1892 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
355 
Our  family  consisted  of  four  persons — my 
husband  and  myself  and  two  children,  a 
girl  and  a  boy.  We  kept  a  horse,  and 
some  chickens,  but  no  cow  or  pig  finding 
it  cheaper  to  buy  our  milk  and  pork  than 
to  keep  either  animal.  We  sold  young 
chickens  and  eggs,  and  we  bought  a  hog 
in  December,  and  cured  our  own  meat 
and  made  our  own  lard.  We  bought  a 
hind  quarter  of  beef,  and  cured  our  own 
dried  beef  for  summer  use. 
The  doctor  who  attended  the  family 
was  as  moderate  as  possible  in  his  charges, 
but  of  course  he  had  to  be  paid  and  me¬ 
dicines  had  to  be  bought.  My  husband 
must  have  nourishing  food,  and  as  he 
was  not  confined  to  his  bed,  but 
could  sit  in  his  easy  chair,  or  lie  on  the 
lounge  when  tired,  I  was  enabled  to  at¬ 
tend  to  my  school  duties,  our  girl  re¬ 
maining  home  to  wait  on  him,  and  keep 
him  company. 
Our  garden  was  dug,  planted  and 
tended  by  our  boy  and  myself:  it  afforded 
all  the  vegetables  we  needed.  We  hired 
a  neighbor  to  plow  and  plant  the  larger 
patch,  but  we  gathered  the  potatoes  our¬ 
selves. 
We  bought  our  coal  by  the  carload, 
thus  getting  gross  weight  and  bottom 
prices.  We  had  no  store  book,  no  bills  of 
any  kind,  but  worked  on  a  cash  basis. 
We  spent  no  money  foolishly;  lived  econ¬ 
omically  but  well,  not  stinting  ourselves 
in  well  prepared,  nourishing  food. 
Since  my  husband  recovered  his  health, 
we  have  bought  a  home  containing  12 
acres  of  land,  nearly  all  in  fruit.  We 
keep  a  cow,  pigs,  horse,  turkeys  and 
chickens,  and  I  have  nearly  paid  for  the 
place  with  money  received  from  teaching. 
Having  a  better  paying  school,  I  do  not 
have  to  stint  myself  so  much.  My  hus¬ 
band  will  never  be  as  strong  as  he  was 
before  he  was  sick,  but  can  do  all  the 
work  on  our  place,  which  keeps  us. 
Women  can  do  much  if  they  put  their 
shoulders  to  the  wheel  and  push.  nemo. 
The  Growing  of  the  Corn. 
Arranged  as  a  Public  Exercise  for  Intermediate 
Kindergarten. 
( Children ,  dressed  in  green ,  hidden  by  dark  covers, 
placed  in  rows  upon  the  floor.) 
“  How  the  farmer  tolled  and  panted 
Till  we  tiny  seeds  were  planted  1 
Down  within  the  ground  we  rest, 
Each  within  a  dark,  warm  nest; 
Here  we  sleep, — sleep,— sleep  !  ” 
( Lifting  cover  slightly.) 
“Now,  we  peep, — peep, — peep  !  ” 
“  Ah,  the  gentle  winds  are  blowing  ! 
Let  us  hurry  In  our  growing; 
Let  us  leave  our  hiding-place 
And  uncover  every  face  1  ” 
( Slowly  pushing  off  cover  and  lifting  green-capped 
heads.) 
“  Now,  we  feel  the  coaxing  rain, 
Needed  next  by  growing  grain.” 
( Rising  gradually,  till  kneeling.) 
“  Lathed,  and  green,  we're  getting  older, 
But  the  winds  and  rains  are  colder 
And  our  graceful  leaves  they  twist  ! 
If  such  cruel  foes  persist, 
Make  us  shiver  so,  and  shake,” 
( Swaying  heads,  twisting  arms  and  shivering.) 
“  All  our  slender  stems  will  break  !  ” 
( Bending  downward.) 
“  Golden  sunshine,  come  and  kiss  us  ! 
If  we  die  the  world  will  miss  us; 
Come,  then,  from  the  sky  so  blue, 
Help  us  lift  our  heads  to  you  !  ” 
( More  erect,  swaying  arms  happily.) 
“  To  receive  the  sunshine's  kiss, 
Makes  us  grow,  and  grow,  like  this  !  ” 
(Rising  to  feet,  slipping  hoods  from  light  hair.) 
“  Now,  our  leaves  are  green  and  glossy 
And  our  tasseled  heads  are  flossy! 
Still,  our  hearts  burn  with  desire 
To  be  growing,  reaching  higher  ! 
Strengthen  us,  O  golden  sun, 
Till  our  work  on  earth  Is  done  !  ” 
“  If  we  tell  you,  will  you  listen, 
Why  our  leaves  with  dew  oft  glisten  ? 
Why  we  left  our  cosy  beds, 
Why  the  sun  has  blest  our  heads  ? 
Ah,  the  harvest-time  will  show 
Why  we  little  plants  must  grow  !  ” 
(Accompany  last  two  stanzas  with  swaying  arms  and 
forms.) 
VIRGINIA  SHEFFEY  HALI.ER. 
When  Baby  was  sick,  we  gave  her  Castorta, 
When  she  was  a  Child,  she  cried  for  Castoria, 
When  she  became  Miss,  she  clung  to  Castoria, 
When  she  had  Children,  she  gave  them  Castoria 
Press  Censorship  in  the 
Home. 
S  it  not  admitted,  in  these  days  of  ad¬ 
vertising1  as  a  fine  art,  that  the  ad¬ 
vertisements  in  high-class  periodicals 
are  as  interesting  as  any  portion  of  the 
publication  in  which  they  may  appear  ? 
There  are  those  who  would  fain  have  us 
believe  that  they  find  in  these  more 
shrewd  study  of  human  nature  and  more 
humor  than  fiction  and  standard  humor¬ 
ous  literature  can  supply. 
This  shrewd  weighing  of  the  weak¬ 
nesses  of  human  nature  appears  clearly 
in  the  multitude  of  advertisments 
dressed  out  to  attract  the  attentive  in¬ 
terest  of  women.  That  an  undue  pro¬ 
portion  of  the  women  of  the  land  are 
almost  as  easily  worked  upon  as  chil¬ 
dren,  can  scarcely  be  gainsaid;  and  men 
who  make  the  writing  of  catchy  adver¬ 
tisements  a  business  do  not  hesitate  to 
assert  that  the  shrewdest  advertisers 
appeal  directly  to  women.  We  should 
hardly  see,  as  of  late,  a  prominent  city 
daily  offering  a  prize  to  the  woman  who 
should  write  the  advertisement  that 
would  best  attract  her  sex,  were  this  not 
the  acme  of  advertisers. 
A  great  danger  along  this  line  inheres 
in  the  mass  of  cheap  publications  which 
appeal  to  thase  whose  purse  is  scant,  and 
which  take  care  to  use  really  good  read¬ 
ing  matter,  but  are  conscienceless  as  to 
the  character  of  their  advertisements. 
But  most  dangerous  of  all  is  that  class 
of  papers  professing  to  be  published  in 
the  interest  of  the  home,  but  really  pub¬ 
lished  for  the  especial  purpose  of  adver¬ 
tising  Lome  disreputable  business,  using 
good  reading  matter,  and  warning  their 
readers  against  other  papers  and  schemes 
which  are  “  frauds.”  So  considerate  and 
angelic  a  countenance  can  these  put  on 
that  they  might  almost  deceive  the  arch 
deceiver  himself,  much  more  an  unsophis¬ 
ticated  woman  or  child.  One  of  this 
class  which  advertises  a  quack  “treat¬ 
ment,”  palpably  fraudulent  and  pre¬ 
sumably  immoral,  does  not  scruple  to 
warn  its  readers  as  noted  above,  daring 
even  to  include  in  its  strictures  a  promi¬ 
nent  and  reputable  periodical  devoted  to 
the  household ;  this  last  publication, 
moreover,  which  guarantees  its  advertise¬ 
ments. 
In  the  light  of  these  facts,  the  mother 
may  not  assume  that  a  publication  “  de¬ 
voted  to  the  interests  of  the  home  ”  or 
one  containing  a  high  class  of  reading 
matter,  is  therefore  safe,  and  to  be  ad¬ 
mitted  with  care-free  mind. 
Unless,  therefore,  the  periodical  home 
and  juvenile  literature  which  crosses  the 
home  threshold  be  scanned  with  an  argus 
eye  ;  unless  it  be  selected  with  a  special 
view  to  its  cleanliness,  worse  is  it  for  the 
children  of  the  home  than  if  they  had 
never  possessed  this  special  mental  pabu¬ 
lum.  It  is  not  enough  that  a  mother 
should  exercise  censorship  over  literature 
that  may  be  placed  in  the  hands  of  her 
children,  as  to  the  reading  columns  alone  ; 
she  must  be  equally,  aye,  more  than 
equally  open-eyed  and  critical  as  regards 
the  advertisements  which  appear  in  jux¬ 
taposition  thereto.  Are  they  not  address¬ 
ed  with  the  utmost  finesse  to  the  class  of 
readers  expected  to  be  drawn  to  the  pub¬ 
lication  ?  Are  they  not  made  attractive 
by  the  paid  skill  of  men  who  make  it 
their  life  business  to  concoct  attractive 
advertisements  ?  Does  not  the  advertiser 
expect  his  bait  to  catch  something  ?  Do 
they  not  offer  beautiful  things,  wonder¬ 
ful  things,  for  a  song,  almost  literally,  at 
times,  for  only  a  postal  card  ?  How  shall 
the  confiding  innocence,  the  ignorance, 
the  eager  curiosity  of  children  be  re¬ 
strained  from  answering  such  tempting 
offers  ?  Oh,  careless  mother  !  When  your 
own  appreciation  of  the  dangers  and  pit- 
falls,  and  of  your  own  responsibility  in 
the  matter  has  not  been  deep  enough  to 
shield  your  credulous  girls,  your  boys 
wide-awake  for  a  supposed  bargain,  from 
these  appeals  to  their  most  accessible 
points,  be  assured  that  your  children 
will  be  led  to  read  advertisements,  and 
that  if  these  are  not  of  such  a  class  as  you 
would  desire,  harm  will  surely  come  of 
them  to  your  best  treasures. 
A  reputable  periodical  of  the  day  has 
been  carrying  for  some  time  (much  to  the 
dissatisfaction  of  its  present  editor,  who 
is  unable  to  annul  the  contract)  an  adver¬ 
tisement  purporting  to  be  signed  by  an 
innocent  maiden  with  a  babyish  name, 
offering  to  send  her  own  beautiful  photo¬ 
graph,  and  those  of  a  number  of  her  young 
lady  friends  to  any  one  who  will  send  her 
25  cents.  Matrimonial  papers,  “  Secrets 
of  Love,”  and  scores  of  similar  things  are 
advertised  in  a  way  to  be  most  attractive 
to  youth  and  maidenhood.  Young  girls 
are  asked  to  correspond  “for  fun  or  mat¬ 
rimony  ;”  sometimes  the  glove  measure  is 
asked  for,  and  if  the  sharks  which  prey 
upon  the  unsophisticated  can  obtain  name 
and  address,  or  photograph  of  any  young 
girl,  it  may  be  dear  fun  for  her,  for  it 
may  lead  to  the  loss  of  money  and  repu¬ 
tation  if  not  to  serious  lowering  of  char¬ 
acter.  MYRA  Y.  NORYS. 
*  *  * 
The  “ One  Woman”  of  the  Recorder, 
who  has  an  uncontrollable  propensity 
toward  telling  what  she  thinks,  thinks 
this  about  little  troubles  :  “  ‘  Trouble,’ 
said  an  ancient  philosopher,  ‘  is  immer¬ 
sion  in  littlenesses.’  Littlenesses  are  on 
the  increase.  Some  people  gather  them, 
very  much  the  same  as  the  sun  absorbs 
water,  and  daily  they  paddle  and  splash 
through  them.  Women  have  more  troubles 
than  men,  or,  in  other  words,  they  recog¬ 
nize  them  and  wade,  while  men  have  a 
way  of  walking  on  the  waves  and  land¬ 
ing  dryshod.  Perhaps  you  are  a  dear 
little  woman  with  a  little  home  of  your 
own,  and  several  babies  and  a  thousand 
things  to  do.  Do  you  have  troubles  ?  A 
good  test  is  to  stop  reading  this  and  get 
the  hand-glass  and  examine  your  fore¬ 
head.  If  you  find  two  or  three  perpen¬ 
dicular  lines  in  your  brow,  just  above 
your  nose,  directly  between  your  eye¬ 
brows,  then  you  may  know  you  have 
troubles.  You  are  wading  knee-deep  in 
the  littlenesses  that  you  have  invited  to 
gather  into  a  pool  about  you.  Those 
lines  in  your  forehead  are  there  to  form 
a  stamp,  a  monogram  of  trouble.  You 
had  better  rid  your  face  of  them.  They 
are  as  unnecessary  as  they  are  ugly.” 
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"  — A  Steel  Windmill  and  Steel 
Tower  every  3  minutes. 
(LP  These  figures  tell  the 
story  of  the  ever-growing, 
ever -going,  everlasting 
Steel  Aermoter.  Where 
one  goes  others  follow, 
and  we  “Take  the  Country.”1 
Though  sold,  wo  were  unable  to  make  all  of 
the  20,049  Aermotors  in  ’91.  Orders  often 
waited  8  weeks  to  be  tilled,  but  now  we  have 
vastly  increased  our  plant  and  are  prepared 
promptly  to  plant  our  increase  iu  every 
habitable  portion  of  tho  globe. 
Arc  you  curious  to  know  how  tho  Aer- 
motor  Co.  i»»  the  4rh  year  of  its  exist¬ 
ence,  came  to  make  many  times  as 
many  windmills  as  all  other 
makers  combined?  How  wo 
came  to  originate  the  Steel  Wheel, 
tho  Steel  Fixed  Tower, tho  Steel  T5  H 
Tilting  Tower?  «<  zr 
1st.  We  commenced  in  a  field  in  ^  & 
which  there  had  been  no  improve •  <  w 
ment  for  25  years ,  and  in  which  <P  ^ 
there  seemed  no  talent  or  ambi  CJ  -« 
tion.and  none  has  yet  been  shown  3 
except  in  feeble  Imitation  p  o 
of  our  Inventions.  -t  g 
2d.  Before  commencing  the  -t 
manufacture, exhaustive  scion-  O  "xj 
title  investigation  and  experi-  3 
ments  were  made  by  a  skilled  q 
mechanical  engineer, in  which  £  c 
over  5,000  dynamometric  i  3 
tests  were  made  on  61  differ-  jy 
ent  forms  of  wheels,  propel-  ?  rf- 
led  by  artiflcinland  therefore  c  q 
uniform  wind,  which  settled  cn  ^ 
definitely  many  questions  CD  ^ 
relating  to  the  proper  speed  ^  jd 
of  wheel,  the  best  form,  angle,  curvature  and  amount  of  sail  5.  r* 
surface,  the  resistan . .  aTrto  rotation,  obstructions  in  the  £*  ® 
wheel,  such  as  heavy  wooden  arms,  obstructions  before  the  3 
wheel,  as  in  the  vaneless  mill,  and  many  other  more  ab-  ^ 
fltriwe,  though  not  less  important  questions.  These  CJ  ■§ 
Investigations  proved  that  the  power  of  Jjzj 
the  best  wind  wheels  could  be  doubled,  ^  3 
and  the  AERMOTOR  daily  demonstrates  < 
It  has  been  done. 
3d.  To  the  liberal  policy  of  the  Aormotor  Co.,  that  gnaran-  5 
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nish  the  best  article  at  loss  than  the  poorest  is  sold  for.  For  *+  ^ 
*92  we  furnish  the  most  perfect  bearings  ever  O 
putin  a  windmill,  and  have  made  an  exhaustive  re-  3  3 
vision  of  the  Aermotor  and  Towers. 
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