It Beemed Ilk'; a <1lni remembrance 
Of llfv in another sphere. 
And left me In silent wonder. 
Waiting, ns IX to hour 
A v<ilce I had long forgotten. 
With message of weleotne sound— 
Lifting mo nearer heaven, 
As vapors rise, from the ground. 
There may be times when the spirit 
Escapes from the house of clay 
And tiles to Its native heaven. 
As a child goes out to play— 
And the glimpses that tilt so dimly 
At times across memory’s track. 
Are something our angel brought from heaven 
That we are to carry hack. 
THE DAY-KINO. 
Blest power of sunshine ! genial day. 
What balm, what life is In thy ray 1 
To feel thee is such real bliss. 
That had the world no Joy but this, 
To sit In sunshine calm and sweet, 
It were a world too exquisite 
For man to leave II for the gloom. 
The deep, cold shadow of the tomb. [ 
A MOTTO FOR EVERY-DAY LIFE 
GORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Judies' 
BY n. M. .1. 
Something came to my soul to-day. 
Out of the misty past, 
As the spar from a wrecked and sunken ship 
May float to the shore at Inst,— 
A vague und shadowy vision 
That vanished us soon as It came. 
For memory could not grasp It 
Or give It a place and name. 
almost constant thought, but very soon the 
thinking powers will successfully “ ship the 
drudgery of familiar labor on to the senses 
and muscles, and wander at will in pursuit 
of their own pleasure.” It Is only thus that 
labor becomes restful, and that work bus 
musio and poetry iu it. If the thought 
must often be brought abruptly home by 
| some unexpected thiug out of its place and 
fading foi| the fmmg. 
GRACE, THE GLEANER. 
One of the sweetest stories In the Old 
Testament Is that of Ruth gleaning in the 
fields of Boaz. The custom of allowing poor 
toll her how to make zephyr flowers. I have not 
seen an answer to her request, and thought I 
would wrlto one. Get the finest wire you can 
find at. the hardware store; take a piece and 
wind it close around a pin, or large needle; thed 
slip It off and stretch it out and form a leaf the 
shape of those In the flower you wish to make; 
then spilt, your zephyr, and take one thread, be¬ 
ginning at the stem, close to the leaf, and wind 
through the center around the wire. Make a 
number of leaves. If you wish to make a full 
flower, and tic them together, one by one, with 
thread. For the center of the flower, take sta¬ 
mens or a little of the zephyr, white or yellow, 
I daico a row of leaves around that, making th© 
eaves huger In each row. To make the green 
leaves, shape your wire In th© form of a leaf, and 
wind the zephyr across the leaf until you (pit to 
the end, and then bring It across the center of 
the leaf back to tbo place of commencement.* 
A Little Worker,— Amanda A. Writes from 
Otisco, N. Y. : — “ Wo take a good many papers, 
but the Rural Is read first and thought toe most 
of. I live with my aunt. She has four cows, end In 
the summer we make butter and lota of choose. 
I can make good cake, plea tuul bread. I can 
knit, and have pieced two bed-quilts mid am 
now piecing another." 
A Scotch essayist of facile peu thinks 
there is an overlooked source of happiness. 
He recommends tidiness as a cure for the 
blues. Let fins of depressed spirits find a. 
place where disorder and confusion reign, 
and, forgetful of all else set about it with a 
will to put things in order - proceeding 
thoroughly, until the Ideal of taste and neat¬ 
ness is fully gratified —and the tone of feel¬ 
ing will rise with the process until cheerful¬ 
ness rules. 
Some such rigid motto as “ in statu quo," 
or “leave no tracks,” rigidly adhered to, is 
the only cure for the peace-dostroylug evil 
of disorder. 
It is no small undertaking for it woman of 
decidedly opposite habits to go at 11 o'clock 
to her kitchen, prepare her dinner and wel¬ 
come her husband to the dining-room at a 
quarter past 12, leaving scarce a perceptible ■ 
track. The shavings-basket is so likely to 
cuddle down by the stove; the potato peel¬ 
ings like to get into a pair of dirty water on 
the table; t he dish cloth, the nutmeg grater, 
the meat rinds, the potato masher, a little 
flour, sundry knives and forks, the salt bag 
and butterdish do so much like to have a 
social reunion. And the heat-loving cronies, 
pans, spider* and pots, want to have a little 
interview over the slowly dying fire. If the 
wash dish can get into a chair, and a little 
water splllad can give the mop excuse to 
Come out and lean against the wall, there 
will be a culinary carnival, into which the 
dirty dinner dishes will shortly be welcomed 
to celebrate " high mass.” It. is needless to 
describe how farm implements, mechanics’ 
tools, sewing materials, and books and sta¬ 
tionery are all capable of like antics, 
A barn, a farm-yard, or a shop in order 
once it month, or even once a week, is not 
an orderly place. A house with everything 
in Its place ouoe a day may yet be a most, 
disorderly home. Nothing cun secure that 
wonderfully satisfied state of the mind 
which a souse of order brings but an un¬ 
flinching adherenco to the motto, “ In Sttttu 
quo." Some farm-yard or domestic opera¬ 
tion may bring into service a half-dozen of 
implements. Haste to accomplish the thing 
In hand may scorn a good reason for allow¬ 
ing them to lie, for the present, just where 
they were used,—but the motto requires 
that with the utmost exactness they each 
go to what the mind is satisfied is the right 
place. 
One seems almost justified when coming 
home cold, or with news to tell, iu t hrowing 
aside the furs, the coat, the hat, the gloves 
and parcels where they can he picked up at 
Home future time, but the rule will not ad¬ 
mit of it. No tracks must be left. The ax, 
the hammer, the hoe, pull and brush—the 
broom, needle and spool—even the shred or 
fragment must travel straight to its abiding 
place, or by-and-by there will be a clog in 
the wheels of domestic life aud the per¬ 
turbed temper will have a temptation to 
overcome. It may seem to some a very 
hard thing to do — as though stopping to be 
so particular would never accomplish any¬ 
thing. But the process is like removing 
obstacles from a water course; and after a 
time a current is formed that bearB one ou. 
To establish this orderly habit requires 
now piecing another." 
A Calf la llaniem.— Fiu?n. E. Johnson of 
Sullivan Co., Ohio, writes I tun a fanner's 
boy, nine years old. I have a calf that my father 
gave me till ho fa one year old. I hare trained 
him to work in a harness that. I ratal© for him. 
I cun drive him where I please. His name Is 
Kerry. Father takes the Rural amt I cut. out 
the pictures aud past© in a s«mip bonk." 
[Perhaps your father will give you the calf 
for your own, after it is a year old. Instead of 
cutting tho pictures out of the Kurai, wo sug¬ 
gest that you preservo the paper, as it Is now In 
better stylo for filing and binding than ever be¬ 
fore.— Ed.] 
A Young Telegrapher. - E. C. Dodge writes 
from Erie Co., Pa.“ I am not a farmer's boy, 
which I sometimes wish I was, but work ntteio- 
gruptiing. My father is the Railroad Agent, and 
my older brother Is the day oocrator. 1 like my 
business very mnoh. I used to work at brack¬ 
ets some. I had a little shop which father gave 
me, but I have packed my tools all up In my lit¬ 
tle chest, and try and tend strictly to my busi¬ 
ness. I get. pretty sleepy nights, setting hero all 
alone, but I try and keep awake." 
niv A time ilons.—G kohok I>., ten years old, 
writes from Syracuse“ As my brother takes 
the Rural New-Yorker, l thought. I would 
like to write a letter too. 1 live in Syracuse, 
like to write a letter too. l live In Syracuse, 
where thero are many attractions, suon us Salt 
Works and two com mills. One has n steam 
engine of 2W1 horse-power. There are many 
other manufactures which it would bo Interest¬ 
ing to toll about.” 
-RACK, T IT K 111, 10 A TVKR. 
xt flusgler. 
lying in the way, or a vexatious half hour 
be spent in hunting after some wandering 
t hing, labor is a weariness and t he confusion 
without brings sad unrest to the heart wit h¬ 
in. 
Park Ridge, 
III., 1872. 
“TOO GOOD COMPANY FOR ME.” 
The lady alluded to in thefollowing para¬ 
graph is a contributor to the Ritual New- 
Yorker, and as plucky and independent 
as here, represented: 
One evening this summer, a lady who be¬ 
longs on the editorial staff of one of tho lead¬ 
ing dailies of New York, had been detained 
by office duties until rather a late hour. Liv¬ 
ing mi the Heights in Brooklyn, but a short 
distance from Fulton Ferry, it was not much 
of a venture to go home without an escort, 
so she started. On the boat, standing out¬ 
side enjoying the refreshing breeze after the 
day's toil, she perceived a gentleman. (?) In 
rather close proximity to Where she was 
leaning over the guards, but said nothing. 
“Are you alone?” “ No, sir,” said the lady, 
and without further interruption, when tho 
boat touched, stepped off. “ I thought you 
said that you were not alone," said the fel¬ 
low, stepping to her side again. “ I ant not,” 
replied the lady. “ Why I don't see any one; 
who is with you?” “ God Almighty and the 
angels, sir—1 am never alone." “ You keep I 
too good company for me, madam; good 
night," and he shot fora Fulton avenue car, 
then nearly a block away. Tho heroic wo¬ 
man was permitted to “ keep to the right as 
the law directs,” and enjoy that full meas¬ 
ure of quiet satisfaction one always feels 
from keepiug good company. 
--♦♦A- 
Several ladies of Troy, married aud sin¬ 
gle, are talking about getting up a society to 
oppose the organizat ion of any more “lodges” 
of any kind in that city. They claim there 
are too many attractions atthe lodgesevery 
night in the week to suit them. 
---- 
An Edinburgh woman, whose case had 
been thrown up by her counsel, conducted 
it herself with so much ability that although 
Hhc was defeated the .Judge complimented 
her on the great skill she had displayed. 
—-©a*-- 
The light-colored tortoise shell is becom¬ 
ing all the rage, and every style of ornament 
is made of it. Some very pretty fans have 
alternate sticks of dark and light oolor, 
which are very unique and pretty. 
—-— 
A man's wife is his best lawyer, his best 
counsel, his best judge, his best adviser, and 
also the cheapest and most reasonable. 
people to glean in the harvest fields, is much 
more universal in Europe than iu this land 
of plenty, where poor as well as rich have 
as much corn and wheat as they need. Ami 
the gleaning of to-day is just, as beautiful 
and simple an operation as it was in Bible 
t imes. Our illust ration represents an applo- 
cheekod English girl, little Grace, “with 
sunny locks and sunny face,” who has been 
as busy as a bee iu the harvest fields. There 
is a little ballad about her, which says: 
" She gleans that she may bwoII tho shore 
Of yonder aaed dame, 
Who*© falling steps, with toilHome core, 
Can scarce support her frame. 
**«•►»*♦• 
Not all can Klenn amid tho corn— 
But all who fry can find, 
Bonn, wav to cheer a heart, forlorn. 
Sonic way of bring kind!" 
While plucking the wheat, she has pulled 
flowers also, uniting the bread by whioh we 
live, with the beauties which please the eye 
and gratify the love for the beautiful. 
--a »» ■ ■ - 
OUR LETTERS FROM BOYS AND GIRLS. 
A Kmart Girl Agent*-The Girls and Hoys arc 
really waking up and sending us clubs by every 
mail. Among those who huve reported during 
the past week, we copy the letter of a little girl 
living In Huron Co., Ohio, who didn’t mind tho 
laughter of foolish folk, but got up a club for 
the It Ural and secured a valuable Premium. 
Hero Is her letter: 
Mtt. Editor Although I am ft litt le girl only 
ton years old, 1 like to read your paper very 
much, and have been t rying to get up a club. I 
have twenty-six subscribers, and send you ftfty- 
two dollars. Some of the folks laughed at me 
for working so Irani to got up a club for a farm¬ 
er's nupor, but they did not scare me out of tt, 
and I want to get, something nice to show them 
I did not work for nothing. I would ltko you to 
send me a bilver-Pluted Cake Basket, price In 
tho Premium list fifteen dollars. I wanted an 
Organ real bad, but could not get names enough. 
My mother thinks I cannot write well enough 
to send letters to the Editor, for you cannot 
SQUARE-WORD ENIGMA.—No. 1. 
My tlrst ts a smooth surface; 
My second is a musical Instrument; 
My third Is the contents of a surface; 
My fourth la a number of animn's 1 
together. 
tW~ Answer in two weeks. 
-AAA- 
ILLUSTRATED REBUS. - No. 3. 
hitched 
Fed. 
Murray Hill, New York, 1872. 
Answer In two weeks. 
Aztle. 
TO CONSTRUCT AN ELLIPSIS. 
I orvE “ V" a method of Qpn: 
smietlqg an ofitp- 
iba an ©nijwfs, the 
to sent! terrors TO urn r.uiujr, lor you cannot . I. B a follow*-—‘To doarrllra on 
Sit,LIMAN. 
[Flora’s mother la mistaken, for the letter is 
well written. The Premium desired has been 
sent, and also an extra one.—E d.] 
Helping ller Father.— Jknny Lino B. of 8t. 
Lawrence Go., N. Y., says" I never wrote for 
transverse and conjugate fUamqtrra being given. 
Construction.- 1, Draw the traiwvers© and con¬ 
jugate diameters, A. B, C, A* bisecting each 
other perpendicularly in the center O. g, With 
the ratlins A, O, and center V, describe an arc 
cutting A, H, in F F, and these two points wifi 
bo the foci of the ellipse. Having found tho 
foci W, tuke a thread or the length of the trans¬ 
verse diameter, and fasten Its ©pda wlrh pins or 
tacks In the points K F: then stretch the thread 
a paper before, but. I thought I would try and tacks In the points K F: then stretch the thread 
write, tor 1 see some of the boys and girls are F, N, F, to its greatest extent, and It wUl reach 
wrilioir r am twelve years oln. I live on a to the point .S, In the curve; and by moving a 
farm with in v father and mother. Tho most of 
i In- gills that write am from the West or South, 
I notice, and some eat) boast either their pots or 
horsemanship. I cannot ot cither, unless it Is 
my one-yen r-nld sister. But, perhaps. I can do 
as well in school as any of you. I do not miss a 
day, for l want to learn to teach school, 80 as to 
heiii my folks, for we are trying to pay for the 
farm. I have persuaded pa to sign for your 
paper, and IT you don’t get wwiry of my letter I 
will write again. Undo Stephen says I can 
write good enough, and that you will appreciate 
all suon letters from little girls." 
How to Make Zephyr Flowers, — M. A. It. 
writes from Koonvllle, N. Y.:—“ I noticed in the 
Rural New-Yorker of Nov. 11, a letter from a 
little girl, with the request that some one would 
pencil round within tho thread, keeping It al¬ 
ways stretched, t will traee out the curve re¬ 
quired.— Subscriber. 
-A-AA-- 
PUZZLER ANSWERS.-Jan. 6. 
Bibucal Squarb-Word No. 1. 
ABBA 
B K A. N 
BARN 
ANNA 
HranEN Citibs, No. 1. — 1.. Athena; t. ThetrtB; 8. 
Tjt<* ; 4. Hidon ; 6. R*unascu«. 
Illustrated Rebus No. L— Wise men care act 
for that they cannot get. 
Problem No. 1.—,«T feot or 2 4-13 inches. 
