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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 20, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day 
Pittypat and Tippytoe. 
All day they come and go— 
Pittypat and Tippytoe! 
Footprints up and down the hall, 
Playthings scattered on the floor, 
Finger marks along the wall, 
Tell-tale smudges on the door; 
By these presents you shall know, 
Pittypat and Tippytoe. 
How they riot at their play! 
And a dozen times a day 
In they troop, demanding bread— 
Only buttered bread will do, 
And the butter must be spread 
Inches thick will sugar, too! 
And I never can say “No,” 
Pittypat and Tippytoe. 
Sometimes there are griefs to soothe. 
Sometimes ruffled brows to smooth ; 
For (I much regret to say) 
Tippytoe arid Pittypat 
Sometimes interrupt their play 
With an internecine spat; 
Fie, for shame! to quarrel so— 
Pittypat and Tippytoe! 
Of the thousand worrying things, 
Every day recurrent brings! 
Hands to scrub and hair to brush. 
Search for playthings gone amiss, 
Many a wee complaint to hush, 
Many a little hump to kiss; 
Life seems one vain, fleeting show, 
To Pittypat and Tippytoe! 
And when day is at an end, 
There are little duds to mend; 
Little frocks are strangely torn, 
Tattle shoes great holes reveal, 
Little hose, but one day worn, 
Rudely yawn at toe and heel! 
Who but you could work such woe, 
Pittypat and Tippytoe? 
But when comes this thought to me: 
“Some there are that childless he,” 
Stealing to their little beds, 
With a love I can not speak, 
Tenderly I stroke their heads— 
Fondly kiss each velvet cheek, 
God help those who do not know, 
A Pittypat and Tippytoe! 
On the floor and down the hall, 
Rudely smutched upon the wall, 
There are proofs in every kind 
Of the havoc they have wrought, 
And upon my heart you’d find 
Just such trade-marks, if you sought; 
O, how glad I am ’tis so, 
Pittypat and Tippytoe. 
—Eugene Field. 
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D URING the cherry season you should 
have at least one cherry cobbler. 
Line a deep baking dish with rich pie 
crust, giving an ornamental finish around 
the edge. Middle West housekeepers 
like a square enameled pan for this. 
Wash, stem and pit enough ox-heart cher¬ 
ries to fill the dish three-fourths full, 
mixing in plenty of sugar (about two 
cupfuls) before putting the fruit in the 
crust. Cut strips of the crust one inch 
wide, and put in a lattice over the fruit. 
Bake till well done in a medium oven 
and serve with cream, v/hippcd if you 
prefer it. 
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T HE mother of one active little two- 
year-old says that the baby’s red 
cap and sweater serve a very useful pur¬ 
pose in enabling her to keep track of the 
child. She can catch the gleam of red 
even when he is in the farthest corner 
of the door-yard, and the color shows 
up among bushes, so that he is visible 
when duller colors would tend to put 
him out of sight. We never thought of 
this idea before, but it seems to us a 
very good one. Khaki and the various 
dim tertiary colors provide “protective 
coloration” for an army in the open field, 
but they may also cause a little runaway 
to melt apparently into the surrounding 
field just at the moment when hi. anxious 
mother is straining her eyes for a glimpse 
of him. 
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T HE season for prickly heat, hives and 
similar afflictions opened early this 
year, during the warm humid weather of 
May. One can get a good deal of misery 
out of these ailments, though they are 
so trifling in themselves. For hives, our 
usual treatment is to sponge the surface 
with a teaspoonful of baking soda in a 
cupful of warm water, or to moisten the 
eruption freely with sweet spirits of 
nitre. A dose of magnesia internally is 
helpful. There are, however, chron'ic 
cases of hives, resulting from conditions 
that need skilled medical care; for in¬ 
stance, some forms of gout. Prickly heat, 
in which minute vesicles form on the 
skin, accompanied by extreme pricking 
irritation, is common to newcomers in 
the tropics, and is not uncommon here. 
When it exists, coarse or harsh soap 
should not be used, and the skin should 
be well dusted, after bathing, with an¬ 
tiseptic powder, such as bora tod talcum. 
The itching is relieved temporarily by 
a carbolic acid lotion. Rough underwear, 
hot drinks, violent exercise, or anything 
that induces excessive perspiration in¬ 
creases the trouble. Painting with iodine 
is also recommended, but we would rather 
not use it without the doctor’s recom¬ 
mendation. 
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D URING the past nine years the 
Travelers’Aid Society of this city has 
definitely helped S2.3S2 persons, and has 
incidentally helped many others. The 
aim of the society is the protection of 
persons traveling alone, but especially 
young women, boys and girls. We think 
that the work of this society ought to 
be better known in country districts, be¬ 
cause of the protection it offers to strang¬ 
ers coming to the city. There is an agent 
of the society at each of the large railway 
terminals here, and any of the coast and 
river steamers will be met by appoint¬ 
ment. The great transatlantic steamers 
are always met by these agents. Any 
woman who finds herself in need of coun¬ 
sel or aid can secure it from these peo¬ 
ple, and the moral protection given often 
means much more than material help. 
Many and terrible are the dangers of the 
city for the ignorant and inexperienced. 
The society’s headquarters are the 
Travelers’ Aid Society Building, 405 Lex¬ 
ington Avenue, New York, and this is 
an address which should he filed away 
carefully by rural pastors, Granges and 
local societies, since it may sometime be 
needed in a sudden emergency. If no¬ 
tified in advance the society will send an 
agent to meet young women or children 
on their arrival in this city, in cases 
where there is no one to see that they 
reach their proper destination in safety. 
Seen in New York Shops. 
4 6T)ARTLY-MADE” sport skirts are 
JL accordion pleated, attached to a 
waistband and with the hem turned Up, 
but the back seam is merely basted, so 
that the skirt can easily be adjusted to 
fit. They are offered in serge, black, 
navy blue and white, and in black and 
white check; price $4.50 each. 
Tango necklaces are composed of rib¬ 
bon links separated by groups of beads, 
and finished with tassels of silk or beads, 
the necklace being bust length. The 
ribbon links may be of satin or velvet 
one-half to three-quarters of an inch 
broad, and folded under into a “V” at 
the ends, where tin* heads are attached. 
As an example, a necklace seen was 
made of three six-inch links of black 
satin ribbon united by links composed 
of small beads, lapis and cut jet alternate¬ 
ly, within the center a long oval amber 
bead. Th > two ends of the necklace, 
which are not united, were finished with a 
one-inch length of the small beads, pass¬ 
ing into a flat oval plaque of amber, with 
a black silk tassel at the very end. Ital¬ 
ian porcelain beads, which are decorated 
with gay colored flowers, are often used 
in these taago necklaces, as well as alone, 
or mixed with crystal heads. Opaque 
beads always look better with a touch of 
crystal to give them sparkle. Oriental 
prayer beads, often gorgeous in coloring 
and finished with vivid silk tassels, are 
offered with the others. Some of them 
consist of carved or painted beads, separ¬ 
ated at intervals by a carved bead of odd 
shape, such as a fish, an elephant, a 
pagoda, a mandarin, etc. Kimono ban¬ 
gles from Japan are bracelets of carved 
sandalwood beads, fastening with a gay 
tassel; they cost 75 cents each. 
Beach sweaters of Angora wool cost 
from $7.50 to $15. They are made with 
a Y-shaped neck and rolled collar, turn¬ 
back cuffs, patch pockets and belt. They 
are made in all sorts of vivid colors. 
Beautiful sweaters are of knitted silk, 
orange, old rose emerald green, royal 
blue, etc. Scarves or mufflers are made 
to match both silk and wool sweaters. 
There are also many models of spencers 
or tight-fitting sleeveless jackets knitted 
in Shetland wool, which are intended for 
mountain and seashore wear. 
Hats of hemp or split straw in the 
dark brown known as tete de negre are 
considered good style, with blue or green 
suits; they are usually self-trimmed, but 
sometimes with metallic dark blue, green 
or black plumage. Blue or green hats 
are often quite unbecoming, while this 
peculiar dark brown seems to brighten 
the complexion of the wearer. 
A pretty “tub dress” was of colored 
cotton crape with a tight underskirt, and 
above it a flaring overskirt attached to 
a deep yoke pointed over the hips. The 
waist was a loose blouse with elbow 
sleeves having turned-back embroidered 
white cuffs, and a square rolling collar, 
open in front, to match the cuffs. 
Some very smart waists seen were of 
striped crepe de chine—hair line stripes 
of dark blue, red or black one-fourth inch 
apart. The waists were very plain, with 
raglan sleeves of full length, and had 
flaring collars and turnback cuffs of hem¬ 
stitched white organdie. 
“Neck girdles” costing from 10 to 25 
cents, consist of silk eo:d, about the 
thickness of lead pencil, finished with 
tassels at the ends. They are made in 
a great variety of colors, and are either 
worn around the base of a flaring collar, 
like a necktie, or run through a casing 
around the neck of a shirred blouse. 
A very smart blouse was made of 
canary yellow handkerchief linen, cut in 
raglan style, with collar, cuffs and vest 
of white pique. Around the collar and 
cuffs were loops through which narrow 
black moire ribbon passed, tying in a 
how at the side of the cuff, and in front 
of the collar. 
The new skirts are much shorter than 
they have been, not only clearing the 
ground all around, hut in many cases be¬ 
ing not more than ankle length, or even 
a little above. This is a decided change 
from the long clinging model, hut has the 
merit of good sense. The short skirt has 
an awkward look, however, when there is 
a good deal of drapery above. 
The varnished effect in millinery, 
noted in varnished straw hats and glossy 
ribbon, has been carried to an extreme. 
We have seen some of the small wings 
used in trimming varnished to the high¬ 
est degree of stiff shininess, the feathers 
firmly stuck together by their coating. 
They were durable, but might as well 
have been made of papier-mache as far 
as looks were concerned. The small 
wings, standing at right angles on crown 
or brim, are even smarter than flowers 
this season. ■=, 
When you write advertisers mention The 
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WESTERNCANADANOW 
The opportunity of securing free home, 
steads of 1410 acres each, and the lot 
priced lands of Manitoba, SaHkalchcwan 
and Alberta, will soon have passed. 
Canada offers a hearty welcome to the Settler, 
to the man with a family looking for a home: 
to the farmers son, to the renter, to all who 
wish to live under better conditions. 
Canada’s grain, yield in lOllt is tho 
talk of the world. Luxuriant Grasses give 
cheap fodder for largo herds; cost of raising 
and fattening for market is a tritlo. 
The sum realized for Reef. Butter. Milk and 
Cheese will pay ilfty pex- cent on tlie 
investment. 
Write for literature and particulars as to 
reduced railway rates to 
Superintenden t of Imm igration, 
Ottawa, Canada, or to 
Canadian Government Agent, 
J. S. Crawlord, 
301 E. Genesee Street, 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
Indian Bead Work 
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\ TOTHING is more fascinating or more in vogue at this time 
^ ^ than Indian Bead Work articles. We have pro¬ 
cured an outfit for making these articles, which will be sent, 
delivery charges prepaid, for 
ONE NEW YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION 
OR 
THREE YEARLY RENEWAL SUBSCRIPTIONS 
( On. of these may be the renewal of vour own subscription for one year. ) 
This outfit consists of a Patented Loom for making articles, an instruc¬ 
tion and design book, a spool of cotton, twelve H. Milward Sons’ needles, 
seven bottles of colored beads—dark blue, green, light blue, black, red, 
yellow and white—a complete outfit to start the work. 
Every woman knows and appreciates the value of these home-made 
articles. 
Your neighbor needs The Rural New-Yorker. If he is not a reader 
get his subscription. If he is a subscriber get his renewal. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 333 W. 30th St., NEW YORK CITY 
