6737, five- 
gored skirt, 22 to 32 waist. Price of 
each pattern 10 cents. 
The Cult of the Ragbag. 
It was a grandfather who said that 
“every well regulated house has a rag¬ 
bag.” That was years ago, when noth¬ 
ing that could be made over, or pieced 
into a quilt, or used for a patch, or a 
carpet rag ever went into the ragbag. 
And yet, the full ragbags were always 
ready for the tin-peddler who always 
appeared during the Spring with his cart 
loaded with tin and glassware to ex¬ 
change for ragwear. The average house¬ 
wife on the farm to-day puts many gar¬ 
ments and pieces of new material into 
the ragbag that 40 years ago would have 
seemed wasteful. The town housewife 
who is well-to-do gives old garments to 
the needy as soon as they are cast aside, 
and thus both town and rural house¬ 
wives are assisting the poor. The pres¬ 
ent-day ragmen are without doubt mak- 
The Home Clipping Bureau. 
R. M. B.’s mention of scrapbooks 
went straight to my sympathies, for I 
have long been a clipper and saver along 
various lines. In years agone I began 
a large scrapbook, at the beginning is 
poetry. By keeping an open eye for the 
best I have copies of Kipling’s choicest 
verse; Markham, Father Tabb, Eugene 
Field, Helen Hunt Jackson, the Stod¬ 
dards, Bunner, Stedman and many an¬ 
other poet of our time being well repre¬ 
sented. Reprints from the older poets 
have also been added till poetry de¬ 
mands the entire book. So also do the 
bird articles which were given the last 
pages. Long ago they crowded up to the 
preceding subject, which happened to be 
sermons. It is said that no one ever 
reads old sermons, but one in this scrap¬ 
book in the yellowing newspaper dress 
of a long-ago “Springfield Republican” 
I re-read every year or two. It is en¬ 
titled “Blessed be Drudgery,” is by W. 
C. Gannett, and I should like to send a 
copy of it to every Rural sister who 
knows what it is to feel discouragement 
and to ask what is the use of all this 
weary round of work. The sermon is to 
be had in booklet form, I think, but my 
old scrapbook copy answers for hearten¬ 
ing me up and setting things going 
cheerfully again. 
What with one or two other pet sub¬ 
jects my big book would please me bet¬ 
ter if in four or five pairs of covers. _ I 
get out-dated catalogues from a relative 
who is in the hardware business, and find 
them satisfactory as scrapbooks. They 
are large-paged, well bound, good paper 
and by cutting out two-thirds of the 
leaves answer the purpose well. Prob¬ 
ably other lines of trade have catalogues 
as well suited. 
One such book I have dedicated to 
my friends. It holds not only clippings 
of marriages, deaths, obituaries and 
biography, but has many a stray article 
written by a friend or about some place 
or person I know and which I should 
find it hard to select any other place for. 
It is surprising how many such items 
will accumulate as the years glide past. 
One year I had (and greatly enjoyed) 
a calendar with a leaf for each day and 
a quotation by Robert Louis Stevenson. 
As the sheets were torn off they were 
slipped into an envelope and at the end 
of the year they were somewhat classi¬ 
fied as to subjects and pasted into a 
small catalogue by themselves. Available 
Stevenson quotations have been added, 
and when any of that brave and cheery 
genius’s thoughts set me trying to re¬ 
member just how he worded them I can 
usually find the lines in my little scrap¬ 
book. It takes up almost no room on 
the book shelf, but with its making came 
probably a better acquaintance with 
Stevenson’s philosophy of life than I 
should have accumulated in any other 
way. 
Henceforth my scrapbooks are to be 
kept each to one subject, or perhaps I 
shall give up pasting altogether, for I 
have what I feel sure will prove a better 
plan. Provide yourself with two or 
three bill files of the large, book-shaped 
sort, and you have a place for every¬ 
thing, and all indexed, and yet free to be 
rearranged, sub-divided as to subjects, 
lent or discarded or read and replaced. 
A friend once asked to borrow an article 
to read before the Grange. My bulky 
old scrapbook was gladly loaned, but was 
far from convenient. You could begin 
collecting in one letter, or bill file, and 
as it became full divide your stores, 
giving local items a file to themselves, 
literary treasures another and so on. It 
might be well to keep in the front of 
your file a paper bearing a list of the 
titles collected, as for instance, “The 
Foot-path to Peace,” by Henry Van 
Dyke; underline the word “Peace” and 
put the clipping in at P. It would take 
but a moment to write titles as scraps 
were added, and you could more readily 
run your eye over the list than you could 
recollect whether—to take the clipping 
mentioned—you had put it at V for Van 
Dyke or at F for Foot-path. Some 
minds take to statistics or to instructive 
items, but such are short and never to 
be found when wanted. If filed and in¬ 
dexed a moment should bring any sub¬ 
ject to hand. Sometimes we regret giv¬ 
ing scrapbook room to things we no 
longer care for; from the file they are 
easily discarded. Pieces the children 
would like to learn as recitations at 
school or Grange are easily taken out 
for study and restored. Certainly a 
teacher would find a well-stocked file a 
mine of wealth. 
It ought perhaps to be explained that 
the file in mind is as big, perhaps, as 
the family Bible, has a cover which 
shuts with a spring and a let-down 
front; within are stout leaves with in¬ 
dexed margins to keep the contents 
arranged according to letters of the al¬ 
phabet. You can see a row of them in 
any merchant’s office, for he files bills in 
them for instant reference. They cost 
about 35 cents each at a city stationer’s. 
(Departing a moment from the sub¬ 
ject directly in hand, it is suggested that 
you buy father one of these bill files on 
his next birthday—if he has not a sup¬ 
ply already. Could you pursuade the 
average farmer to file away all business 
papers, money receipts, bills rendered 
and legal contracts, you might help him 
to save many dollars. Certainly you 
would help to bring order and prompt¬ 
ness where is a state close to chaos in 
many houses.) Nothing can be better 
than a file for preserving the few old 
letters it is advisable to keep. Now and 
then one of extra interest from a friend 
or relative might be passed down in the 
family as of real value in its history. 
We all get occasional letters too precious 
for the fire. Many things related in let¬ 
ters would be of lively interest to de- 
scendents a century from now, for the 
family without a history of its own 
lacks stability. Good housewifery lies, 
not in getting rid of every old thing so 
much as in making some orderly ar¬ 
rangement for keeping the fractions 
worth preserving, prudence primrose. 
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