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Thanksgiving' dinner. I saw her eyes 
follow her son with a look that I never 
saw her have for any one else. He was 
her only son, all the other children had 
passed on, and he was devoted to his 
aged mother. I said to her that after¬ 
noon, “ You are very fond of your son ?” 
“Yes,” she said, “he is my all, and yet 
the only time I ever rebelled against 
God was when I rebelled against having 
that child. And now I have lived to old 
age and he is the only one in the world 
to care for me.” I wish I could cheer 
all the women who will read this. I 
wish you could see the crowns you will 
wear some day for what you endured 
while in the kitchen, in the shop, for the 
patience in suffering, for not returning 
unkind words, for the patient hand re¬ 
moving all the briars from the way, for 
all the seeds of kindness sowed. Be 
sure the reaping day will surely come. 
Nothing is for naught. Be content to 
do a little and you will be a link in the 
great chain of humanity. 
ODDS AND ENDS. 
Fok Doing Their Washing. —The In¬ 
dustrial Christian Alliance, of New York 
City, was formed by several philan¬ 
thropic men of means to help men broken 
down and out of woik, to “get on their 
feet again.” A long account of their 
methods was recently published in the 
Review of Reviews, from which is taken 
the following item describing some of 
the domestic operations. This seems to 
be starting them in the right way: “The 
two top floors are dormitories, baths and 
washrooms. In each bathroom is a small 
laundry tub, where a man having but 
one undershirt, one pair of socks or one 
handkerchief, can wash it at night and 
have it dry in the morning. These are 
pathetic little washings, hung out by 
men long-time strangers to cleanliness, 
but now animated by reawakened self- 
respect. This building accommodates 
100 men, while about the same number 
are lodged and employed in other build¬ 
ings occupied by the Alliance.” 
Wearing Mourning. —Is not the rea¬ 
son why those people usually gain in 
good looks who feel that the color of 
one’s garments oan express a sense of 
bereavement and respect for a departed 
relative, to be found, not so much in the 
fact that black is actually becoming, 
but that fine cloths, plainness and dig¬ 
nity are inherent qualities of a good 
“ mourning” outfit, canons of good taste 
which, somehow, every dressmaker and 
milliner feels bound in this case to re¬ 
spect? Undoubtedly black, unrelieved by 
any color except white, has a refining 
effect; but some complexions lose what 
color and warmth they have by its too 
deadening contrast. A woman swathed 
in a long crape veil is, reflectively con¬ 
sidered, depressingly dreadful and more 
like a figure out of some heathen cere¬ 
monial than like an enlightened end-of- 
our-century woman and a Christian ; 
but she has on the trappings of dignity, 
thoughtfulness and repose, and usually 
her face gains something by it all. p. p. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
'life 
might conceal her real sentiments^-5fet^t 
of consideration for her husband or 
sister. And I believe this aversion to 
having her husband’s sister or mother 
with her, is not a mere whim that can 
and should be overcome by the wife, but 
something deep and abiding, an instinct, 
to do violence to which is more than 
likely to shadow or embitter a life which 
might otherwise be contented and happy. 
So, looking at it from the sister’s point 
of view, 1 think the answer to the ques¬ 
tion resolves itself into this : If it be self¬ 
ish and wrong to do that which will 
make another unhappy, then it must be 
selfish and wrong, save in exceptional 
instances, for a sister to live with her 
brother after his marriage. L. rorbins. 
The Perfect Home. —Dr. Parkhurst 
thinks the love of home is weakening, 
and gives in the Ladies’ Home Journal 
what he thinks to be the reasons. He 
speaks more particularly of city life ; 
however, this concerns the country : 
“ The drift of population toward the 
cities is, in this particular, one of the 
greatest difficulties that we have to 
encounter. A city house, except among 
the very wealthiest, has very little, and 
that the wives and mothers of the coun¬ 
try have a right to be heard and heeded 
in all matters of public concern.” 
.Anna L. Diggs: “It is in the 
natural order of things for men and 
women to work together, and, there¬ 
fore, it must be for good. The time must 
come when they will do so in govern¬ 
ment as in other things, and attempts to 
stay the path of progress are futile.” 
£,ttiSccUancoujsi ^Mvcvttssinfl. 
IN writing to advertisers, please always mention 
The Rural New-Yorker. 
Shoe- and 
harness-leather wear long, do not crack, 
with Vacuum Leather Oil. Get a car 
at a harness- or shoe-store, 25 c a hah 
pint to $ 1.25 a gallon ; book “Howto 
Take Care of Leather,” and swob, botl 
free; use enough to find out; if you 
don’t like it, take the can back and gei 
the whole of your money. 
Sold only in cans, to make sure of fair dealing 
everywhere—handy cans. Best oil for fart.* ma¬ 
chinery also. If you can’t find it, write to 
VACUUM OIL COMPANY, Rochester,KY. 
Valuable Farm Property SS.wl.hm*. 1 :!! 
Prince George’s County, Maryland, midway between 
Washington and Baltimore. One mile and a quarter 
from station Pennsylvania Railroad. 700 acres ex¬ 
cellent laud. Tobacco from this place commands 
highest prices. Complete farm buildings, including 
hotbeds run by boiler. Large modern dwelling; flrst- 
class construction; hardwood finish; all improve¬ 
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anywhere: elevated, affording tine views. INCUBAT¬ 
ING ESTABLISHMENT, nearly completed, one of 
the largest In the world; capacity 120.000 chickens 
yearly. Property could be subdivided into small farms 
at large profit. Values in neighborhood steadily in¬ 
creasing. Price, $52,500. Might take improven city 
property In part payment. Photographs of all build¬ 
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™ l d lands 
The Illinois Central Railroad Company offers for sale 
on easy terms and at low prices. 150,000 acres of choice 
fruit, gardening, farm and grazing lands located in 
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. They are also largely 
Interested In. and call especial attention to the >100,000 
acres of land in the famous 
Yazoo Valley of Mississippi, 
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“ Yazoo Valley." Mis-.. For further description, 
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E. P SKENE, Land Commissioner. No. 1 Park Row, 
Chicago, Ill.; or. G. W. McGINNIS, Assistant Land 
Commissioner, Memphis, Tenn. 
probably nothing, to distinguish it from 
any of the bouses that are built on either 
side of it—and this not only in respect to 
the exterior, but, to a large degree, as 
relative to the interior. A few days ago 
I was calling at a house down in the old 
Seventh Ward. It was the same house 
that I am living in on Thirty-fifth Street, 
only with a little more odor and not 
quite so much furniture. A house must 
have its distinctive features in order to 
make it a complete home. That is the 
charm of a home in the country which 
the city home rarely knows anything 
about. A home to be perfect and entire 
needs not only father and mother and 
children, but a dwelling place that is 
fragrant with its own memories, hal¬ 
lowed by its own associations and marked 
by its own characteristics and distinct¬ 
ions of style, manner and environment, 
so that it shall stand utterly by itself in 
the child’s regard and become permanent 
ground from which he shall draw nutri¬ 
ment through all the years of his length¬ 
ening and expanding life. Men who 
have been born and bred in such a coun¬ 
try home can hardly realize what they 
have gained by not having had their 
birth in the city ; and men who have 
been born and reared in the city are even 
more unable to appreciate what they 
have lost by not having been planted in 
the country.” 
PRINTED PATCHWORK. 
He who sows strife between thee and thy neigh¬ 
bor—think ! 
Poisons the common well from which ye both do 
drink. 
Not all are good neighbors who do not work thee 
ill, 
But he who, vexed by thee, remains thy neighbor 
still. — Wisdom of the Brahman. 
... .Thomas Dixon : “Racing men say 
that they are going to improve the breed 
of horses. At the same time, they are 
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it goes down, does good *3 
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CHAS. E. HIRES CO., 
PHILADELPHIA. 
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going to degenerate the breed of men.” 
A Wife’s Rights. — I think the cases 
where a sister should live with her 
brother after his marriage, are few and 
far between. The brother’s wife, it 
seems to me, is the one whose feelings 
are to be regarded in the matter, and it 
is natural and unavoidable that she 
should prefer to have her husband to 
herself, especially in the first year or 
two of their living together, and should 
shrink from the continued presence of a 
third person in their home, however 
much she may esteem the person. Let 
the sister put herself in the sister-in- 
law’s place, and ask herself whether, 
were she married to the man of her 
choice, she would wish his sister to live 
with them ; she must see at once that 
she would not, however carefully she 
MOTHERS .—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best. — Adv. 
... .Atchison Globe : “ Saying nothing 
at the right time, is as important as say¬ 
ing the right thing at the right time, 
and easier, for it is extremely difficult to 
decide what the right thing is.” 
... .The Household : “ Long before the 
majority of mothers are conscious of the 
fact, the child’s ideas of life, of right, of 
duty, of pleasure, of usefulness, are re¬ 
ceiving a bent which all the education 
of schools and colleges cannot uproot.” 
-Haryot Holt Cahoon in N. Y. Re¬ 
corder : “ To exist for the house and to 
its glory, is one way; and another way is 
to make the house exist for the people 
who are to adorn it. The former is 
housekeeping, the latter is homemak¬ 
ing.” 
... .N. Y. Press : “ The time has passed 
when it was possible to consider the in¬ 
terests of men and women separately. 
People of intelligence now recognize 
IT WILL PAY Y01LS 
with “ DISSTON ” on it. It will hold 
the set longer, and do more work with¬ 
out filing than other saws, thereby 
saving in labor and cost of files. They 
are made of the best quality crucible 
cast steel, and are Fully Warranted. 
tar FOR SALE BY ALL DEALERS. 
Send for Hand Book, mailed free. 
HENRY DISSTON & SONS, Philadelphia, Pa. 
PIANOS 
92 5th AVENUE. 
TO RENT & FOR SALE 
ON EASY TERMS. 
Catalogue Free. 
This is the instrument chosen, above all others, by The Rural 
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No. 92 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY. 
