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broke off a slender switch and brought 
it roughly down upon the innocent, 
shrinking, baby shoulders. I looked in 
amazement, tried to say something in 
defense of baby, then with another hope¬ 
less look into the angry, pitiless face, 
rode away, with a sob in my throat and 
pain in my .heart, down the quiet road 
among the wild flowers. The lingering 
wail of a child was watted to me fainter 
and fainter on the softly sighing evening 
breezes. grace Hamilton. 
HOUSEWORK MAY BE DIGRIHED. 
W OMAN is learning to make the 
best of the place she occupies. 
The clubs all over our country where 
domestic science holds a prominent place, 
show “ what we shall be” when the 
evolution of domestie science is perfected. 
The best way to grow strong and bright 
and useful, is to begin by doing the next 
duty the very best we know how. Easiest 
methods are not best methods always. 
“ Good enough” is always bad enough, 
for nothing is such an enemy of best as 
good. To be a mother is the grandest 
place that is open to woman. To do 
one’s own work in the “ artistic” way it 
is done in many homes, is not looked 
upon as beneath the dignity of the 
grandest lady in the land by all really 
sensible people. All my life I have been 
obliged to have servants aud nurse girls 
until now. For three years I have done 
my own work with the exception of what 
I have to send out and the day’s work 
hired as I need. 
In all my li^e I have never been afraid 
to say, “I can’t afford.” Half the sting 
of poverty is gone when one is not afraid 
of it. My life is rich and full and beau¬ 
tiful. My heart runs over with joy 'and 
rejoicing. Every day I find some one less 
fortunate than myself and try to make 
life for another pleasanter and easier 
because we came alongside. We ought 
to be glad of the fact that it is all made 
BO easy and beautiful for woman to do 
what her hands find to do; that the 
time has come when, by those whose re¬ 
gard is worth having, woman is honored 
for what she is and what she does, and 
not for being a nonentity or being an idler 
in the great vineyard of the world. And 
each woman ought all the more diligently 
to strive to become all she is capable of 
being because of this fact, and be¬ 
cause every time she succeeds she helps to 
make life sweeter, easier and happiei for 
other women who are doing their best. 
MBS. C. F. WILDER. 
THE BREVITY OF LIFE. 
A cross the way stands a deserted 
house. Amid the wild roses and 
rank weeds it is fast going to decay. One 
day I went over and, pushing open the 
unbarred door, stood within the quaint 
old structure. As I glanced around, a 
throng of tender memories crowded 
through my mind. Many pieces of fur¬ 
niture still remained, and each seemed 
to tell a story of its own. There were 
arm-chairs long since vacant, tables 
around which a large family were accus¬ 
tomed to gather, dishes quaint and pic¬ 
turesque enough to delight even the 
most fastidious relic hunter ; pictures 
which, through dust and cobwebs, told 
of the life of other days; one, “From 
Shore to Shore,” speaking eloquently of 
life’s stages. 
I ascended the staircase, worn by the 
pressure of many feet, and in the large, 
well-lighted square chamber sat down 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Caston'a, 
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, 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
in an old armchair and looked about me. 
There stood the spinning wheel, speak¬ 
ing with mute eloquence of the industry 
of other days; books, read by those whose 
eyes have long ago grown dim in death, 
and chests which held the treasures of 
long ago. Aa I thought of the deserted 
hearthstone, I was impressed with one 
thought—how swiftly time passes. Soon, 
very soon, life with its joys and its sor¬ 
rows, will be over for us. How import¬ 
ant that we live worthy, contented lives, 
lives which make the world better. 
I passed out into the bright June sun¬ 
shine, and wended my way homeward 
through fields agleam with golden but¬ 
tercups and fragrant with red clover, 
through which the half-ripe wild straw¬ 
berries glistened in the dew. I passed 
under trees jubilant with bird-song ; lis¬ 
tened to the hum of the bees; and fancied 
that flower, bird and insect each had but 
one voice and that said, “ God made us.” 
We think and plan, and build, but, as 
the shadows lengthen, let ns not forget 
that this is not our home. We belong to 
“The Beyond.” ella f. flanders. 
ODDS AND ENDS. 
namental ” woman who probably under¬ 
stands all about embroidery, but for the 
forehanded, thrifty housekeeper who 
needs to make things go as far as possi¬ 
ble, and indulges in embroidery only 
when it combines the useful and orna¬ 
mental. Of course, one must consider 
the position of the damaged portion of 
the cover, and if it be at one side, put a 
design corresponding on the opposite 
side and thus make a regular arrange¬ 
ment. 
BORROWED BITS OF WISDOM. 
Don't complain about 70 U neighbor. 
For In your neighbor’s view 
His neighbor Is not faultless— 
That neighbor being yon. 
—Credit Lost. 
-Sequr : ‘ ‘ Self-respect governs moral¬ 
ity ; respect for others governs our be¬ 
havior. ” 
... .Anonymous : “ It is the fate of many 
to be unjust to none so much as to them¬ 
selves.” 
... .Martin Luther : “ If I were going 
to make love again, I would carve an 
obedient woman out of marble in despair 
of finding one in any other way.” 
Recipe for Sherbet. —A Turkish bever¬ 
age that is very popular among the 
j uveniles of the British Isles, is made as 
follows: One ounce of tartaric acid, six 
ounces powdered sugar, one dram es¬ 
sence of lemon. Mix thoroughly and 
dry in the sun 10 hours. When dry, mix 
with one-half ounce of bi-carbonate of 
soda ; this will give 24 drinks at a cost 
of about 16 cents. One teaspoonful to a 
tumbler of water makes an agreeable 
effervescent drink. 
Notions for Dressmaking.—A collection 
of all the different makes of hooks and 
eyes, dress stays, skirt bindings and 
other notions used in dressmaking would 
be interesting in many ways, although 
such a collection would be tiresome from 
its size if it contained every variety. Of 
hooks and eyes there seems to be no end 
of styles, and fortunes have been made 
from several of the better devices. In 
many cases men are the originators of 
these trifles pertaining to woman’s dress. 
The multitude of these patented articles 
one sees for sale at the notion counters 
seems to indicate that dress reform is 
finding expression at least in the small 
things that go to make up a woman’s 
dress. The latest thing worthy of note 
is a waterproof skirt binding made of 
Panlasote, an imitation leather. It is 
light weight, pliable, and comes in dif¬ 
ferent colors and widths. However 
much a woman may dislike the extreme 
ideas of dress reformers, a rainy day 
makes it evident that something is sadly 
wanting in the ordinary costume. A 
skirt soaking up the mad and water 
fiom the streets, and soiling one’s shoes 
also, is a discomfort hard to endure, and 
the use of this waterproof binding will 
silence many a feminine threat and de¬ 
lay the revolt from petticoats. 
Mending a Table Cover.—A table cover 
or piano cover that has been disfigured 
by stains or holes, need not be thrown 
aside if one has some taste, ingenuity 
and time to give to its repairing. The 
plan is to cover the offending spots or 
holes with some design of flowers. Choose 
some pattern that can be appliqu^d, and 
arrange the flowers and leaves so that 
they will hide the spots on the cover and 
yet preserve the graceful arrangement 
of the design. If the cover be handsome, 
the material for making the leaves and 
petals of the flowers should be something 
in keeping, velvet or silk. One’s skill at 
embroidering may determine the finish¬ 
ing of the work. The edges of the leaves 
and flowers should be sewed to the cover 
with buttonhole stitch, and leaves should 
have veins worked in outline stitch; chain 
stitch will do if outline stitch seem diffi¬ 
cult. This suggestion is not for the “or- 
Mothers.—Be sure to rise “ Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adm. 
....The Housekeeper: “That person 
has most inflaence over a child who is 
most in sympathy with it. Sympathy 
makes children easy, graceful and above 
all, trutliful.” 
-New York Press: “Good form, in 
its last analysis, is common sense. True 
courtesy is the blossom of kindly thought¬ 
fulness. A gentleman is always at home. 
Others forgive his breaches of local 
etiquette because he supplies them with 
an etiquette of his own.” 
... .Pres. Eliot of Harvard : “No man 
can earn his way through college who 
has not unusual physical toughness, as 
well as unusual mental ability ; for the 
process is very exhausting. To be able 
to pay for the education of their children 
is one of the highest privileges of par¬ 
ents, and to receive that gift, and use it 
well, is oneiof the most precious priv¬ 
ileges of children.” 
.... W. D. Howells : “ When a true civil¬ 
ization shall have come, men and women 
will be politically equal. I look upon 
woman suffrage as one of the great possi¬ 
bilities of the future. Women, as a rule, 
are much freer than men, and have 
greater opportunities ; those women who 
have homes—who are fortunately placed 
—ought to be at the top of civilization, 
and they ought to feel it their duty to be 
there.” 
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Leather 
as good as new— 
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25 c. worth is a fair trial—and your 
money back if you want it—a swob 
with each can. 
For pamphlet, free, “How to Take 
Care or Leather,” send to 
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Beecham’s pills are for 
biliousness, bilious headache, 
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Book free; pills 25c. At 
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EveryLady’s Dress 
Should be bouud with 
Pantasote Skirt Binding. 
This 18 lUht, durable and waterproof, thouKb It 
contains no rubber. Sold by Ileara, Simpson, Craw¬ 
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White, Koston, Mass ; John Wanamaker, I’b ladel- 
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Factory: Passaic, N. j. 
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