1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
815 
He often cries like this after nursing. 
He will be all right in a short time.” 
And she didn’t believe in flannels in 
summer. 
“ It is downright cruelty to pin a baby 
up in a band in hot weather.” 
So the little fellow was lightly clothed 
in linen and cambric, and considered 
“ comfortable.” A few days before, baby 
had cut his first tooth, and the wonderful 
event must be celebrated by taking him 
to the city and having him pictured by a 
great artist. Friends remonstrated. 
Cholera infantum was prevalent thei’e, 
and as they designed staying several 
days, it would necessitate a change of 
food. The parents laughed at their fears. 
Haby was perfectly well, they would 
bring him back all safe. 
The coveted picture was obtained, but, 
alas! almost immediately after the 
child was taken violently ill. Physicians 
were summoned, but their skill availed 
not. A few hours of agonizing suffering, 
then the little one lay quietly, with 
flushed cheeks and half-closed eyes. 
“ The disease has gone to the brain, 
there is no hope,” was all they could re¬ 
ply to the parents’ wild appeal for help. 
And soon they brought the precious 
body home, more lovely even in its 
waxen repose than in life. “ Safe,” in¬ 
deed, but in what a different way from 
that they had anticipated. Now, the 
stricken mother sits in her silent home, 
and gazes on the winsome, pictured face 
whose expression varies not as of yore, 
with ever-changing moods. And she 
6591-LADIES’ DRESSING SACQUE 
vainly regrets that she heeded not the 
counsels of those who, having had more 
experience, better understood baby’s 
nature and needs. c. E. w. 
FOR AN INVALID. 
F ASTENED to the side of a friend’s 
cushioned chair, is a neat recep¬ 
tacle which must save her many journeys 
across the room, and awake grateful 
remembrance of the thoughtful person 
who sent the gift. It is as simple as it 
is.useful to its invalid owner, and being 
very neatly made of a pale olive canvas 
and golden brown linen floss, has pret¬ 
tiness also to recommend it. 
When I make one like it for every in¬ 
valid I know—and I have promised my¬ 
self to do so before Christmas week—I 
shall begin with a piece of cotton canvas 
17 inches wide and 15 inches long ; fold 
down an inch-wide hem across the top, 
and eatstitch it on the right side with 
linen floss; turn a narrow hem along 
the opposite end, folding it on what 
seems the right side. Along this second 
hem, I shall mark, with small spool and 
lead pencil, a line of scallops ; work 
these in buttonhole stitch, not cutting 
them out when finished, as they would 
soon roll over and have a mussy look. 
When the scalloped end has been 
folded up on to the right side to within 
inches of the top, lines of catstitch- 
ing will hold it in place, and also divide 
the lower part into three pockets. The 
middle compartment will be wide enough 
to hold letters or a book, and into one 
MOTHERS .—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best. — Adv. 
of the others will naturally go the hand¬ 
kerchief or bit of work, while such little 
indispensables as button hook, scissors, 
nail polisher, pencil and comfit box will 
find convenient hiding place in the thii-d. 
An invalid obliged to keep her bed 
might have the case tacked to the head 
board ; for one who spends much time 
on a lounge, nothing could be handier 
than having the case fastened to the 
back side of the lounge, back where it 
would be within reach, yet out of the 
way. PRUDENCE T. PRIMROSE. 
PEN POTPOURRI. 
Smile a little, smile a little, 
As you go along. 
Not alone when life is pleasant. 
But when things go wrong. 
Care delights to see you frowning, 
Loves to hear you sigh ; 
Turn a smiling face upon her, 
Quick the dame will fly. 
Smile a little, smile a little, 
All .along the road ; 
Every life must have its burden. 
Every heart its load. 
Why sit down in gloom and darkness, 
With your grief to sup ? 
As you drink Fate’s bitter tonic, 
Smile across the cup. 
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox in Youth's Companion. 
... .Beaconsfield : “Women excel in 
one sort of courage—the courage of 
resignation.” 
....Rev. Dr. Bonwello “Do not tell 
me any man is a ruler of himself who is 
led around by a cigar like a dog with a 
string.” 
_Junius Henri Browne in Harper’s 
Bazar : “ The nearer the sexes come to¬ 
gether, the more they assimilate, the 
closer their identification, within certain 
limits, the higher our civilization.” 
_Theodore Roosevelt : “A would-be 
upper class based mainly on wealth, in 
which it is the exception and not the 
rule for a man to be of any real account 
in the national life, whether as a politi¬ 
cian, a literary man, or otherwise, is of 
necessity radically defective and of little 
moment.” 
... .Frances E. Willard : “ The ‘ work¬ 
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The time is not distant when those who 
do not work will be drummed out of the 
camp and stung out of the hive, and will 
learn by what they suffer that it is a law 
of God, written in our members, that 
‘ He who will not work neither shall he 
eat.’ ” 
ODDS AND ENDS. 
Train the Appetites — Encourage 
children to cultivate a liking for foods 
that are distasteful, says Victoria J. 
Simpson, for by so doing, they may be 
saved from embarrassment in after life, 
and it is much easier for a physician to 
prescribe a diet in case of sickness. For 
the nominally healthy adult, the more 
elaborate and artistic cookery is enjoy¬ 
able as well as beneficial, for the reason 
that the body being mature the vorac¬ 
ious appetite of the youth is subdued, 
and it becomes necessary to tempt the 
palate. High class cookery, being well 
seasoned, acts as a stimulant to the 
saliva and the gastric juice, causing 
greater activity in the digestive organs. 
He Didn't Mind It.—T here was a 
pretty little scene the other day upon 
one of the Jersey ferryboats, says Har¬ 
per’s Bazar. A white-frocked, white-cap¬ 
ped baby of, perhaps, 18 months old, 
was toddling up and down the cabin, 
when her attention was suddenly at¬ 
tracted by the shoestring tags of a young 
man who sat with one knee thrown over 
the other. With a crow of delight, the 
child clutched them and swung her 
weight upon them. The loops yielded 
to the strain, and the little one was sud¬ 
denly seated on the floor, without, how¬ 
ever, relaxing her hold upon the strings. 
Clinging to them, she pulled herself to 
her feet, jabbering out a scolding, that 
changed into a fresh cry of joy as she 
caught sight of the strings of the other 
shoe. For the rest of the trip she made 
playthings of the shoes, talking to them, 
caressing them, scolding them in her 
baby patois, to the intense amusement 
of the spectators. Through it all the 
young man sat calmly, a half-amused 
smile on his face, without a trace of the 
self consciousness or dislike of babies 
that is often seen in very young men. As 
the boat entered the slip, he withdrew 
his pedal extremities gently from the 
baby’s embrace, and shouldering a big 
bundle, walked off as composedly as 
though he were not the center of amused 
observation to a cabinful of people. It 
was a pretty and unconscious lesson in 
good-breeding and kindliness of heart. 
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