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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
try to get good material that will wear 
for a number of seasons. Ribbon or 
feathers are more durable than flowers 
and hold their color better. I have one 
feather band that has been worn for five 
years, and looks well yet. I would wear 
the band a year or two, then lay it away 
for awhile, perhaps five or .six years, then 
use it again on another hat.' In trim¬ 
ming. too. it pays to select quiet colors. 
After ribbon has served on hats. I dye 
it and use for sashes and hair ribbons. 
By these various means I have kept the 
bat bill* very low for my family, and 
yet, I think, we have looked as stylish 
and comfortable as any of our neighbors, 
and more so than some. 
MRS. CHARLES JOHNSTON. 
Winter Amusements for Children 
Let us plan for the “kiddies” to be out 
of doors a good part of every day through¬ 
out the Winter, except in decidedly 
stormy weather. A light fall of snow 
needn’t keep them indoors. Of course 
they must be dressed warmly ; preferably, 
boys and girls alike, in woolen legging- 
pants and sweaters, with coats over their 
sweaters in the very cold weather; wool 
mittens, not gloves; knitted caps that 
may be pulled down over their ears; 
warm stockings and shoes that do not 
cramp their feet, for cramped feet mean 
cold feet, as well as feet tormented with 
corns and sore joints. Add well-fitting 
rubbers or overshoes .and send the little 
ones out with their little sleds, a sled 
apiece for each tot big enough to drag it 
by its rope, and what fun these so com¬ 
fortably equipped youngsters will have! 
The little girls will want to take out 
some of their best beloved dollies to “ride” 
them on their sleds, and the best beloved 
dollies more likely than not will have lost 
some of their wigs and some of their arms 
or feet, but they are not too fine to be 
played with every day, and so they are 
dear to their little mothers’ hearts. 
Let the children run and slide and 
tumble in the snow, and laugh and shout 
and gain rosy cheeks and good appetites 
for the wholesome, plain food, including 
plenty of milk, that every farm should 
provide. What if they do get a fall and a 
bump now and then? Young bones don’t 
break easily, we know, and if we encour¬ 
age the youngsters to smile instead of 
whining when they meet with small mis¬ 
haps they will soon get the “be-brave- 
and-laugh-and-try-again” spirit that will 
carry them triumphantly over many a 
rough place later in the journey of life. 
I watched my small niece. Mabel Irene, 
one Winter day, as. hooded and mittened. 
coated, legg'ined and overshoed for a 
forenoon’s play in the snow, she hopped 
from the doorstep directly upon a strip of 
ice and sat down hard. She scrambled up. 
picked up the dear old dolly she had 
dropped, nonchalantly remarked in a 
cheerful little voice, “Sippy!” and tod¬ 
dled on to find her sled and join her little 
playmates. There’s an object lesson for 
us grown-ups! 
In very stormy weather indoor amuse¬ 
ments must be provided, but don’t let us, 
dear mothers, mind a little “clutter.” 
What are homes, anyway, but places in 
which children can happily grow up? I 
called on Alice Sullivan’s mother. Alice, 
nine years old. was at school, but there 
was her dolly snugly put to bed on the 
very nlieest sofa pillow. I looked at the 
dolly and smiled 1 , 'and Alice’s mother 
smiled back at me. Ever since, I’ve loved 
the thought of that dolly put to bed on 
the fine sofa pillow to sleep till its little 
mother got home from school, and I’m 
sure the little girl’s lessons were better 
learned because she knew her mother 
would let dear dolly stay all comfy in its 
nice bed. A mother who “understands” 
is a great asset in a child’s life. 
One stormy day amusement is playing 
store. Children from six to 10 years love 
it. Provide a lead pencil, a pair of blunt- 
pointed scissors and some waste blank 
paper for the making of paper money, and 
brown paper and strings for parcels. The 
store itself may be the two lower shelves 
of a cupboard or two chairs placed side 
by side, or a low table. The fertile im¬ 
aginations of the children will supply 
lacking details. If you have, as I have, 
in the storeroom a box in which has been 
accumulating for years odds and ends 
that seemed suitable for playthings—lit¬ 
tle boxes, queer-shaped spools, samples 
of one thing and another, bits of this and 
bits of that—its contents are just right 
for stocking the store. The little mer¬ 
chants may want to borrow some of the 
tin cans of food that stand on vour store¬ 
room shelves to make their store seem 
more real. While the bigger ones are 
playing store, a plaything that daddy 
can make will entertain the wee ones for 
a long time—a smooth piece of board with 
rounded corners, holes bored closely all 
over it, and short, blunt-pointed pegs 
whittled out of wood to stick in the 
holes. If you saved the clean bits of 
wood left by the carnenter when he did a 
job for you. give them to five-year-old 
“buddie.” with a small hammer and some 
small nails, and he’ll know what to do 
with them. 
When I was a little girl my brother 
Herbert and I used to play with “jack¬ 
straws” that our father whittled out for 
us from pieces of shingle. They were 
about 4 in. long, and in the set were 
“rollers,” straight sticks about an eighth 
of an inch in diameter, with sides round¬ 
ed, these counting one in the game; “pad¬ 
dles.” began like the rollers, but rounded 
out at one end. flat like a 10-oent piece, 
each counting five; “spears.” like the pad¬ 
dles. only spear-shaped at one end, each 
counting 10; “guns,” counting. 15, and 
“swords.” counting 20. There were five 
of each kind, and the game was to gather 
them up by the long, slender ends, hold 
them tightly, then open the hand and let 
them drop in a pile on the table. Then 
with the “hooker,” a stick shaped like a 
lead pencil, only slenderer, with a bent 
pin stuck in one end, each player in turn 
removed as many of the “straws” as he 
could without “joggling” any in the pile. 
Then each reckoned up the value of the 
“straws” he had removed and the one that 
had the bigger sum beat. Then we had 
a game of spelling that we played with 
several sets of the alphabet pasted on 
square pieces of pasteboard. We had sev¬ 
eral extra sets of the .vowels. All the 
cards were well mixed and placed face 
down on the table. Each player drew 
the same number from the pile, and pro¬ 
ceeded to make as many words from his 
letters as he could. Then in turn each 
drew a letter from the pile until the pile 
was exhausted and the one that had the 
most bona fide words was the winner. 
Another pencil game my child friends 
and I used to play was for each to draw 
on a piece of paper a head, human, or of 
a bird or an animal; then the papers were 
folded over, two dots made on the blank 
side to indicate where the body should 
begin, papers passed along, bodies drawn, 
papers again folded over, dotted and 
passed along and legs drawn, papers again 
passed and feet added. Then the papers 
were all unfolded and the curious crea¬ 
tures would cause much amusement. 
“Gobolinks” is funny for older chil- 
dren._ A piece of blank paper is folded 
and in the fold one drop of ink is placed 
and the two surfaces pressed tightly to¬ 
gether and worked with the fingers until 
the ink is well spread. Very quaint and 
interesting forms result, most of them 
butterfly shape. “Paintimps” is a varia¬ 
tion of < “gobolinks.” Tiny dabs of col¬ 
ored paints are laid in and at the sides of 
the fold instead of a drop of ink. Very 
decorative figures are obtained, which the 
children can use to ornament Christmas 
boxes, etc. 
Little girls like to cut pictures of fur¬ 
niture and other room equipments from 
magazine advertisements, and paste them 
on sheets of paper, each sheet represent- 
Embroidery Designs 
1050. Design for border three inches 
wide. Motifs for embroidering corners or 
panels are also given. Two yards of the 
border and four transfers for the comers are 
given. 20 cents. 
ing one room of a house. The sitting 
room will have a lovely rug in the center, 
with tables, chairs, phonograph, piano 
grouped about; the kitchen sheet will 
display stove and sink and kitchen cab¬ 
inet and cooking utensils, and so on with 
the other rooms. 
Lacy paper doilies may he made by 
folding squares of paper many times anil 
cutting in and out along the edges. When 
unfolded the designs often prove very 
beautiful. 
Older children enjoy making scrap¬ 
books. Homemade well-boiled flour paste 
should be used, and it can be applied with 
a swab of cloth tied on the end of a stick. 
Lay the scraps when pasting them on old 
newspapers to keep the table clean. 
Teach the little girls to sew doll clothes 
and crochet doll caps and knit doll sweat¬ 
ers. And give the little boys thimbles 
and strips of cloth and miscellaneous col¬ 
lections of buttons and let them sew the 
buttons on the strips in pretty designs, 
but see that they sew them on properly, to 
stand strain, and in after years, when 
they are away from home and mother, 
they won’t be so helpless and awkward 
when a button lets go its hold upon one of 
their garments. 
After all. nothing delights the small 
child more than to be allowed to set the 
chairs in a long line for a railroad train, 
with mother representing the passengers. 
He’ll be the engine and the engineer, and 
he’ll whistle loud and shrill, and he’ll be 
conductor, too, and take the tickets, but, 
oh. will mother be the passengers? So 
mother takes her seat with her crochet 
work and the play goes on. Unfortunate 
the child whose mother never gets time to 
play with him, and unfortunate the child 
of whose home it can be said “You’d nev¬ 
er think there was a child in it!” 
LOUISE PRINCE FREEMAN. 
For the Small Baby 
A young mother, visiting old folks who 
owned no crib, was at first in terror of 
her baby’s losing himself off the high 
“grown-up” bed when awaking from his 
daytime nap.. But she guarded against 
tumbles by pinning his nightgown loosely 
at each side of the skirt to the bed with 
safety pins. 
A small sleigh bell, pinned to the back 
of baby’s romper, warns the busy mother 
of the toddler’s whereabouts. He cannot 
get it off if attached with a safety pin. 
LILLIAN TROTT. I 
Two Ways to Spell a Good Thing 
Teacher: "Spell Dessert.” 
Bobbie: "Is it where the camels live ?” 
Teacher (severely): "Certainly not. It is the best part of dinner.” 
Bobbie: Oh, I can spell that— 
' A. L. 
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Nobody knows better than the children what the best part of dinner 
is, and Bobbie expresses the prevailing conviction regarding it. 
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THE GENESEE PURE TOOD COMPANY 
Le Roy, N, Y., and Bridgeburg, Ont. 
Use Dandelion 
Butter Color Now 
Add a half-teaspoon- 
ful to each gallon of 
winter cream and out 
of your churn comes 
butter of golden .Tune 
shade to bring you 
top prices. 
All stores sell 35- 
cent bottles of Dan¬ 
delion Butter Color, 
each sufficient to keep 
that rich “Golden 
Shade” in your butter 
all the year round. 
Standard Butter Color 
for fifty years. Purely 
vegetable. Meets all 
food laws, State and 
National. Used by all large creameries. 
Will not color the buttermilk. Tasteless. 
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