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THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
this  did  not  prove  sufficient  to  cure  him,  < 
I  told  him  he  should  have  his  seat  there 
for  one  week,  coming  into  the  school 
room  only  to  recite  his  lessons.  His 
father  was  angry  and  sent  word  that  I 
must  not  keep  him  there.  He  next 
threatened  to  take  the  boy  out  of  school. 
I  paid  no  attention  to  these  messages, 
and  he  sent  word  that  he  would  see  the 
directors  about  it.  I  readily  consented, 
hut  he  did  not  take  the  trouble,  knowing 
himself  in  the  wrong.  I  kept  the  hoy  in 
his  little  room  the  remainder  of  the 
week,  and  had  no  further  trouble  with 
him.  In  this  case,  father  and  son  were 
both  conquered.  Had  I  wavered,  I 
might  as  well  have  resigned  my  position, 
for  I  could  no  longer  have  controlled  the 
school.  As  it  was,  the  influence  of  this 
example  was  sufficient  to  establish  my 
authority.  A.  e.  hole. 
Are  Girls’  Aspirations  Vain  ? 
EVER  since  Prudence  Primrose  wrote 
of  that  smile  that  hovered  around 
her  mouth  after  reading  ‘"The  Girls’ 
Side  of  One  Question,”  I  have  been  think¬ 
ing  and  observing  to  find  whether  her 
opinion  of  our  aspirations,  or  dreams,  as 
she  calls  them,  is  correct.  Believing 
the  average  girl  to  have  more  determin¬ 
ation  to  carry  out  her  aspirations  than 
she  gives  her  credit  for,  I  am  loth  to 
think  it  is.  I  am  inclined  to  believe  she 
has  looked  at  the  few  who  have  tried 
and  failed,  and  compared  all  the  rest 
with  them.  Mark  that  I  said  tided. 
Some  may  have  an  admiration  for  some 
profession  or  respect  for  some  business 
calling  that  calls  for  a  course  of  train¬ 
ing,  requiring  means,  health,  hard  work 
and  determination.  And  because  they 
are  known  to  have  that  admiration  and 
respect  and  do  not  follow  that  calling  or 
profession,  they  are  said  to  have  failed 
to  follow  their  desired  course,  when  they 
really  have  not  tried.  As  a  general 
thing,  if  a  person’s  desire  to  pursue  any 
calling  is  great  enough,  his  or  her  deter¬ 
mination  will  be  sufficient  to  overcome 
any  ordinary  obstacles  that  may  be  met. 
A  person  of  little  determination  will 
never  be  a  very  great  power  for  good 
wherever  placed ;  and  yet  such  a  per¬ 
son,  if  amiable,  may  brighten  many  lives. 
Prudence  thinks  that  if  all  girls  were 
to  leave  home  to  adopt  a  profession,  the 
mothers’  hearts  would  be  deprived  of 
much  of  their  brightness.  It  is  so.  I 
did  not  mean  that  it  would  be  best  for 
all  girls  to  do  so:  but  that  it  would  be 
better  for  many  of  them,  is  my  opinion. 
As  a  general  thing,  women  who  have 
pursued  any  profession  or  calling,  and 
have  afterwards  seen  fit  to  leave  it  and 
make  with  some  one  a  home,  on  account 
of  the  discipline  received  there,  and 
their  contact  with  more  people,  which 
enables  them  to  watch  the  influence  of 
certain  things  upon  different  people 
have  been  able,  I  think,  to  exert  more 
of  an  influence  for  good  in  their  home 
and  the  community  where  they  live. 
Prudence  talks  about  playing  croquet, 
etc.  I  would  like  to  ask  her  if  girls  in 
her  neighborhood  have  much  time  for 
such  recreations  ?  Really  it  seems  as  if 
the  summers  were  crowded  so  full  of 
work  for  farmers’  daughters,  that  they 
have  hardly  time  to  listen  to  the  birds’ 
sweet  songs  or  notice  Nature’s  changing 
garb.  And  she  speaks  so  confidently  of 
the  boys  playing  with  them !  What 
would  she  do  with  the  boys  who  have 
been  allowed  to  seek  their  associates 
among  the  “setters”  of  the  country 
store  and  bar-room,  for  whom  these 
healthful  home  recreations  have  no 
charm  ? 
I  was  saddened  to  read  the  words 
When  Baby  was  sick,  we  gave  her  Castorla, 
When  she  was  a  Child,  she  cried  for  Castoria, 
When  she  became  Miss,  she  clung  to  Castorla, 
When  she  had  Children,  she  gave  them  Castorla 
of  E.  M.  B.  on  A  Girls’  Look  at  the  Dark 
Side,  but  there  are  moments  when  I 
could  sympathize  with  her.  I  think  it 
must  have  been  in  just  such  a  discour¬ 
aged  moment  that  she  wrote  the  article  ; 
for,  surely,  living  amidst  Nature’s  won¬ 
derful  and  sometimes  beauteous  changes, 
there  would  be  times,  in  spite  of  rebuffs, 
and,  although  every  effort  to  make  home 
brighter  seemed  futile,  when  she  would 
be  happy.  I  read  in  The  R.  N.-Y.  some 
time  ago  that  if  a  person  had  as  thankful 
a  heart  as  he  or  she  should  have,  it  would 
be  a  .cheerful  one.  Sometimes  since, 
when  I  have  felt  discouraged,  I  have  tried 
to  look  at  the  many  blessings  I  have  to 
be  thankful  for,  and  have  found  it  a  help. 
Looking  at  woman  in  every  position  of 
life,  I  would  write  below  the  writer’s 
words : 
Peace  hath  greater  tests  of  manhood 
Than  battle  ever  knew. 
the  no  less  merited  ones : 
Home  hath  greater  tests  of  womanhood 
Than  many  ever  know.  MELINDA. 
Salads  from  real  Saladings. 
THE  French  and  English  make  a  great 
deal  of  “saladings,”  that  is,  green 
vegetables  especially  suited  to  making  sal¬ 
ads,  without  the  use  of  meats  or  other  ac¬ 
cessories.  From  the  World  we  cull  recipes 
for  two  or  three  such  salads. 
Watercress  Salad. — Clean  and  pare 
off  the  stalks  of  three  fresh  bunches  of 
watercresses.  Place  in  a  salad  bowl, 
season  with  half  a  pinch  of  salt,  just  a 
little  pepper  and  two  saladspoonfuls  of 
vinegar.  Mix  well  and  serve. 
Dandelion  Salad. — Procure  a  quart 
of  fresh,  white  dandelions.  Pare  the 
roots  and  stale  leaves,  then  wash  thor¬ 
oughly  in  two  different  waters;  drain 
nicely  on  a  cloth  and  place  in  a  salad 
bowl.  Dilute  a  pinch  of  salt  and  half  a 
pinch  of  pepper  in  a  saladspoonful  of 
vinegar,  adding  13^  spoonful  of  sweet 
oil.  Mix  thoroughly  together  and  serve. 
Lettuce  and  Tomato  Sai,ad. — Take  a 
white  head  of  lettuce,  remove  the  green 
leaves  and  the  core;  after  washing  cut 
the  leaves  in  two,  and  put  them  in  a 
bowl.  Use  two  firm,  peeled  red  tomatoes, 
cut  them  into  thin  slices  and  place  them 
over  the  lettuce.  For  the  dressing  use  a 
pinch  of  salt  and  half  a  pinch  of  pep¬ 
per.  Mix  with  a  saladspoonful  of  vine¬ 
gar  and  1)4  spoonful  of  oil.  Pour  over 
the  salad  and  serve. 
Salad  dressing  which  will  keep. — 
Yolks  of  four  eggs,  four  teaspoonfuls  of 
salt,  four  mustard-spoonfuls  of  yellow 
mustard,  a  small  cup  each  of  milk  and 
vinegar,  a  pinch  of  Cayenne  pepper,  a 
little  sugar,  one  tablespoonful  of  butter 
mixed  with  a  teaspoonful  of  flour  ;  mix 
all  together  and  stir  over  the  fire  until 
it  boils. 
A  Remarkable  Woman. 
THE  death,  in  St.  Francis  Hospital, 
Jersey  City,  on  June  1,  of  Midy 
Morgan,  brings  to  the  public  mind  the 
career  of  a  most  remarkable  woman  and 
one  of  the  best  known  in  the  newspaper 
world  of  New  York.  She  was  born  in 
Cork,  Ireland,  in  1828,  the  daughter  of 
a  country  squire.  Her  brother  was  in 
the  English  army,  and  when  the  father 
died,  Midy  for  several  years  managed 
the  £arm.  When  the  son  and  principal 
heir  came  home  and  took  possession, 
Midy,  with  her  mother  and  a  younger 
sister,  Jane,  the  latter  a  young  artist, 
went  to  Rome.  Midy  had  always  been  a 
fearless  rider  and  a  great  lover  of  horses 
and  cattle.  At  Rome  she  made  the  ac¬ 
quaintance  of  King  Victor  Emanuel 
of  Italy,  who  gave  her  a  commission  to 
go  to  England  and  Ireland  and  replenish 
his  stud.  She  executed  the  commission 
so  well  that  the  King  presented  her 
with  a  gold  watch  on  which  was  his 
monogram  in  diamonds  and  a  beautiful 
diamond  star.  For  several  years  after 
this,  she  was  engaged  in  zoological  mat¬ 
ters,  buying  and  selling  all  sorts  of  ani¬ 
mals  for  menageries  and  gardens. 
In  1869  she  came  to  New  York  and 
after  a  number  of  discouraging  circum¬ 
stances,  secured  the  situation  of  live  stock 
reporter  for  the  New  York  Times,  a 
position  which  she  held  to  the  day  of  her 
death.  At  first  she  was  looked  at  askance 
by  her  fellow  reporters,  who  rather  re¬ 
sented  the  advent  of  a  woman  in  their 
field,  but  her  trenchant  pen  and  her 
superior  knowledge  soon  forced  a  hearty 
recognition  of  her  comradeship  and  she 
soon  became  a  good  friend  of  all.  She 
disliked  to  see  cattle  abused  and  she 
forced  many  reforms  in  their  treatment 
in  the  yards. 
Miss  Morgan  was,  years  ago,  live  stock 
reporter  to  The  R.  N.-Y.  and  has  been 
an  occasional  contributor  to  its  col¬ 
umns,  as  well  as  to  those  of  the  New 
York  Tribune,  Turf,  Field  and  Farm, 
Hearth  and  Home,  Horseman,  Breeder’s 
Gazette  and  other  journals.  In  earlier 
days  here  she  traveled  quite  extensively. 
She  built  a  rather  remarkable  home  at 
Staten  Island,  near  Livingston  Station, 
at  which  her  sister  lived  and  where  Midy 
spent  a  part  of  her  time.  For  many 
years  she  lived  at  Metuchen,  N.  J. 
Miss  Morgan  was  a  woman  whose  ap¬ 
pearance  on  any  scene  was  sure  to  attract 
attention.  She  was  six  feet  in  height, 
angular  in  appearance,  but  with  a  kindly 
expression  on  her  deeply-wrinkled  face. 
With  a  blue  or  gray  gown  that  barely 
reached  her  ankles  and  a  pair  of  brogans 
on  her  well-grown  feet,  she  tramped  the 
stockyards,  nor  did  she  change  her  cos¬ 
tume  when  she  came  to  Park  Row,  where 
everybody  knew  her  and  respected  her. 
Two  Ways  to  Cook  Asparagus. 
DOUBTLESS  the  commonest  way  of 
using  this  delicious  vegetable  is  to 
tie  the  stalks  in  uniform  small  bundles, 
cook  them  in  slightly  salted  water  and 
serve  with  melted  butter  on  slips  of  toast. 
When  tired  of  this  style  cut  the  stalks 
very  fine,  rejecting  all  which  will  not 
snap  off  easily.  Cook  quickly  in  a  granite 
kettle,  drain  partially,  sprinkle  with  salt 
and  add  a  cupful  of  rich,  sweet  cream. 
Asparagus  prepared  in  this  way  is  deli¬ 
cate  in  flavor  and  is  relished  by  most 
persons. 
Asparagus  pudding  is  liked  by  many. 
To  make  it  cut  the  stalks  very  small. 
Mix  half  a  pint  of  the  cut  stalks  with 
four  well  beaten  eggs,  one  tablespoonful 
of  finely  minced  ham,  an  ounce  of  butter, 
two  tablespoonfuls  of  flour  and  milk 
enough  to  make  a  stiff  batter.  Pour  into 
a  buttered  pudding  mould  and  steam  for 
two  hours.  Serve  with  drawn  butter 
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with  two  ounces  of  butter  and  set  the 
dish  in  a  pan  of  boiling  water.  When 
soft  add  one  pint  of  hot  water,  boil  until 
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