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WOMAN AND HOME 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering always give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
9872. Eedingrote 
dress, 36 to 44 bust. 
With or without 
pocket laps. The 
redingote will re¬ 
quire 4t-i yds. of 
material 36 In. wide, 
3?4 yds. 44, 2 % yds. 
54; with 2 to yds. 
36. 44 or 54 for the 
skirt. Width at the 
lower edge 1 yd. 20 
ins. Price, 15 cents. 
9878. Press with or 
without bauds, 34 to 
42 bust. The medium 
size will require 58 
yds. of material. 36 
in. wide, 3% yds. 
in. wide. 3% yds. 
44. 3 yds. 54, with 
1VL* yds. 30 or 44. 
1 yd. 54 figured ma¬ 
terial for the vest 
and bands to make 
as illustrated. Price, 
15 cents. 
9822 Dress with 
kimono sleeves, 34 
to 42 bust. The me¬ 
dium size will re¬ 
quire OH yds. of 
material 30 in. wide, 
5H yds. 40, 4% yds. 
44. Width of skirt 
1 yd.. 20 in. Price, 
15 cents. 
ers are treated in the East, as we are 
‘it’ when we go to town.” 
That sounds encouraging. We think 
the time is drawing nearer when Eastern 
farmers, too, will feel that they hold an 
important place in the community when 
they go to town. 
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A painful tragedy occurred in New 
York recently, when a mother and her 
two daughters lost their lives in a fire 
resulting from an overheated furnace. 
The family was one of wealth and social 
importance, and the home was one with 
all city comforts; but, due in part at 
least to New York’s wretched telephone 
service, the victims were as much cut off 
from help as though in an isolated farm¬ 
house. The very day this accident oc¬ 
curred the following advice was issued 
by the Fire Prevention Committee of the 
New York Chapter of the American In¬ 
stitute of Architects, and it should be 
considered in every household: 
“Never let a_heater get red hot; suffer¬ 
ing from cold is safer. 
“When the heater is being run hard, a 
few hours’ neglect of the drafts may have 
fatal consequences. 
“See that all woodwork or partitions 
within two feet of the heater are pro¬ 
tected by sheet metal. 
‘Where the smoke flue passes through 
a partition, make sure that it is protected 
by a double metal collar with an air 
space.” 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
From Day to Day 
This My Life 
I strive to keep me in the sun : 
I pick no quarrel with the years. 
Nor with the Fates, not ev'n the one 
That holds the shears. 
The time is short enough at best. 
I push right onward while I may : 
I open to the winds my breast— 
And walk the way. 
A kind heart greets me here and there 
I hide from it my doubts and fears. 
I trudge, and say the path is fair 
Along the years. 
—JOHN VANCE CHENEY. 
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One may revive the faded blossoms on 
a last year’s hat with water color paints. 
Pink or blue flowers fade very badly in 
sun and wind, and thus make the hat 
look shabby. The painting should be 
carefully done, but quite liberally applied, 
as it dries lighter, and unless the fabric 
is quite wet the color does not sink in. 
Of course, the flower must be kept in 
shape, and any distorted petals curved 
iuto shape. Silk or satin fruit that is 
faded may also be painted to advantage. 
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A reader in Nebraska says: 
“Keep up the good work for the farmer, 
though here we know little of how farm- 
Garden Notes 
March days always turn our thoughts 
gardenward. Although the seed cata¬ 
logues arrived some time ago, and we 
have spent much spare time studying 
them, it is not until March that we order 
our seed, and really get ready for work. 
I 11 March we sow our tomato seeds; 
they will make nice plants by the 
time danger of frost is passed, and 
I do not like them to be too large when 
I get ready to put them out-of-doors. I 
always transplant them twice: they make 
nicer stocky plants, and I save all the 
old tin cans to set them in. Then I can 
lift out the entire ball of dirt when set¬ 
ting them in the garden and they receive 
no check, as is the case when they are 
lifted from a box full of plants. 
East year, in a friend’s garden, each 
tomato plant was provided with a square 
rack made of slats, like a crate with no 
bottom, and about IS inches high. These 
provided slight shade for the young 
plants and a good support for the vines 
when loaded with fruit. Another gardener 
sot strong stakes along each side of the 
row and nailed poles along the top of 
the stakes about IS inches high. They 
did not look quite so heat as the others, 
but served the purpose very well. It 
certainly does pay to provide some sup¬ 
port for the vines, as the fruits ripen so 
much better if kept up from the ground. 
I think many farm gardeners make a 
mistake in sowing beets and carrots in¬ 
tended for Winter use too early; then 
they complain that the beets and carrots 
are tough and woody when wanted for 
use, or they think they must take the 
time to can a good supply while they are 
small and tender. I like to put in a few 
early ones to use as soon as they are 
ready, but those meant for Winter use 
can be put in the last of June here in 
Delaware County, N. Y., if you select an 
early variety. When gathered in the 
Fall they can be packed in boxes of dry 
leaves, and when wanted for use you 
will find them as nice as the canned ones. 
Of course peas, string beans and sweet 
corn we must can for our Winter supply, 
but the root crops can be stored for Win¬ 
ter use with much less trouble. 
The loose-leaved varieties of lettuce are 
almost the only kind grown around here. 
T.ast year we sowed a package of Iceberg 
lettuce; it was fine, the heads were so 
solid, like miniature cabbages, and so nice 
and crisp. We are planning to set out 
a larger bed this year. I start the seeds 
in a small bed in one corner of the gar¬ 
den and transplant the little plants to 
the long rows when they are well started. 
I think it a good idea to try a few new 
varieties each year. How 
to find out the kinds you 
the kinds best adapted to 
climate, if you do not? 
tried a few rows of popcorn, but we made 
a mistake and selected the wrong kind. I 
think; it grew nearly seven feet tall and 
had nice large ears, but it was so late 
that only a few of the ears were ripe 
enough to be of any use. East year we 
tried one of the Tom Thumb varieties, 
and it is well named, as it grew only 
about two feet tall, but we gathered over 
a bushel of ears from the row, and every 
ear was fully ripened. 
We all thought the yellow-padded snap 
beaus were the best to be had. but a 
friend gave us the seed of a green-podded 
variety with long, round thick-moated 
pods, the Kentucky Wonder, and we think 
it’s the best of any kind we ever tried, 
and much superior to the yellow ones for 
canning. We will plant a few of the 
yellow ones, for they are a little earlier, 
but the biggest planting will be of Ken¬ 
are you going 
like best, and 
your soil and 
One year we 
March 0. 1920 
tucky Wonder, to use when the others 
are gone and for canning. 
I sometimes wonder why so many gar¬ 
deners still put the small seeds in little 
raised beds which require so much labor 
to make, and make cultivating and weed¬ 
ing so much harder to do. Put everything 
in long rows running the whole length 
of the garden, and just wide enough for 
the cultivator to run easily, and see how 
much less work it will be to care for the 
garden after it is planted. 
Some gardeners sow only the dwarf 
peas, because they require no support. 
I like a few of the dwarf, as they are 
earliest, but they cannot compare in 
quality with some of the tall kinds; even 
if they do require a little extra work to 
provide a support of some kind, they 
are worth it. 
We have a seedbed in one corner of the 
garden where we start cabbage plants, 
rutabagas and lettuce. When the early 
radishes are out of the way some of 
these plants take their place. We plan 
to have the dwarf peas out of the way in 
time to fill in the place they occupied 
with cabbages and turnips. We are start¬ 
ing some perennial plants from seeds. 
We are going to have a border of peren¬ 
nial flowers along the lower side of the 
garden. We think the garden is a pleas¬ 
anter place to work if we have a few 
flowers growing there. We have always 
had a few annuals, but a gay perennial 
border will be a source of joy forever, so 
we hope. mbs. gardener. 
Doughnuts 
One cup granulated sugar; one cup 
sweet milk; one egg, one teaspoon bak¬ 
ing powder; one tablespoon melted lard. 
Pinch of salt, flavor with nutmeg. Flour 
to make a dough to roll out well. This is 
fine; I never fail to have dry fluffy cakaa. 
B. E. N. 
lUJhich would Vou raiher 3eed ? 
A record cow or one that eats just as much and gives less than half the milk ? 
The N. P. Sterling Furnace is a record furnace; like the cow, it may cost a trifle more to 
buy but it gives so much more heat from the fuel it uses that it soon pays for itself. 
For instance, down around Elmira, N. Y., last winter, many farmers reported that they 
easily kept a splendid even heat during the day and had no trouble holding a good fire over 
night simply with chunks. 
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THE ONE-REGISTER FURNACE 
Is the result of over 70 years in building stoves and heaters of the highest quality. The best 
materials are used throughout as well as the most scientific furnace construction. Our idea 
has always been that purchasers wanted and should have the best heating plant that could be 
built, and knowing that the success of the one register furnace depends absolutely on the 
volume and force of the current of warm air we devised the outside cool air return pipes. 
A glance at the diagram will show you the reason you get a more even distribution of heat 
through the whole house on account of this vital Sterling Feature. 
A. Scientific Sterling construction insuring perfect combustion and saving fuel. 
B. Extra large heating dome which heats air passing around it more quickly and 
higher temperature with less fire. 
C. Outside air passages keep the air cool way to 
the bottom of the furnace and so make the air . ,. 
flow very swiftly into and through the heating $ / 
chambers D, and then pours it out with great 
force through the register. 
These outside air passages are vital Sterling 
features 
Here are some others: a cool cellar, feed door large enough for chunks 
of wood, heavy grey iron castings (no scrap used), special fire pot if 
natural gas and solid fuel are used, special three point dust and gas 
proof joints, extra large air moistener. 
It will pay you to send for our free book and the name of the 
nearest dealer. For years this’ furnace has been making a 
record of keeping the houses warm and fuel bills down. 
Ask for our free book on the Sterling Range. 
The range that bakes a barrel of flour with 
one hod of coal. 
SILL STOVE WORKS 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
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