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later mixed with tomato, generously 
seasoned and baked. 
Having some choice bits of chicken, 
turkey, dressing and a little beefsteak, 
I tested the recipe for “ savory pyramids” 
given in a late number of The Rural. 
Knowing that a half pint of raw oysters 
is excellent to eke out the meat supply 
for croquettes, I added a few to my 
pyramid mixture, chopping them with 
the rest. The family pronounced the 
pyramids excellent, and I intend that 
they shall appear often on our tea-table 
during the winter. They are so much 
less trouble than croquettes, which are 
so delicious but such a fuss to cook. 
December 3. —The echo of that call for 
help from the girl who wrote from ‘ ‘ the 
dark side ” keeps ringing in my ears ; the 
need was so real and the sincerity so 
touching. I remember that when I wrote 
before, not “ settling’ the Melinda ques¬ 
tion,” but trying to see the ideal side of 
her home life and to sum up the com¬ 
pensations wherewith she might comfort 
herself for her restrictions, the other side 
of the picture was not absent from my 
mind, and I even let some of it creep into 
my diary, but afterwai’d erased it. Now 
that my Naugatuck friend has thrown in 
the shadows among my high lights, sup¬ 
pose we restate the argument and admit 
that blessed as it is to have a cheerful sun¬ 
beam of a daughter, it is no easy thing to be 
that sunbeam. Of course it is not, but 
often the very toughest kind of uphill 
work, as all of us born with the ordinary 
sort of restless, selfish, hungering human 
hearts know by experience. 
As for externals, there is beauty every¬ 
where. I can imagine the girl from the 
art school raving over the old farm¬ 
house ; the cheerful, long kitchen where 
father drops into the old cushioned 
rocker by the window to read the weekly 
news, while mother steps briskly about 
clattering the supper dishes ; the sleepy 
gray barn full of fragrant hay ; the spring 
under the willows, and all those charm¬ 
ing vistas of wooded hills, smiling val¬ 
leys, pasture, thicket, and mill pond to be 
seen in everchanging beauty from every 
window and doorway. Do not two white 
birches against a blue sky make a pic¬ 
ture ? Have not a few snow birds upon 
a tuft of dry weeds power to gladden the 
heart ? Is it not joy no city scene can 
match to merely shut one’s eyes and 
listen to the whir of the mowing ma¬ 
chine, the homely chorus from the poul¬ 
try yard, the blue bird singing on the 
clothes line and the calling of quails in 
the meadow ? 
Maybe it is as well to keep the parlor 
shut up if the kitchen is more attractive. 
Each of us has to decide for herself how 
the most and best is to be got out of 
life. Fresh flowers and all the general 
pleasantness that can be managed, are 
necessities to some of us, but if anything 
can be discovered that yields better re¬ 
turns, by all means let the energies be 
devoted to that. “ Making things pleas¬ 
ant ” is sometimes read making it pleas¬ 
anter for one's self. No reward is attached 
to that task. 
Suppose the mother and daughters of a 
household do show more refinement than 
the masculine half, are “above them,” as 
we say, who has more influence over 
men than the women they love? Who 
can better elevate and ennoble them than 
the women who are bound to them by 
every tie of love and duty? Heaven help 
the home where the wife and mother is 
the inferior! 
Rut getting away to do for one’s self 
may be the first step toward helping 
others. Some day the time may come 
for E. R. M. to leave that despised eoun- 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, 
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 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
try home. A short experience of city 
life is sure to convince her that the labor¬ 
ing classes there compare with her old 
neighbors at the farm not at all to the 
disparagement of the latter. The re¬ 
finements and elegances of life among 
the wealthier classes will not long blind 
her eyes to the real worth of the life and 
heart beneath. A man’s life consisteth 
not in the abundance of things which he 
hath, and we may all emulate the virtues 
of the rich. So, ever seeking the more 
worthy she will some day turn eyes bright 
with loving appreciation back upon that 
cheerful, kindly, unpretentious people 
among whom her youth was passed. 
There are some things almost impossible 
to be seen but from the vantage point 
of a little distance and experience. 
That girl in her fresh cambric under the 
maple tree waiting for some one to come 
may be unhappy and sigh that Love’s la¬ 
bor is lost, but suppose she exchange her 
blue spectacles for a microscope and put¬ 
ting that word love on the slide, separate 
it into its component parts. Ah well ! 
“we’re all poor critters ” an old neighbor 
used to sigh, and when we come to these 
Marie Rashkirtseff disclosures, who of us 
is ready to cast the first stone? It is 
wretched to feel vaguely unhappy and 
long for no one knows what; but if ever 
the day comes when we see ourselves 
in all our unloveliness and realize the 
depths to which we are all miserable 
sinners, the heart sinks into deeper woe; 
yet from such suffering grow the lovely 
flowers of gentleness, patience, long-suf- 
fering and peace. 
In the very restlessness of youth lies its 
promise. Walter Resant in “ All Sorts and 
Conditions of Men,” urges the primary 
necessity of awakening the lower strata 
of society to feelings of discontent. When 
they begin to long for better ways of 
life comes the chance to help them up¬ 
ward. The restlessness awakened, not 
created, by E. R. M.’s two years in a high 
school will yet bear other harvests than 
the present one of pain and dissatisfac¬ 
tion. Longing always for the best things, 
chastenings and discipline will gradually 
purify her desires till seeing things from 
a higher plane, 
Jt puts the cheap old joy In the scorned dust. 
Those in white robes are they who have 
come through tribulation. 
THE WORLD OF WOMEN. 
Japanese women are the best land¬ 
scape gardeners in their country and are 
to be employed in laying out the grounds 
of the WOman’s Department of the World’s 
Fair. 
“The Silent Seven” is the title of a 
popular lecture of Mrs. Merriweather, of 
Tennessee. The Silent Seven are the 
seven classes that have no voice in the 
government—children, idiots, lunatics, 
criminals, paupers, Indians not taxed, 
and women. 
More than three thousand women have 
signed a petition to the government of 
Greece asking for public schools of art 
and industry. They declare that if the 
progress of that country has not met the 
expectations of its rulers, the fact is due 
to the need of education for women. 
Very delicate and beautiful knitting 
work has been produced by the women 
of the Shetland Islands. A long shawl 
that weighed only two ounces and three- 
quarters was sold last year for $75. The 
finest wool is obtained by rueing—pull¬ 
ing out the fleece by the roots from the 
live sheep. At first thought this seems 
little less than barbarous, but meditation 
on the topic leads us to wonder whether 
it differs much except in degree from the 
plucking of feathers from live fowls. 
Mrs. Isabel A. Mallon is the real 
name of “Dab,” whose newspaper work 
is well known all over the continent. 
She started out by offering an article on 
fans, being in need of the money she 
hoped to get for it. She now conducts 
four different departments for a monthly 
magazine, and does a great deal of mis¬ 
cellaneous writing besides. Mrs. Mallon 
is a Raltimorean by birth, and was early 
married to an Englishman. 
In the report of the Maryland State 
convention of the W. C. T. U. is given a 
bright bit about Mrs. Leavitt. As we all 
know, Mrs. Mary Clement Leavitt is the 
W. C. T. U. round-the-world missionary. 
She spoke at Levering Hall on the same 
subject that Mrs. Rarney urges—that of 
having matrons at all police stations. 
Mrs. Leavitt has spent eight years trav¬ 
eling on the globe, and has organized 
unions in Japan, New ealand, the Sand¬ 
wich Islands and some parts of Africa. 
As she spoke of her experiences in Mad¬ 
agascar her listeners were thrilled with 
her words. She is fair and womanly- 
looking, wearing a dainty scarf of lace 
lightly on her. head, and one wonders at 
the endurance she must possess, to face 
everything she has done for temperance. 
Men forget to scoff or pity, and pause to 
admire such women. The heroism of it 
all appeals to their sense and they for¬ 
get to say “it is not women’s place or 
duty. ” 
The open-eyed “Spectator” of the Chris¬ 
tian Union tells how he met, walking 
through one of the ci’owded streets on 
the east side of New York City, a great, 
strong, athletic-looking man, apparently 
rough in body and soul, whose clothes 
gave evidence of close contact with 
Mother Earth in the effort to earn his 
daily bread. In spite of the almost 
brutal strength of the man, there was a 
maternal tenderness in the way in which 
he bent toward a little girl of about 12, 
evidently his daughter, who was walking 
beside him very slowly on crutches, one 
foot and ankle incased in an iron frame, 
and the other covered by a boot having a 
sole about four inches thick. The child’s 
face bore all the refinement that comes 
from chronic invalidism. She was dressed 
in a warm, new coat of heavy plaid cloth, 
a red sailor hat was on her head, her 
hands were covered by warm gloves; and 
the face, illumined with a look of trust 
and love, raised to the giant beside her, 
showed that the same hand that looked 
as though it would fell an opponent 
without mercy was for her a shield of 
protection against cold and hunger; that 
always for her it was full of tenderness 
and love. One really felt like removing 
his hat in the presence of such love, 
which seemed to light the dirt-bestrewn 
streets through which these two were 
passing. 
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