1892 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
9i 
question  of  Woman’s  Rights — we  only  in¬ 
sist  that  it  is  her  right  to  get  something 
of  beauty  and  sweetness  out  of  her  life. 
I  wish  every  girl  who  is  beginning  to 
feel  that  her  life  is  not  the  long,  happy 
holiday  she  had  planned,  could  read  a 
story  for  girls  by  Elizabeth  Wetherell — 
“  My  Desire.”  It  is  a  delightful  and  very 
helpful  book,  and  one  that  will  never 
grow  old. 
We  shall  make  mistakes  this  year,  no 
doubt,  just  as  we  did  in  the  years  that 
are  gone,  but  let  us  try  to  learn  a  little 
judicious  forgetting  of  the  mistakes  that 
are  past  and  unalterable,  and  never  give, 
up  trying  to  make  life  better,  brighter  and 
happier  in  the  now.  grace  Hamilton. 
My  Charmer. 
[The  following  verses,  written  by  a 
friend  of  The  It.  N.-Y.,  are  printed  at  the 
request  of  a  subscriber,  who  is  anxious 
that  those  of  our  girls  who  may  thought¬ 
lessly  indulge  in  the  unattractive  habit 
described  shall  see  themselves  as  others 
see  them. — Eds.] 
I  met  her  first  when  (lining  out, 
That  pretty,  winsome  maid; 
She  was  a  lovely,  blooming  flower 
Among  the  matrons  staid ; 
I  thought  her  beauty  quite  above 
The  ordinary  grade. 
She  had  a  bright  and  piquant  way, 
And  ready  was  her  wit; 
She  had  a  kind  and  loving  heart, 
Yes,  I  was  sure  of  it; 
I  fell  to  thinking,  “  Is  it  whole  ?  ” 
For  mine  was  badly  hit. 
I  met  her  next  upon  the  street; 
She  passed  me  with  a  smile; 
1  could  not  understand  what  made 
Her  work  her  jaws  the  while. 
Was  it  a  wager?  Did  she  thus 
Her  weariness  beguile  ? 
The  opera  had  drawn  a  crowd: 
The  chief  of  singers  sung; 
Again  1  saw  my  charmer  fair 
The  audience  among; 
And  lo!  her  jaws  were  working  fast, 
Much  faster  than  her  tongue. 
I  met  her  at  a  fancy  ball, 
And  still  that  tireless  jaw 
She  worked  as  if  she  had  to  fill 
The  mandates  of  a  law. 
A  person  more  Industrious 
I  think  I  never  saw. 
1  dropped  my  head  and  tried  to  think 
What  spell  the  maiden  bound. 
Could  springs  of  constant  motion  there, 
Within  her  mouth,  be  found  ? 
Was  she  not  weary  of  the  work, 
And  weary  of  its  sound  ? 
I  found  a  friend;  to  him  I  said, 
“Oh!  Johnnie,  with  me  come. 
What  is  it  spoils  that  pretty  girl  ?  ” 
He  shortly  answered,  “  Gum  !  ” 
And  as  one  dazed  I  heard  that  word 
Above  the  music’s  hum. 
“  Ah,  me  !  ah,  me  !  ”  I  softly  sighed, 
“  Her  beauty  surely  fades; 
Her  eyes  and  cheeks  are  not  so  bright, 
And  lusterless  her  braids; 
Cud-chewing  cows  I  might  adore, 
But  never  chewing  maids  ! 
“  Oh  !  maiden  of  the  restless  jaws, 
I  pray  you,  keep  them  still; 
I  beg  you,  do  not  work  your  mouth 
With  such  relentless  will. 
The  sight  has  cooled  my  ardor  quite, 
And  given  love  a  chill.”  s.  E.  h. 
A  Year  of  Farm  Meats. 
MONO  the  many  useful  suggestions 
during  the  past  year  in  The  R. 
N.-Y.,  one  I  prize  much  is  the  minute  di¬ 
rections  for  canned  corn.  I  canned  six 
cans  and  have  used  some.  It  was  nice 
and  good.  Where  I  failed  before  was  in 
not  screwing  on  the  top  tightly  enough 
when  I  first  put  the  cans  in  the  kettle  to 
boil. 
In  return,  I  will  tell  how  I  try  to  pre¬ 
serve  our  meat  so  as  to  have  plenty  be¬ 
sides  salt  pork,  about  eight  months  of 
the  year.  In  the  first  place,  I  want  a 
good  supply.  I  think  it  “  penny  wise 
and  pound  foolish  ”  to  sell  so  much  as  to 
make  one’s-self  short  in  the  fall  and  then 
be  out  of  meat  in  early  summer,  and 
have  to  support  the  meat  market.  Our 
butchering  time  is  usually  in  December, 
and  if  the  weather  does  not  stay  cold,  it 
is  quite  hard  work  to  take  care  of  the 
meat  so  that  none  will  be  wasted.  If 
one  will  take  the  trouble  the  meat  can 
be  made  to  last  a  long  time.  I  like  to 
have  all  of  the  lean  meat  taken  from  the 
pork,  so  there  are  nice  pieces  to  cut  from 
along  the  backbone.  While  sweet  and 
good,  cut  into  nice  slices  and  fry,  adding 
lard  while  frying,  season  as  for  immedi- 
Wheu  Baby  was  sick,  we  gave  her  Castorla, 
When  she  was  a  Child,  she  cried  for  Castorla, 
When  she  became  Miss,  she  clung  to  Castoria, 
When  she  had  Children,  she  gave  them  Castoria 
ate  use,  and  pack  down  in  one-gallon 
jars,  or  quart  bowls.  When  the  package 
is  full,  turn  a  small  plate  over  it,  set  a 
weight  upon  this  and  leave  until  the 
meat  is  quite  cold ;  then  remove  the 
plate  and  cover  the  meat  with  lard  or 
meat  drips  so  that  no  piece  shall  be  ex¬ 
posed  to  the  air.  It  will  keep  until 
wanted,  even  until  spring.  After  our 
sausage  is  made,  I  take  a  part  of  it,  fry 
and  pack  down  in  the  same  way  ;  it  will 
keep  good  all  summer.  I  have  found  it 
just  as  sweet  in  August  as  when  made. 
The  trouble  with  some  is  that  they  keep 
it  too  long  before  packing  it  down  :  for  if 
it  gets  stale  before  it  is  fried  it  will  be 
stale  when  taken  up  ;  but  if  fried  and 
packed  properly  when  sweet  it  will  be 
sweet  when  used,  if  kept  covered  with  lard. 
This  is  one  reason  why  I  prefer  small 
packages. 
Now  as  the  pigs  are  secured,  we  are 
ready  for  our  winter  supply  of  beef, 
which  will  be  in  January  or  February, 
and  if  we  have  steady  cold  weather  we 
can  keep  a  part  of  it  fresh  a  long  time;  the 
remainder  we  can  corn,  and  then  we  shall 
have  a  variety.  Then  with  our  ever- 
ready  chickens,  there  will  be  no  scarcity. 
Our  hams  and  shoulders  are  smoked,  and 
ready  for  use  in  March.  I  use  the  shoul¬ 
ders  first,  and,  some  time  in  April,  I  fry 
and  pack  down  a  part  of  the  hams  for  use 
in  July  and  August.  The  jars  I  used  for 
my  fresh  meats  are  now  empty  and  can 
be  filled  with  ham.  Part  of  the  hams  I 
keep  whole,  tied  in  paper  bags,  or  in  any 
place  where  flies  cannot  get  to  them. 
Then  with  our  nice,  sweet  pork  to  go 
with  baked  beans,  or  boil  with  a  boiled 
dinner,  with  the  addition  of  our  fish  and 
fresh  eggs,  we  are  prepared  to  live  the 
whole  year.  Of  course  we  have  in  its 
season  a  part  of  a  veal  and  perhaps  a 
sheep  or  lamb  once  in  a  while.  It  pays  in 
the  end  for  the  farmer  to  keep  plenty  of 
meat,  for  when  were  our  hired  men  not 
glad  to  get  some  of  our  pork  for  their 
pay  ?  At  10  cents  per  pound,  it  pays  good 
interest,  as  we  can  seldom  get  more  than 
five  cents  per  pound  in  the  fall.  N.  M.  h. 
Seed  Thoughts. 
A  wise  and  good  man  says  :  ‘  ‘  Don’t 
make  your  minds  sponges,  saturated  with 
the  putrid  waters  of  the  goose-pond  of 
gossip.  Hear  as  little  as  you  possibly 
can  to  the  prejudice  of  others ;  believe 
nothing  of  the  kind,  unless  you  are  forced 
to  believe  it  ;  never  circulate  or  approve 
of  those  who  circulate  loose  reports;  mod¬ 
erate,  as  far  as  you  can,  the  censure  of 
others ;  always  believe  that,  if  the  other 
side  were  heard,  a  very  different  account 
would  be  given  of  the  matter.” — Interior. 
A  man  or  woman  who  is  fondest  of 
picking  flaws  in  other  people,  is  so  be¬ 
cause  he  or  she  has  a  larger  than  usual 
proportion  of  them,  and  is  kept  busy  in 
this  way  in  trying  to  apologize  for  them. 
— W.  C.  Gray. 
What  shall  I  do  to  gain  eternal  life  ? 
Discharge  aright 
The  simple  dues  with  which  each  day  is  rife  ; 
Yea.  with  thy  might.  —Schiller. 
The  essence  of  true  nobility  is  neglect 
of  self.  Let  the  thought  of  self  pass  in, 
and  the  beauty  of  great  action  is  gone, 
like  the  bloom  from  a  soiled  flower. — 
Froude. 
A  pure  heart  at  the  end  of  life  and  a 
lowly  mission  well  accomplished  are  bet¬ 
ter  than  to  have  filled  a  great  place  on 
the  earth  and  have  a  stained  soul  and  a 
wrecked  destiny. — J.  R.  Miller. 
“No  form  of  vice,  not  worldliness,  not 
greed  of  gold,  not  drunkenness  itself, 
does  more  to  unchristianize  society  than 
evil  temper.  For  embittering  life,  for 
breaking  up  communities,  for  withering 
up  men  and  women,  for  taking  the  bloom 
off  childhood,  in  short,  for  sheer  gratui¬ 
tous  misery-producing  power,  this  in¬ 
fluence  stands  alone.” — Henry  Drum¬ 
mond. 
Never  suspecting  what  a  noble  creat¬ 
ure  he  was  meant  to  be,  he  never  saw 
what  a  poor  creature  he  was. — McDonald. 
Let  the  perfect  ideal  of  indissoluble 
marriage  be  once  definitely  rejected  by 
the  world  and  human  society  will  inevit¬ 
ably  fall  back  to  that  wallowing  in  the 
mire  from  which  the  church  rescued  it. 
And  in  whatever  degree  you  tamper  with 
this  ideal  and  derogate  from  its  strictness, 
in  that  degree  do  you  demoralize  woman. 
Yes,  and  man  too  ;  for  assuredly  he 
speedily  sinks  to  her  level. — W.  S.  Lilly. 
The  question  is  not,  ‘  ‘  Art  thou  in  the 
nobility,”  but,  “Is  there  nobility  in 
thee  ?” — Anon. 
True  politeness  consists  in  deftly  con¬ 
cealing  your  poverty  and  natural-born 
vulgarity  so  far  as  possible. — Rill  Nye. 
*  *  * 
Rag  Carpets. — I  have  been  making  a 
lot  of  rag  carpet — they  are  all  the  “  go” 
here  now — and,  besides,  I  had  not  the 
money  to  spare  to  buy  as  much  as  I  want¬ 
ed.  One  thing  I  resolved  I  would  not  do, 
and  that  was  to  color  a  lot  of  bright 
shades  that,  no  matter  how  pretty  and 
bright  they  were  at  first,  would  soon  fade 
out  to  the  same  dingy  hue  ;  consequently 
my  coloring  was  an  awful  job  ;  but  now 
I  am  not  afraid  the  sun  will  look  at  my 
handiwork,  for  if  he  does,  I  am  sure  it 
will  stand  the  test  without  fading.  Green, 
which  is  the  very  worst  color  to  fade  that 
I  know  of  if  colored  with  Diamond,  Per¬ 
fection  or  Handy  dyes,  I  first  colored  in 
copperas,  by  dipping  the  rags  first  in  a 
pretty  strong  solution  of  it,  and  then  in 
weak  lye,  letting  them  partly  dry  be¬ 
tween  each  bath.  The  result  was  a  some¬ 
what  dull-looking  greenish-yellow,  but 
when  it  was  put  in  blue  dye — the  regular 
old  indigo  blue — it  came  out  a  splendid, 
bright  and  even  green,  and,  better  than 
all,  it  is  warranted  fadeless. 
Butternut  bark  was  well  soaked  in  an 
old  kettle  out-of-doors  in  the  sun  for  a 
couple  of  weeks,  then  a  fire  was  built 
around  it  to  finish  the  steeping  process, 
and  a  little  copperas  added  to  set  the 
color  ;  this  gave  a  beautiful  brown. 
Sumac  bobs  and  bark,  used  in  the  same 
way,  gave  drab.  For  other  colors  I  could 
trust  the  prepared  dyes.  FLORENCE  H. 
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matoes,  very  smooth,  and  of  line  flavor  s  it  is  ex¬ 
tremely  early  and  entirely  free  from  rot;  the  leaves 
are  very  curly  and  of  a  very  dark  green,  almost  black, 
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A  very  handsome  variety  of  superior  quality,  firm 
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