i89i 
ing necessary, secure broom and dust pan 
quietly and do not allow the need of their 
use to become very evident. 
Do not obtrude your services upon your 
hostess at all times, but be watchful and 
when you see something which will relieve 
her of care let that be your daily duty. A 
slight care taken from a busy housewife’s 
shoulders, in a way that shows that it will 
be done every day, is a greater relief than 
one can understand who has not been thus 
thoughtfully aided. 
Enter into the home life cordially and if 
anything seems strange to you, or any cus¬ 
tom is more or less ceremonious than your 
ideas approve, do not make comments 
upon it, but take it as a part of the change 
which is one of the charms of a visit. 
Keep yourself entertained by what is pass¬ 
ing around you, and when plans are made 
with your pleasure especially in view, enter 
into them and show your appreciation of 
the efforts made for you. Make little in¬ 
dependent excursions of your own, to give 
your hostess time for needed rest, and 
bring back bright scraps of anecdote to 
amuse those who are at home, but beware 
of how you bring in any “ specimens ” unless 
you are very sure that your hostess will 
enjoy them. 
See that all your clothing is in good re¬ 
pair when you leave home, and carry a 
supply of the necessities for mending 
should any mishap occur. Provide your¬ 
self with some light work, so that you may 
never appear at a loss as to what to do with 
your time. Impose no laundry work upon 
your hostess’s care. Some one can always 
be found who will do it out of the house, 
and save all annoyance on that score. 
Don’t make your visit too long. A guest 
who may give her friends great pleasure 
for a week or two, may become a great bore 
if the visit is prolonged to a month. And 
be sure to tell the length of time you can 
stay very soon after your arrival. Never 
make a visit until you have ascertained 
that your coming will not cause incon¬ 
venience. Be prompt in going at the stated 
time, unless some great obstacle stands in 
the way. 
Do not allow a week to pass after your 
departure without writing to acquaint 
your hostess with your safe arrival at your 
destination, and to convey your thanks for 
her courtesy and hospitality. Opinions 
differ in regard to gifts to servants in a 
house where one has visited, but it is never 
amiss to give a pretty ribbon or handker¬ 
chief, or, if one can afford it, a dress pat¬ 
tern, to a servant whose work has been in¬ 
creased by your presence. Add to all these 
a uniform cheerfulness and a disposition to 
make the best of your surroundings, and 
you will prove a model guest. 
SABA A. LITTLE. 
GUESTS AS THEY COME TO U3. 
I. 
The Thoughtless Guest. 
“ The children have been exposed to the 
scarlet fever, which is raging terribly here; 
it is so warm John thinks I had better 
take them out into the country, and I don’t 
know of a better place than yours. And 
then, the little dears will take so much 
comfort playing in the fields and tumbling 
about in the new-mown hay; and if they 
should be sick you would be just the one to 
take care of them; you have had so much 
sickness in your own family and so much 
experience in nursing children. If nothing 
happens, I shall come next Tuesday and, 
as John is busy with his team and cannot 
drive over, we would like to have Jeremiah 
meet us at the morning train. 
“P. S. I shall bring the hired girl along 
to help take care of my children.” 
This was a part of the letter I received 
from cousin Mary just in the midst of hay¬ 
ing when every spare bed and room in the 
house was occupied by the haying hands; 
when the dairy, the chickens and the gar¬ 
den needed the most attention of any time 
in the year; when I was so overburdened 
with work that I couldn’t sleep nights from 
weariness and from planning how to get 
Please mention The R. N.-Y. to our adver¬ 
tisers. 
Wneu Baby wag sick, we gave her Castorla, 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla, 
When she had Children, she gave them Castorla 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
551 
through the next day. And wasn’t Jere¬ 
miah just as busy with his team as John 
could possibly be with his? Didn’t he intend 
to commence mowing the 10 acre lot the 
very day they were coming ? And, more 
than all, what if her children should 
come down with that dreadful disease in 
our house and give it to our little ones ? 
Cousin Mary was a good-hearted soul, 
pleasant, sociable and nice to visit, but she 
was thoughtless to a fault and very sensi¬ 
tive, and Jeremiah said it would never do 
to tell her she couldn’t come. It was fate, 
and he spent a whole half day in going to 
town to get the new beds and some other 
things we must have for them, and we 
carried the furniture out of the parlor into 
the garret, and turned it into a sleeping 
room—that is, the pirlor was turned into a 
sleeping room for Mary and two of her 
children, and the garret into one for Jere¬ 
miah and me, where we sweltered through 
the warm nights while the hired girl and 
Mary’s two other children slept in our cool, 
comfortable bedroom down stairs. 
Jeremiah sa!dsome hard words to him¬ 
self through those nights, but he was 
gallant enough to keep quiet during the 
day. 
The day they arrived he spent the whole 
sunny forenoon in driving seven and a half 
miles to the depot for them. In the after¬ 
noon Mary sat in her room and read and 
rested; the hired girl fooled with the hired 
men, and I worked and sweated in the hot 
kitchen, and had the childre < and every¬ 
thing else to see to. When they finally went 
away the house was topsy-turvey ; the old 
china plate that was my grandmother’s 
and that I wouldn’t have parted with for 
any money, was broken all to bits; the 
photograph album that my mother gave me 
for a birthday present was ruined, and the 
pictures scratched and marred; the flowers 
in the front yard that I had snatched time 
from rest and sleep to plant and tend, were 
all pulled off, even to the bu is ; old blue- 
tail’s chickens that I had cooped up in the 
back yard and which I had counted on to 
buy a new dress, were half of them killed ; 
and, though the children didn’t have the 
scarlet fever so that I was not called on to 
nurse them through that, I was robbed of 
rest and strength, and the “ pursuit of 
happiness ” for a whole month. 
Besides, there was one thing that Cousin 
Mary did that was so cruelly thoughtless 
that it took me a long time to forgive her. 
Jeremiah had bought a new top buggy in 
the spring, but I had been so driven with 
work that I hadn’t had a single ride in it. 
One day. at the dinner table, he said that 
if he got his hay all up he would drive to 
town in the new buggy that evening. 
It did seem to me that I should die if I 
didn’t get out somewhere and get a breath 
of fresh air, and I said, “ Oh, Jeremiah, 
may I go along ? ” 
“ I s’poseso,” he answered, just as a man 
says such things ; and how I did work that 
hot afternoon to get things done so that I 
could go I 
Just as Jeremiah was hitching up Cousin 
Mary appeared, saying surprisedly, “ Why, 
where is Jeremiah going with the new 
buggy ?” 
“ He is going to drive to town,” I said. 
“ Why, what a nice chance that will be 
for the children and me to have a ride. 
Come, Johnnie, come, Willie, get your hats 
quick. Martha, you hurry and get the lit¬ 
tle girls ready while I put on my lace bon¬ 
net and new lace cape.” And into that 
buggy they all piled, and were off before I 
could clear the lumps out of my throat 
enough to say that I was going. 
GERALDINE GERMANE. 
COMMENT ON “ HOME MAKING IN 
DAKOTA.” 
I N The Rural of June 27, appears some 
account of home life as it confronted a 
young married couple in Dakota. She in¬ 
timates that what was necessary to them 
was a comfortable house, etc. What was in 
their possession, however, could not be 
bought or sold; namely, youth, the married 
relation and hopeful prospects for the fu¬ 
ture in life. These would not be found in 
the possession of the aged capitalist, no 
matter how much land or money he might 
possess. There might be, however, some 
chance for the capitalist to make an invest¬ 
ment and it appears that some assistance 
was supplied to these home-makers. 
A government department affording as¬ 
sistance and instruction to citizens in what¬ 
ever way most needed would be as useful as 
an organized body of men for protection in 
time of war or the army or navy depart¬ 
ments. The only security required should 
be ample reports and honest service from 
those to whom such aid was rendered. In¬ 
crease of population and the very great dif¬ 
ficulties which some classes meet, requiring 
more than ordinary skill and knowledge, 
fully demonstrate the utility of such a de- 
pirtmentin lieu of criminal punishment, 
after failure in life has led to crime, w. C. 
Ohio. 
To Boil Whole Wheat.— Sort it care¬ 
fully, placing a small quantity at a time 
on a white plate and removing everything 
except the plump, perfect kernels. Wash 
it in cold water. Use enough to one-third 
fill a round cake tin having a chimney. 
Fill the tin with boiling water, place in 
a hot oven, and cover it with a round 
pie tin. It will be necessary to add 
more boiling water from time to time; be 
sure to use none but boiling water. When 
this has boiled (in the oven) steadily fors'x 
or eight hours the kernels will be burst 
open, looking somewhat like pop-iorn. 
Sweet cream and sugar are the dressing 
when serving this dish. A good rich dress¬ 
ing can, however, be made by creaming 
together equal amounts of granulated 
sugar and butter, and then stirring in 
lightly the same quantity of red rasp¬ 
berries. MRS. L. H. NILES. 
A Unique Cradle.— One always likes to 
hear of the remarkable success achieved by 
settlers in a new country, when they at¬ 
tempt to supply their homes with the com¬ 
forts of older civilizations, and find their 
resources greatly restricted; but nothing 
from the plains of the far West could excel 
the cradle which woos repose for a small 
specimen of humanity in a cottage not 50 
miles from Rochester, N. Y. A soap box 
about eight inches deep has holes bored in 
the end boards near the top. A rope fs 
passed through each hole and fastened 
securely to beams in the roof of the porch. 
Baby’s bed is made in the box and he thor¬ 
oughly enjoys the swaying of this primi¬ 
tive cradle. S. a. l. 
The Successful Omelet is made from 
not more than four or five eggs, in a small 
cast-iron (not sheet-iron) pan, and covered 
while cooking. One tablespoonful of milk 
to each egg, is a good general rule, easily 
kept in one’s memory. When cooked 
through, and just before doubling, cheese, 
tender tops of cooked asparagus, creamed 
chicken, tomato or jelly may be spread 
over the top. These will give the omelet 
its name and distinctive flavor. Let those 
who always fry or boil eggs, try some of 
these, and see if the family do not appreci¬ 
ate the change. M. v. N. 
A stanch supporter of The R. N.-Y. and 
model housekeeper writes thus concerning 
a popular silver polish: 
“I have used Electro-silicon every week 
for the past three years upon my silver, 
and I have yet to discover that it has in¬ 
jured it to the slightest extent.” 
The Chief Cook is glad to ba able to con¬ 
firm this good opinion, and to add that the 
ease and rapidity with which silver may be 
cleaned by this agent make it an indispan- 
sable adjunct to the housewifely store of 
labor savers. 
In writing to advertisers please always 
mention The Rural. 
Colds and Coughs 
croup, 
sore throat, 
bronchitis, asthma, 
and hoarseness 
cured by 
/Iyer's Cherry Pectoral 
the safest 
and most effective 
emergency medicine. 
It should be in every 
family. * 
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co 
Lowell, Mass. 
To cure costiveness the medicine must be 
more than a purgative; it must contain 
tonic, alterative and cathartic properties. 
Tuft’s Pills 
possess these qualities, and speedily re¬ 
store to the bowels their natural peristaltic 
motion, so essential to regularity. 
_ '^ 0 / * .otu rctutn 
p.K-DCPfjvc^Cs. 
3 DEDERICK'S WORKS, ALBANY. NY. 
FMBfcTykHAYfHi&tS 
[steel presses?) 
It will not rot like 
wood picket fence and costs no more 
while practically everlasting. Of 
course “Hartman’s” Steel Picket Fence 
is referred to. It beautifies the Lawn 
without concealing it. 
We sell more Lawn Fencing than all 
other manufacturers combined, because it 
is the handsomest and BEST FENCE made, 
and CHEAPER THAN WOOD. 
Our “Steel Picket” Gates, Tree and 
Flower Guards, and Flexible Steel Wire 
Door Mats are unequaled. A 40 page Illus¬ 
trated catalogue of “ Hartman Special¬ 
ties ” mailed free. Mention this paper. 
HARTMAN M’F’G CO., 
WORKS: BEAVER FALLS, PA. 
BRANCHES—508 StatcStreet Chicago; 102Chambers 
Street, New York ; 18 South Forsythe Street, Atlanta. 
USE BOILING WATER OR MILK. 
EPPS’S 
GRATEFUL-COMFORTING. 
COCOA 
SOLD IN LABELLED H LB. TINS. 
D’ye see those 
skates ? The Pitts¬ 
burgh lamp is 
ahead. It gives 
magnificent light. 
It is easy to 
care for. 
It keeps itself clean—all 
but wiping. 
Send for a primer—can’t 
tell it all here. 
Pittsburgh, Pa. PITTSBURGH BRASS Co. 
ItoonJJfES 
The GrtatTIeauh Drink. 
Packago makou 6 gallons. 
Delicious, spariding, and 
appetizing. Sold by all 
dealers. FREE a beautiful 
Picture Book and cards 
Mot to ari 7 one addressing 
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Philadelphia, 
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