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RUB SOFTLY — FRUIT PIES. 



more tempting style. "Well, this is human nature, 

 and 1 do not quarrel with it ; we all require a little 

 humoring and coaxing to do what is right We are 

 a young country, Mrs. Editress, but we are growing 

 old too fast; we walk before we creep, and if we do 

 not take care, our little ones will get ricketty by be- 

 ing too soon suffered to run alone. 



Now, 1 wish to give the tentiments of our club, 

 which consists of a number of plain farmers, like 

 myself, who have marriageable sous and daughters 

 too, and we hope our opinions may have some weight. 



We think that plain, hard-working men require 

 plain, hard-working wives; not fine, fashionable young 

 ladies, who will despise their husbands because they 

 drive the plow or wield an axe, and labor for the 

 better support of their families. There is an old 

 proverb — " Can two work together in a yoke unless 

 both be agreed?" Certainly not Well, the way in 

 which people of our degree now-a-days bring up their 

 girls, will unfit them for the duties they will have to 

 perform as wives and mothers. In other words, they 

 will not make good yokc-fellowa 



A farmer's son should choose his partner from 

 among the farmers' daugliters ; — but in a few years 

 he will find rery few of this sort to mate with. A 

 girl that is educated only for show, will not do for 

 the sober, steady farmer's wife. If her time can be 

 spent in rattling the keys of the piano, dancing the 

 polka half the night with flashy young tradesmen 

 from the town, working pin-cushions and chair botr 

 toms, and flaunting about with bits of lace and silk 

 on the back o( ber liead, nick-named bonnets (why 

 don't they call them caps at once), and wearing gay 

 ribbons and flowers, and such like gauds; — such a 

 girl will hardly be contented to sit down quietly on a 

 farm and take her part aa an active, industrious wo- 

 man should do in her husband's house. She thinks 

 she is fitted to shine as a fine lady, and is discontented 

 and dull ; her temper becomes sour, she gets cross to 

 her servants and children, the husband goes off to 

 the tavern, the house is divided against itself, and 

 falls, — and great is the fall thereoE 



I want to see farmers' daughters brought up for 

 farmers' wives ; but by sending them to improper 

 teachers, you uneducate them for the station of life 

 which Gon destined them to fill. But I am writing 

 too long a letter, and must ask your pardon. An- 

 other time I will tell you how my wife and I got on 

 together when we married. By-the-by, I cannot now 

 remember the sort of bonnet my good woman wore 

 on her wedding day; but of one thing I am sure — 



that it covered her head and hid her blushes a lit 

 and that's more than any of our modern brides 

 say. Yours, very respectfully, 



Oak lIii.L, C. AV. Izaak Hufj 



[We are afraid our young ladies will hardly th: 

 this honest farmer for his tirade against board 

 schools and fashionable bonnets. Like many stu 

 reformers, he is for sweeping reformations. Fair ; 

 softly goes a great way, Mr. Hufk. We live in 

 age of progress; we must not rudely rend away 

 ornamental, or we may chance to leave only a r 

 and ragged garment behind. We must try and bl 

 the useful with the ornamental. The solid colu 

 is not the less stable for its capital being ador 

 with fluting and foliage. — We shall be happy to 

 the promised sketch of conjugal life — we are surr 

 will be truthful and practical. — Editress.] 



EUB SOFTLY. 



"'Tig all very wefl," said my grandfather putt- 

 in his oar, " 'Tis all very well that rubbing down 

 polishing off, provided it is done in moderation; 

 let me tell you there is such a thing as rubbing 

 hard. 



" I have seen an Indian rubbing two pieces 

 rough wood together; after a little time they bee . 

 a great deal smoother and had a pleasant warm 1 

 but when he rubbed away some time longer, ha: 

 and harder, they took fire, blazed up, and cracked 

 sputtered in all directions. Now it is just the s: 

 in man-led Ufe; rub quietly and only a little at ati 

 and aU will go on smoothly, but if you stick t 

 hard and fast from morning tiU night, take my w 

 for it, you will kindle up a blaze at last that 

 may not find easy to put out" 



[A good illustration — mark it well, all who 

 inclined to rub too hard and too long; learn in y 

 daily intercourse to rub softly. — Editress.] 



To Prevent the Jpioe in Fruit Pies Bon. 

 OVER. — Place an inverted cup in the pie, and w 

 the pie is removed from the oven the cup will 

 found nearly full of syrup. The reason why is t 

 When put into the dish the cup is full of cold 

 which expands by the heat in baking, driving out 

 the syrup and a portion of the air it contains, 

 which state it will remain till removed from the ot 

 when the air in the cup will condense and ocw 

 but a very small space, leaving the remainder to 

 filled with syrup. 



