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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Radies’ ipoift-c^olia. 
CUPID DEFIANT. 
Small rebel. such as passing well 
Might for some angry CupLl stand 
By VaUcy Caught fmm some dear shell. 
Carved hy some wondrous A Hie hand ; 
Dear baby wrath, sweet infant scorn, 
Oh, Memory, hoard that picture still. 
That stormy grief of bounty born 
Our thoughts with tcndere&tsmiles to till. 
O, little foot that stamp, dear cries 
That tore aJo-.e to pence should woo. 
Had you but met Anacreon's eyes, 
How song divine had treasured you ! 
As some fond amber might enfold 
Some gentle thing from death and harm, 
So, in his song's pellucid gold, 
Had yon been caught, all yours to charm. 
Or had our mighty Shakspearo seen 
That pretty anger It had scorned, 
A dainty sweetness to have been 
Hived in the eirin dream lie dreamed. 
Then, with Titaniu's moonlit self, 
For ever had our fay lived on 
In midnight revel with each elf 
That- glads the Court of Oboron. 
rir. C. Bennett. 
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“COUNTRY WOMEN.” 
BY EL1SE. 
“ Cayuga ” has evidently relieved himself. I 
say himself, for certainly no one but a man, and 
one of very broad habits of thought and obser¬ 
vation could express himself so liberally in re¬ 
gard to work-in view of the wonderful sacrifices 
he is obliged to make daily, by.reason of tired 
women. 
What sympathy! what encouragement be of¬ 
fers to us—poor farmers' wives and daughters! 
Being one of the latter myself,and having been 
born and brought up on a farm where ail the 
work of boarding the men necessary to cultivate 
over three hundred acres was performed by the 
family for more than twenty years, 1 assume to 
to know more, perhaps, of what he affirms than 
he docs himself. Me lias merely stated our 
faults and grievances, but Iuib suggested noth¬ 
ing for our relief. 
As one of “the young ladles of a family,” 1 
acknowledge myself guilty of the sins of “ cro¬ 
cheting,” “ playing croquet," drumming on the 
piano, reading a little Latin, Herman, or French, 
occasionally, and scribbling considerable, bo- 
sides keeping up with Ihe current literature and 
news of the day. 1 also confess my ability 
get a meal on the table in good time and order; 
to do washing, ironing, baking, oloUnSng, sew¬ 
ing, and knitting; to teach, or to write in an 
office; also to enjoy riding, walking, visiting, 
and entertaining my friends. For all of which 
I am truly penitent. And I atn just one of those 
‘common country people.” 
I would not have “ Cayuga " understand that 
I really do all these things everyday, but that I 
have done, and am able to do thorn, all well, i 
am not afraid to work, neither am I ashamed to 
work; nor would I educate a child with a 
hatred for it, or in idleness; but I must admit 
that. I sometimes get tired of tills “ puttering " 
about. llnmoET's shadow has never crossed 
our threshold-only, however? beoauso she is a 
luxury (?) we cannot quite yet afford. 
I consider it better economy for our farm¬ 
ers’ wives to hire Bridget — who has inherited 
an iron constitution to do the work of the 
kitchen, under intelligent direction, than 
to wear themselves out In “unappreciated” 
toll, and lay by that two dollars per week. For 
no woman, living on a farm, can go oil—year 
after year doing all the work which Ins mother, 
and nearly all our mothers and grandmothers 
did, in those good old-fashioned days, without 
such a wearing on the physical system, as well 
as the mental, as will wholly unlit her for the 
intellectual training of her children. 
I hold that physical and intellectual culture 
should be developed side by side; that they 
must go hand in hand through life, if individual 
happiness is to be attained. Con stunt drudgery 
insures constant weariness; and without the re¬ 
laxation afforded by literary or musical pur¬ 
suits and out-door amusements, we become ab¬ 
sorbed iu a dull, stupid routine of work, which 
renders our society a bore to our friends, and 
finally drifts us into that desponding, complain¬ 
ing frame of mind which has no hope but that 
of rest, sometime, in the grave, and which our 
friend so deprecates. I am not surprised that 
sueh discerning men as “Cayuga” get out of 
patienoe with " a woman who will run all day in 
a half bushel.” 
Now, my work is always done. If a friend 
calls, 1 have abundant time to sit down and 
chat. If the horse and carriage are at liberty 
there is nothing to prevent my taking a drive— 
long or short, according to inclination. But, 
one says: “ How is that? with all your work, 
I don’t understand how you can leave ut any 
moment, for a visit or a drvie.” 
Simply because I think it Is my first duty. I 
consider it quite genteel to be healthy, and, con¬ 
sequently, like to ride or walk in the open air 
as much as possible, and, if when 1 return my 
time for household duties is limited, the vigor 
and freshness acquired out-of doors enable me 
to work more rapidly anti cheerfully than if I 
had been plodding' in the kitchen the whole of 
that time. Attention to the laws of health is 
the primary duty of every woman. 
Again, “Cayuga” recognizes no progression 
in the tastes and habits of country people. He 
would have them remain on a dead level. I 
have heard, before, of our “grandmother’s 
days.” I would urge him to come out from his 
seclusion into the world, and learn, by actual 
observation, that farming Is not necessarily 
drudgery; that farmers’ wives and daughters 
appreciate the luxuries and refinements of life, 
and that this is no indication of idleness or of 
mock gentility. On the contrary, some of our 
most intelligent, refined and highly educated 
farmers’ wives are exceedingly Industrious, en¬ 
ergetic women. 
Furthermore, there are few ladles of my ac¬ 
quaintance who prefer a delicacy and feeble¬ 
ness of constitution to strong, robust health. 
Moat of them would be thankful if their moth¬ 
ers had toiled leas and rested more, and so have 
kept themselves innocent, of the sin of trans¬ 
mitting to their children a weak, tired, physical 
organism. To such t 'uyoga's homily Is comfort¬ 
ing to t he last degree, and. probably, after read¬ 
ing and re-reading It, in a vain search for the 
Implied sarcasm, they arrive ut the very flutter¬ 
ing conclusion that the writer is either wilfully 
ignorant or demented, or else has lived his life, 
hitherto, in a six-story, soven-by-nine tenene- 
ment room in the city. 
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HUSBANDS, READ AND HEED! 
Why is it that husbands with wives who love 
them—whose first care, after duty to Goo, is to 
make them happy—wives who strive to make 
themselves, intellectually, worthy companions 
for the husbands they admire and respect, as 
well as lovo—whose highest ambition Is to be 
true, Christian companions—why is it that those 
husbands, otherwise kind and alfeothinutu, will, 
night after night, leave tliolr homes, to seek the 
companionship of indifferent men In town, then; 
Idly discussing elections, etc., until twelve, one, 
two, throe, yes, four o'clock in the morning, 
actually defrauding their wives of one of their 
holiest, most siicrcd rights? 
O, could these husbands but see into the hearts 
of those they hold dearest; see the anxiety with 
which they watch for their coming as night 
draws near; tho cruel suspense as hour a I'ter 
hour passes by, and no husband yet,until, final¬ 
ly, too sad for companionship wit h others, they 
seek their rooms, each there to ponder, again 
and again, “ Why, why is it that I liuvo not the 
attractions to call him home?" Could he thus 
see into ber heart, would ho so fill It with an¬ 
guish for the husks of pleasure that he finds in 
town? 
Is it a wonder that some women -yes, loving, 
affectionate wives—so cheated of their domestic 
happiness, should seek to indemnify themselves 
with the glittering promises of “Woman's 
Uightsism ? ” < Hhers, keeping I rue to Goo-given 
principles, strive by affectionate remonstrances 
to win their husbands to them. 
Husbuiida, you hold the power, while we, your 
wives, your truest friends, cun only plead and 
pray. May God hear my prayer, that he for 
Whom this is Written will read, feel, and amend. 
WOMEN PERSONALS. 
Mrs. Meriuman, who has just been married 
to Father Hyacinthe in London, is a brilliant, 
and handsome American widow, the daughter 
of n Mr. BOTrERFLHliD, of Ifiicyrus, Ohio. She 
lias a son of some sixteen yours of ago, by her 
first husband, who was a merchant, in Ituoyrus. 
At one time sho was a devout member of M. W. 
Beecher's church, but. was converted to the 
Catholic faith by tho preaching of Pore II ya- 
cintii c, at Notre Dame, in Paris, where she was 
acting us American correspondent for a number 
of newspapers. 
.Miss Jane Stuart, the daughter of Gilbert 
Stuart, is In Boston, making copies of some of 
her lather’s portraits. She is said to copy his 
pictures with wonderful exactness, having made 
an especial study of his style; but she has copied 
ulso, with decided success, portraits by other 
artists. She lives In Newport, but is In New 
York for the present in order to mako copies of 
valuable portraits which are owned hero. 
Miss Sauone Kaknell Of Little Compton, it. 
I., is till route for Omaha on foot. At last ac¬ 
counts she was at Torre Haute, Ind., In good 
condition. 
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FEMININE FELICITIES. 
A lawer riding through the town of Worces¬ 
ter stopped at a cottago to inquire his way. The 
lady of the house told him he must keep cm 
straight for some time, then turn to the right; 
but said that she herself was got^ig to puss the 
road that he must take, and if he could wait a 
few moments till sho could got her horse ready, 
she would show him the way. “ Well, said he 
“ bad company Is better than none make 
haste." Alter jogging on five or six miles, the 
gentleman asked if he had not come to the road 
he must lake. “Oh, yes,” she said, “we have 
passed it two or three miles back; but I thought 
bad company wus bettor than none, so I kept 
you along with me.” 
“ Do you execute this deed without any four 
or compulsion of your husband ?" asked a com¬ 
missioner of deeds of a woman whose acknowl¬ 
edgement of a deed he was taking. "Fear of 
my husband!” exclaimed tho irate lady. “ He 
—compel— roo! You’re a fool! " And sho swept 
indignantly from the commissioner’s office. 
There are six ordained women pastors in the 
Uirfversulist Church in the United .States, This 
Is tho only church which admits women to ordi¬ 
nation. 
“Husband, l must have some change to-day.” 
“Well, stuyat home and take care of .the chil¬ 
dren ; that will be ehaugo enough.” 
Waiting jfoi[ the fount]. 
THE PEACH. 
BY GEO. W. BUNGAY. 
On Its soft check tht* Bun did shine, 
And turned its water Into wine ; 
And he who drinks the wine shall b« 
Glad as the guests of Galilee. 
o luscious orb, so sweet and H"ft, 
Tinged with the light that bourns aloft; 
The blended linus of red and gold 
Are ltUe the lines In heaven unrolled. 
A sunny Liulf the world cun boast. 
A better half—has uian to- toast, 
A higher half—tho soul can reach— 
A rosy half the ripened pouch. 
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SELLING BOYS AND GIRLS. 
Children, hero is a story written by a corre¬ 
spondent at Hong Kong, China, which reveals to 
you how boys and girls are used there. It will 
Interest you, and perhaps make you more 
thankful and contented limn you are. Tho cor¬ 
respondent says: 
I saw the sit 1 o of a family, last week, for 
debt, whore the husband and father was in 
California, and perhaps l cannot do better than 
to toll you about it. There were five children— 
throe girls and two boys. Wo had passed them 
three times in our chairs during the day, as they 
stood beside the road, dressed [n their holiday 
attire of black. The .silence they observed 
whenever any person passed, and their down- 
east looks, created curiosity on our part, to know 
their business there. Arr Hung (our waiter) 
was culled up and asked the cuuso of this little 
parade. “Why," said lie, "the girls, and per¬ 
haps tho whole faintly, are for sale.” We 
stopped our chairs and stepped out to have a 
talk with thorn, using Arr Hung us an interpre¬ 
ter. The mother was wrinkled arid gray, and 
hunglior head, as if she were afraid to look us 
In thy face. lint, the children, with the excep¬ 
tion of the oldest girl, looked cheerful, and 
were quite pleased with their holiday attire. 
The oldest girl was sixteen, and tho oldest boy 
fifteen. So said tho gruff old broker who hud 
tho party In charge, who seemed quite anxious 
to dispose of bis wares. 
After a good deal of quizzing and evasive 
answers tho broker told us that the husband 
and father wus in California, and had neglected 
to pay his note given for his passage, and that 
ills family were now offered for sole to pay the 
debt. He hoped to be able to pay the debt with 
the sale of the two oldest girls, but us yet he 
had received no offers. Ho said that the family 
became security, voluntarily, and lie never 
know of a ease where they did not voluntarily 
offer themselves for sale If the note they se¬ 
cured was not paid. In icply to our questions 
ho said that when a customer bought a child or 
person, the person was made at once the owner 
of the child, body and soul. No Chinaman 
would dispute tho purchaser's right to do what¬ 
soever ho pleases with the human being he had 
paid for. The boys would make good servants, 
ho said, and in tho course of a few years be 
worth a fortu&e to the owner. The girls won Id 
make good “armors” (or nurses, as they are 
called In America), He would show ns their 
physical beauty—would make them sing and 
play tricks if wo thought of buying. How 
much would we give? Tho oldest girl ho would 
sell for four hundred dollars; tho next one for 
two hundred, the little six-year-old for fifty. 
The boys lie could not sell until the girls were 
disposed of. Wo thought tho price too high. 
Tho market was glutted with salable girls, and 
he must not think of getting over one hundred 
for the Oiliest urul handsomest, while for the 
little one he must not expect ten dollars. lie 
sneered at that, and said that Englishmen al¬ 
ways talked that way when I hey wanted to buy. 
While wo were conversing a party of blue- 
robed Chinese aristocrats came qp ami began 
to inspect the family. They opened the mouth 
of the oldest girl, rapped On her white teeth to 
see if they wore sound, pulled open her dress, 
thumped her ribs, laughed at her little feet, 
told her to show the whites of her eyes, ordered 
her to sing und to show them the trinket* which 
the fond mother had given her as a parting 
gift. All the while tho salesman kept up a 
constant jabber, in which we took no interest. 
Time pressing, we passed on, leaving tho parties 
disputing about the price and discussing proba¬ 
bilities of their running away if taken to Hong 
Kong. After making our call wc* returned the 
same way, to ascertain tho result, of the sale. 
Only the mother and Ihe boys were left. The 
debt was only $300, and *50 of it still remained 
unpaid. ! have been often told by residents in 
China that tin* parents would as soon sell their 
children as a cow or a pig. And I had begun to 
believe that such was tho ease upon passing the 
group t he first t ime. But the scene had changed. 
Tho girls were gone, and now a boy must go 
also. The mother sat in the dirt with her arms 
around the youngest, walling in tho most 
piteous manner, and as Arr Hung said, cursing 
the men that sold her husband a ticket to 
America at $000, which cost.them but $40. 
The broker sat listlessly by, smoking his pipe, 
and twirling his eutie, looking as if it was the 
smallest matter of business with him. The boys 
were crying, and seemed very much afraid of us 
now it was certain that one of them must go. 
But we passed on and left them in their misery. 
Wo never knew whether the boy was sold to a 
childless man to be treated as a sou. to a Portu¬ 
guese to be carried to the AVest Indies under a 
nominal contract, or to a native land owner to 
be his slave. But that one of them was sold into 
servitude for tho sum of $.>0, there can he no 
doubt. Tliogirls wore doubtless purchased for 
the vilest of purposes, unless they had tho rare 
luck to fall into the Imnds of some native in 
search of a legitimate wile. I am told that the 
price Of girls has gone up within a few months, 
owing, perhaps, to tho fact that a less number 
of emigrants have forfeited their bonds in Cali¬ 
fornia thau was the ease six months ago. I was 
shown four bright, plump, rose appearing girls, 
yesterday, who were purchased less than a year 
ago (the whole lot) for $80. Now they will sell 
readily for $300 each. 
®hc |teter. 
ILLUSTRATED REBUS-No. 11. 
S5v” Answer in two weeks. 
BIBLE QUESTION. No. 2. 
Who crossed the river Jordan in a ferry boat? 
Edward d. Drick. 
C2T' Answer in two weeks. 
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PROBLEM,—No. 4. 
From a point without a triangle, equally dis¬ 
tant. from allot' its angles, perpendiculars arc 
drawn to tho three sides, which measure re¬ 
spectively 3, 8 and 10 rods. Required, the sides 
of Ihe triangle. 
Scale of figure, 13 'A rods to the inch. E P*= 10 
rods; F P^8 rods; D P*=3 rods. 
B. F. Burleson. 
t3F" Answer in two weeks. 
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PUZZLE.—No. 6. 
My first, third and fourth area Spanish lady’s 
wrapper; my second and third make a musical 
sound; leave off my last, and I'll pass for a 
French coin ; my third and fourth are a useful 
artlcal In England; my second, third and fourth 
are sometimes used in a tiight. My whole is a 
monument of changed fortunes. What is it ? 
tvy - Answer in two weeks. 
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GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA. -No. 1. 
I am composed of 43 letters: 
My 1,33,9,33, fi is an island in Long Island Sound. 
My 10, 40, 7,20,34, 30, 13,17,13, 22,10 is a cape Gu 
the Western coast, of the United States. 
My 5, 9, 31 is a river in Europe. 
My 30, 17,4, 13 is a mountain in Italy. 
My 18, 3, 39, 17, 0, 8 is un island belonging to 
Oceanlca. 
My 37, 34, 13, 31,1, Ik Is a county in New York. 
My 11, 85, 30, 10, 3, 7, 4U is a city in the United 
States. 
My 25, 20,14, 4 is a cape iu one of the divisions of 
the Western Hemisphere. 
My 32,37,20, 12, 0 is a lake in Ireland. 
My38, it, 15,1,35,32 is u grand division of Europe. 
My 23, 17, 42, 33, (I. 30, 39 is a boy lu Mississippi. 
My 32, 28,40,2,21,5,13 is one of t he United States. 
My 23, 15, 27,21, 31, 30 Is a county in Arkansas. 
My whole is a grand maxim. 
Saratoga, Wis. Libbik M. Lindsey. 
Answer in two weeks. 
PUZZLER ANSWERS.-Sept. 21. 
Illustrated Rebus No. 9.—Exposition. 
Cross-Word Enigma No. 3.—Calcutta. 
Biblical Square-Word No. 1. - 
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