1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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, 
SO, it would ruin my health.’ ” The lady 
in question knew by experience that it 
was deleterious to health, but it was one 
of the stepping stones toward success, 
and she now enjoys the reputation of 
being the best reporter in a large West¬ 
ern city. 
But not every girl is inclined toward 
literature. A friend once said to me : 
“I have often wondered why unemployed 
girls do not mend and darn as a business. 
I am acquainted with scores of mothers 
who would be willing to pay well to 
have this weekly task taken from them. 
The making of children’s clothing is also 
a specialty.” It is a well-known fact 
that dressmakers charge much more ac¬ 
cordingly for making children’s clothing 
than that of grown persons, and a young 
person of taste could easily earn good 
wages by making a specialty of this fea¬ 
ture of dressmaking. Yes, there are 
many avenues of work open to the un¬ 
trained girl if she prove herself persever¬ 
ing and steadfast, mbs. ella f. flandkbs. 
Chautauqua Co., N. Y. 
many a woman and child has to do with 
less for personal comfort. 
Evidently all this is as necessary to 
the modern hen and to her owner’s cash 
receipts, as his careful grooming and 
tempered baths are to the prize fighter. 
If the farmer is to secure any luxuries 
for himself, and make any show in the 
race for fortune, he must be scientific, 
keep no stock that does not reach per¬ 
fection of its kind, and a maximum per 
cent of productiveness. Better one dozen 
eggs at New Years, than three dozen in 
April, better 10 pounds of broilers in 
May than 20 in August. After seeing 
the ventures in poultry farming that 
have set sail in high feather only to run 
aground in mishap, one is forced to con¬ 
clude, that a hen, if kept in confinement, 
is pretty sure to contract disease, fall off 
in egg production, and give chicks lack¬ 
ing in vitality unless the most favorable 
conditions are secured for her. At any 
rate, she must have an amount of care 
and purveying to that compels her owner 
to force her up to the highest point of 
productiveness if he would not rue the 
day he ever thought to make happy in 
his humble domain, that luxurious crea¬ 
ture, the modern hen. 
PBUDENCE FBI MBOSE 
If you name Th* Bubal Nhw-Yorkbb to our 
advertlaers, you may be pretty sure of prompt 
replies and right treatment 
THb MODERN HEN. 
T he modern hen, she who lives in 
a many-windowed house with a 
netted front dooryard, is not the robust 
creature known to a more primitive age. 
She is doubtless more beautiful and 
better worth owning than was her great¬ 
grandmother who roosted all winter in 
a bare-boughed apple tree and could sus¬ 
tain life on the pickings of the barnyard 
and the fields. Our hen belongs to a 
more scientific age, when less is being 
left to chance, and all the affairs of life 
are being reduced to a business basis. 
One of the penalties of luxury has ever 
been that, once accustomed to it, few can 
thereafter do without it. All of us who 
have city relatives know how it is. 
Neither the babies nor their elders can 
visit the farm in winter without danger 
of contracting colds or neuralgia. Spend 
two months in a first-class city home 
yourself, and then return to the farm¬ 
house if you would know what drafts 
and cold floors, country toilet conven¬ 
iences and the untempered persecutions 
of wind and mud really are. 
Hens are not yet quite human, but we 
are being taught to treat them with more 
and more intelligent solicitude. When 
our attention is called to the matter, we 
do not wonder that fowls can better 
endure sleeping under an open shed than 
dwelling constantly in a closed house 
into which a tiny draft of air finds en¬ 
trance. Even the prize fighter knows 
his value nowadays, and sees to it that 
his body is kept up to a high state of 
physical perfection. The modern hen is 
not behind her day and generation; she 
knows her money value and her needs. 
She demands to be as carefully reared as 
the baby. It would be well to weigh her 
food and, possibly, to take her tempera¬ 
ture. She must not get wet feet, sleep in 
a draft, overeat, or partake of sour, fer¬ 
menting food ; and she must have exer¬ 
cise, pure air and pleasant quarters. She 
is not to be flurried, or worried, or 
spoken to harshly. Above all, she must 
have her bedroom cleaned daily, her 
floors swept at least twice a week, and 
her walls whitened cftener than are those 
of many a farm kitchen. She does not 
yet require a daily bath, and, unless at¬ 
tacked by vermin, she may be trusted to 
dust her own feathers. As for the variety 
of food she must have, the sanded floors, 
the dry baths, and chaff play grounds. 
Mothers. —Be sure to use “ Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
^hile Teething. It is the Best.— A^. 
AYER’S 
Hair Vigor 
Prevents \7\Cni n^/O/ 
BALDNESS 
REMOVES DANDRUFF 
AND 
Restores Color 
f’/GR 0 WTH\*\ 
AND 
\7^olo5/Q/ 
Faded and Gray 
HAIR 
THE 
Best Dressing 
No local dealer can compete with us 
WALLi 
Our “Guide Ilow to 
Paper and Economy 
Iq Home Decoration,” 
In variety or price, onr 
new dealKns and coloring* 
are handsomer this year 
than ever before. 
PAPER 
■ ■■HI I nhnm At wholesale Prices 
Ulf Al I HAHrK luo samples 
mW I kll Bent for 8c. postage. 
■■ TUOS. J. MYEK8, 1206 Market St., Phlla , Pa 
rOURNAMEON/ 
Full Outfit, 10 ettf. KINO ^ 
ANGORA 
Keeps 
Leather 
as good as new— 
Vacuum Leather Oil. 
25c. worth i.s a fiiir trial—and your 
money back if you want it—a swob 
with each can. 
For pamphlet, free, “TIowtoTakk 
Care of Leathick,” send to 
VACUU.M OIL CO., Rochester. N. V. 
Beecham’s pills arc for 
biliousness, bilious headache, 
dyspepsia, heartburn, torpid 
liver, dizziness, sick head¬ 
ache, bad taste in the mouth, 
coated tongue, loss of appe¬ 
tite, sallow skin, when caused 
by constipation; and consti¬ 
pation is the most frecpicnt 
cause of all of them. 
Book free; pills 25c. A' 
drugstores,or write B.F. Allei 
Co.,365 Canal St., New Yorlc 
t . SPRAY Y0U[\TKEKb 
} INCREASE YOUR PROFITS., 
i SPRAYING rUMI'S 
I Pamphlets Free on Application 
^RUM5tY&C0wo.5cnecn falls.NY 
LEGGETT’S (Patented) 
Paris-Green or Dry Powder Gun. 
INVALUAltLK IN THE 
Orchard, Vineyard, Garden or Potato Field. 
S POSITIVELY FPFF- 
Our New OBUAN and PIANO BOOK. 
Colored Portraits, SiKXJial Offers, and 
full Particulars of all our fatuous 
AND PIANjDS. 
Sold to anyone at wholesale price, for 
Cash or on Terms to Suit. 
Oranns 827.50. Pianos 8175.00. 
to-day for this VALUABLE BOOK.“<i A 
rnDMicu 9 rn washington.newjeriev. 
UUnlll^n pit LU. KstabllBhcd 27 Yoarg. 
Double Acting 
I Excelsior Spray- 
ing OuUits prevent 
Loaf Blight <fc Wormy 
Fruit. Insures a hoavy^|H 
yield of all Fruit and^^ 
Vegetable crops. Thous- j 
andainuso. Send Gets, for I 
t catalogue and full treatise 
J on spraying. Circular§free. 
\ WM.STAHL,QumcyM\ 
ODRAY PUMPS 
■ V V Our Onrflcid Knapsack, 
■ ■ ■^DuiibloEmpire, Perfection, and 
H V ■ P Ul.lttle <;icm leail till otjmrs. Tliebustis 
■ always cheapest, DCOT Brass working parts, 
^nd these are the DCO I ■ Automatic stirrers. 
Vermorel nozzles and heavy hose.Bememlier the Garfield is the 
only knapsack that is concaved to fit the back. Write for special 
price list and book of instruction. We can save you money. 
FIELU KOlU'E rUilP lilt UrUlul Avu.. LOCK POUT, N. t. 
THE PEPPIER SPRAYER 
RtaSPRftYERtn|l» 
ULOl ON EARTH I UII Vineyards. 
Will .Spray 30 ACRES of POTA'fOES a Day. 
„ SPI.ENDII) I.AVVN SPRINKLER. 
Ulustrated and Descriptive Catalogue Free. Also Biggs' 
Gang Plow and Higgs’ Improved Furrower. 
THOMAS PEPPIER, lliitlitHtowii. N. J. 
QJ'PTJ A Every Farmer 
^ JL and fruit grower 
should have one 
to GET BOUND 
T TV A FUDIT. special 
I I I m#l terms to Agents 
A Aw* A Catalogue for 2o. 
Distributes Paris-green, Flour Sulphur, London- 
purple, Hellebore, or any dry powder In any quan¬ 
tity desired on 
VINES, BUSHES, TREES, ETC. 
One acre of Potatoes can be covered per hour, using 
from one-half to one pound of Paris-green. It Is 
simple and durable. Price, complete, with 4 tubes, 
.5 nozzles, straps, etc., 87,00. Send for Circular. 
Headquarters on Paris-green, Hellebore and Whale 
Oil Soap. 
L.KGGETT ISc KKO., 301 Pearl St.. New York. 
A A^^AjL JL fruit grower 
should have one 
to GET BOUND 
T TV A FUUIT. special 
I I I m#l terms to Agents 
A Aw A A Catalogue for 2o. 
stamp. 
Colambiana Pnnnp Vo.,10 B. K. St., Columbiana,O 
m Vines, Trees and Plants 
f W.&B. DOUGLAS, 
' Middletown, Conn. 
Itranch Houses; 
85 & 87 John St., New York, 
107 Lake St., Chicago, 
Manufacture the largest 
P UMP S 
for Spraying and other 
purposes In the World. 
THE AQUAFULT. 
Sent Exp. c. O. 1 )., net $5. 
Knapsack Sirrayer. 
Sent Exp. c. o. u., net, 114. 
I Send for full circular. 
In Home Decoration,” ■ AM ■ ■ ■ 
mailed free with samplosB ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 
Beautiful Cold Paper, 5c. per Roll. 
We carry the largest stock In 
can save you 50 per cent, on every roll of paper you 
buy. Nomatter where you live. If J®® 
for wall paper.send lOc. to nearest address to PJJT 
postage on a largo package of 
good agent or paper hanger wanted In each town 
to sell from sample books, price *1.00. 
ALFRED PEATS, 
g0-«8 W. 18th SL, **’* 
New V«KK. CHICAGO. 
MY^^^WICC CANNOT SEE HOW YOU DO 
irC IT AND PAY FREIGHT. 
Bays our 3 drawer walnut or oak Im* 
TI rproved High Arm Slugersewlngmachina 
^11^ iC ln|S flnely tinUbed, nickel plated, adapted to litfhi 
and heavy work; guaranteed for 10 lenrs; with 
jSsSI Autumatle Bobbin Winder, Self'Thrending Cylin' 
Shuttle, Helf-Sctting Needle and a complete 
CA of Steel Attachment*; shipped any whereon 
7 * • BO Day’s Trial. No money required in advance. 
75 000now (nuse. World’s Fair Medal awarded machine and attach¬ 
ments. Buy from factory and save dealer’s and agent’s profits. 
tot This Out and send to-dav for machine or lar^e free 
I K b b catalogue, testimonials and Glimpses of the World’s Fair. 
OXFORD MFC. CO. 342 WaUsh Ave. CHICAGO,ILL, 
THEMARYJANEDISHWASHER 
Saves two-thirds the time, labor and 
trouble. No wetting the hands. No dis¬ 
agreeable work Pleases everybody. Only 
#3. Every family sbould have Alary 
.lane. Circulars free. Agents wanted. 
J K. Furiiiton & Co., Des Moines, la. 
BECKER WASHER. 
A Fair Trial will convince the most 
skeptical of its superiority over all 
other Washiiif? Machines. ThousancH 
in use. AGENT.S WANTED 
Circular.s h'ree. Made by 
N. C. BAUGHMAN, York. Pa 
Spraying Does Not Pay 
unless properly done. Send for a copy of Injurious insects and Fungi. Tells How and When to Spray 
and What to use. J. U. TIBlilTS, 213 Temple Street, Agtorla, Long; Island, N. Y. 
^ The Old Reliable 
' tSj&i P I a N O io' ^ 145'®® i 
We Challenge the World to Match It in Quality and in Price. x 
It is a full lU octave Piano, 50 inches high, 00 Inches long, has Triple W 
Veneered Case, Ilest Action, Ivoi-y Keys, Sweet Inill Tone and Elegant itose- A 
wood Finish. Ihit the $145.00 with your Mercliant or Banker and we will send W 
li K piano with Handsomely Embroidered Cover, Silk Plush Stool and Ijirgo M 
i IH Instruction Book, to bo paid for after fifteen days’ trial in your home. ^ 
It Is un easy and sure way to get u beautiful plitno. T 
other I*IANJO», 81.50 to 81000 ; OKtiAXS, 8^5 up. # 
■ We sell direct from factory and guarantee every instniincnt for SiO yeai-s. A 
Catalogue free to all who want to buy. ^ 
MARCHAL & SMITH PIANO CO. Established 1859. ^ 
235 EAST 21 ST STREET, NEW YORK. 0 
FREE! 
k 25 Lovely^ 1 elno, 1 knife. 
1.;^ Card*. \\ Fock.t Pen- 
ygff I, 
’ VAUD CO., KUUTIl lUYKil, CU.NM. 
Kittens, with beautiful long 
hair; very handsome. 85, 
boxed. B. K. JAMES & CO. 
Box 2065, Boston, Mass. 
■ Our large 24-page catalogue of Or- -t——;—= V 
I (fans, also our ne w and elegant cat- IH- i M I 
® in the world', froin wiilch we self P j | I 
direct to the consumer at whole- ■ 
sale prices, thus saving the profits :jY '’7' 1 I 
of the dealer and the commissions I 
of the agents. We furnish a first- ■ 
class Organ, war- ^ TUdtW u. —m 
ranted 20 years, O - ■ 
v^h stool ami ^ ^ ' I 
ment has been Uiorouglily tested in -^8, I 
your own house. Sold on instai- H 
nient.-i. K:isy payment. n 
We positively guarantee every 
Organ and Piano twenty years. - . 
Send for catalogue at once if you want to obtain the greatest bargain ever 
offered on earth. Write your name and address plainly, and we will send 
by mail same day letter is received. 
As an aiivertisement, we rNt m ^ OO Stool, Book and Cover 
will sell the first Piano of .. Free, 
ourmakeinaplaceforonly 1 L sj Begular price, *350.00. 
Beethoven Piano Organ Co., 
P.O.Box 626 Washington, N. J. 
