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THE following new pattern models
may be secured at a price of 10
cents each.
No. 2950: Youthful Sports
Model. Sizes 16, 18 years, 36,
38, 40, 42, 44 and .46-inches bust
measure. Size 36 requires 4 yards
of 40-inch material.
No. 3026: For the Outdoor Girl.
Sizes 16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40 and
42-inches bust measure. Size 36
requires l\i yards of 40-inch light
material with V>/% yards of 36inch
dark material with % yard
of 36-inch material for camisole.
No. 2804: Afternoon Dress.
Sizes 16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40 and
42-inches bust measure. Size 36
requires 2J^ yards of 36-inch
material with 1 yard of 40-inch
contrasting.
No. 3029: Particularly Wearable.
Sizes 16, 18 years, 36, 38,
40 and 42-inches bust measure
Size 36 requires 4V\ yards of 40inch
material with J-3 yard of
40-inch contrasting.
No. 3042: Tremendously Smart.
Sizes 16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40. 42
and 44-inches bust measure.
Size 36 requires 2 7 A yards of 40inch
material with % yard of 32inch
contrasting.
No. 2968: Suitable for Shut
Figures. Sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44,
46 and 48-inches bust measure.
Size 36 requires 3 yards of 40inch
material with % yard of 27inch
contrasting.
No. 2806: Long Waislcd Dress.
Sizes 16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40, 42
and 44-inches bust measure.
Size 36 requires 3>< yards of 36inch
material.
No. 3010: Delightfully Girlish.
Sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years.
Size 8 requires V/i yards of 36inch
material with % yard of 36inch
contrasting.
No. 2991: For Playtime. Sizes
2, 4, 6 and 8 years. The 4 year
size requires \V% yards of 40-inch
material with 1 yard of 36-inch
contrasting.
No. 3039: Swagger Spoi ls
Dress. Sizes 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18
and 20 years. Size 8 requires
1M yards of 36-inch material
with % yard of 40-inch material.
No. 2051: One-piece A pron.
Sizes small, medium and lsrge.
Medium size requires 2 yards of
36-inch material.
No. 2798: Child's Pantie Dress.
Sizes 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. Size 4 requires
3% yards 36-inch with \i
yard contrasting for trimming.
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It shows what the smartly dressed women
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will dress their hair, millinery, shoes and
beauty hints. It is a book that will
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Fashion Dept., THE FARMER'S WIFE,
St. Paul, Minn.
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1900 — — The Same Old Moon — — 1927
June Madness
"Whal is so rare as a day in June?
Then, if ever come perfect days."
And perfect nights, and an opal moon
What is so rare as a day in June?
Hut lest the verse maker should forget
A small imperfection of the month,
I think a line or two might well be set
Ancnt the sprightly June bugs I have met.
June days are gay days, that I will agree,
But when the shades of night come trembling
down,
I seek the solace of my porch to sec
The June moon cast its shadows oc'r the lea.
'Tis then that June (for me) drops its effect—
I feel a creepy coldness up my spine.
I leap, and rant and rave and cry "By Hcckl
"That poet never had a June Bug down his
neck!"
Helga, the Hired~Girl, aaya:
"Judging from the fiah we buy'fromthe
nah peddler, there'a a lot of truth in the
old aaying, 'There's better fiah in the «ea
than have ever been caught. 1 "
A Virginia darkey recently sent out the
following announcement to his customers:
"Notice: De copartnership heretofore resisting
between me and Mose Skinner is hereby
resolved. Dent what owe de firm will pay me, and
dem what de firm owes will settle with Mose."
There is a newspaper in Detroit, known as the
Detroit Free Press. But a certain Scotchman
evidently did not read it.
Sandy was on a visit to the Automobile City
and was spied by a friend wandering up and
down the street with a pair of trousers on his
arm. "What are you doing with the pants,
Sandy?" inquired a chance acquaintance.
"I'm looking for the Detroit Free Press,"
replied the Scot.
Aunt Bade on Farm Relief
"There's been a lot of talk in the papers
lately about some kind of a Bill for Farm Relief
in Congress, the McNary-Haugen Bill, or something
of the kind. What us farm folks need is
relief from automobiles and automobile drivers.
The farms is gettin' so full of 'em it's getting so
we don't even have nightmares any more on the
farm ,—we have tractor deliriums!
Every time Hiram starts plowing in the south
forty he has to up and run out of gasoline and
get out the Kord and go to Midburg for gas
and when he gets to Midburg he stops to gas
and don't get home until dark or after.
The automobiles have made it so easy (o
scoot around that nine-tenths of the fanners in
Beeswax County kin be located comin' and
goin' instead of on the place. It used to be
that neighbors was neighbors, but since the
factories starting grinding out flivvers the
nearest neighbor is always 30 miles away.
I never know when I ring the dinner bell
whether Hiram is somewhere on the farm or
over in the County Seat discuss-in' politics.
And if he ain't out somewhere in the flivver,
some city folks is buzzin' along the road makin'
hash out of my prize roosters, or climin' fences
to raid the orchard.
Yessir, I figure that automobiles is the real
farm relief issue But at that I wouldn't
t rade our ftivver off for half the land in Violet
Township."
A visitor being shown througth an
English insane asylum noticed one of the
inmates, an American, who was jabbering
senselessly and covering his cell with
diagrams.
"What a pathetic easel" he remarked.
"Yes," replied the superintendent.
"He tried to explain to some Englishman
what pancakes were,"
Two Irishmen went into the trenches for the
first time and their captain promised them a
dollar for every German they killed.
Pat lay down to rest and Tim watched for the
enemy.
"They're comin'! They're comin'!" yelled
Tim.
"Who's comin?" shouted Pat.
"The Germans," replied Tim.
"How many are there?"
"About fifty thousand."
"Begorra ," shouted Pat, jumping up and
grabbing his rifle, "our fortune is made."
A farmer was told by his doctor to count
sheep jumping over a fence in an effort to cure
insomnia.
The next day the farmer came back and said:
"It didn't work, doctor. I counted enough
to pay off the mortgage, and got so mad because
they were not real that I stayed awake all night."
^/able of (Contents for ^une
Fiction
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The Foster Fathers Loirell Onu Reese 345
Four Ducks on a Pond (Part VI).. Ruth Sairer 347
Books and Sails Mar j Meek At{cson 348
Features
Editorial 343
Home Talent Saves the Fair. . Betty Ectjumlt 349
Sally Sod's Success Grace Farrington Graji 350
Fun in Vacation Camps.... Mignon Quint) Lott 351
Flowers in the Home £. C. Volz 352
"How Do They Get That Way?"
Walter R. Ramsey, M. D. 354
Who Owns Your Children?... Mar/orie S/mler 362
General
That Little Girl of Mine Philip Kane 346
Privilege and Duty Dr. John W. Holland 355
PAGE
Letters From Our Farm Women 355
Shall Wc Go Back to the Kerosene Limp? 357
The Lone Girl Scout 358
Master Farm Homemaker Contest Arouses
Interest Bess M. Rome 359
Heigh-ho for Hikes Edna Bowling 360
Hoosier Girl Wins Contest 361
A Short Cut to Jelly Making. . Edith M. Barker 364
June Meals Lola G. Terljes 365
Suggestions for Summer 368
Smock It Or Shirr It For June 369
Patchwork and Quilting in Pillows
Leowre Dunnigdtt 370
A Finc Idea 371
On the Clothesline (Part V) Erie Cornej 372
Arc Your Children Healthy? .Walter R. Ramsej 373
Music in the Home Evangtline Person 374
Culling the Hens Clara M. Sutter 376
The Farm Woman's Poultry Business
Clara M. Sutter 377
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