1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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WORKING FOR PAY. 
THINK Clara T. Sisson, page 398, is 
a little mistaken in saying that 
women have a fear of “Mrs. Grundy’’ in 
starting a business of their own. Few 
girls who marry from prosperous homes 
know anything about the need of money. 
Thi’ough the foresight of mothers, the 
generosity of fathers, and the love of 
husbands, they are provided with every¬ 
thing needed, and often more. A friend 
of mine proved herself a wise mother 
who advised her daughter to hire a 
neighbor’s daughter to help her do her 
work and watch an infant, so as to be 
able to accompany her husband to even¬ 
ing entertainments, of which he was 
fond, and to which he desired her to go 
with him. To meet the expense, she 
took a young man to board who was in 
a store all day. Three or four people 
were made to feel happier, freer, and 
more independent by that little business 
arrangement. 
If a girl could only know the turns the 
wheel of fortune often makes, she might, 
by making a business of some talent or 
accomplishment, make substantial pro¬ 
vision against a possible rainy day. For 
the time surely comes in the lives of all 
housekeepers and homemakers, when 
cares increase and strength fails. Then 
if she have a small amount of money of 
her own earnings to draw on to provide 
some little personal comforts or luxur¬ 
ies, she is, indeed, happy ! 
I think that it would be a grand prep¬ 
aration for marriage if all girls were 
obliged to be self-supporting for one 
year—to be taught to do some one thing 
so superlatively well that they might 
earn a sum equal to that which they 
would be obliged to spend if they were 
compelled to support themselves en¬ 
tirely, counting board, clothing, and a 
sum for books and extras. Ah ! what a 
real, practical education that would be ! 
WESTERN NEW YORK. 
environments as in the main we love our 
own, and if it did not love it knew of no 
other, and so accepted it as a natural 
affair. Perhaps this is still more prob¬ 
able, because on the picnic, more than 
elsewhere, we are liable to return in our 
manners, in some measure, to the savag¬ 
ery of our earlier people. We sit upon 
the ground there, we lie upon it; there 
is nothing else to sit on ; we do not 
scruple to eat pie with our fingers ; water 
au naturel in the absence of ice is not 
undrinkable ; a clam-shell in a cleft stick 
makes us a satisfactory spoon ; crawling 
and creeping things about us are matters 
of no concern ; sometimes we even dis¬ 
pense with a chaperon ; we do not al¬ 
ways pause to regret that we have not 
the woodcraft of those early people that 
taught them how to get the most com¬ 
fort out of the least material. Moreover, 
it is not impossible that, without being 
aware of it, we are attracted to this 
semblance of wild life by the blind in¬ 
stinct of returning to the dear old mother 
earth, of laying our head on her warm 
breast, and of receiving her unspoken 
sympathy in our joys, her silent con¬ 
solation in our trouble. 
PEN POTPOURRI. 
You never can tell what your thoughts will do 
In bringing you hate or love, 
For thoughts are things, and their airy wings 
Are swifter than carrier dove. 
They follow the law of the universe— 
Each thing must create its kind ; 
And they speed o’er the track to bring you back 
Whatever went out from your mind. 
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 
_Polly Pry in New York Re¬ 
corder : “ Marriage is not imprisonment 
for two, though many people lead very 
unhappy lives because they think it is, 
and try to force their partners to share 
their opinion.” 
....The Housekeeper: “Men often 
become great speakers, rarely good 
talkers; they can discourse about a given 
thing, but can not chat about nothing. 
Woman on the other hand turns all the 
atoms of matter found in the detail of 
life into the current coin of conversa¬ 
tion, every piece stamped with a pecul¬ 
iarly personal impress.” 
... .Brander Matthews in Harper’s 
Weekly : “ What is really worth having 
in life must be earned before it can be 
enjoyed—every good thing must be paid 
for in advance. If an evil thing should 
be preferred, it ean be had on credit and 
the devil will give any man as long time 
as can be asked, secure in the certainty 
of sending in the bill sooner or later, 
and of having it paid in full, at last, 
principal and interest and the cost of 
collection.” 
again ? It is an old but true thought, 
‘ • Laugh and the world laughs with you; 
weep and you weep alone.” 
The words of an editor often come 
to me. lie had been the recipient of 
many letters of complaint, several ask¬ 
ing personal answers. He at last pub¬ 
lished a general letter on his editorial 
page, expressing his earnest sympathy 
for all family troubles. Among other 
good thoughts, he expressed this one, 
“ Now, do not for a moment think that 
your neighbor over the way, who never 
complains and is always cheerful, has 
no trouble ; believe me, there’s a skele¬ 
ton in every home; she is only wiser 
than you, she does not speak of her trou¬ 
ble, while you repeat yours to the 
world.” ELLA F. FLANDERS. 
Ittterctlancouss guYvntiiaittfl. 
In writing to advertisers, please always mention 
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For Good 
Money in 
Vacuum Leather Oil for your harness 
and shoes. Get a can at a harness- or 
shoe-store, 25 c a half-pint to # 1.25 a 
gallon; book “IIow to Take Care of 
Leather,” and swob, both free; use 
enough to find out; if you don’t like it, 
take the can back and get the whole 
of your money. 
Sold only in cans, to make sure of fair dealing 
everywhere—handy cans. Best oil for farm ma¬ 
chinery also. If you can’t find it, write to 
VACUUM OIL COMPANY, Rochester, N. Y. 
' If vou have the remotest idea of pursuing a 
BUSINESS or SHORTHAND course of study now or later, 
you should send ri^ht away for a beautiful cloth-bound 
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Address “ R. B. U.” ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
Color and 
Heavy Growth 
Of Hair, use 
Bottle will do 
Wonders. Try it. 
Purify the Blood with Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. 
IF YOU WANT TO buy a Buggy, Surrey, 
Road or SpringWagou 
send to us for Catalogue and Price List. We have all 
styles. Our vehicles are first-class, and prices right. 
Kalamazoo Buckboard Go., Kalamazoo, Mich. 
Salesmen Wanted. 
$100 to $125 per month and expenses. Staple lino. 
Position permanent, pleasant and desirable. Address, 
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PUBLISHERS’ NEWS CO., P. 0. Box 2183, New York. 
IF YOU WANT 
a good,safe, seven per cent 
investment, secured by first 
mortgage on an Improved 
farm worth three times amount loaned, write to 
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CALIFORNIA COLONY. 
Desirable families only. Small capital necessary 
Five to 40 acres In each farm. One acre keeps a cow 
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RA, L LANDS 
ROAD 
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 000,000 
acres of land in the famous 
Yazoo Valley of Mississippi, 
lying along and owned by the Yazoo and Mississipp 
Valley Railroad Company, and which that Company 
offers at low prices and on long terms. Special induce 
ments and facilities offered to go to and examine 
these lands both in Southern Illinois and in the 
“ Yiizoo Valley,” Miss. For further description, 
map and any information, address or call upon 
K. P. SKENE, Land Commissioner, No. I Park Row, 
Chicago, 111.; or. G. W. MCGINNIS, Assistant Land 
Commissioner, Memphis, Tenn. 
IT WILL PAY YOU ? S 
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. 
nr FOR SALK BY ALL DEALERS. 
Send for Hand Book, mailed free. 
HENRY DISSTON & SONS, Philadelphia, Pa. 
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE PICNIC. 
T is not by any means the need of as¬ 
sociation, of eating hard-boiled eggs 
and dry sandwiches, says Harper’s Bazar, 
and drinking warm lemonade in com¬ 
pany, or of sharing even daintier satis¬ 
factions to the appetite. It is not the 
need of getting shoes full of sand, of 
coming home with draggled skirts and 
limped linen and aching backs and 
burned faces, to say nothing of incipient 
influenzas and rheumatisms. It is purely 
and simply the need of being in the open 
air, and of deceiving one’s self into the 
glad idea that one is really living there, 
of having the freedom of earth and sky 
and water and wind and all outdoors, 
as the first savage ancestors did. For it 
is not so many generations since the 
cabins and eaves were mere sleeping 
places, and the life of people was lived 
outdoors; and not so many more since, 
the dens of the forest gave all the shelter 
there was. So it is not at all impossible 
that, beyond the love of what is pleasant, 
this craving for outdoor life is merely a 
hereditary tendency, a survival of the 
ancestral quality that probably had the 
animal instinct for home, and loved its 
MOTHERS .—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
PATTERNS FOR R. N.-Y. READERS. 
Write the order for patterns separate 
from other matter, give bust measure 
and pattern number, and inclose 10 cents. 
Each pattern is complete with instruc¬ 
tions for cutting the garment and put¬ 
ting together. 
Ladies’ French Basque. 
A plain perfectly fitting basque is the 
only one appropriate for many styles. 
The sleeve is shaped according to the 
newest style, and will be the standard 
for the coming season. Pattern No. 6530, 
is cut in eight sizes, viz.: 32, 34, 36, 38, 
40, 42, 44 and 46 inches, bust measure. 
Seeking Sympathy. —I was much in¬ 
terested in Life Is What We Make It, on 
page 350, as it is a subject on which I 
have thought a great deal ; I have 
secretly wondered if editors in general 
were very sympathetic, for if so, their 
sympathies would he compelled to bear 
a heavy strain if allowed to go out to 
half of the authors of complaints which 
are contained in the Home Departments 
of many of our magazines and papers. I 
am not without sympathy ; I say, God 
pity the man or woman who, by sad ex¬ 
perience has proved that marriage is a 
failure ; hut does it help the matter any 
to relate matrimonial troubles again and 
EVAPORATE YOUR FRUIT. 
Every farmhouse has some fruit, some time during the season, that goes to 
waste, and that would be most valuable during the winter months, if it were dried 
and put away for use. But you have 
no convenient way of drying it, so it is 
thrown out and lost. Now what is 
needed to save all this waste is a small, 
cheap, convenient drier that can he 
readily brought into use. The U. 8 . 
Cook Stove Drier fills this need to per 
fection. The illustration shows this 
Drier complete on an ordinary cook 
stove. It can also be used on an oil or 
gasoline stove. It has eight galvanized 
wire-cloth trays, containing 12 square 
feet of tray surface. The dimensions 
are: Base, 22x16 inches; height, 26 
inches. Sent by freight at the receiver’s 
expense. Weight, crated, about 27 
pounds. It is always ready, and with 
ordinary care, will last a lifetime. The 
thrifty housewife can make it pay for 
itself several times over in drying fruit 
for home use, and may he able to dry 
fruit enough with it to exchange for all 
the groceries needed for a large family. 
We have sold hundreds of these during 
past years for $7 ; but we have been able 
to get a reduction this year, and ean now send it and The R. N.-Y., one year, for 
$ 5 . Or we will send it to any one who will send us a club of 12 new subscriptions 
at $1 each, it is one of the things that should be in every home where fruit is to 
be had, and, at the reduced price this year, we expect to ship at least one thousand. 
Address THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York. 
