When  you  write  advertisers  mention 
The  Rural  New-Yorker  and  you’ll  get 
a  quick  reply  and  a  “ square  deal.  ”  See 
guarantee  editorial  page.  :  :  : 
Love  in  Homeopathic  Doses 
“  Getting  on”  with  Children 
During  the  year  we  have  many  strange 
questions  sent  us.  They  touch  all  de¬ 
partments  of  human  life,  and  are  often 
pathetic  in  their  appeal.  The  following 
letter  was  received  from  a  country  woman. 
It.  is  printed  just  as  she  sent  it.  We 
passed  it  on  to  another  country  woman, 
asking  her  to  give  such  comment  as  she 
could  about  her  own  children.  Thus  we 
have  d  discussion  fsom  real  experience. 
I  have  two  boys,  aged  11  and  14  years. 
When  do  such  boys  get  sense?  When  do 
they  realize  what,  is  what?  For  instance 
we  hove  a  small  farm.  Their  father  goes 
away  from  home  to  work  ill  days  a 
month.  The  place  is  not  enough  to  make 
a  living  on,  as  we  have  three  children. 
We  have  horse,  cow,  pigs,  and  chickens, 
some  berries,  corn,  potatoes,  and  apples. 
Of  course,  it  needs  weeding,  hoeing  and  so 
forth.  I,  the  mother,  have  all  that  to 
do,  and  a  house  of  11  rooms  to  look  after, 
and  also  outside  washing.  I  am  forever 
scolding  because  m.v  boys  do  not  and  will 
not  help  me.  When  I  say  they  could  help 
pull  weeds  or  hoe,  the  oldest  will  say,  as 
to-day  when  he  unloaded  about,  a  whcel- 
banowful  of  manure  off  the  wagon,  that 
he  is  doing  it  for  his  mother  or  father. 
He  cannot  figure  out  how  he  is  doing  it 
for  himself.  When  I  say  I  am  only 
working  for  my  children,  I  am  doing  it  to 
give  them  an  education,  and  a  home,  they 
cannot  sep  into  that.  They  think  if  they 
hoe  or  weed  or  feed  pigs  or  chickens  they 
do  it.  for  their  parents.  It  almost  kills 
me  to  hear  that,  iftauy  times  the  oldest 
has  said:  “Ain’t  T  doing  this  for  you?” 
It  is  certainly  very  discouraging  for  a 
mother.  What  shall  I  do?  I  often  won¬ 
der.  B.  m.  ii. 
When  Ironing  Day 
Comes  Round 
Add  Borax  to  the  etarch.  It 
makes  the  ironing  amoother. 
Clothes  washed  with  Borax 
are  satisfactory  to  iron  because 
they  are  clean,  soft  and  Hweet. 
Their  color  is  unfaded.  They 
have  not  “come  to  pieces”  in 
the  wash. 
Keep  Borax  always  on  your 
laundry  shelf  and  specify 
20  Mule  Team  Borax 
it’s  the  purest. 
More  About  Summer  Boarders 
Some  time  ago  The  R.  N.-Y.  asked  to 
have  women  who  have  had  Summer 
hoarders  write  their  experience  in  ob¬ 
taining  them,  as  so  many  have  written 
how  to  keep  them,  feed  them,  etc.  In 
our  vicinity,  we  advertise  in  the  hook 
published  by  the  C.  V.  R.  R„  which 
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A  Pair  of  Dairy  Children 
gives  mimes,  addresses,  rates,  short  de¬ 
scriptions,  etc.,  free.  Also  the  Publicity 
of  the  State  publishes  a  book  in  which 
advertising  is  free,  of  which  we  avail 
ourselves.  I  think  most  large  railroad 
lines  and  many  city  dailies  now  publish 
Summer  resort  books.  We  are  so  far 
from  large  cities  that  it  is  not  profitable 
for  us  to  pay  the  high  rates  required  for 
advertising  in  the  city  dailies,  as  so 
many  searching  those  “ads”  are  looking 
for  nearby  places.  Of  course  satisfied 
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to  view  new  scenes  each  year,  no  mat¬ 
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