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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 2, 1924 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
The Blind Man 
Swift as a falling curtain, dark descend¬ 
ed ; 
White light of noon, and then the light 
was o’er. 
And I shall never know if things remem¬ 
bered 
As fair, are fair no more. 
For me the dusk still weaves its olden 
glory, 
Purple and pavonine in rich brocade. 
Each dawn comes back—I hear the city 
' waking— 
In jacinth and in jade. 
Friends of my youth are fixed in youth 
eternal, 
Gallant bright youth that time can 
never blight; 
And the gay laughing girls remain endur¬ 
ing 
Visions of sheer delight. 
Still clear I see the passion flowers 
blooming, 
The lilacs trembling to the Spring s ca¬ 
ress— 
Thank God for this: my blind eyes m 
their closing 
Closed upon loveliness. 
—c. t. davis in Arkansas Gazette. 
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An Old English Quilt 
We know very little of the history of a 
quaint old quilt brought by one of our 
ancestors from England about the year 
1841*. The hands that made it have long 
ago been folded in their last rest, and no 
one living knows when and where it was 
done. It belongs to the variety known 
as patched quilts. The foundation is 
white cotton nearly two and a half yards 
long by two and a third wide, and on 
this are sewed the pieces of cloth. Many 
of these are fine French and English 
prints, so soft that they resemble silk. 
Others are of glazed cloth. In the cen¬ 
ter is a large square of mulberry chintz, 
representing a forest scene. Amid the 
trunks and foliage of trees are two sav¬ 
age-looking leopards seeking whom they 
may devour. 
Around this center are sewed six-sided 
jjieces alternating light and dark, so ar¬ 
ranged as to leave diamond-shaped spaces 
of the white cloth between them. These 
hexagonal pieces were first basted over 
paper and thfen over-handed together and 
sewed on the white. Next there are tri¬ 
angular pieces 8 in. long fitted carefully 
together. To make the corners, four¬ 
sided pieces were used, resembling in 
shape, trapeziums. 
But the strangest part of the quilt is 
its border of large irregular triangles and 
parallelograms. Some of these are of 
single pieces of cloth, others are formed 
of different six-sided pieces, 15 in the 
smaller and 25 in the larger. It must 
have required rare forethought and inge¬ 
nuity to arrange these so that the artistic 
effect could be produced. * . 
It is impossible to describe the beauti¬ 
ful colors used in this quilt, or the quaint 
floral and fruit patterns. Some of the 
designs are so conventionalized that it is 
hard to tell what'flowers were usgd,..on 
others gorgeous roses, lilies of the valley, 
forget-me-nots and moss rosebuds are 
plainly seen, besides many others that 
are not familiar to us. One piece shows 
an oak tree covered with acorns, with 
white berries resembling dogwood an the 
foreground. Some of the handsomest are 
in blue and white chintz, having large 
grapes with their leaves, and others have 
fruit which may represent plums and mel¬ 
ons. All the work on the quilt is done in 
the finest of stitches, so that without the 
different colors it would be difficult to tell 
where the ipieces are joined. The whole 
effect is charming. clara c. votey. 
bring her father here, and that hope is 
never far from her heart and lips. 
The hard times are not all in Siberia, 
either, nor by any means all among the 
farmers here. The news is leaking out 
from nearby cities that “Christmas 
goods” did not sell well. Light sales of 
heavy Winter stuff might be accounted 
for by mild weather up till New Year’s. 
But a man who peddled Christmas trees 
in prosperous looking residence districts 
reported an appalling scarcity of money. 
I like to start the year with a perfect 
whirlwind of sewing. There is always 
plenty of work waiting to be done, since 
gifts take precedence in early Winter. I 
have almost reached the end of making 
over (except for Johnny) since I “go 
through” my clothes about twice as fast 
here as in town, and wear them out com¬ 
pletely ! But special sales, particularly 
in J- nuary and midsummer, keep me 
stocked with real bargains in materials, 
nor is the remnant counter to be sneezed 
at. 
I have tried for a week to find a suit- 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering always give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
1052. Ladies' com¬ 
bination undergar¬ 
ment; two-piece pet¬ 
ticoat with or with¬ 
out circular flounce 
or scalloped edge, 
attached to a fitted 
bodice. Sizes 38, 40, 
42, 44 and 4G in. 
bust. Any size re¬ 
quires 3 yds. 36-in. 
material. 20 cents. 
mono sleeves with 
seams on shoulders, 
and with or without 
scarf collar. Sizes 
1, 2, 4 and 6 years. 
Size 4 years requires 
1 Vi yds. 54-in, ma¬ 
terial, with iy. yds. 
36-in. lining." 20 
cents. 
2000. Ladies’ tunic 
dress; slip-on blouse 
with or without col¬ 
lar, long fitted or 
bell sleeves, and 
bodice skirt with or 
without tier. Sizes 
34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 
in. bust. Size 38 re¬ 
quires 3% yds. 54- 
in. material. 20 
cents. 
d e r s, with round 
neck, or high neck 
with collar. Sizes 
6, 8, 10 and 12 
years. Size 10 years 
requires 2% yds. 36- 
in. material. Collar 
and sash require % 
yd. of 36-in. mate¬ 
rial. 20 cents. 
Letters of an Indiana Farmer 
Christmas is past, since we do not cele¬ 
brate Twelfth Night, the “Old Christmas” 
of our English ancestors (unless they 
happened to be Quakers, in which case 
they probably didn’t celebrate anything). 
New Year is past, with its resolutions, 
perhaps not put into definite words. We 
are to have a novelty in responses at the 
January meeting of one of the clubs : “My 
Last Year’s Resolution.” The president 
said, when we planned the program, that 
she resolved last year to make one Christ¬ 
mas present every month; it was then 
October, and not one had she done! 
Lula had something, in December, better 
than gifts. It has been nearly a year 
since the last pitiful letter of distress 
and ingratitude, from her father in Si¬ 
beria, and there was little she could do 
before hearing again, as the address was 
temporary. Besides, small sums of money 
she has tried to send never reached her 
people. She had about given him up for 
dead; the rest of us had suggested it to 
each other long before she voiced the fear. 
Then at last came the Siberian letter, and 
a group picture, taken especially for Lula, 
Times are still very hard with her people, 
but at least there was work, food, cloth¬ 
ing. Lula pounced eagerly on details, un-' 
important to us, but significant to her; a 
ring, a watch chain—these meant that 
extremity was not too close. She has 
started the machinery in motion again to 
able day to go coat-hunting in the small 
city 15 miles away. But rain, snow, 
cold wave, and a cold have all interfered. 
No place looks so good to me as the im¬ 
mediate vicinity of my old fireplace. The 
basket grate is fine! No more waiting, 
half-asleep, for a stick to burn down to 
just the right state for banking; no more 
shoveling away ashes in the icy morning, 
breathlessly wondering whether the fire 
has kept! A liugh himp of coal, all I 
can lift, put on at bedtime or before, 
presents a chilly appearance in the morn¬ 
ing, but underneath is a glowing heart, 
and making a big fire takes but a few 
minutes. Would that I could say the 
same of the kitchen range! 
Earl began work for me with the New 
Year, but I don’t expect to ask him to 
tend fires, unless, of course, I were really 
ill. There is nothing like an apartment, 
if a lone person must get sick! I tried 
that out tjvo years ago. My whole apart¬ 
ment could be set down bodily inside one 
of my rooms here, but I still regard it 
with affection, and often consider what 
features of such doll-housekeeping can be 
applied to a larger scale. Mine was not 
one of the newest ones, with everything 
built-in. They reduce the necessary mov¬ 
able furniture to a very few pieces. Drop- 
leaf tables, of course, are as old as the 
nation. Even the once-called settles, or 
laundry tables, whose whole top rolls 
back on pins to form the back of a 
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