1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
239 
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, 
on a visit, and I was especially desirous 
that he should look well, I spent an hour 
or more, I think, on one unlucky bosom. 
The more I ironed the worse it looked, 
and at last I was forced to give up and 
find relief in a torrent of tears. This 
may have been weakness, but my trou¬ 
ble was a real one, as many a young 
housekeeper will, no doubt, testify. 
Let us bring to the kitchen all the 
sunshine of our natures; let us open 
every avenue for the entrance of the 
blessed sunlight from Heaven by the in- 
fiuence of which we may hope to grow 
healthier and holier. s. e. k. 
LET US BROADEN OUR LIVES. 
OUSEKEEPING is not the “saving 
ordinance ” it was held to be a 
century ago. Women who take thought¬ 
ful views of life do not wish to, at last, 
stand before the judgment seat with 
empty hands because all their life had 
been spent only and entirely in cooking 
and cleaning. What one woman has 
been, another may be. We, whom God 
placed in the position of housemothers, 
cannot shirk duty but it is well to know 
what is duty. Shall we take for our 
life-model the dear grandmother who 
scoured, and cleaned, and cooked, and 
made patch-work quilts, and never had 
time to read and study, or even stop and 
examine the rosebush at her door or de¬ 
light herself in the glorious sunset or 
sunrise ? Or, shall we take as an object- 
lesson in home-making such a woman 
as Baroness Bunsen ? What a comfort 
she was to her husband. How her 11 
noble sons and daughters honored her ! 
What a force she was in literature, in 
politics and how beautiful and consistent 
her religious teaching and life 1 That 
she lived, and thought, and worked as 
she did, makes life easier, sweeter, more 
beautiful for you and for me to-day. Let 
each housemother take on some thought, 
some work outside her own home. Not 
to the neglect of the home. But let us see 
if we cannot cut off some needless bit of 
work here, or learn an easier method 
there, so that we may get time to think 
of something besides what we eat, drink 
or wear. mks. c. f. wilder, 
A CRUSADE OF WOMEN. 
HE World’s Woman’s Christian Tem¬ 
perance Union is planning to send 
a crusade around the world to visit both 
Christian and heathen monarchs, present¬ 
ing a copy of the largest petition ever 
gotten up. This petition is against the 
trafiie in alcohol, opium and vice, and 
will bear the signatures of 3,000,000 peo¬ 
ple. After its presentation the rulers 
will be requested to commence anew the 
fight against vice and intemperance in 
their kingdoms. 
Miss Prances E. Willard and Lady Henry 
Somerset, have been appointed as a depu¬ 
tation to convey the petition. They will 
be accompanied by 98 women, temper¬ 
ance workers in the United States and 
Europe; and by Dr. Lunn of London and 
Mr. William Pipe, who was secretary of 
the World’s Parliament of Religions. 
The crusade will commence at the an¬ 
nual convention of the W. C. T. U., to be 
held next October. They will first visit 
President Cleveland and then embark for 
England. There will be a great demon¬ 
stration at Exeter Hall in London, after 
which the Queen will be presented with 
the petition. Next they will visit the 
President of France, the ruler of Spain, 
King of Italy, Pope Leo and the King of 
Greece. Egypt will be visited and the 
petition presented to the Khedive. The 
Patriarch of Jerusalem, Rajah of India, 
King of Siam, ruler of Japan and Em¬ 
peror of China will complete the list of 
those visited in 1894. Others will be 
visited the following year. 
ODDS AND ENDS. 
An American Princess.—When Miss 
Ruth Cleveland goes out to play in the 
rear of the White House a procession of 
considerable size emerges from the door 
of the Executive Mansion, and the whole 
proceeding is marked with a great deal 
of formality. First comes the nurse w ith 
an armful of toys, then a policeman, 
then two dogs, then another nurse, hold¬ 
ing Miss Ruth by the hand, and then one 
of the White House guards. The proces¬ 
sion is always formed in the same way.— 
From “The Show at Washington.” 
Still Hard at Work.—Consider the work 
that Susan B. Anthony has planned 
for herself, and consider whether there 
are many to outdo “this plucky old 
lady.” No less a task than the securing 
of 1,000,000 signatures to a petition for 
woman’s suffrage to present to the con¬ 
stitutional convention of New York in 
May, and the following of her course 
through the GO counties of New York 
State, with a visit and speech in each of 
the 106 counties of Kansas, is what this 
woman of 74 summers promises to ac¬ 
complish. “When Susan B. Anthony 
says she is going to do a thing it is prac¬ 
tically done.” p. P. 
Growing Old Gracefully.—Have you 
noticed how many beautiful old ladies 
there are in this age ? A half century 
ago a woman at 50 was too old to be of 
much use in the busy work-a-day world. 
Not long ago I heard a woman of 80 take 
part in discussions on scientific topics. 
The sunset of life is growing really more 
beautiful than the sunrise. When a girl, 
I had an ideal old lady in mind and, in¬ 
sensibly, began to work toward that 
ide&l. Whether I reach it o“ not depends 
mostly upon myself, if life is spared. 
The secret of a charming old age is worth 
careful thought by every young man and 
woman. mbs. c. f. w. 
Simple Surroundings Are Best.—Some of 
us do not seem to have a fine sense of the 
fitness of things. The farmer has a right 
to the best; but are not plain, simple 
surroundings better than elegance where¬ 
by we make slaves of ourselves to keep 
everything in harmony ? Within view 
of my window is an elegant home which, 
only a few years ago, was the pride of its 
owner and the envy of some others. But 
failing health, inefficient help and con¬ 
sequent neglect have changed elegance 
to shabby gentility ; from which deliver 
me. No; whatever are our present means, 
let farmers’ homes he simple, pleasant 
and attractive, leaving elegance to those 
who have no higher aims in life than to 
become its votaries. It is not always the 
needful steps and cares which make the 
life of a farmer’s wife irksome. With all 
the farm work, she must strive to rival 
the elegance of city acquaintances, and 
so make a life which should be filled with 
simple happiness, only a burden, s. c. J. 
A Helping Hand Wanted.—After all the 
hints and helps our good writers and 
thinkers have given us in papers and 
magazines, there still remains the un¬ 
solved and seemingly unsolvable prob¬ 
lem—the hired help. It seems really 
unaccountable, when so many people 
are to be found who have no lucra¬ 
tive employment, that those who would 
gladly employ, at good wages, valu¬ 
able help, must be borne down con¬ 
tinually under a burden of overwork 
because no one can be found to lend a 
helping hand. How many housekeepers 
are struggling to do their own work, 
simply because no good help is to be 
had ? Mothers lament the situation 
most, because it robs them of nearly 
every opportunity to store their minds 
“with wisdom’s hidden lore” or to learn 
Mothers.— Be sure to use “ Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— A^. 
something of the living, thinking^world. 
When the wife can find no time to read 
and think with the husband, and the 
mother has no time to be both teacher 
and friend to the children, is not the 
household suffering a great, an irrepar¬ 
able loss ? s. E. n. 
BORROWED BITS OF WISDOM. 
.... Lucy Larcom : 
Only the anointed eye 
Sees In common thInKS, 
Gleams dropped dally from the sky, 
Ueayenly blossomluK*. 
To the heart where light has birth 
Nothing can be drear; 
Budding through the bloom of earth, 
Heaven Is always near. 
....Marcus Aurelius: “We hardly 
ever manage to get rid even of one fault, 
and do not set our hearts on daily im¬ 
provement.” 
... .The Australasian : “ We no longer 
regard it as the final cause of woman to 
serve man’s comfort or pleasure. She has 
a life of her own with its responsibili¬ 
ties and aspirations, which are of quite 
as much moment to her and the race as 
man’s can he to him.’' 
....Harper's Bazar: “Good temper 
should not be at a discount in domestic 
life. Nobody, from the heads of the 
household to the servants in the kitchen 
or the nursery brood, should be per¬ 
mitted to tyrannize over the others, and 
crossness is the worst form of tyranny.” 
... .Harper's Magazine : “ There is no 
sound sweeter to country ears than the 
cackle of the spring hen some morning 
when the south wind blows, and the 
snow banks are shrinking away, when the 
barn door is open, and the eaves are 
dripping, and the fieecy clouds prom¬ 
ise transition, both showers and fine 
weather.” 
.... Eva Lemert in Christian Standard: 
“ Perhaps you have seen the religious 
porcupine, but I trust you have not felt 
his quills. He is always watching for a 
chance to hit somebody, and he is no re¬ 
specter of persons. He is exceedingly 
careful to strain out every gnat of undue 
levity from religion, while he swallows 
whole, two-humped camels of fault-find¬ 
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