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Oic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 15, 1918 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
From “Pro Patria” 
Forth, thc'n, to front that peril of the 
deep 
With smiling lips and in your eves the 
Hght, 
Steadfast and confident of those who keep 
Their storied scutcheon bright. 
And we, whose burden is to watch and 
wait— 
Iligh-hearte'd ever, strong in faith and 
prayer. 
We ask what offering we may consecrate. 
What humble service share? 
To steel our souls against the lust of ease; 
To find our welfare in the gene'ral 
good; 
'Po hold together, merging all degrees 
In one wide brotherhood;— 
I'o teach that he who saves himself is 
lost; 
To bear in silence though our he'arts 
may bleed ; 
To spend ourselve.s, and never count the 
cost. 
For others’ greater need;— 
To go our quiet ways, .subdued and sane; 
To hush all vulgar clamor of the street; 
With level calm to face alike the strain 
Of triumph or defeat;— 
This be our part, for so we serve you best, 
So best confirm their prowess and their 
pride, 
Your warrior sons, to whom in this high 
te’st 
Our_ fortunes we confide. 
—Sir Owen Seaman, in London Punch. 
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The Committee on Public Information, 
division on women’s war work, states that 
20 uniforms for women in war work are 
officially recognized in the United States 
at the present time. The womc’n wearing 
them are munition workers, telephone and 
radio operators, yeomen, employes of the 
Shipping Board and the Food Admini.s- 
tration, Red Ci’oss workers, and the' 
Young Women’s Christian Association 
workers abroad. Woman’s Motor Corps 
of New Yoi-k, Gii-l Scouts, and students 
in the National Service School of the 
Woman’s Naval Service, Washington, 
D. C. 
The uniform prescribed by the War 
Department for munition workers con¬ 
sists of a blouse and spe'cially de.signed 
overalls. Insignia to denote that the 
War Department recognizes these women 
as an important part of the military or¬ 
ganization completes the costume. The 
AVar Department has oflicially re'cognized 
another uniform for women, that of the 
telephone unit of the United States Sig¬ 
nal Corps. These girls wear navy blue 
uniforms with Norfolk style coats, blue 
“trench caps” for every day and sailor 
shape's of blue felt for “dress.” On the 
collar are crossed flags, the insignia of 
the Signal Corps, and on the sleeve a 
band with a telephone mouthpiece em¬ 
broidered in blue. 
Yeoman of the Navy Departme'nt are 
provided with a Norfolk suit of navy 
blue sei’ge, with brass buttons and the in¬ 
signia of the yeomen in clerical service, 
crossed quills upon the sleeve. The waist 
is of be'ach cloth, tailored, and the hat a 
sailor of felt or rough straw. For Sum¬ 
mer white drill is substituted for serge. 
The marine colors are used by the girl 
employes of the United States Shipping 
Board, who hope to keep cool in a uni¬ 
form consisting of a foreste'r green cotton 
gabardine skii-t, white tennis waist, and 
green mushroom hat of straw. The flag 
of the Shipping Board is used as the' 
insignia. 
The uniform of the Food Administra¬ 
tion is particularly adapted for Summer. 
It is a one-piece dress of blue cotton, with 
a front which buttons eithe'r way. With 
it are worn cuffs which button on and a 
high-peaked cap of pique. The Food Ad¬ 
ministration insignia is worn on the 
sleeve. 
The Red Cross authorizes 10 funda¬ 
mental uniforms with varied sleeve bands 
and insignia to indicate differe'nt 
branches of the service. The nursing 
service includes four with variations. An 
outdoor uniform of blue serge, Norfolk 
style for Winter, and a lighter one for 
Summer, a gray wash uniform used for 
foreign service and in the sanitary zones 
in the United States, and a white uniform 
used in the Army and Navy service in 
this country. 
Exclusive of the nursing service there 
is one uniform for the Red Cross work¬ 
ers for foreign service and five for service 
in the United States. The uniform for- 
foreign wear is of gray whipcord in Nor¬ 
folk style, the eight different branches of 
the service being indicated by a different 
color on coat, collar, hat, and tie. In the 
United States the uniform for the work¬ 
room is white apron and colored veil, for 
the bureau of information and clerical 
service a gray apron and veil, and a hori¬ 
zon-blue apron and veil for canteen serv¬ 
ice. For outdoor canteen service a gray 
whipcord coat may be worn, and the 
motor service uniform for the United 
States also consists of a gray whipcord 
coat, a short skirt, and a close-fitting cap 
of the' same material and tan canvas or 
tan leather leggings. In all cases the 
red cross is w'orn on sleeve or hat. 
An olive-drab uniform similar to that 
of the Y. M. C. A. workers overseas is 
worn by the Y. AV. C. A. workers abroad. 
It is made in Norfolk style, with Y. W. 
C. A. letters upon the sleeve and over it 
is worn a heavy dark-green traveling 
cape. 
The members of the woman’s radio 
corps have a uniform which resembles 
that of the English aviators. It is of 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering always give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
9.')a9 Breakfast .Tack- 
ot and Cap. 34 to 
44 Imst. Price 15 9.5S0 Blouse in Sur- 
cents. plice Effect, 36 to 
44 bust. Price 15 
cenls. 
- 9623 .Tuniper Blouse 
9617 Bustle Dress 34 to 42 bust. Price 
for Misses and Small 15 cents. 
Women, 16 and 18 9622 'IWo-plece Skirt 
years. Price 15 24 to 32 waist. Price 
cents. 15 cents. 
khaki, with a very short Norfolk jacket, 
leather belted, a short skirt, high boots, 
and an aviator’s cap. An insignia with 
“Radio Corps” is worn on the left arm. 
The uniform of the woman’s motor 
corps of New York is almost identical 
with that of the woman’s radio corps, e'x- 
cept for the insignia. 
The Girl Scouts of America and the 
national service school of the woman’s 
naval service have also practically the 
same uniform except for the insignia, 
which in the case of the Girl Scouts is a 
pin with a clover and an eagle above it, 
whereas the girls at the national service 
school wear the letters “U. S. S.” on the 
hat. The uniform is a khaki skirt, stout 
boots, a brown flannel shirt, and a service 
hat. The unifoi’ms vary a good deal in 
both these organizations. 
Some dress reformers have long urged 
that women wear a standardized costume, 
which would avoid the useless expense 
and waste of time resulting from chang¬ 
ing fashions. It would as though we 
might all be wearing uniforms after a 
while, which would certainly do away 
with extravagant fashions. 
A Greenhouse Evaporator 
For those who have a small green¬ 
house I will give my experience of last 
year. I used it in drying fruit and veg¬ 
etables, and preserving. I took the dirt 
out of the middle bench, which gave me 
an open wooden box two yards wide, two 
yards long and 12 inches deep. Over this 
I stretched wire screen, as use'd in screen 
doors, so that it could easily be taken off. 
AA’hen I wanted to sun-dry my preserves 
I put them under the screen on the plat¬ 
ters. A’egetables and fruit were dried on 
the screen, giving it a free circulation of 
warm air underneath, too. As hardly 
ever a fly comes in I never covered the 
vegetables, but one could do with cheese¬ 
cloth. WILLY G. SCHEPP-COENEUSSEN. 
A College Student’s Farming 
A college student coming home from 
school in mid.summer has but little time 
to do much on the farm, but hei-e is what 
one did. A bit of waste land was plowed 
and planted in rows of sunflowers. These 
were cultivated with a light plow, only 
ne’eding one or two light plowings. Then 
there were several rows of buckwheat 
cultivated. Father gave the corn and 
oats to be crushed at the mill, sunflower 
seed and buckwheat were adde'd whole, 
and in proportion two parts cracked 
corn, one of oats, one sunflowers, one 
buckwheat. This was sold as chicken 
feed to a dealer in poultry supplies. 
Fre.sh, soft grass, cut in w'aste places, 
dried and stuffed in light-weight bags 
holding several pounds of hay, or enough 
for six hens’ nests, was packed and .sold 
to the nearest dealer in chick needs. This 
create’d a demand for bags of leaves as 
litter for henhouses. 
The coarse leaves of collards also 
found a ready sale as green food, as a 
week’s supply could be delivered at once. 
The'y are freshened in water and cut 
daily as needed by the city poultryman. 
This is light work and can be done in 
Summer and early Fall, and takes the 
student into the open air. 
Pop corn is another favorite late crop. 
If wood is available it may be cut into 
kindling or hearth le'ngtlis and sold when 
convenient to haul. AA^astiug apples are 
salable made into vinegar or apple mar¬ 
malade. The dried pomace from apple 
products makes splendid AVinter cattle 
feed, and in this way le’aves no waste. 
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333 West Thirtieth Street, New York 
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