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The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns always give 
number of pattern and measurement de¬ 
sired. 
8185 Middy blouse for misses and 
small women, 16 to 18 years. 8195 
Fancy blouse, 34 to 40 bust. 8200 Semi- 
princesse gown, 34 to 40 bust. 8174 
Seven gored skirt, 26 to 36 waist. 8194 
One-piece skirt, 22 to SO waist. Price 
of each pattern 10 cents. 
The following patterns at prices 
quoted include materials for working. 
Transfer patterns only will be furnished 
for 10 cents each. 
No. 776. A design for embroidering an 
infant’s carriage cover. Stamped on 
21x36 best round thread Scotch linen, 
with one dozen 12 yard skeins of white 
mercerized floss to work, 60 cents. 
No. 733. A design for embroidering a 
shawl collar and cuffs. The scalloped 
edges are to be buttonholed. The dots 
can be worked solidly or as eyelets. 
Stamped on best white pure Irish linen 
with mercerized floss to work, 60 cents. 
No. 774. A design for embroidering 
the ends of a table or dresser scarf. Two 
ends twelve inches wide are given. 
Stamped and tinted on art crash, 17x54 
inches, with mercerized floss to work, 40 
cents. 
No. 632. A design for embroidering a 
doyley ten and one-half inches in diam¬ 
eter. One transfer is given. Stamped 
and tinted on white Irish linen with 
mercerized floss to work, 25 cents. 
Chocolate Buds. 
Can any of the home candy-makers 
give me a recipe for the popular con¬ 
fections eaib'd chocolate buds? A. E. F. 
THE RURA.I> 
Glimpses o i Life in Colorado 
“Are you going to the sale?” a neigh¬ 
bor asked me. “Everybody goes, women 
as much as the men; they don’t go to 
buy, but to see the folks and then you 
get a lunch too.” It was very strange 
to one not accustomed to it to see scores 
of women following around the men and 
auctioneer from farm stock to machinery 
and all the odds and ends of a sale; 
women with babies and little tots cling¬ 
ing to their skirts. For me it would be 
a very hard day’s work, and I cannot 
become Westernized enough to think it 
is just the place for a woman. On the 
plains, however, it seems a woman can 
go wherever a man can. In many cases 
if the children are clothed and fed, that 
ends it, although they are sent to school 
usually, for it is the law. The little 
courtesies of life are not taught, and in 
too many cases, they are not even known 
by the parents themselves. It is a rare 
occurrence to see a man lift his hat when 
meeting a lady, and when it is done it 
is noted. The young men are greatly 
lacking in common politeness, those 
whom I have met, both here and in 
Wyoming. But there are portions of the 
East where it is no better. I was much 
surprised and also pleased when a young 
man backed out of the door when leaving, 
cap under his arm, until he was out of 
the door-way. He attended a short course 
at Fort Collins Agricultural College last 
year, and perhaps learned something of 
manners there, but his parents, particu¬ 
larly the mother, are a little above the 
average here intellectually, and I think 
she has had a hand in the training. The 
boy is a great reader and comes here for 
reading matter. We have numerous 
magazines sent us by friends in the East 
as well as what we take, and are glad 
to pass them over. “I like a good short 
story that tells how rich people live. I 
am poor, but I love to read of elegance 
and riches,” he told me. They are well- 
to-do farmers, live comfortably, and left 
a nice Iowa farm to come here for the 
mother’s health, which has improved so 
wonderfully that money could not hire 
them to return. 
A neighbor called yesterday and in 
course of the conversation remarked that 
she was doing her Summer sewing now, 
making two gingham house-dresses and 
lot of pillow slips of calico and gingham, 
as they were so easy to wash and did not 
show dirt like white. “I have a lot of 
good white cotton sheets and pillow slips 
for spare beds, but I use cotton blankets, 
gray or brown. Summer and Winter. 
They save a lot of hard work, and what’s 
the use of killing one’s self for the sake 
of color? I never had colored pillow 
slips, but I find lots of people do have 
them for common, and I am going to 
have them after this.” 
This woman is abundantly able to have 
what she needs and wishes, and is strong 
in body, but works hard, doing many 
things out of doors that really are men’s 
work. There are kinds of white muslins 
that wash as easy as calico, but of course 
will show the soil sooner. If one lives 
in a dug-out it makes some difference, or 
a sod bouse not plastered, and has a 
family of small children. Circumstances 
alter cases oftentimes. Washing is hard 
work at the best, but doubly so where 
the water is poor. Some wells of water 
are so hard that lye has to be used in 
such quantities that a scum will rise in¬ 
stead of suds. Strange as it may seem 
the water sometimes is harder than an¬ 
other time from the same well. Only a 
mile from us a neighbor has a well 
where the water is very poor, “gyp” 
they call it, and soapstone, while just 
half a mile away the water is good. 
Ours is good, but rather hard. If there 
is one thing more than another that a 
woman needs handy and easy to get it is 
water, but people who rent or are poor 
have to take it as they find it, or can get 
it. 
It made my heart sad to hear of a 
woman who came here less than a year 
ago from Nebraska, so discouraged it was 
hard living, with a husband and large 
family of children. “We always had 
plenty of feed for our stock, bogs to kill 
for our meat, lots of cows to milk and 
no lack of fuel. Here we have nothing, 
no hogs, for we raised nothing to feed 
them, and it’s so with everything. We 
have no money to get back with. The 
Lord knows what we will do—I don’t.” 
NEW-YORKER 
There are hundreds in like position in 
this western country. The real estate 
agent is a curse to the country in many 
ways. There are exceptions, but they 
are few compared with the many. Peo¬ 
ple seem land mad, Many come here 
with plenty of money having sold their 
farms in Iowa and Nebraska for large 
sums; come here and pay from $10 to 
$25 an acre, fence, put down well, build 
fine houses, barns, etc. Do they count 
the cost after it is all done? It brings 
the raw land up to a pretty big figure, 
and then crops are very uncertain. Tame 
grasses, except in some places Alfalfa, 
cannot be raised. So the poor home¬ 
steader or renter must turn his stock on 
the range to pick what they can for a 
living. Very many of the women work 
out in the fields; plow, cultivate, run the 
mowing machine and horse rake, load , 
hay, husk corn. I do not think it right 
when a woman has the house and family 
of children to care for. One or the other 
suffers, for it cannot all be done by one 
pair of hands. Very few women but 
milk. As a general thing so far as I 
have learned there are children, large 
families predominating. I have heard of 
no men compelling their wives to work in 
the field, but it seems a naturally drawn 
conclusion that they will. Scarcity of 
help is not always the reason. If the 
older children are girls they are put to 
the work, following the walking plow in 
some cases here. There are no schools 
from May until September in the coun¬ 
try. A neighbor woman told me last 
Fall when we called there, that she 
helped husk corn in the field five days 
out of the week aud the sixth she washed, 
ironed, churned, scrubbed, baked, swept 
and cleaned up for a family of four. Sun¬ 
day they eitl r have company or go visit¬ 
ing. She is a healthy woman now, but 
she may not always be so strong. Nature 
cannot always stand being forced. That 
is the way some of the people live on the I 
great plains of eastern Colorado. The 
work and talk is now setting hens and 
incubators, getting the garden ready for 
planting, and looking over the catalogues. 
I have not heard one say aught against 
getting garden and flower seeds from the 
Government. They look forward for 
them, people of means too. 
MRS. FREDERICK C. JOHNSON. 
Oatmeal Crisps. 
One tablespoon of butter; one cup 
of sugar; three cups of rolled oats; two 
teaspoons of baking powder mixed well 
with the oats; two eggs well beaten; one- 
half teaspoon of salt; vanilla flavoring 
mixed with the eggs. Cream butter and 
sugar, adding well-beaten egg and then 
the oats, mix very thoroughly. Drop 
from a teaspoon on waxed paper, leaving 
a large space between for spreading. 
When these cakes are baked on a but¬ 
tered pan without the paper it is very 
difficult to get them off without breaking. 
Bake a nice brown. M. A. R. 
Hot Beverages Wanted. 
I wish to ask what the readers of this 
department substitute for tea, when they 
want a tasty hot drink, yet feel that 
tea is not beneficial, especially at night. 
No doubt most of us ought to drink more 
liquid than is usually taken. There are 
good coffee substitutes. What about tea? 
Cocoa may be too rich, cambric tea and 
clear hot water too insipid. Will some 
one who has solved the problem satis¬ 
factorily tell the rest of us how you do 
it? G. L. 
Holland Cheese Loaf. —Pare and 
shave potatoes in thin over-lapping slices 
to line a buttered pan. Then arrange in 
alternate layers of potatoes, grated 
cheese, salt, pepper and sliced onion. 
Fill the mold up with sweet milk cover¬ 
ing the top with a layer of grated cheese 
and fine bread crumbs and bake from one 
to two hours. This is an excellent sup¬ 
per dish. G. M. w. 
Removing Plaster Dust. —Our plas¬ 
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dust. A friend told me to put a table¬ 
spoonful of kerosene oil in a basin of 
cold water and wipe it, which I did, and 
it looked almost as good as new. 
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