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THE W UTv L 
r\i v v -1 o k x i v i\ 
April 17, 1915. 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
THE REAL THINGS. 
True worth is in being, not seeming, 
In doing each day that goes by 
Some little good, not in dreaming 
Of great things to do by and by. 
For whatever men say in blindness, 
Or in spite of their fancies of youth, 
There is nothing so kingly as kindness, 
And nothing so royal as truth. 
We get back our mete as we measure; 
We cannot do wrong and feel right, 
Nor can we give pain and feel pleasure, 
For justice avenges each slight. 
The air for the wing of the sparrow, 
The bush for the robin and wren, 
But always the path that is narrow and 
straight 
For the Children of Men. 
—Author Unknown. 
* 
One of the attractions of the recent 
flower show in New York was a speci¬ 
men orchid, Cattleya Schroderae. vary¬ 
ing from the ordinary type, which was 
presented to the Red Cross. This was 
sold at auction after the show for $1,000, 
the money going to the Red Cross relief 
work in Europe. This orchid is a na¬ 
tive of Colombia, the flowers delicate 
blush and white, the petals and lip much 
crimped at the edges. It is really a va¬ 
riety of Cattleya Trianae, which varies 
to an extraordinary degree in color, shape 
and size. This Red Cross orchid was so 
majestic in its beauty that it was named 
Queen of the Belgians. Orchid collect¬ 
ing 'is something like prospecting for 
gold; every orchid hunter or buyer be¬ 
lieves that at some time he will strike 
a bonanza, in the form of some wonder¬ 
ful new variety. Some of the famous 
varieties have been discovered by chance, 
but more of them represent arduous toil, 
danger, and hope long deferred on the 
part of brave and adventurous men. 
* 
The United States Department of 
Agriculture has just issued three reports 
of unusual value. They are Report No. 
104, “Domestic Needs of Farm Women" ; 
No. 105, “Educational Needs of Farm 
Women”; No. 106, “Economic Needs of 
Farm Women.” In other words, the 
Government has gone direct to the women 
of the farm, and asked them what was 
the matter with their environment. The 
answers received form a human docu¬ 
ment of absorbing interest and seem to 
answer very fully the question why young 
people leave the farms. 
Taking up the reports in order, let us 
consider briefly the domestic needs out¬ 
lined. Complaints of the inconvenience 
of the farmhouse, and especially kitchen, 
are frequent. Says a New York corres¬ 
pondent : 
The country houses are ill-planned, 
with very few modern conveniences. The 
men don’t care how hard the women work 
to do their tasks if only they themselves 
are provided with food regularly and 
their own comfort is looked after. The 
fact that women are forced to go, pump, 
and carry water from the well, that they 
work in dark, poorly lighted rooms, that 
they mop hardwood floors, take millions 
of needless steps a year to accomplish 
their work because of the way the house 
is planned, that they spend hours upon 
hours a year cleaning dirty kerosene 
lamps and lanterns that give no light 
after they are cleaned, that their whole 
house is infested with flies in Summer 
because porches are not screened—all 
these facts and many more unpleasant 
conditions matter not to the men. 
A Michigan correspondent says: 
The farm homes are usually planned 
with a total absence of the needs and con¬ 
veniences to save labor. Many big farm¬ 
houses, with their cupolas and fancy 
exterior adornment, which have caused 
much swelling of pride to the owners, 
have a most inadequate arrangement of 
the living quarters. The usual farm 
home utilizes the kitchen door as the main 
entrance. Everyone goes to the kitchen 
door. Sometimes it is approached 
through the woodshed, but more often 
direct from the back step, which makes 
it easy for the flies to enter in Summer, 
and very cold in Winter. The pump and 
sink are in the kitchen, and it is there 
that the men wash and comb their hair, 
sometimes within three or four feet of the 
stove or table where the food is. Often the 
family eat in the kitchen and the family 
washing is done in the kitchen. There 
the dirty clothes are shaken out and the 
steam penetrates everything in the room. 
In Summer much of this is taken out of 
doors. Flies are an abomination in the 
country, partly because the houses are so 
poorly planned, and the necessity of go¬ 
ing outdoors so often allows the entrance 
of flies. Farmers should build their 
houses with more conveniences about 
their kitchens. Decency and cleanliness 
demand a small room where the dirty and 
sweaty men can wash and comb. 
These are complaints we are all famil¬ 
iar with. Here comes an Iowa man with 
the suggestion that beauty as well as util¬ 
ity be considered: 
To make their lot easier and their life 
brighter, if I were asked to suggest some 
measure of relief, I would say, give them 
some idea about building homes with con¬ 
veniences and with an idea of beauty. 
Every woman loves a pretty home. I 
think the Government could well afford 
to furnish to them plans for building 
pretty homes instead of their following 
The Rural Patterns 
1 When ordering patterns , always give | 
| number and size desired. Price | 
of each pattern 10 cents. 
8595—Gown with 
Throe-Piece Skirt, 34 
to 42 Bust. With 
Long or Three-Quar¬ 
ter Sleeves, Stand¬ 
ing or Rolled Over 
Collar. 
8602 — Tucked 
Blouse. 34 to 42 
Bust. With or with¬ 
out Over Portion ou 
Collar, to be But¬ 
toned 1 Up Closely or 
Rolled Open to Form 
Revers, with or 
without Extension 
Below Waist Line. 
8619—Boy’s Suit, 
4 to 10 years. Con¬ 
sisting of Coat, 
Trousers and Blouse. 
Coat to be made 
with or without 
Sleeves, Trousers 
with or without 
Cuffs. 
8613—Bolero Cos¬ 
tume for Misses and 
Small Women, 16 
and 18 years. 
8698—Girl’s Dress, 
10 to 14 years. With 
or without Basque 
Over Blouse, with 
Long or Three-Quar¬ 
ter Sleeves, V-shap¬ 
ed or Square Neck. 
Waist. With Seam¬ 
ed or Lapped Front 
Edges, with Invert¬ 
ed Plait or Plain 
Back, with High or 
Natural Waist Line. 
the established rule of their neighborhood, 
building just boxes with a few partitions. 
If the Government would get up about 
50 plans of houses of four to six rooms, 
suited to farmers, and publish them in 
book form to be loaned to responsible 
parties, and let each plan have a print¬ 
ed direction as to location, interior and 
exterior decorations (if possible have a 
color scheme printed), arrangement of 
barns and outhouses, installation of ap¬ 
pliances to lighten the work of the wom¬ 
an, it would be a paying investment for 
the Government. The question then 
comes up, “Are not these people amply 
able to buy and pay for such plans?” 
Yes; the men are able, but not trained to 
such ideas. 
These selections show how general are 
some disadvantages that put the farm 
housekeeper in a position inferior to 
town and city women, as far as comfort 
and convenience are concerned. There 
are many other important questions 
brought up in these Government reports, 
which we shall touch upon in the fu¬ 
ture. Many of the comments made bring 
out the fact that the valuable bulletins 
issued by the Government are usually en¬ 
tirely unknown to the people who would 
be most helped by them. 
Seen in New York Shops. 
Cotton gabardine is a thick twilled 
cotton material, about the weight of gal- 
atea, but very soft in finish, so that it 
makes up as nicely as a light-weight 
woolen. It is 36 inches wide, solid colors 
and white, costing 29 and 39 cents a 
yard. It is especially pretty in sand and 
taupe gray. This is very desirable for 
dresses, suits and children’s clothes. 
Custard cups at 49 cents each, are 
brown earthenware lined with white, set 
in a holder of pierced silver plate. The 
cups are removable, being set in the sil¬ 
ver holder when taken from the oven. 
New silk petticoats are of taffeta, with 
double flounces, so that they stand out 
with a crinoline effect. They are snug at 
the top, but wide at the foot. The 
“slinky” underwear of last season does 
not give the proper foundation for the 
new modes. These petticoats, in all the 
colors, cost from $1.95 to $12.50, a stand¬ 
ard grade of good quality costing $4.95. 
Young girls’ coats, in sizes from six to 
14 years, carry out the full-skirted fash¬ 
ions of their elders. One model has a 
fitted upper part with a very full skirt 
apparently held in by a white kid belt. 
The material is serge, navy, cadet or tan, 
with white serge collar and cuffs; price 
$S.75. A very smart coat for $9.75 is 
a broken plaid of black and white with 
crossbars of red, green or blue. The silk 
collar and cuffs match the colored cross¬ 
bar. Covert cloth coats, severely tailored 
in style, are $7.50 and $10. 
Outspread aeroplane wings, long and 
slender, are put on the crowns of hats 
and turbans, the two wings standing at 
different angles, according to the taste of 
the wearer. .Sometimes one wing points 
at an upward angle while the other 
droops; sometimes one extends straight 
out at the side, while the other extends 
over the crown almost at right angles to 
it. Favorite colors are cherry, soldat 
(soldier) blue, battleship gray, Belgian 
blue, and black and white. 
Among popular fabric gloves are the 
duplex, which are heavier than chamoi- 
sette, being double thickness, colors gray, 
white and pongee or sand. A very desir¬ 
able model is the Biarritz, with loose 
wrist drawn up by a strap and pearl 
clasp. There are many varieties of these 
fabric gloves-—doette, reindeer fabric, etc., 
costing from 50 cents to $1.50 a pair, and 
they have held favor all Winter. Just 
when we were warned that European con¬ 
ditions would send the prices of kid 
sparing, fashion decreed in favor of these 
fabric gloves, which wash so much more 
easily than suede or doeskin. For Sum¬ 
mer wear light-weight chamoisette and 
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