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The trouble with the first three guests 
mentioned may be attributed to pure heed¬ 
lessness or a wanton disregard of the rights 
of a hostess. But the gossipy guest de¬ 
scribed in her last article is simply the in¬ 
carnation of a vice that develops from, 
want of healthy employment. Through 
haying no particular business of her own 
to mind, she has reached a state where she 
hasn’t mind enough left to mind the busi¬ 
ness if she had it. Few neighborhoods are 
free from her pestiferous presence, and I 
am sorry to say that few neighborhoods 
lack persons, both male and female, to en¬ 
courage her in her nefarious business by 
their interested listening. Gossiping would 
die a natural death were it not encouraged. 
Such guests should be fired instanter. 
A FELLOW VICTIM. 
• * * 
Guests as They Come to Us 
Is a just description, but should a sensible 
woman allow herself to be worried into 
churning on a hot afternoon? She should 
cultivate her sense of humor and be secretly 
pleased at the old lady's opinion, and let 
Jeremiah churn in the evening while she 
entertained the friends. Here is an exam¬ 
ple of good sense set by a lady where I had 
made an unexpected call just as the family 
were sitting down to supper. 
“Sarah,” said the husband, “haven’t 
you forgotten the bread ? ” 
“ You have had bread at every meal all 
summer, can’t you get along at one, with¬ 
out it ? ” was the smiling reply. 
Nothing more was said, and not until 
afterwards did I learn that there was none 
in the house. How much better than to 
have blushed, stammered, and been so evi¬ 
dently mortified as to spoil the whole call. 
C. E. C. 
WAYSIDE PICTURES. 
HE “School Marm” of our family, 
mu&t attend the institute held in the 
city, 28 miles away. The boys were busy 
with the harvesting. So here was a chance 
for me to turn my back on home and its 
cares, and take a much needed rest. We 
started in the early morning, with eyes 
wide open for the pictures by the wayside. 
Picture No. 1, was only a neighbor’s desert¬ 
ed hog lot; but, oh ! what a lovely flower 
garden Nature had turned it into ! The 
white blossoms of the Snow-on-the-Moun- 
tain were mingled with purple thimble 
weed, and golden tassel, in the greatest pro¬ 
fusion. The best artist could not produce 
a finer effect. 
Picture No. 2 is the Sweetwater winding 
in and out beneath the interlaced branches 
of its fringe of trees. How beautiful are 
the varying shades of green, as seen in 
those trees; how fresh and luxuriant the 
grass at their feet; how cool and restful it 
looks, and how gay the birds are. 
Picture No. 3 is the South Loup, with its 
bluffs. The river is broad, and so shallow 
that in many places it may be forded. But, 
beware; so treacherous are its sands, that 
where to day the water comes only to your 
horse’s knees, it may to-morrow be over 
his back. The bluffs are grotesque piles of 
sand, sparsely covered with grass, but gay 
with flowers. I think that nowhere else 
are there such lovely flowers as along the 
Loup—stately yuccas, snow white poppies, 
wild fox gloves and larkspurs, and multi¬ 
tudes of others of every shade and hue. 
But we have not time to tarry. 
Picture No 4 is the Wood River, a busy, 
babbling, little stream, with picturesque 
banks, friDged with trees. It looks insig¬ 
nificant enough, but its waters turn a mul¬ 
titude of busy wheels. We wonder if some 
day will be heard the hum of machinery 
all along these little streams. It is esti¬ 
mated that every mile of the Sweetwater 
will turn a mill. 
A few miles more, and at our feet lies the 
beautiful city of Kearney, with its broad, 
clean streets, its elegant residences, its mag¬ 
nificent public buildings and business 
blocks. It seems but a few days ago that 
this was a quiet little village. Now there 
are the hum, and rattle and roar of a great 
city. 
All along the road the fields have pre- 
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THE RURAL N 
sented lovely pictures of golden grain, 
mingled with the dark, glossy leaves of the 
corn. Everywhere has been the promise 
of plenty, offering a glorious contrast be¬ 
tween this month and the August of 1890. 
Was it a dream—the corn dropping to 
the ground, yellow and earless, for the lack 
of moisture; the grass brown and dry 
enough to burn; the fields of grain that 
were not worth the cutting ; the empty 
bins and cribs ; the hungry children and 
starving stock; the terrible cyclones and 
raging blizzards ? 
But I am spoiling my pictures, and for¬ 
getting that this was to be a rest day, 
wherein all care and trouble were to be laid 
aside ; and I have not time to tell you of 
the quiet, little private hotel, and how 
glad the good old couple were to see us ; 
(we have made it a stopping place for the 
last 10 years, whenever business or pleas¬ 
ure took us to the city) of the good night’s 
rest, or the trip home again the next day. 
The outing was a short one, but I feel all 
the better for having laid down the bur¬ 
den long enough to draw a long breath and 
drink a full draught of fresh air, sunshine 
and beauty. mrs j. L. goff. 
N ebraska.___ 
THREE MOTTOES : A LESSON LOST. 
N Harper’s Young People, Dr. Abram S. 
Isaccs tells the story of a man who pos¬ 
sessed such a lovely garden that it was 
his greatest pleasure to watch its growth, 
as leaf and flower and tree daily seemed to 
unfold to brighter bloom. One morning, 
as he was taking his usual stroll through 
the well-kept paths, he was surprised to 
find that many of the blossoms were picked 
to pieces. It was not long before he traced 
the mischief to a little bird, which he man¬ 
aged to capture and was about to kill, 
when it exclaimed : 
“ Please do not kill me. I am only a wee 
tiny bird. My flesh is too little to satisfy 
you. Set me free, and I shall teach you 
something that will be of much use to 
you.” 
“ I would like to put an end to you,” re¬ 
plied the man, “ for you are spoiling my 
garden ; but as I am always glad to learn 
something useful, I shall set you free.” 
And he opened his hand to give the bird 
more air. 
“ Attention ! ” cried the bird. “ Here are 
three mottoes which should guide you 
through life : Do not cry over spilt milk ; 
do not desire what is unattainable; do not 
believe what is impossible.” 
The man was satisfied with the advice 
and let the bird escape, but it had scarcely 
regained its liberty, when, from a high 
tree opposite, it exclaimed: 
“ What a silly man 1 The Idea of letting 
me escape! If you only knew what you 
have lost 1 ” 
“What have I lost?” the man asked, 
angrily. 
“ Why, if you had killed me, you would 
have found inside of me a huge pearl as 
large as a goose’s egg, and you would 
have been a wealthy man forever.” 
“ Dear little bird,” the man said, in his 
kindest tones, “ sweet little bird, I will not 
harm you. Come down to me, and I will 
treat you as if you were my own child, and 
give you fruit and flowers all day.” 
But the bird replied: “What a silly 
man, to forget so soon the advice I gave 
you 1 I told you not to cry over spilt milk, 
and here you are worrying over what has 
happened. I urged you not to desire the 
unattainable, and now you wish to capture 
me again. And, finally, I bade you not to 
believe what is impossible, and here you 
are imagining that I have a huge egg in¬ 
side of me, when a goose’s egg is larger 
than my whole body. You ought to learn 
your lessons better in the future,” added 
the bird, as it flew far away. 
A LOOK AT DISCONTENT. 
HE Interior has a thoughtful word 
concerning a widespread tendency 
of human nature—at least modern human 
nature. It says that If one should say that 
Mrs. Vanderbilt’s Newport ball must be a 
tiresome thing, it would be attributed to 
lack of appreciation of the beautiful, or to 
sour grapes. But then any one of them 
would tell you, speaking sincerely, that such 
things are very tiresome. Many electric 
lights, many flowers and diamonds and 
much money are dazzling for the first time 
they are seen, and like anything bright and 
new, they are interesting, but when the 
newness is gone that is the end of them as 
pleasures, and the beginning of them as 
burdens. They are tiresome because they 
are not natural, and meet no natural de¬ 
sire. There is pleasure there, no doubt, 
but if you will analyze it you will 
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find it to be of the same kind, and no 
higher in quality than that enjoyed 
in every social circle. The average of 
pleasure and of pain is the same in all 
conditions in life, the rich can not have 
more than the poor—and it may be doubted 
whether even solicitude for food and cloth¬ 
ing much changes the average. The one 
only disadvantage of the poor is that they 
are subject to oppression. But any man or 
woman can rise out of that condition by 
merit. Any one, however poor In purse, 
can become an indispensable, attain a value 
In character and usefulness where no one 
can afford to insult or oppress him. Thus 
we may make for ourselves a glorious sum¬ 
mer out of our “ winter of discontent,” if 
we will. 
Melons as Pickles or Preserves —To 
prepare cantaloupes for pickling or pre¬ 
serving, according to Alice Chittenden, In 
the Housewife, one must scrub and wash 
the outside thoroughly, cut in halves, 
scoop out the seeds and soft Inside, peel, 
cut in neat, even pieces and throw at once 
into a large pan of cold water. Drain in a 
colander; co k 20 minutes in a kettle con¬ 
taining a dessertspoonful of alum to every 
four quarts of boiling water. This will 
harden them. 
To every seven pounds of the fruit allow 
four of sugar and a pint of vinegar, two 
teaspoonfuls each of allspice and cinnamon, 
one of cloves, a few blades of mace and half 
an ounce of ginger root. Make a number 
of little bags of cheese cloth and distribute 
the spices evenly in them. Put the sugar 
and vinegar over the fire to boll and throw 
in the spice bags; when boiling add the 
fruit, bring again to the boiling point and 
pour into a stone jar. For nine consecu¬ 
tive days drain off the juice, bring to a 
boiling point and pour over the fruit. The 
last time boil down the syrup if there is 
too much to cover, and seal up the fruit. 
The cantaloupes or water-melon rind par 
boiled in alum water as above and then 
cooked in a syrup made with a pound of 
sugar and a cup of water to every pound of 
fruit, adding four sliced lemons and four 
ounces of green ginger root to seven pounds 
of fruit, makes a most delicious preserve. 
Boil until the melon looks clear and is ten¬ 
der, lift out on flat dishes and reduce the 
syrup by boiling until thick. 
A neat ironing trick may be learned 
from the Chinese. An exchange says that 
usually when a woman uses an iron she be¬ 
gins with it at the right heat for use, and 
consequently it soon cools, and she con¬ 
sumes much time In changing her irons. 
The Chinese, on the contrary, gets his iron 
very hot—much too hot for use. When he 
begins to use the iron he plunges it quickly 
into cold water. This cools the surface for 
a moment. The heat from the interior then 
begins to come to the surface, and continues 
to do so for some time, about as fast as it 
is cooled by use, so that the necessity for 
the frequent changing of irons Is obviated. 
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