THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
735 
grand, whole-souled women. The cause 
of temperance alone needs all the noble 
womanhood which can be brought to 
bear against the evils of intemperance. 
Therefore it seems to me that when a 
woman says in all earnestness, that she 
has other claims upon her ; that she will 
not marry, we should not cry out against 
her ; we should strive, rather, to aid her, 
to help her, so that in the success which 
may crown her efforts, she may receive 
some compensation for the lack of home 
and children. It comes, that deepest 
want of the heart, to the most success¬ 
ful woman. There are times when she 
would exchange all her renown for the 
real home, where she could put her arms 
about her little ones and press the little 
velvet cheeks to hers. 
It seems an evidence of strength of 
character—rather than otherwise—that 
a man or woman can renounce the in¬ 
dividual gratification of pleasure, even 
such pleasure as comes with the home 
life, if by so doing they can help on the 
common progress of mankind. And is it 
not vastly better for such women as 
“Mrs. Jellyby” to devote themselves 
entirely to their “missions” instead of 
entering the sacred precincts of married 
life ? Some women are so constituted 
that they can be loyal to all the needs of 
home, and yet help on the “ common 
good ” to a wonderful degree. But when 
the desire to hasten the much needed re¬ 
forms grows strong within them, the 
world’s need of them seems so overpow¬ 
ering, that oftentimes husband, home 
and children are denied the sustaining 
power of their influence and watchful 
care. 
It is surely wiser, and far better for 
all concerned, that those who are irrev¬ 
ocably wedded to a certain line of work, 
should continue to pursue it. The woman 
who is wedded to art, should be an 
artist, and not surrender, like the her¬ 
oine in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s “Story 
of Avis.” Cupid should leai*n that his 
arrows are not to be aimed at women 
irrespective of their wishes, mrs. w. a. k. 
ODDS AND ENDS. 
A Safety Pin Holder for safety pins, 
instead of a pin-cushion, may be made 
of half a dozen strips of satin ribbon 
about 1)4 inch wide and a quarter of a 
yard long, joined together at the top, 
and finished with a doll’s head set in a 
clown frill of lace or gauze. Suspend 
by several loops of baby ribbon. 
A Writing Table Scarf. —A pretty 
and useful table scarf for a girl’s own 
room, is made with pockets in either 
end, in which may be placed unanswered 
letters. The scarf may be ornamented 
in any way to suit the taste and ability 
of the maker, and the little bit of use¬ 
fulness supplied by these pockets will 
be appreciated by the girl who likes to 
have a place for everything. 
Keeping Sausage. —After grinding 
and seasoning the sausage, put it in a 
large, flat milk crock, and place in the 
oven for more than an hour, or till per¬ 
fectly cooked through. Then pour hot 
lard over it to the depth of an inch, and 
put in a cool place till wanted for use. 
When sliced out and heated through, it 
will be found quite as good as when first 
made. m. ii. 
New Home Tools. —While at the West¬ 
ern New York Fair, I went into the 
woman’s department to see what I could 
find to take home. An agent was beat- 
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, 
Many readers who have not the time 
to go out and work up a club, send us a 
list of names, and we send sample copies 
direct. Then a mere suggestion secures 
the subscription. 
ing an egg with a Columbian egg beater, 
which did the work so quickly, easily and 
well that I invested 25 cents. It is a tin 
tube with a perforated dasher. 
A man was telling of a wonderful thing 
he had to save women on mopping day. 
He said, “ Some women wring a mop the 
old way because they can take it in their 
hands and parboil or freeze them accord¬ 
ing to the water. Rough and chapped 
hands please them, and they like putting 
on old dresses. They do not need flavor¬ 
ing extracts when they do pastry cooking 
or knead bread after wringing out the 
mop.” My curiosity was aroused, and I 
went over and looked at the machine. It 
consists of a box with holes in the bot¬ 
tom and sides. The box hooks on to the 
side of the mop pail, so that when the 
mop is placed in the box and the lever 
pushed up, the mop will be perfectly 
dry and the water will run into the pail. 
No need to touch the mop with the 
hands, and an eight-year-old girl could 
move the lever. I find it all it is claimed 
to be. c. E. c. 
The Summer Dresses. —Putting away 
summer clothing is not such a task as 
putting away the winter clothing, as 
most of the garments are of cotton and 
need no treatment to prevent moths. 
Yet there are some details to be remem¬ 
bered. They are given by the Pittsburgh 
Dispatch. In putting away summer wash 
dresses, they should be rough dried, then 
folded and packed in a box or trunk by 
themselves. It is an excellent idea to go 
over each one and take a few mending 
stitches that are sure to be needed. 
Challies, crepons and summer silks should 
be carefully shaken and brushed, spots 
sponged, bows of ribbon taken off and 
unmade if possible, or the dust carefully 
wiped off with a bit of silk dipped in 
weak ammonia water, and packed away 
in separate boxes. The same rule ap¬ 
plies where laces trim the dresses. If 
6204. 
Ladies’ Double-Breasted Basque 
these are washable, they should be 
washed, otherwise shaken and wound 
around a bottle or wooden roll. It is a 
good plan to let the dresses hang, wrong 
side out, in the air all of a sunny morning. 
PATTERNS FOR R. N.-Y. READERS. 
Write the order for patterns separate 
from other matter, give bust measure 
and pattern number, and enclose 10 cents. 
Each pattern is complete with instruc¬ 
tions for cutting the garment and put¬ 
ting together. 
6204. Ladies’ Double-Breasted Basque. 
This basque with rounded lower out¬ 
line is a favorite style for tailor-made 
suits. A linen shirt front, collar and 
necktie may be worn with this basque in 
true masculine fashion. Large fancy 
buttons decorate the front. The edges 
of revers, sleeves and collar are finished 
with machine stitching. No trimming 
is required, but may be used if desired. 
Pattern 6204 is cut in five sizes, 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.— AHa). 
INFLUENCE OF FOOD IN SICKNESS. 
HE value of proper diet in hasten¬ 
ing recovery, is quite as important 
as the administration of the right medi¬ 
cine. Carrie M. Dearborn, in the New 
England Kitchen Magazine, discusses 
the general lack of knowledge in this re¬ 
spect. She says that the importance of 
our food in its relation to health or 
disease, is entirely overlooked by the 
ordinary individual; and so long as the 
daily meals satisfy the cravings of hun¬ 
ger, and the duties we are called upon to 
perform do not overtax our physical 
strength, we give little heed to either 
quantity or comparative value of the 
food supply. When, however, from lack 
of attention to this most important sub¬ 
ject, or from other causes. Nature re¬ 
fuses to perform her normal functions, 
then must we depend upon the scientific 
combination of foods and medicines as 
prescribed by the physician, to restore 
once more our physical equilibrium. 
Too often does the anxious and loving, 
but on this point, uneducated mother or 
housekeeper, undo or retard the action 
of the proper medicines by the unwise 
administration of foods which the pa¬ 
tient fretfully insists are the only ones 
for which he has the slightest appetite. 
Or, some “ progressive woman ” thinks 
she knows it all because she has faith¬ 
fully studied her book of directions, 
bought in conjunction with a home case 
of medicines; and while she is giving 
aconite or something similar to reduce 
feverish symptoms, she also urges the 
patient to partake freely of toast, or at 
least of gruel, not for a moment realiz¬ 
ing that starchy food is never well 
digested in febrile conditions because the 
secretion of saliva upon which the diges¬ 
tion of these foods so much depends, is 
always more scanty in such cases. In 
certain nervous diseases, the consumption 
of tea, coffee or other stimulating food, 
may completely over-balance the desired 
effect of sedative medicines ; and in many 
cases of intestinal inactivity are not more 
fluids and coarse foods as necessary, and 
perhaps better than the use of aloes or 
other purgatives which give only tempor¬ 
ary relief and tend to render the patho¬ 
logical condition permanent ? 
Said a prominent physician, in an able 
address before the graduating class of a 
well-known training school: “ The fully 
equipped nurse should be an expert cook. 
Cooking has been practiced since the 
advent of man, yet how ignorantly it is 
performed even at the present day. It is 
one thing to prepare food; it is quite 
another thing to get the most nutrition 
from a given article of diet. In many in¬ 
stances, more nutriment is thrown away, 
or wasted in cooking, than is retained as 
food.” 
PRINTED PATCHWORK. 
The world is a queer old fellow; 
As you journey along by his side 
You would better conceal any trouble you feel, 
If you want to tickle his pride. 
No matter how heavy your burden— 
Don’t tell about it, pray; 
He will only grow colder and shrug his shoulder 
And hurriedly walk away. 
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 
-Rev. Amory H. Bradford : “Do not 
waste precious days in emphasizing what 
you do not believe, but rather glorify 
them by putting all emphasis upon the 
things which are known to be true.” 
... .Sunday School Times : “It would 
be a discouraging state of affairs if every 
article published in a paper met with 
the approval of all its readers. There 
would be no use in keeping up a paper 
that had reached that low plane.” 
... .Junius Henri Browne in Harper’s 
Bazar : “It cannot be too vividly re¬ 
membered that wedlock has its material 
side, its severe trials, its painful accom¬ 
paniments. Always to be regarded 
calmly, seriously, conscientiously, it is 
apt to be most remunerative to those 
who approach it in this spirit. To look 
at it romantically, merely, is to be reck¬ 
less, and recklessness is bound to meet, 
soon or late, with unhappy consequences. 
They who consider marriage reasonably 
before undertaking it, are most likely to 
enjoy it afterward.” 
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