The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1425 
Home Notes from Massachusetts 
One of our Social Club members is a 
popular teacher with a bureau full of the 
tiny fancy aprons now seldom worn. 
Lately she has come out with a surpris¬ 
ing number of dainty frilled and em¬ 
broidered collars. She confesses that she 
makes them from the little aprons, using 
the trimmed bottom and edges, and hem¬ 
ming the cut edge for a neck finish. Yes¬ 
terday a guest was making the daintiest 
possible collar from a tiny handkerchief 
c»f figured chiffon. The bordered parts 
cut out to form the neck were added on 
at the front to give the necessary length, 
and lace was. added around the outside. 
Speaking of collars, one member wore a 
wonderful tatting collar made, by an inva¬ 
lid brother-in-law, who does such exquisite 
work that he has orders .“ ’way ahead” 
and finds the work a great resource. The, 
guest was making a new tatting edge like 
a row of daisies. This evidently would 
Collar Made from Chiffon Handkerchief 
be very effective for collars, cuffs or hand¬ 
kerchiefs. 
Sister has at last found a way to cut 
over hosiery so the joining will not show 
with low shoes. The diagram will tell the 
story. This is for a OV-j stocking. Piece 
A should exactly fit the cut edge of the 
stocking leg. and the straight cut an inch 
and a half in length should not be so long 
that the seam can possibly show above a 
low .shoe. If the user has garter tops 
left from former hosiery, these are ex¬ 
cellent to make piece A. Seam the heel 
by itself, and sew piece A into the cut 
where it fits. A young neighbor the other 
day had a new heel so neatly sewed into 
her silk hosiery that it was scarcely 
noticed. An entire new heel had been 
applied on the outside from discarded silk 
stockings, and the joining had been done 
with fairy nieenoss. The stocking simply 
seemed a bit thicker at the heel. 
Our little club is meeting all Summer. 
This s a new feature. We have been 
meeting one afternoon in two weeks, each 
taking her own work. We have music 
and simple refreshments, too. Now the 
men of the church have asked help about 
preparing for the harvest sale, so we 
shall meet once a week for sewing meet¬ 
ings at present, without .refreshments. 
Members serve refreshments or not. as 
they prefer. Most folks do; it seems 
more social. < >ue recent hostess gave us 
delieous lemonade with the addition of 
lime juice “to taste.” Another says that 
ginger ale is fine to add “pep” to lemon¬ 
ade. I cannot tell you if this is true, 
because the dear busy lady left the stuff 
in her refrigerator and forgot all. about 
it until afterward. 
I agree heartily with the remarks about 
shredded wheat as a diet in ease of rheu¬ 
matism. Nothing will help me so much 
when mine is bad. just shredded wheat, 
milk and fruit. But in the long run I 
think the younger invalid is better off 
to use as nearly a normal healthy diet as 
possible. I know one woman who lived 
on shredded - wheat for a year after a 
severe operation. 
Outside the back door is growing one 
of the “New Guinea Giant butter beans,” 
which Uncle Sam says is a gourd. I felt 
positive from the description that it be¬ 
longed to the gourd family, and it grows 
with amazing rapidity. If fruit forms. 
I shall try it in the various possible ways. 
I don't expect to like it; it is just 
curiosity that prompts the experiment. 
A crippled friend in the West reports 
the safe arrival of some magnolia hlos- 
soms sent her from the South, with a 
small potato on each cut stein. Did the 
potatoes account for the fact that the 
blossoms did not wilt? 
Gan anybody tell me the name of the 
following lily? The leaves are striped 
green and white and grow only to right 
and left instead of all round. The 
plant has a small bulb, but roots 
from an underground stalk and spreads 
a good deal The blossoms last ..only 
a day, Ike the day-lily. The blossom 
lias three sepals colored like the petals, 
six large petals and six, five or 
four smaller petals. It has five sta¬ 
mens and the pistil is apparently two- 
parted. The petals are lemon-yellow at 
the inside, with a red band above and 
shaded orange .above the red band. The 
original plant came from an old garden 
in Southhoro, hut local people have for¬ 
gotten the name.. 
<The Milford Chautauqua was so suc¬ 
cessful that people plan to have a “Baby 
Chautauqua” this Winter. Twenty 
guarantors are needed, who will be per¬ 
sonally responsible for producing the sum 
of $.‘175. A hall is needed to seat ”50 
people.; and the association will provide 
an entertainment to last three afternoons 
and evenings. This seems a good oppor¬ 
tunity for some of the smaller places. 
A Chautauqua Association does not wax 
rich, nor does it. expect to. This one. on 
a receipt of a quarter million, cleared less 
than five hundred. 
A friend living in the edge of the vil¬ 
lage keeps ducks, and has them so well 
trained that if she calls to them or even 
raps on the window when they start to 
wander, they will solemnly turn and come 
home. 
One friend, after a long hospital stay, 
has just, left off her invalid ways and let 
the trained nurse go. Household help is 
as scarce as hens’ teeth, but the men of 
this household are handy and willing, and 
the lady lias a dear little daughter of the 
old-fashioned type who can do anything 
in the house, lienee they are getting on 
alone and seem happy in it. Isn’t that 
exactly as a home should be, everybody 
helping? ' ed.na s. KXAFP. 
Destroying Mites in Canary Cage 
I am raising canary birds for selling 
purposes. Do you know of an effective 
method for destroying mites? Is there a 
way of smoking the cages, and how is it 
done? I am advised to use a mite pow¬ 
der, to be burned iu the cages, but this 
method is quite expensive in the long 
run, the powder selling for 25 cents- per 
small box. F. B. 
New York. 
Have you tried insect powder (pyreth- 
l-iim) blown into the plumage of the af¬ 
fected birds with a small bellows? I am 
afraid that would not do much good if 
the; pests were very numerous. The Gov¬ 
ernment bulletin advisee also removing 
the . bird temporarily, and cleaning the 
cage thoroughly with a solution of one 
ounce of commercial carbolic acid in a 
gallon of water, applied with a small 
brush, takjng care to reach all the crev¬ 
ices. Or immerse the cage in wash-boiler 
of boiling water, keeping covered for sev¬ 
eral minutes. This last would he likely 
to necessitate refinishing a brass Cage, and 
the carbolic acid might have a had effect 
on the lacquer. The powder to burn iu 
the cage is new to me. I passed your 
question over to a specialist of wide ex¬ 
perience, and his letter follows: 
“'We have a bird powder which has 
proved effective and is very good. Just 
sprinkle a little powder on the bird, also 
on the inside and outside of the cage and 
put a slightly dampened cloth over the 
cage. In the morning the mites- will be 
on the cloth. Of course this is the moult¬ 
ing season, and birds will pick and scratch 
themselves as the pin feathers are coming 
out. Many people think their birds have 
liee, when the simple reason is that their 
feathers are coming out. But it cannot 
do any harm to use the powder, and then 
see whether the bird is affected or not.” 
Personally, 1 have been so lucky that 
my birds have never been troubled. The 
ounce of prevention seems the best remedy 
where it is possible. But where there are 
mauy birds the breeder is right in dread¬ 
ing these peets, which multiply so rapidly. 
rrux.'. s. kxapp. 
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The Durham dyes do not fade and the stockings keep a long 
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