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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
December 12, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day 
THE SHEPHERDS. 
I. 
I T was the shepherds of the fold 
First heard the wondrous news, 
What time upon the wintry wold 
They watched their lambs and ewes. 
It was the simple shepherd folk 
First heard His angels sing. 
When from the deeps of midnight broke 
Resplendent plume and wing, 
And hill and vale to music woke— 
“All hail to Christ the King!” 
II. 
It was the lowly and the poor 
That heard the tidings first. 
When on the eyes of swain and boor 
God’s splendid angels burst. 
It was the simple shepherds sped 
To seek the Holy Child, 
Who found Him in His manger bed 
Beside His Mother mild, 
While Joseph bent in awe his head 
And on the Saviour smiled. 
III. 
Still, would ye seek His place of birth, 
Go search in hut and cot! 
Not with the proud or great of earth 
He casts Ilis kingly lot. 
But ’mid the poor the Saviour seek ; 
There cradled low He lies. 
He hideth still among earth’s weak 
From undiscerning eyes. 
Yea, veileth still Ilis Godhead meek 
In simple human guise. 
—P. J. Coleman in The Columbiad. 
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S OME of our friends, moved by the 
world-wide penury and distress now 
existing, tell us that they cannot conscien¬ 
tiously make any Christmas gifts this 
year. They feel that all they can spare 
must be devoted to the relief of actual 
distress, being distributed in what we call 
charity. There are foolish people whose 
Christmas giving is purely vanity and 
ostentation, but a great proportion of 
us do give, in spite of all that is said to 
the contrary, because we hope thereby 
to give happiness to those we love—it 
is our concrete example of “good will 
toward men.” Those who give from van¬ 
ity and greed are surely not likely to 
deny themselves for the needy, and even 
if they give up their Christmas presents 
it is not at all probable that they will be 
shorn of superfluities for the benefit of 
real sufferers at home or abroad. 
As for the rest of us, perhaps we have 
already scraped together some offering 
of purest charity for the homeless wom¬ 
en, the perishing children, who are the 
aftermath of pitiless war. We would all 
like to give more. What would it mean, 
to cut off our modest Christmas giving? 
Perhaps there are several young girls, 
to whom some sheer hand-embroidered 
handkerchiefs come as a touch of luxury 
in a drab workaday life. Well, they 
must do without this year—a thousand 
other women think the same, and across 
the Atlantic, a few hardworking girls in 
the Green Isle must do without an extra 
pound of tea, or jar of marmalade, that 
would have gladdened some needy one 
whose Yuletide cheer is stinted far be¬ 
low what we consider necessity in boun¬ 
tiful America. Again, a regiment of 
conscientious mothers decide that their 
little boys and girls must be denied cer¬ 
tain longed-for Teddy bears and Billy 
possums and other friendly beasts that 
never came out of a menagerie. Trade 
falls off, and some forlorn little woman 
here in New York stands in line waiting 
for the charity order that will provide 
milk for the fretting baby, and shoes for 
the youngster who cannot go to school 
until his poor chilblained feet are taken 
off the bare pavement. 
Some friend who knows all about 
Adam Smith and all those other power¬ 
ful intellects who pile up figures may 
break in right here with a statement that 
personal extravagance cannot provide 
healthful trade; that luxuries, whether 
indulged in by rich or poor, merely di¬ 
vert money from commodities on which 
national prosperity is founded. This 
nay be true of absolute senseless luxury, 
whether it means too many jewels for the 
rich, or too many moving picture shows 
for the poor. But the sudden cutting off 
of normal expenditure, unless real need 
compels it, means hard times for a great 
many industrious people. 
This is going to be a thoughtful Christ¬ 
mas for many of us. We are the most 
prosperous nation in the world—yet pov- 
i rty waits round the corner for many a 
< ne. Many of us are united by ties of 
blood or sympathy to the nations now 
ravaged by war. There never was a time 
when hope and cheer was more needed 
by a weary world. If we fail to bright¬ 
en our own little corner of it—to make 
home the best place on earth, and family 
love and courage the best thing in it— 
how can we ask the world at large to 
listen once more to the songs of the 
Nativity, with its assurance of peace on 
earth, good will to men'? 
The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns give number 
of pattern and size desired. Price of each 
pattern, 10 cents. 
S468, Dress with plaited tunic for 
misses or small women. For the 16 year 
size, the blouse and tunic wi'l require 
TVs yards of material 27, 5% yards 36, 
4% yards 44 inches wide, with 1 % yards 
of lining material 36 for upper part of 
skirt, 1 *4 yards 27, three-quarters yard 
36 or 44, for lower part of skirt and 
trimming. The width of the skirt at the 
lower edge is one yard and 24 inches. 
The pattern S46S is cut in sizes for 16 
and 18 years. 
8385, Blouse with vest effect. Cut in 
sizes 34 to 40 bust measure. Size 38 
requires 2 1 /£> yards of 36 inch material, 
with five-eighths yard 36 inch wide for 
vests, collar and cuffs. S310, Plain 
blouse. Cut in sizes 34 to 42 bust meas¬ 
ure. Size 38 requires 2% yards of 36 
inch material. 8255, Semi-princesse 
dress for misses and small women, 14, 
16 and 18 years. Size 16 requires 4 1 /} 
yards of 36 inch material, with one-half 
yard 27 for collar and cuffs. 7736, 
Seven-gored skirt. Cut in sizes 22 to 32 
waist measure. Size 28 requires 3% 
yards of 36 or 44 inch material. S457, 
Three-piece skirt. Cut in sizes 24 to 
32 waist measure. Size 28 requires 2% 
yards of 44 inch material. 
Seen in New York Shops. 
A NEW military blouse has a shallow 
little yoke forming shoulder straps, 
a braid binding, and buttons with braid 
buttonholes. It has a high turnover 
stock and set-in sleeves gathered into 
turn-back cuffs. It is made in sand col¬ 
or chiffon broadcloth, and white or flesh 
washable satin. 
Among the neck ruffs offered are 
some made of loops of wool yarn, 
white, black or brown. The loops 
come close together, and are quite 
suggestive of feathers; apparently they 
are made like the borders of some 
old-fashioned wool mats. They are fin¬ 
ished at the ends with loops of satin rib¬ 
bon. They cost about 75 cents to $1.25. 
In buying a neck ruff of marabou, be 
very careful about selecting black; we 
have never met with any that is “fast 
color.” There may be such, but it is 
outside our experience; all that we have 
met with “crocks” badly, so that it soils 
light fabrics, gloves or the wearer’s neck 
or hands, and saleswomen in good shops 
tell us it cannot be guaranteed. The 
natural marabou, dark brown, being na¬ 
ture’s own dyeing, is absolutely “fast.” 
For a black ruff maline, chiffon or ostrich 
feathers are always dependable, and the 
nice ones this season always have a lin¬ 
ing of white. 
Among Christmas gifts for men were 
neat round boxes, each containing one 
silk crocheted tie, one handkerchief with 
a deep hem to match the tie, a pair of 
cuff links and a stickpin of rolled gold. 
The articles separately are 25 cents each, 
but the set combined was offered com¬ 
plete in a sale for 50 cents. The colors 
in the ties and handkerchief borders were 
dark green, dark blue, brown, crimson 
and heliotrope. 
Very pretty Turkish slippers for bed¬ 
room wear cost 50 cents a pair; they are 
of soft kid. with a double sole, and are 
made in Constantinople, which the Rus¬ 
sians now call Tsargrad. They come in 
pink, blue, both pale and a bright royal 
blue, heliotrope, fawn, black and white. 
The toe is embroidered in tinsel, gold or 
silver, with a large pompon at the in¬ 
step. They look as though they had 
walked out of the Arabian Nights, and 
would delight any girl. Bathroom slip¬ 
pers of terry cloth, just a stout sole with 
a toe-piece, are also 50 cents in all sizes. 
Molasses Candy. —Two cupfuls of 
New Orleans molasses, one cupful of 
granulated sugar, a small lump of but¬ 
ter; boil until it hardens in cold water, 
add a tablespoonful of vinegar, a scant 
half teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda; 
pour into shallow buttered pans until 
cool enough to pull. 
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When tfie Big Children Study, 
When the Little Children Play, 
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A trouble-proof battery and the only one with 
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Linesville, Pa. 
Christmas Surprise Boxes 
Solve your Christmas shopping problem 
Groceries and candy of fine quality, packed 
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substantial remembrances to relatives and 
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