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August 8, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day 
If We Had But a Day. 
We should fill the hours with the sweet¬ 
est things 
If we had but a day; 
We should drink alone at the purest 
springs 
In our upward way; 
We should love with a life-time’s love 
in an hour 
If the hours were few; 
We should rest, not for dreams, but for 
fresher power 
To be and to do. 
We should guide our wayward or wearied 
wills 
By the clearest light; 
We should keep our eyes on the heavenly 
hills 
If they lay in sight. 
We should trample the pride and discon¬ 
tent 
Beneath our feet; 
We should take whatever a good God 
sent, 
With a trust complete. 
We should waste no moments in weak 
regret, 
If the day were but one; 
If what we remember and what we forget 
Went out with the sun ; 
We should be from our clamorous selves 
set free, 
To work or to pray. 
And to be what the Father would have 
us be 
If we had but a day. 
—Mary Lowe Dickinson. 
* 
P ERHAPS there is a little moral in 
the anecdote of Ben Foster related 
by the El Paso Times. Ben Foster was 
noted for his shiftlessness. If it had 
not been for his wife, he would not have 
done a stroke of work on his little farm 
and garden. It was all she could do to 
get him to work, for he preferred to sit 
and read all day. One evening, after 
he had been reading French history with 
deep interest, he closed the book and said 
to his wife: “Do you know, Maria, what 
I’d ’a’ done if I had been Napoleon?” 
“Oh, yes, I know well enough,’’ his 
wife responded. “You’d have settled 
right down on a farm in Corsica and let 
it run to ruin, while you grumbled about 
your hard luck.” 
* 
W HEN preparing to boil a ham whole 
it is often desirable to soak it over¬ 
night, especially if it has been cured 
rather hard. Wash it thoroughly, then put 
in a large granite kettle, covering with cold 
water, and adding a white onion stuck 
with four cloves, two bay leaves, a blade 
c<f mace and two stalks of celery. Let 
soak overnight, then put the kettle over 
a moderate fire, where it will heat slowly 
and when it comes to a boil, let it boil 15 
minutes for each pound of ham. Let it 
simmer gently, not boil hard. When 
cooked, remove from the water, carefully 
cut off the rind, brush with egg and then 
cover with bread crumbs. Put in the 
oven to brown this crust. 
* 
M ANY a woman spoils her appear¬ 
ance by deciding that she can “get 
one moi'e wear out of it,” and then put¬ 
ting on some garment so soiled or wrin¬ 
kled that it really calls for laundry or 
pressing iron before appearing in public. 
This is especially true in the Summer, 
when a plain linen gown, becomingly 
made, will put the farmer’s daughter on 
a level with the city guest, as far as 
clothes are concerned. Wash fabrics are 
within the reach of every purse, but 
they must be fresh and clean. Here in 
the city we see dozens of girls every day 
who have not learned this lesson, and 
who are on the way to store or office in 
dresses that can only be described as 
“mussy.” Many of them have no facili¬ 
ties for proper laundry work—while in 
the country, with clear air and pure 
water, labor is often a serious question. 
Every family must decide for itself how 
far its feminine members may go in 
wearing light-colored wash dresses. Dark- 
colored linens, with the removable white 
vestees and collars now so fashionable, 
save washing, and are suitable for tow T n 
and visiting. They can often be worn a 
whole Summer without laundering, but 
they must be pressed frequently. Mercer¬ 
ized lawns and cotton foulards, black, 
dark blue, green or brown, make up pret¬ 
tily, either plain or figured. A person in 
mourning will find black dotted swiss 
cool and very nice-looking, but a plain 
THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
slip of black mercerized lawn, sleeveless 
and low-necked, should be worn under 
it. But all these dark-colored cotton or 
linen dresses must be pressed, whenever 
wrinkled, or they do not look well, and 
really it is this care, in both laundering 
and pressing, that makes a woman look 
well-dressed, whether her clothes are cost¬ 
ly or inexpensive. 
The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering send number and size 
of patterns desired. Price of each pat¬ 
tern 10 cents. 
7493, Blouse or shirt waist. Cut in 
sizes 34 to 44 bust measure. Size 38 re¬ 
quires two yards of 36-inch material. 
ao?e 74481 8292a 
8274, Fancy blouse. Cut in sizej 34 to 
40 bust measure. Size 38 requires 3% 
yards of 27 or 36-inch material with % 
yard of net for vestee and sleeve frills. 
7448, Semi-princesse gown. Cut in sizes 
34 to 44 bust measure. Size 3S requires 
5^4 yards of 36-inch material with % 
yard 27 inch wide for collar and cuffs. 
8079, Ladies’ three-piece skirt. Cut in 
sizes 22 to 32 waist measure. Size 26 
requires 2% yards of 36-inc’i material. 
S292a, Ladies’ two-piece skirt. Cut in 
sizes 22 to 32 waist measure. Size 26 re¬ 
quires 2% yards of 27, 36 or 44-inch ma¬ 
terial with % yard 36 or 44 for insets. 
8342, Plain blouse for misses and small 
women. Cut in sizes 16 and IS years. 
Size 16 requires 2 y 8 yards of 36-inch ma¬ 
terial. 8244, Blouse for misses and small 
women. Cut in sizes 16 and 18 years. 
Size 16 requires 1% yards of 36-iueh ma¬ 
terial. 8334, Semi-princesse dress for 
misses and small women. Cut in sizes 16 
and 18 years. Size 16 requires 3% yards 
of 36-inch material with two yards of 36- 
inch for sleeves and shirred chemisette. 
8313, Girl’s dress. Cut in sizes 4 to 8 
years. Size 6 requires 2% yards of 27 or 
36-inch material. 8287, Girl’s combina¬ 
tion undergarment. Cut in sizes 4. 6 and 
8 years. Size 6 requires 1% yards of 
36-inch material with 1% yards of em¬ 
broidery, two yards of insertion and 2*4 
yards of edging. 
Seen in New York Shops. 
LARING gauntlet cuffs of stiff white 
linen, four to six inches deep, with 
rolling collar to match are among the 
newer coat sets, appearing with the “Sal¬ 
amander” styles. The cuffs are fastened 
with links. 
A combination vestee and collar with 
girdle attached is made of white pique 
with a fine rib. The collar is the usual 
rolling one, with a little design in hand 
embroidery in the corners, and the vestee 
is fastened with crochet ball buttons and 
loops. The belt attached at the waist 
line is one of those waistcoat girdles that 
come down below the waist with a cut¬ 
away effect, and is fastened with the ball 
buttons; it is about six inches deep in 
front, sloping up to about two inches in 
the back, where the ends are lapped over 
and finished with two buttons. 
Among new artificial flowers are velvet 
begonias, which appear to be taking the 
place of gardenias. The large fiat flow¬ 
ers of the tuberous begonias are imitated, 
but natural colors are not sought, and 
they are quite as often black, mauve or 
green as the tints of the natural flower. 
White velvet begonias on a black plush 
hat formed one fashionable model. It 
is likely that these begonias will be worn 
on Winter hats. At present, with women 
wearing all sorts of plush and velvet hats 
in June and July, one wonders whether 
straw will be the proper mode for De¬ 
cember. 
Some pretty middy blouses for young 
girls were made of white drill with col¬ 
lar, cuffs and tie of Roman stripes. 
Kilted skirts of white drill are suitable 
to wear with these blouses, though any 
colored skirt may be used. 
Belts naturally accompany the coming 
change of figure, which will have a well- 
defined waist. For the present, broad 
crush girdles with a large flat how in 
front or back are popular. The bow is 
the same width as the girdle, often six 
to eight inches, and it is more favored in 
front than at the back, though it should 
not be worn in front by a large woman. 
Furriers are already showing the new 
styles in furs. They include fur capes 
of all sizes and shapes, but mostly long¬ 
er in the back than the front. There are 
many cape-shaped collars. Fur coats are 
three-quarter length, falling in loose rip¬ 
pling folds, instead of being draped as 
they were last Winter. The popularity 
of muskrat is to continue. 
Some new basque costumes seen are j 
strikingly like the jersey dresses of the j 
early eighties. These consisted of kilted 
skirts and woven jersey basques that 
fitted without a wrinkle. The woven 
jersey has not yet appeared, but the 
basques have a decidedly jersey outline. 
These basques are made up at present 
chiefly with long tunic skirts, but pleated 
skirts are already appearing and are 
shown with kilt pleats attached to a 
tight-fitting yoke. 
Separate round tunics of taffeta, edged 
with ruffles, are offered in black, white 
and several colors. They are intended to 
be worn over light Summer dresses, and 
as the fashion is now a waning one they 
are much reduced in price. 
Skirt lengths of accordion pleating, 
with belt attached, are now offered in a 
variety of material, serge, taffeta, crepe 
de chine, etc. The pleating is of various 
depths, being intended for both tunics 
and skirts. Some of the tunic pleating 
is in points, the skirt length forming 
about four points. 
White chinchilla coats are offered for 
seaside wear. They are medium length, 
full and loose, with belted back and 
deep patch pockets. A black velvet col¬ 
lar is the newest touch. They are pretty 
and becoming, but so quickly soiled that 
they are not at all practical. 
Honey Gems.—Add one cup of honey 
gradually to one-half cup of butter, then 
the yolks of two eggs and half a cup of 
sour cream, two cups of flour with half 
a teaspoon of soda and a teaspoon of 
cream of tartar; stir well, flavor with 
lemon and fold in beaten whites of two 
eggs. Bake in gem pans in moderate 
oven. 
Mrs. Goodsense —“Anty Drudge, my 
daughter has told me how kind 
you’ve been to her, and I’m glad 
to meet you. When I go back to 
the city I’m going to see that all 
my friends use Fels-Naptha Soap. 
Mary thinks it’s the grandest 
thing she ever used. She says 
it’s the greatest help she ever had 
for all kinds of work, and the 
directions are so easy to follow.” 
If you are one of 
the women who 
don’t know about 
Fels-Naptha Soap 
and the easy.quick 
way it will do your 
work, you’d better 
lose no time trying 
it. You’ll find that 
it’s the best soap 
for every purpose 
that you ever 
used. 
It works best in 
cool or lukewarm 
water, and does 
scrubbing, dish¬ 
washing, house¬ 
cleaning, even the 
weekly wash, in 
less than half the 
L 
time and better 
than ever before. 
Better buy it by the carton or box. 
Easy directions are on the lied and 
Green Wrapper. 
Fels & Co., Philadelphia. 
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