Wiiiiiiiiaie-iiadliiiiilllSl 
who are working in farmers’ families, 
are the daughters of neighbors. All 
hired girls are somebody’s girls. Said a 
woman, “My girl is sometimes saucy, 
but perhaps no more so than girls are to 
their mothers. She was accompanied 
home from the spelling match the other 
the beginning, brings disastrous results night by a low fellow, and when 1 spoke 
in later life. I helped to cut a large to her about it, she flew mad.” “What did 
The second point of economy in which maple recently, and thought of the years yon (Jq then ? ” I asked. “ Told her that 
the furnace system fails, applies more it had taken to grow, and the minutes it if spoke to me like that again, I 
particularly to the wooded sections of took to fell it. A single unwomanly act would send her home, and to get about 
the country. It makes a large cash item will destroy the good reputation of years, her work.” Imagine the angry, harden- 
lloston has long of expense for fuel, in place of labor Why was the tree cut ? It was dead at ing thoughts of the inexperienced girl ! 
which may be performed at a season of the heart. A living egg deposited at the “ j’li go with whom I please, for all of 
the year when time can be easily spared, base years before had developed into a her,” was probably her mental comment. 
It frequently happens in order to secure worm which had eaten its way to the Inconsiderate objections, harshly given, 
the most faithful help, the farmer em- heart. A girl of 14 had long been a mys- repel. The .same thing happened (se- 
Why shouldn’t ploys a man by the year, and cutting the tery to me. She seemed to be, naturally, cretly) again the first opportunity. 
year’s supply of wood is a very convenient of a sunny dispo.sition, but if the lea.st Under similar circumstances, another 
the pupils’ j«1^ on which to utilize a portion of the thing occurred which she did not like, woman said to her girl, “ Why did you 
labor during winter. she had a fit of .sulks at once. Too large not come home with your brother last 
For such sections of country, the most to scold, .she pouted in silence. After sev- night ?” 
desirable method of heating would seem eral hours, she would be her natural self “ iJe went home with Kate, and 1 was 
to be by means of a good, large base- again ; but it was trying, and she kept not going to wait at the church for him,” 
Orators, e.spccially tho.se who never burning and ventilating coal stove in the herplaceonlybecau.se of the Christian was the impatient reply, 
worked on a straw stack, are often fond central portion of the house, and smaller patience of her employer. Happening to “That would not have been long to 
of detailing the glories of the thra.shing wood stoves to warm rooms beyond the arrive at her parents’ home just at din- wait, and I do not like you to keep that 
machine—how it has revolutionized farm- fellow’s company. lie is not a good boy.” 
ing, etc. The women folks see very little S ’ “ What do I care; I guess there is no 
l)oetry about it. It means extra work C~ ' "" harm in ju.st walking home with him.” 
and vexation while its visit lasts. The “ A girl who does not care, is a pitiable 
following lines expre.ss many a woman’s ^ object. A girl who is ‘ talked about,’ is 
feelings as the tail of the thrashing ma- ‘ ^^^ ^ a nobody. Would you like to be sneered 
chine passes the gate on its way out: at by all the best people ? Remember, my 
Glad Rood-bye, old machine, with thy whistle and dear girl, we will be like those we play 
P'df- 11 with. How sorry I should be to see you 
OfthyworiTandhnrry,rve had.initeenoiish. ^ like those poor old hags that came along 
All my trials and troubles will leave on yonr track, ■./'■“.i ' . \? 
But next season, alas ! you may bring them all ^m' I: '' ' '' here last summer, they did not care 
back! ' when they were your age.” The kind 
The last glimpse of your smokestack with glad , ^ / tone and loving manner had their effect. 
ness I’ll see, ' T & With a burst of tears, the girl confessed. 
And where’er thou art will be heaven to me. j “ I did not think.” The confidential talk 
In thy absence, thy coming will still be my di^ad, / || . .'r; gAv _ ' followed left the girl in a softened. 
As thy presence each season has whitened my V w j i 
( loving mood, hi o matter what her future 
P lif^ may be, she will never forget to be 
To some wide, barren desert where gram cannot f .• > *f 
Where the voice of the thrasher’s heard never so ^ ‘■ y When reasoned with, the fir.st woman 
low, ! ^ ! said: “Hah! she’s only a hired girl; let 
I would ily, were I able, and there try to lind 4 < her go.” The other said :“ I don’t love 
A land with the thrashing machine left far behind. , J. ,^47' ■, A , , j. . tit 
\ - ■'i foi” the honor of womanhood, I 
On a bare, rocky isle, in a cold polar sea, ^ *J must do my duty and care for her as my 
With no thrashing machine, would be sweet home 1 V o C P' C 
WOMAN’S DUTY TO WOMAN. 
Tiik Ho.ston School Hoard has passed portion to the occupants than city home.s, 
an order that all lunches sold in the pub- except those of the wealthy; for the j^xercisk a mother’s infeuence over 
lie schools, shall be .such as are approved great question of rent does not figure so 
. , ... V.TI • ^ • J.T -T. ,7 . ANY GIRE within YOUR HOME, 
by the Committee on Hygiene and Phy.s- prominently as in the city. Morning _ 
ical Training. Someone has proposed callers are few, and the household duties ^ I 'HE foundations of character should 
that the New England Kitchen provide confine the family to certain parts of the ^ carefully and early in life, 
soup and other wholesome articles of house during a great portion of the day. 
food for the jiupils, at moderate prices. 
Hie, cake and pickles have long been the 
staples of school lunches, and when their 
places are taken by more nourishing 
food, it is likely that the poor health of 
school children, attributed to over-study, 
will greatly decrease. 
had school kitchens where cooking is 
taught. It would be quite an innovation 
to arrange to have the pupils eat the food 
prepared by these young cooks who do 
everything by rule. 
Young America have his balanced ration? 
The demands made on 
strength by our present system of educa¬ 
tion, require that their bodies be well 
nourished. 
LADY HENRY SOMERSET. 
L ady somerset is in every way a 
woman worthy of the sincere ad¬ 
miration of women. In spiteof her title, 
and notwithstanding the fact that she is 
very w’calthy, and of the highest rank in 
the English aristocracy, an American 
woman in the most humble station of 
:, may regard her as a sister. For 
Lady Somerset does not view the world 
from her social standard in life. She has 
chosen, rather than a society life, to take 
her stand on the side of reforms that are 
of vital interest to humanity, and with 
which every good woman and man sym- 
She was elected President of 
the Hritish Women’s Temperance Asso¬ 
ciation in 1891, and has been reelected 
The close friendship between 
herself and Miss Frances E. Willard is 
Lady Somerset is again 
LADY HENRY SOMERSET. Fig. 193. 
FROM THE LITERARY DIGEST. 
as occasion requires. A ner time one day, 1 was invited to par- 
icted ventilating stove take. Seated at the table was a younger 
e good ventilating fea- sister, four years old. “Ma, give me life 
furnace, in a compara- pie ! ” she screamed, 
aner. There is a flue in “ Haby don’t wan’t pie first; be a little 
le stove, and these flues lady now,” coaxed her mother. “ Give 
th a pipe running down me pie,” yelled the spoiled child, and as 
and out to the open air. the mother did not reach for it, the child, 
Qstant supply of fresh with all her force flung a fork full at her 
es heated in passing up- mother’s face. The pie was quickly pathizes. 
n off at the top of the given, and the father laughed as he said, 
flue,*opening at the bot- “ She has a temper! Haven’t you, baby?” 
e, takes the colder air That was the key to the older sister’s since, 
through the stove pipe, manner : Unreproved bursts of passion 
ney This plan not only while young ; the habit formed is hard well known, 
mutilation, but also does to break. making a long visit in America, accom- 
the heat at the floor and Some girls are practically motherless panied by her 20-year-old son, who is 
Ijacent rooms, than the while the mother is still living. These still pursuing his studies, and is to do 
.n do. These stoves are girls are not given a fair chance. The some of the “ finishing in America, 
leating, so that an extra words “ fitly spoken ” are neglected, or Lady Somerset has been accused by her 
! to carry the heat into the child is chided so harshly that only opponents in England, of trying to 
h slight additional ex- evil thoughts remain. Many of the girls Americanize Hritain. If it were true. 
HEATING A FARMHOUSE. 
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report 
