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‘Ibe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 25, 1919 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
Who Knows? 
Who knows—who can tell where the 
Summer goes 
With dew-drenched garments and 
sweet-scented hair? 
Where is the life that went out of the 
rose? 
The music, the sunlight, the laughtei— 
where ? 
Who knows? 
What knowledge reveals where the freed 
soul goes 
When released from its prison-house of 
pain? 
To the realm of light or the place of woes; 
To the golden heights or the shadowed 
plain. 
Who knows? 
< 
At the voice of knowledge all gates un¬ 
close, 
Except the portals of life and death. 
It were pain to ask where the spirit goes. 
The secret of giving and hushing breath, 
God knows. 
—Rose Hartwick Thorpe. 
* 
We are accustomed to regard Thanks- 
g'ving as original with the Pilgrims of 
Massachusetts, but history tells us that 
the first Thanksgiving service held on 
American soil by English-speaking people 
was conducted by an English minister on 
the shores of Newfoundland in 1578. This 
service was held by Frobisher’s expedition, 
the first English colony in America. 
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Ax attractive baby’s crib cover seen 
recently was of filet crochet. It was made 
in three lengthwise strips; the two outer 
strips had a rose design, like an insertion, 
while the center was plain filet mesh, 
with a solid block about an inch square 
at intervals. A little rose of pale pink 
satin was put in the center of these solid 
blocks, and the whole was lined with pale 
pink satin and finished around the edge 
with a crocheted scallop. 
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The Treasury Department has decided 
that “luxury taxes” may be deducted from 
income tax returns, so one is not obliged 
to pay tliis tax twice. One is thus per¬ 
mitted to deduct tax paid on railway 
tickets, amusement tickets, soft drinks, 
toilet articles, such clothing as may be 
subject to tax, etc. If one keeps track 
of such taxes paid they mount up sur¬ 
prisingly in the year and it is only fair 
and just that they should be deducted 
from the general income. 
A Massachusetts Vacation 
This Summer, like other Summers, 
found us in Western Massachusetts, look¬ 
ing at the beautiful Connecticut River 
and the outlines of the Berkshires. There 
seems to be something unusually home¬ 
like in those surroundings, and one car¬ 
ries away a lasting memory of the charm. 
There is wonderful rest and refreshment 
in being with the calm, forceful, self- 
restrained people who seem to have es¬ 
caped the rush and hurry and unrest to 
which too many of us have yielded. 
Each year we find the Polanders have 
increased in numbers, buying up almost 
all available low lands, and now they 
are buying the hill farms. They get won¬ 
derful results, and surely must feel en¬ 
couraged by the outcome of their hard 
work. We* watched the progress of a 
near-by field, the woman as vigorously as 
the man dragging out great stones, piling 
them, clearing up brush. We left it plowed 
and promising. Tobacco and onions seem 
to be their favorite crops, for they have 
unusual patience, and certainly there is 
opportunity to exercise it in hand-weeding 
those large fields of onions. It looks an 
endless job, even when a dozen or more 
people can be seen in one field, not in¬ 
frequently accompanied by the .baby-coach 
with its patient contents. In some places 
tin* berry crop was good, while on some 
sandy soil it was completely ruined by 
the drought. 
Part of the Summer was spent at Am¬ 
herst. For the first time, the Massa¬ 
chusetts Board of Education co-operated 
with the Massachusetts Agricultural Col¬ 
lege. rtnd offered an unusually attractive 
course.* The scarcity of teachers was per¬ 
haps an extra incentive, though the situ¬ 
ation in Massachusetts does not seem to 
be as serious as in Pennsylvania, for in¬ 
stance. This may be due partly to the' 
difference in salaries. Massachusetts, true 
to its old educational traditions, has al¬ 
ready realized that even teachers cannot 
live on air. and has materially increased 
their siilaries, so that notwithstanding 
Pennsylvania's Woodruff bill, grade teach¬ 
ers (and perhaps others) get in Massa¬ 
chusetts five or six hundred dollars a year 
more than teachers holding similar po¬ 
sitions in Pennsylvania. Other privileges 
add to the welfare of the teachei’—for 
instance, the State Bureau with a fee of 
but two dollars for postage, etc., puts 
her in touch with vacancies, and no com¬ 
mission is required from her salary after 
she is placed. 
We seem to have wandered from Am¬ 
herst to the State House in Boston. It 
may be added here that excellent courses 
of study for Grades I to AT can be gotten 
there. Their value and interest are not 
confined to teachers of Massachusetts 
only, but may profitably be studied by 
others. 
The Summer school at the Agricultural 
College opened June 30 for four weeks. 
Surely no four weeks were ever more 
closely packed with interest and pleasure. 
Even the atmosphere seemed charged with 
enthusiasm and good-will. The classes pro- 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering always give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
0592. Bodice with 
tunic, 34 to 40 
bust. 
The medium size 
will require 4 yards 
of material 0 incites 
wide, 3% yards 44. 
2% yards 54, with 
8>G yards of braid. 
1‘riee 15 cents. 
9027. Coat Dress, 
34 to 42 bust. 
The medium size 
will require 5-% 
yards of material 30 
inches wide, 4% 
yards 44, 3*■_. yards 
54. Width at the 
lower edge is 2 
yards. Price 15 
cents. 
9 5 8 0. Surplice 
Blouse, 3G to 44 
bust. 
9 0 2 2. Tablier 
Skirt, 24 to 32 
waist. 
1035. Embroidery 
Design, 3 inches 
Wide. 
The medium size 
blouse will require 
1 yard of material 
30 inches wide for 
the under body, 2% 
9581. Dress for yards of material 44 
Misses and Small for the sleeves and 
Women, 10 and 18 side portions, 1% 
years, perforated yards 44 for the 
for tunic. over-portion and the 
4% yards of ma- collar. The skirt 
terial 30 incites will require 3% 
wide, 4 yards 44, yards of material 27 
3% yards 54. with inches wide, 2% 
% yards for 30 ins. yards 30, 34 or 54 
for the collar. Width for the panels, 
of skirt at lower Width of skirl at 
edge is 2 % yards the lower edge is 2 
for the 10 year size, yards. Price of 
Price 15 cents. each 15 cents. 
vided as much work as anyone wished to 
take, while outside interests and enjoy¬ 
ment were just as well cared for. Ex¬ 
cursions to industrial plants and to the 
mountains were excellently planned, not 
forgetting beautiful Old Deerfield, peace¬ 
ful now in its old age, with its interesting 
home industries, which would have been 
dear to the heart of Buskin. What a con¬ 
trast to its stormy past, when the valiant 
forefathers and foremothers defended 
their homes in the French and Indian 
wars. Does any other town show the 
same loving reverence for its ancestors? 
One could pleasurably spend hours with 
the markers, bearing various inscriptions, 
on different sites, and in the quiet old 
graveyard where “Consider” and “Desire” 
are buried. One wonders what the owners 
of these quaint names were like. 
The Summer school offered courses in 
agriculture, horticulture, education and 
home life. With so much choice it was 
almost puzzling to decide and one re- 
gretted that many interesting subjects had 
to be passed by. 
It may hot be generally known amongst 
The R. N.-Y. family how much practical 
information can be gotten from the dif¬ 
ferent departments of the Massachusetts 
Agricultural Colege for just the asking. 
A useful, and perhaps not sufficiently 
well-known section, is that devoted to food 
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