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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns always give 
number of pattern and measurement de¬ 
sired. 
The first collection of pictures in¬ 
cludes 6427, tucked blouse or shirt 
waist. A neat waist for business wear 
made up in linen, madras or silk. Sizes 
34 to 42. 6529, boys’ overcoat. A model 
which is adapted to any of the heavy 
materials of the season. Sizes 2 to 8 
years. 6620, one-piece nightgown. Cross- 
barred lawn, nainsook, cambric or crepe 
may be used in the development of this 
model. 14, 16 and 18 years. 6383, girls’ 
dress with five-gored plaited skirt. A 
practical model for the young girl made 
up in heavy linen, serge or mohair. 
Sizes 8 to 14 years. 6802, seven-gored 
skirt. Adapted to Panama, serge or 
broadcloth. Sizes 22 to 32. Price of 
each pattern 10 cents. 
The second group shows 6822, shirt 
waist; developed in madras, linen, ba¬ 
tiste or flannel this model would be very 
pretty; size 34 to 44. 6613, semi-prin¬ 
cess dress; plaid, serge, mohair or Pa¬ 
nama cloth may be used for the cold 
days of Winter; sizes 34 to 44. 6817, 
semi-fitted coat. A serviceable model 
developed in cheviot, broadcloth or 
heavy serge; sizes 34 to 44. 6806, fancy' 
waist. A pretty model developed in silk, 
messaline or chiffon; sizes 36 to 46. 
5937, chafing dish aprons. Pretty models 
made of batiste, lawn or cross-barred 
lawn would make very pretty Christ- 
mast presents. One size. Price of each 
pattern 10 cents. 
Society Life in the Country. 
My farm home is so near a village 
that the social life in that place concerns 
me much more than it otherwise would, 
as there my children will probably re¬ 
ceive impressions that will-help to mold 
their characters. And as their joy is 
my joy, and their well-being is one of 
the chief aims of my life, I wish T 
might sit here in my quiet home to-night 
and write so earnestly and so impres¬ 
sively that parents who read might not 
only approve, but determine to do their 
several parts toward a general reform 
movement in the education of our chil¬ 
dren. I am anxious that they shall ap¬ 
preciate life, enjoy life, but also that 
they shall appreciate work and enjoy 
work, and by education, I mean espec¬ 
ially their conception of life and its 
work. 
Although I do not like the pace which 
is in vogue among our young people, 
yet I do not want to make my sons and 
daughters so different that they may 
not find congenial companions. In that 
case they might become rebellious of 
the training that so shut them out from 
fellowship. I know that many, many 
mothers are dissatisfied with the trend 
and hesitate to make any reform in their 
own homes, because they want their 
children to do as others do. We shall 
have to begin in small ways and work 
outward slowly and patiently to change 
these false ideals that so many of us 
have set up. I am sure that the condi¬ 
tions are quite the same in towns and in 
cities, but in villages we are privileged 
to know intimately the daily lives of 
so many families who represent the 
average respectable, working, conscien¬ 
tious American family. The parents in 
such families are so ambitious for their 
children. They hope to give them all 
the enjoyment of which their youth was 
probably denied and are perfectly will¬ 
ing to overwork themselves to this end. 
The young folks must be more and 
more educated, more accomplished and 
more dressed, and a pace is set which 
calls constantly for something more. 
It is perfectly right that the young 
people should have their pleasures and 
benefits, but to what extremes we go! 
We work in a circle. We give all of 
our strength and time to work in order 
that our children may go to this func¬ 
tion and to that, and the children crave 
to go, because with our constant toil 
has gone the charm which might have 
bound them to their home. Tn this 
place, the young people are continually 
contriving amusements, and it follows 
that some are obliged to overwork to 
furnish them the necessary clothes and 
leisure time. Tt also follows that they 
become selfish, restless,. hard to please, 
and lose their appreciation of the value 
of labor. At a public function I see 
two young sisters, school teachers in 
the graded schools, dressed quite as 
elegantly as the only daughter of the 
college president. You ask why should 
they not, and T have a knowledge of 
the struggles of the family for. my an¬ 
swer. T know that their father is. a car¬ 
penter, that in order to educate his chil¬ 
dren he is leaving his old age unpro¬ 
vided for, that there are younger chil¬ 
dren to be reared, and that the mother 
is a martyr to them all. And T know 
that these young women are even re¬ 
ceiving encouragement at home to spend 
their salaries on clothes, that they may 
feel well-dressed at any place. Tn an¬ 
other family there are two daughters 
and a son. The daughters have had les¬ 
sons in vocal and instrumental music, 
dancing and painting, and are consid¬ 
ered the best dressed girls in the vil¬ 
lage, and are always having a “good 
time.” The son is attending college. 
He Has quite enough leisure time to 
earn all of his expenses, but employs it 
in “sporting.” The father of this fam¬ 
ily is a merchant. He opens his store 
at six in the morning and closes it at 
11 at night. He sees his children at 
meals. He spends his Sundays in sleep. 
His wife, by hard work and good man¬ 
agement, does all of her housework, all 
the scwyig for her family, and often 
some for friends. This extra money 
furnishes the means for a month’s stay 
at the seashore for the daughters. 
I am positive that this man and his 
wife have never taken a trip away from 
home together. Tt is too expensive, 
“living is so high.” Their family cir¬ 
cle is never complete in the evening. 
While there are sweet music and happy 
voices in the parlor, the tired mother 
is at the sewing machine and the father 
at his work. They cannot _ complain, 
they are working to keep their children 
“going” and they “go.” ITow many such 
cases do you know ? Some say that 
such parents have full compensation in 
the joy of their children, but T do not 
think that our lives which are so short 
are meant to be lived in that way. Tt 
is a selfish, false set of ideals to set be¬ 
fore our children, and surely there is a 
medium where all might join hands, 
where the child might be fitted for the 
joy and enjoyment of his own home and 
at the same time give to the world a 
sufficient share. ... 
I know of one instance where a bright 
but indulged young girl was allowed by 
her parents to spend the entire $50 per 
month that she earned, in clothes. Her 
parents were working people. In the 
course of time she married. The young 
husband, I am sure, never earned over 
$100 per month, not always so much. 
He knew that she expected a nice little 
home, a servant, as nice or perhaps 
nicer clothes than she then wore. The 
pace had been set; he must try to keep 
it up. It was delightful to try, because 
he loved her. Yet the task became 
harder and harder, and her parents were 
inclined to criticise because he could 
not do more for her than they had done. 
No children could be afforded and the 
young wife, having been reared to sel¬ 
fishness was of no material assistance. 
The story ends like so many others, 
overwork and then disaster. 
It is small wonder that our young men 
are becoming more and more hesitant 
to enter into matrimony. The wedding 
itself, in so many families, is a strain on 
the strength and finances, and the young 
home is started on this foundation, and 
the hride and bridegroom, feeling that 
much is expected of them, usually in¬ 
crease the pace a little. We need more 
calmness, poise and individuality and 
less restlessness and complexity. Race 
suicide and divorce would be directly 
affected toward a solution, by the indi¬ 
vidual resolution and persistent, quiet 
determination of parents to make this 
young generation as unselfish, unosten¬ 
tatious and helpful as is in our power 
to do. L. S. 
Home-Canned Meat. 
I have been reading Miss Hoover’s 
recipe for home-canned meat on page 
1080. T have canned beef, and in July 
following found that it had kept as well 
as any canned fruit or any canned goods. 
Sometimes T can it in the Fall or m 
early Winter. The jars must be thor¬ 
oughly washed as for anything, being 
left in hot water on back of stove a 
while before filling. Cook the beef in 
hot water and with salt and pepper un¬ 
til all meat leaves the bone easily, then 
pack in jars, filling the jars with hot 
liquid and grease. Seal, set jars on 
cloth in the bottom of boiler with cloth 
around the cans to keep them from 
breaking as they boil; boil 2^2 hours, 
let cool in boiler, being careful not to 
loosen the tops when washing off jars 
before putting away. I have given this 
recipe to friends, and we all have had 
good luck with our meat. 
MRS. ANDREW D. WHATTAM. 
Flannel Cakes.—One tablespoonful of 
butter, one pint of flour, one saltspoou- 
ful of salt, two eggs, two cupfuls of milk, 
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. 
Rub the butter into the flour and add 
the salt. Beat the yolks of the eggs light, 
add the milk to them, and when well 
beaten stir the milk into the flour until 
quite smooth. Beat the whites light; 
add them, and lastly the baking powder, 
and bake on a hot griddle. 
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