1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
479 
little faces looking up from time to time 
to make sure it was true and mother had 
come 1 
That afternoon in the woods 1 The 
mother (putting aside for the time all 
household cares—even the possible worry 
of baby at the unaccustomed absence), 
was a very child with her children, know¬ 
ing just where to look for the flower 
beds of arbutus, and the tiny red ber¬ 
ries of the creeping vine hiding itself 
under the damp moss ; peeling for them 
great strips of fragrant birch, and gath¬ 
ering clusters of buds from the spice- 
wood tree, till the little ones were satis¬ 
fied and ready for the home going. In 
the early evening, mother sat again by 
the mending basket with foot on cradle 
rocker, listening now to little voices 
from the heads on the pillows. 
“ Wasn’t it so nice ? Just like a fairy 
story.” 
“ Yes,” with a contented sigh, “we 
wished and we got it.” 
Mother smiled over at the father. “ It 
takes so little to make them happy, John. 
I am glad” with a rueful look at her un¬ 
finished work “ I went.” There was a 
gleam of mischief in his eyes. “ Your 
first experiment of the kind since we 
were married, wasn’t it, dear ? ” 
“Yes. I don’t know;” hesitatingly, 
“there always seems to be something else 
to do.” 
“ And always will, little wife,” was 
the now grave reply. ‘ ‘ So take time for 
these little outings with the children. 
I like to see you,” he continued, “for I 
was by the south woods myself this after¬ 
noon mending fence, and, watching 
from a distance, it was hard to decide 
which of you three was the youngest or 
happiest.” emily h. steed man. 
CARE OF CHILDREN'S DIET. 
BELIEVE children should be allowed 
to eat at the table with parents and 
company except on occasions when there 
is not room for all. Then I usually give 
them a piece before dinner and do not 
let the little things starve while waiting 
for their elders to get away with the 
best of the dinner. I see no reason why 
they should be required to wait, or eat at 
a separate table. When we have com¬ 
pany visiting us for the day, as is usual 
in the country, I try to find room and 
crowd all the children in if possible. All 
are served at the same time and the par¬ 
ents can help to attend the children and 
give them what they like. We do not 
often cook separate dishes for the chil¬ 
dren or do we allow them to eat all they 
would of everything. Such things as 
green vegetables, pickles, cake and pie 
are not fit to be gorged down by any one, 
especially a child, yet we think a small 
allowance does not hurt them if they 
desire it. Our children usually prefer 
bread and milk for supper, and often 
for the other meals; bread butter and 
molasses are usually relished, and any 
kind of fresh, ripe fruit, either raw or 
cooked, is allowed in abundance when 
we have it. Much pie, cake or candy 
destroys the appetite for plainer food. 1 
know children who are used to eating a 
great deal of such things and think they 
can hardly eat without pie or cookies, 
but they are pale, sickly little things; 
while ours, who live on plainer diet are 
large, healthy, happy children. The 
only way I can account for it is the man¬ 
ner in which we live; as my husband has 
always been in delicate health, my chil¬ 
dren can’t possibly inherit health from 
him. I never allow our children to drink 
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 readers of this department will 
do well to watch the August announce¬ 
ment on page 481 of this week’s issue. 
coffee or tea ; but they are given all the 
milk they want, both at the table and 
at any time during the day. When I say 
all they want, that means a great deal, 
for one of our boys is with milk like T. 
B. Terry with strawberries, he wants a 
quart at a time (sometimes). They must 
have it fresh and warm from the cow 
every time we milk, and often through 
the day. I seldom give them skim-milk 
if I can possibly spare it with the cream 
in, for I believe they need the pure, 
fresh milk with ail its life-giving strength. 
Skim-milk as usually put on the table, is 
little better than water. Of course, there 
are times when one can’t have all the 
milk desired ; then I teach my children 
to drink water and say nothing about it. 
I let the children have all of the first 
berries that ripen, and let them pick and 
eat them from the bushes till they are 
satisfied before I try to make pies or 
sauces ; then I tell them to pick all the 
berries and mamma will make them little 
pies. When I bake cookies, they often 
ask me to cut out odd shapes, animals, 
etc., and bake for them. This I some¬ 
times do, as I like to make the children 
happy. 1 also make taffy and pop-corn 
balls in cold weather. This they enjoy 
greatly, and it is better than buying such 
things out of the stores. Then they can 
crack nuts and prepare them, and I make 
nut candy with molasses or sugar, better 
than that we buy. On winter evenings, 
when there are no lessons crowding, if 
6122. 
Ladies’ Shirred Waist. 
mamma and papa will lay aside “grown¬ 
up” ways and make-believe they are 
children, too, and play “pussy wants a 
corner,” the children get wild with joy. 
If you could see our four jolly, fat, 
healthy children, you would think I had 
not made a failure in rearing them, even 
if my way doesn’t seem best. r d. b. 
PATTERNS FOR R. N.-Y. READERS. 
These patterns retail for from 25 to 40 
cents each, but we can furnish them to 
subscribers only, at 10 cents each. The 
patterns are the latest styles, every pat¬ 
tern is complete and guaranteed to be per¬ 
fect. Write the order separate from 
other matter, give bust measure and pat¬ 
tern number, and enclose 10 cents. Full 
instructions accompany every pattern. 
We do this for the accommodation of 
subscribers, and patterns will not be sent 
to nonsubacribers. Any two patterns 
given to old subscribers who send one 
new subscription. 
6122. Ladies’ Waist. 
The popular demand for the shirt waist 
is on the increase as the summer ad¬ 
vances. Here we give one that is simple 
in construction, and just the thing to 
wear under a cutaway coat, blazer or 
Eton jacket. The shirt sleeves are full 
enough for style, yet easy to slip into an 
upper garment of this kind. This is a 
desirable model for chambray, percale, 
cotton cheviot, cambric, lawn, or any of 
the popular cotton fabrics, as well as for 
silken materials. It is cut in five sizes, 
viz: 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40 inches bust 
measure. 
mothers. —Be sure to use “ Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.—.Adu. 
CRUMBS FROM DIFFERENT TABLES. 
I am glad a task to me Is given. 
To labor at day by day; 
For It brings me health and strength and hope, 
And I cheerfully learn to say— 
“Head, you may think; Heart, yon may feel; 
But. Hand, you shall work alwayl” 
—Louisa M. AUott 
....W. D. Howells: “If women are 
strong minded, that is what we want— 
the more strong minded the better.” 
....Emerson: “Great men are those 
that see that spiritual is stronger than 
any material force ; and thoughts rule 
the world.” 
Oil 
smoothes the fibres of leather inside so they 
slip easily on one another. Dry fibres cut 
each other apart; the leather cracks if not 
oiled with 
Vacuum 
Leather Oil. 
It won't mend broken leather, but will keep 
it from cracking. 
25c. worth is a fair trial—and your money back 
if you want it—a swob with each can. 
I'or pamphlet, free. “HOW TO Takk Cakk of 
LkaTHBK,'^^ send to 
VACUUM OIL CO.. Rochester. N. Y. 
... .Good Things : “There is no conver¬ 
sationalist more carefully to be avoided 
than he who is always attempting to de¬ 
fine the motive which led to an act on 
the part of another.” 
.... Atchison Globe : ‘ ‘ There are some 
men who ask the Lord to make them 
thankful for what they are about to eat, 
and then abuse their wives because the 
cooking doesn’t suit.” 
... .The Housekeeper : “ There are two 
things that we need make no apology 
for—marrying and not marrying—unless 
there be an inexcusable blunder, which 
may happen in either case.” 
....Josephine Towne in The House¬ 
keeper : “If only the girls would band 
together, pledging themselves not to ac¬ 
cept the attentions or company of any 
young man who touched intoxicating 
drink, there would be a grand work done 
in the temperance line.” 
....Abraham Lincoln: “It is assumed 
that labor is available only in connection 
with capital; that nobody labors unless 
somebody else owning capital somehow 
by the use of it induces him to labor. 
But capital is the fruit of labor, and 
could never have existed if labor had 
not first existed. Labor is the superior 
of capital and deserves much the higher 
consideration.” 
....Rev. John A. B. Wilson: “Look, 
however, a moment, if you please, at 
this military objection to female suf¬ 
frage. Is physical force the only or the 
highest qualification for the voter? If 
brute force should rule, then he who has 
the most of it should rule the most, in 
which case John L. Sullivan ought to 
have been Secretary of State until James 
Corbett knocked him out, when ‘ Gentle- 
maniJim’ should have borne his pompa¬ 
dour tonsure to the high place of the 
nation and rattled around in the shoes of 
James G. Blaine; and when Peter Jack- 
ton knocks the stuffing ‘ outen him,’ 
the black Australian should be promptly 
naturalized and promoted to the same 
dignity.” 
In writing to advertlserB, please always mention 
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