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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
GIVE HIM A TRADE 
Hat iu order to keep each of the little springs 
anil wheels of the complicated machinery of do¬ 
mestic life moving in its proper place, and at the 
proper time, a great deal of energy and persever¬ 
ance are required. Spasmodic exertions will never 
accomplish the most perfect results. There must 
be in the family, 
“ A long pull, and a strong pull, and a pull all together." 
There is another subject to which we would re¬ 
fer, in speaking of the duties of farmers’ wives.— 
Enjoying as they do, the privilege of selecting 
from the great store-house of Nature a large va¬ 
riety of food, it is very desirable that they have 
the requisite knowledge to enable them to prepare 
for their families, wholesome viandB; not poison¬ 
ing the best blood of the land with an unhealthful 
diet Let farmers’ wives, study and obey ihe laws 
of health. In the country, where Heaven’s breezes 
are the purest, where the waters fall from the skies 
unmingled with the smoke of the town, and foun¬ 
tains gush from the earth, sparkling with life, 
where the fields are broad and beautiful, let smil¬ 
ing Hvgea take up her abode, and bless the sons 
and daughters of the toiling farmer, and his intel¬ 
ligent and cultivated wife. 
Granville, Kent Co, Mich , 1S57. 
We counsel no miserliness in providing for the 
comforts aud delights of home. Let there be al¬ 
ways enough; when it can be afforded, let much 
attention he bestowed upon those things which 
have a tendency towards refinement. 
A careful, industrious woman, will be able to ac¬ 
complish much in this direction, even with small 
means. With the odd half-dimes, and leisure mo¬ 
ments which others would waste, she will be able 
to gather around her family, many sources of en¬ 
joyment and instruction. The amount wasted in 
the kitchens ot Borne families, would supply them 
with newspapers, periodicals and library reading 
enough to enlighten their understandings to a very 
high degree, and if that enlightenment had its 
legitimate influence, to render them in a eorres- 
The amount wasted in 
For Moore'b Rural New-Yorker. 
SONNET TO SPRING. 
CONDUCTED BY AZ1LR 
For Moore's Kural New-Yorker. 
OUR BABY’’-BOY. 
Most welcome art thou in thy coming. Spring, 
Thou child of seasons, with thy laughing eyes 
Or heaven's most glorious blue. The crimson lies 
Upon thy dewy lip at mom ; and twilight flings 
The shades of 6ilken lashes on thy cheek. 
A wanton child art thou, sporting 'mong flowers 
Atuid the sunshine and amid the showers. 
At mom and even ever gay and sweet. 
I love thee. Spring 1 thy presence moves to gladness, 
I love tby dancing in the leafy bowers, 
I love thy music in the midnight storm, 
I love thy breathing in the morning hours— 
Thine is a heart of love and voice of song, 
My way-worn soul beguiling of its sadness. 
I dreamed that in the heavenly land, 
Where all is love and joy, 
I saw him whom our hearts have mourned 
Our darling baby-boy. 
There were no traces left of pain 
Or death, upon bis brow, 
But beautilul and blest he seemed— 
Ab such 1 see him now. 
Now, when my soul is yearning 
To clasp him to my breast, 
I think how pure and fair he looked— 
And thank Goo for his rest. 
He ne’er shall know earth's sin or care, 
Never shall suffer pain, 
Never shall weep the loved one's death— 
For him to die ivas gain. 
East Hampton, Mass. H. 
ponding degree happy, 
fashionable apparel by some ladies, wonld be suffi¬ 
cient to Burrouud their families with very many 
sources of delight and refinement, which they 
now imagine they cannot alford. When the mind 
shall come to be regarded with the degree of 
attention, with which the bcdy now is, aud the 
elevation of the whole being becomes as great an 
object of desire, as is now the keeping up of fash- 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker 
A SPRING EPISTLE. 
■Shall I send thee a weather 
Friend Rural 
chronicle? It has been rainy, rainy, rainy! for 
three, four, five consecutive days; and I have just 
been up into the observatory to calculate the de¬ 
struction to life and property, if another delnge is 
to be onr portion. All day, the clouds have been 
sending unceasingly their baptismal drops, upon 
the earth. And now I gaze upon the distant hills > 
still pointing to the Bky their unclothed trees, save 
here and there an evergreen, whose tassels still re¬ 
tain their verdancy—and through whose branches 
the breeze seems to wake a requiem, that its sister 
trees are so dilatory in putting on their ne w array. 
And the dark green hemlocks wave their elender 
fingers, in perfect consternation, that not even tho 
ruffles of light green leaves are yet visible. 
But the earth is hourly growing greener, and the 
young grain and grass seem almost to grow per¬ 
ceptibly while we are gazing. And the pure odor 
of “fresh-growing things ” is welcome to the heart. 
The little birds have not dared attempt to out- 
warble the rain, and witb folded wings lie meekly 
in their new-made nests. 
■so incessantly it falls, I mnst con- 
as is now 
ionpble appearances, we may look tor a great ad 
vance in the culture of the beautiful. The moral 
influence of plasant. surroundings is inestimable.— 
Make borne beautiful, and yon have done much 
towards securing your children from vice. The 
farmer’s wile should be able to appreciate lovely 
things, and disposed to make home so. 
One of the simplest and cheapest elements of 
domestic beauty is neatness. Devoid of this, the 
most extravagantly furnished apartments will be 
ud pleasant With it, the humble cottage may 
smile welcome to the weary husband aud brother. 
One wonld much prefer to sit down to a simple 
meal, neatly served, than to the most costly viands 
prepared and presented in a slovenly manner. A 
greasy table-cloth, half-washed china, and un¬ 
scoured knives, are not particularly tempting to 
the appetite. A pine floor as dark with mud and 
grease-spots as tbongh it were made of black ash, 
corners of the room filled up with the accumula¬ 
tions of years, a stove that has no acquaintance 
with a stove-cloth, chairs, tables, aud book-cases 
covered with a thick layer of dust, offer no great 
inducements to a husband of taste to spend a leis¬ 
ure hour at the home fire-side. 
But neatness, though unquestionably an indis¬ 
pensable one, is not the only cheap way of render- 
What a change may be 
For Moore’a Rural New-Yorkor. 
FARMERS’ WIVES. 
THEIR POSITION, QUALIFICATIONS AND DUTIES, 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorkor. 
THAT “CALL” AND PLATFORM. 
BY MRS. M. P. A. CROZIEB. 
We would inquire whether, in the endeavor to 
elevate rural life, and particularly farm life, there 
is not danger that one element of success or of 
failure, will he overlooked or underated, viz., 
the influence of Farmers' Wives? Belonging, as 
these individuals do, to the more independent 
class of rural society, their position, from that very 
iudepence, is commanding, and their influence ex¬ 
tensive. 
When, therefore, the standard of excel¬ 
lence among the farmers’ wives of a community 
is low, we may expect to see a correspondingly low 
standard among the remaining female portion of 
the neighborhood,—and from their influence in 
the home circle, a like low-mindedness and cor¬ 
ruption of taste and moral sentiment, throughout, 
community. 
The women of country neighborhoods have 
commonly been the telegraphic media of commu¬ 
nication between different families, the business of 
the men confining them s» closely much of the 
year as to forbid that freedom of neighborly inter¬ 
course which is enjoyed by their wives and daugh¬ 
ters. This can properly be regarded as reprehen¬ 
sible, only so far as it conflicts witb home or other 
duties, and is made the medium of small talk and 
scandal. Human beings, not less in country than 
in town life, require gratification for the social of 
their natures, and that, too, usually beyond wliat 
can be enjoyed at their own fire-side; it is not, 
them unnatural that one woman should seek the 
society of another, and where nothing more eleva¬ 
ting is encouraged, it is not unnatural that what 
might be rendered a Bource of great improvement, 
and noble enjoyment, a blessing to community at 
large, should be scarcely more than a tissue of 
common-place observations, mingled with detrac¬ 
tion and a culpable inquisitiveness. 
It is easy to see, in part, what would be the ef¬ 
fect, if, when the ladies met for their customary 
not of the queer 
clouds —of tobacco smoke? I fancy no one can 
disguise the “vile practice by perfumery and nos¬ 
trums.” But should they, / am not prepared to 
pledge -myself that “ I would at least despise a hus¬ 
band”—because l would not unite my destiny with 
one whoso mind would not merit any respect, even 
were he “ a slave to tobacco." 
Neither can I subscribe to your preference for 
the fatal cup.” If it were unpleasant to have your 
“children stumble over a filthy spittoon," how in¬ 
finitely more so a “stumbling block" in the person 
of a druuken father! Would you prefer that 
blighting curse for their inheritance, rather than 
the less injurious bodily evil, not to speak of the 
utter mental and spiritual ruin intemperance in¬ 
volves? Tobacco, I admit, is a very objectionable 
habit, aud I should fear would be followed by 
greater ones, in a man who had not sufficient self- 
denial to abandon it, rather than subject his fami¬ 
ly to such a nuisance, 
TheD, while we are free, I am ready for the re¬ 
solve—if men are “joined to their idol, to let them 
alone." Wonder if such an edict would prove an 
inducement to wife-seekers to throw off the fetters 
made of “weeds?” With this explanation, I am 
ready to enlist under the banner—“ Eternal enmity 
Rain, rain 
tent myself with merely gazh g ont upon the fields, 
whose changing hue seems deepening with every 
falling drop. But listen to tho music! 0, how 
sweet in its strange irregularity, aud its want of 
fashionable time-notes! Now pattering against 
the window-panes with sudden force, waking a 
symphony, heedless of “barB” or “double bars"— 
now occasional “dotted notes” and now a pro¬ 
longed “ rest.” Now list to the treble it plays upon 
the parti-colored pebbles in its bed beneath the 
eaves. And hear the deep bass-notes, as with col¬ 
lected strength it glides udown the roof into its 
tin channel, and is borne down to its cistern-grave 
to mingle with tbose that have gone before. I 
love to listen to this untaught song of many parts. 
I cannot go ont between the falling drops, and 
so, looking forward to a pleasant morrow, I have 
brought my portfolio down to write by the cheer¬ 
ful fire. And alternately listening to the music 
without—to ihe rich piano-notes which my young 
friend E. calls fqrth, and occasionally replying to 
a question of the matronly hostess,— I am content. 
And little. “Bell,” the most bewitching of all little 
gypsies, steals to my side, and attempts to relieve 
me of my pen, with which 1 trace what, to her, 
seems like strange hieroglyphics. Defeated in this, 
she seeks to examine into the contents of my port¬ 
folio, and rid it of superfluous papers. Not being 
indulged in this, she leaves me with the least per¬ 
ceptible scowl of infant displeasure, — aud a look 
of not-defeated-yet,— and in a moment returns, 
bearing triumphantly in each hand, an old paper 
iog a home inviting, 
made iD the appearance of a room otherwise dark 
and cheerless, by the mere introduction of a vase 
of flowers! If you please, the vase may be only a 
common eartbern pitcher, and the flowers simple 
wild one from some neighboring field, or forest; 
the effect will still be delightful. Let there be 
drawings, paintings and statuary in yosr dwelling, 
if you can afford them, bnt do not neglect the 
flowers; tbose God-given treasures which spring 
up so abundantly on every hand, but. which are 
none the less beautifnl, because abundant. Culti¬ 
vate them around yon dwelling; let Spring, Sum¬ 
mer and Autumn bring yon a choice succession of 
these little blessings, not only for your own hearts 
to gather cheerfulness from, but to gladden the 
hearts of your neighbor and the wafariug man.— 
Should yon feel inclined to reply, “I have no time 
for these things; my moments are nearly all oc¬ 
cupied in more necessary duties;” we would then 
say, learn to economise time. One woman, no 
quicker in movement than another, will, by her 
management, be able to accomplish much more.— 
She will “ kill two birds with one stone." She 
will not take fifty steps where but twenty-five are 
necessary; when she repairs to her chambers to 
do her chamber work, she will not forget her dust¬ 
pan and brush, and when she has finished sweep¬ 
ing, have to make a journey down stairs on pur¬ 
pose for those articles. Much may be done, in the 
An exchange says that Dr. Robinson is the 
author of the accompanying remarks, on over tax¬ 
ing the youthful brain: 
"The minds of children ought to be little, if at 
all, taxed till tlie brain’s development is nearly 
completed, or until the age of six or seven years. 
And will those years be wasted; or will tbe future 
man he move likely lobe deficient in mental power 
than one who is differently treated? Those years 
will not be wasted. Tho great book of nature is 
opened to the infant’s and the child's prying in¬ 
vestigation; aud from nature’s page may be learn¬ 
ed more useful information than is contained in 
all the children’s books that have ever been pub¬ 
lished. But even supposing those years to have 
been absolutely lost, which is anything but the 
case, will the child be eventually a loser thereby ? 
We contend, with our author, that he will not.— 
Task the mind during the earlier years, and you 
only expose the child to a greater risk of a dis¬ 
ordered brain—not only, it may bo, lay the founda¬ 
tion for a morbid excitability of braiu, that may 
one day end in insanity—but you debilitate its 
bodily powers, and by so doing, to all intents and 
purposes, the mind will be a loser in its powers and 
capabilities.” 
FEMALE EDUCATION 
visits, they should 
flowers on Jane Meio’s new spring bonnet, Sakah 
Jones’ spruce young bean of last Sunday evening, 
Mrs. Ashbuky’9 proud city visitors, the quarrels of 
neighbor Scroogs’ family, and the like; hut of Do¬ 
mestic Economy, the proper training of children, the 
physical law as relating to the lutman system , the influ¬ 
ence of various habits upon health and morals, the 
elevation and duties of woman, Floriculture, Horti¬ 
culture, and even Agriculture fo-r it is not undesira¬ 
ble that farmers’ wives should understand some¬ 
thing of that science. True, this would call for 
study, observation, and reflection, and this is pre¬ 
cisely what would greatly tend to the ennobling of 
tbe womanly element of society, and through that 
every other, inasmuch aB nobility is both conta¬ 
gious and hereditary; this, with the requisite de- 
A writer in the last number of tbe North Brit¬ 
ish Review observes:—“Instead of educating every 
girl as though she were born to be an independent, 
self-supporting member of society, we educate her 
to become a mere dependant, a hanger-on, or, as 
the law delicately phrases it, a chattel. In some 
respects, indeed, we err more barbarously than 
tbose nations among whom a plurality of wives is 
permitted, and who regard women purely as so 
much live stock; for among such people women 
are, at all events, provided with shelter, with food 
and clothing—they are “ cared” for as cattle are. 
There is a completeness in such a system. 
“ But among ourselves we treat women as cattle 
without providing for them as cattle. We take 
the worst part of barbarism and the worst part of 
civilization, and work them into a heterogeneous 
whole. We bring up onr women to be dependent, 
and then leave them without any one to depend 
on. There is no one, there is nothing for them to 
lean upon, and they fall to the ground. Now, what 
every woman, no less than every man, should have 
to depend upon, is an ability, after some fasbina or 
other, to turn labor into money. She may or may 
not be compelled to exercise it, but every one 
ought to possess it If she belong to the richer 
classes, she may have to exercise it; if to the 
poorer, she assuredly will.” 
ho stepped in to know the cause. The General 
immediately addressed him, saying, “Mr. Wesley, 
you muBt excuse me. I have met with a provoca¬ 
tion too great for a man to bear. You know the 
only wine 1 drink is Cyprus wine, as it agrees 
with me best of any; I therefore provided myself 
with several dozens of it; and tills villain "(his 
servant, who was present, almost dead with fear) 
“ has drank up the whole of it. Bnt I will be re¬ 
venged on him. I have ordered him to be tied 
hand and foot, and to be carried to tbe man-of-war 
which sails with us. The rascal Bhould have 
taken care how he used me so, for I never for¬ 
give.” “Then, Sir," said Mr. Wesley, looking 
calmly at him, "1 hope you never sin.” The 
General, confounded at the reproof, threw his keys 
to the servant, aud bade him do better in future. 
Here, then, is the point: — If we would never for¬ 
give, we tunst never sin. The very proneness to 
siu which we find in ourselves should he a most 
powerful incentive to the cultivation d f a spirit ol 
forgiveness. 
Discipline in Childhood. —Young people who 
have been habitually gratified in all their desires 
will infallibly take it more amisBuhen tbe feelings 
or happiness of others require that they should he 
thwarted, than those wlio have been practically 
trained to the habit of subduing aud restraining 
them; and consequently will, in general, sacrifice 
the happiness of others to their own selfish indul¬ 
gence. To what else is the selfishness of princes’ 
and other great people to be attributed? It is in 
vain to think of cultivating principles of gene¬ 
rosity and beneficence by mere exhortation and 
reasoning. 
Nothing but the practical habit of overcoming 
our selfishness, and of familiarly encountering pri¬ 
vations and discomfort on account of others, will 
ever enable us to do it when required. And, there¬ 
fore, I am firmly persuaded that indulgence infal- 
liby produces selfishness and hardness of heart, 
and that nothing but a pretty severe discipline and 
control can lay the foundation of a magnanimous 
character.— Lord Jeffrey. 
RISING IN THE WORLD 
You should bear constantly in mind that niue- 
tenths of us are, from the very nature and necessi¬ 
ties of the world, born to gain our livelihood by 
the sweat of tho brow. What %easou have wc, 
then, to presume that oar children are not to do 
the same? If they be, as now and then one will 
be endowed with extraordinary powers of mind, 
those extraordinary powers of mind may have an 
opportunity of developing themselves; and, if they 
never have that opportunity, the harm is not very 
erreat to us or to them. Nor does it hence follow 
luboreis. The path upwards is steep aud long, to 
be sure. Indastry, care, skill, excellence in the 
present parent, lay the foundation of a rise, under 
more favorable circumstances, for the children.— 
The children of these take another rise; and, by 
and by, the descendants of the present laborer be 
come gentlemen. This is the natural progress. It 
is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap 
that so much misery is produced in tho world.— 
Society may aid in making the laborers virtuous 
and happy, by bringing children up to labor with 
steadiness, with care, and with skill; to show them 
how to do as many useful things as possible; to do 
them all in the best manner; to set them an exam¬ 
ple iu industry, sobriety, cleanliness and neatness; 
to make all these habitual to them, so that they 
never shall be liable to fall into the contrary; to 
let them always see a good living proceeding from 
labor, and thus to remove from them, the tempta¬ 
tion to get at the goods of others by violeut aud 
fraudulent raeune, and to keep far from their minds 
all the inducements to hypocrisy and deceit 
Cobbelt. 
Appearances.— A coat tnat nas marss u. 
upon it is a recommendation to people ol sense; 
and a hat with too smooth a nap aud too high a 
lustre is a derogatory circumstance. The best 
coats in Broadway are on tbe backs of penniless, 
broken-down merchants, clerks with pitiful salar 
ries, aud men that don’t pay up. '1 bo heaviest 
gold chains dangle from the fobs of gamblers and 
gentlemen of very limited menus; costly ornaments 
on ladies indicate to eyes that are well open, a silly 
lover, or a husband cramped for funds. Aud when 
a pretty woman goes by iu a suit of plain and neat 
apparel, it is a sign that she has fair expectations 
and a lniBband that can show a balance in bis fa- 
v or,— N. Y. Tribune. 
Temper. — Too many have no idea of the sub¬ 
jection of their temper to the influence of religion, 
and yet what is changed if the temper is not? If a 
man is passionate, malicious, resentful, 6ulleD, 
moody, or morose, alter hiB conversion as before 
it, what is he converted from or to? 
leadB ns to speak of economy. The old saying is 
commonly very true, 
« A man may spare, and yet be bare 
II his wife be naught, if his wiie be naught; 
A man may spend, and have money to lend. 
If hiB wife be aught, if his wife be aught." 
There are few, if aDy, farmers in sufficiently 
affluent circumstances, to render economy in the 
household arrangements a non-essential; even if 
there were, it would still be wrong, by careless 
management, to allow of waste, and useless expen¬ 
diture, for there are always those whose necessi¬ 
ties now illy cared for, might bo abundantly sup¬ 
plied from the overflowings of tho wealthy. Wo 
are all stewards upon the earth and to whom much 
is given, of them will much be required. 
battered to pieces, and cattle ouly half protected 
from the cold winter, that you will find a filthy 
dwelling, and a slovenly house-wife; and some¬ 
times it may occur that such a state of things in 
the house, will be brought about by mismanage¬ 
ment or slothfulneBs on the part of the husband; 
but such is a wife’s influence, that it is possible, 
that disorderly habits on her part, may produce 
the like in her husband. 
It was one of Coleridge’s truthful sayings, that 
the fairest flower he buw climbing round a poor 
man’s window, wub not so beautiful in his eyes as 
the Bible which he saw lying within. 
The true perceptions of a child are the objects 
that surround him; these are the instructors to 
whom he owes almost all his ideas. 
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