\ Crippled B»y’® Story. 
Mn. FAn'tOVr-Dear Sir: As I have read 
many letters from others in the Rtnui. 
New-Yorker, ami like to read them ren 
well, I thought that 1 would write also. 1 
live on u farm, and like to live on one hot let' 
than in a town, although 1 should like to 
live in town a short time. I am n farmers 
hoy, but for all that 1 have not been able to 
do any work for six years. 1 am crippled 
I in my left hip and leg. The doctors call it 
hip-ail. Bo I have to stay in the house most 
of the time, especially In the winter. I 
am very fond of reading, and have read a 
good many different books. 1 have no pets, 
hut I can knit :i 3 well as that other hoy who 
offered all the boys and girls such a good 
dinner if they would make him a visit. 
Mv sisters have some house plants, and 
they are. very nice. There is a pot of house 
ivy sitting on the stand by me. It. is trained 
up the wall, and reaches to the top. There 
is an oak-leaf geranium ami a verbena, and 
several other flowel’8. The room which the 
plants arc in has a few pictures. There is 
one called “ Inundation,” that I call mine. 
Well, as 1 have written more than I ought 
I nlready. I will quit. — ALGERNON, FllltOll 
The image gave a jump ami me uoys 
so scared they ran as fast as their legs could 
go; and alter them ran the image on Am two 
legs. Tip knew all the lime that the image 
was Sam Slater, wrapped in a white cloth, 
and covered "with snow. 
MLotliers and Cluidrem 
We desire to enter a protest against the 
fashion among many mothers, ot referring 
their children to “father," in matters that 
require the exercise of judgment and discre¬ 
tion. Of course it is the essence of folly for 
parents to discuss such matters before their 
children. What we mean to say is, that the 
equal sovereignty of parents should be an un¬ 
questioned thing in the minds of children 
There should be no such thing as an appeal 
from the decisions of the one to the other, 
with hope of a reversal of judgment. Moth¬ 
ers who evade such duty, not only depreci¬ 
ate their own value in the eyes of their chil¬ 
dren, but serve to weaken and render value¬ 
less the judgment and wisdom of women it 
o-eueral, in the estimation of both their sons 
and daughters. Women, by some “ hoem 
pocus” of inheritance or custom, often Tee 
suspicious of the excellence of their owi 
judgment, and are prone to appeal to mci 
for ultimate decisions. In the “ long run 
of affairs, the judgment of women is real!; 
to that of men. The difference lie 
the boy and the birds 
\ MTTT.K boy with crumbs of bread 
ONLY A DREAM 
SUSIE’S PARTY: 
Anti Who Hit the Scvabble-BnK. 
Susie Wilmot had a Christmas Party, 
All the boys and girls she knew came, ami 
they liad the nicest time you can imagine 
It wits a eliI1U of little sense, 
Who this kind bounty did dispense 
For suddenly It was withdrawn, 
And all the birds were left forlorn, 
In ft time of frost and snow, 
Not knowing whore for food to go. 
He would no lunger give them brea' 
Tt was only a nreiuu : " - .; ’ 
1 As the stars softly glimmer to-night, 
What to me would hare been their dear 1 
Had the dream proved a prophecy bright. 
It was only a dream! yet I wonder. 
As l fasten this rose in myhtui. 
What would have been us coloring rare, 
If the sky of my life had been fair! 
It was only a dream ! He will wander 
In his own chosen path—I in mine, 
And no one will guess, 1 opine, 
That I linger awhile on the line 
That divides our two ways. It is better. 
My path will soon lead to sweet rest. 
And his—oh 1 I make one request 
To-night in my prayer-be It blest 1 
said a superior 
one of in the conscience and the decisive qunntioo. 
by her In the management and training of children, 
oguirih a faulty decision now and then, is not so fatal 
moth- l in result, as a continually wavering and neg- 
r n.LiE, alive manner. Do not inter from this, that 
three, all matters pertaining to children should be 
mdy to decided at once, and never deviated from. 
vywitU There are many times when a child should 
k; two be allowed to plead bis own cause, and pa- 
left her rents can never be too sympathetic with their i 
rls; nil children. A lack of it, constitutes the direct 
ich and griefs of childood.— m. a. e. w. 
m. Home MnnaKtunent. 
I,strong rp nE letters from and to the “Troubled 
iC world Marthas n have been very interesting ; but 
there is one important, point which none, so 
far as 1 have noticed, have touched. The 
suggestions of Annie are excellent when 
one lives where “ Each for Himself” is the 
motto; but many would lack sufficient will 
t.o carry out the wont; and, if they did not, 
it would not entirely mend the matter, for 
much of the labor that troubled Martha, 
Tom, Dick, and Harry would consider of 
no consequence. What do they care if the 
cupboard is littered, the floor muddy, the 
sitting-room in disorderV It may seem 
THE BUE-AL’S SPHINX 
BIBLICAL ENIGMA. No. 1 
SNOW N 
The first, game they played was Blind Mans 
Buff- and then they played What, the Ship j, 
Comes Loaded With. After that they had jv 
the Scrabble-Bag. First, Susie’s mother ^ 
had a sheet spread over the carpet, and a ? 
paper bag full of sugar plums was hung 
up in the middle of the room. Then little 
| Minnie, the youngest, bad a handkerchief 
tied over her eyes, and with a long stick 
struck at the bag three times. But Minnie 
didn’t hit it; so Fannie, who was uext 
taller, had the handkerchief tied over her 
eyes; but Fannie didn’t hit it. Then it 
was Jimmie’s turn, and next it was Katies 
turn; then it was Harry’s, and then Daisy 8. 
After a while it was Jenny’s turn, and she 
hit the bag, and all the candy came rattling 
down on the floor, and there was such a 
scrabble as you never saw. It is Daisy who 
has just struck at it now, hut you see she 
didn’t hit it._ +++- _, 
PROM RURAL GIRL S AND BOYS. 
jenny’s Unpin- Basket ami Cake. 
I am a little girl, and live on the Cumber¬ 
land Mountains, in Tennessee, and read the 
Ruhai. New-Yorker. I saw a pattern for a 
paper basket. I have made one which I think 
an improvement. In the center, between 
! the figures eight, I put a ring large enough 
1 to fill the space. It makes it stouter. 1 
have tried Mary’s recipe for Jell Cake, and 
think it nice. I will give a recipe tor a 
nuke and would like to have the girls that 
with hope and ambition in 
were coining back to the o 
famous, and she never saw 
But she was not thinkinj 
men who went so confiden 
to put down treachery wit 
to wrest gifts from fortune with their own 
right hands; her heart was going back,— 
back to the time when three noisy, trouble¬ 
some boys made such drafts upon her pa¬ 
tience; to the time when Willie, afterward 
the hero, so tried her with his mischief 
when Charles, her bright young scholar 
asked her a thousand questions that she luu 
not time to answer; and when Eddy, of tin 
big blue eyes and fair, tangled curls, soilei 
alf his pretty frocks, building dams in th 
roadside pools. 
She could sec now, sitting there alone 
how they all followed the instincts of thei 
nature; she could see very plainly that the 
ILLUSTRATED REBUS.-No. 1 
How she longed for a torn jacket to mend, 
with the hoy who tore it silling by the fire 
reading about CiESAR and Napoleon. She 
used to find fault with the stout-hearted 
little fellow for always reading about bat¬ 
tles ; she wished now, thinking ot his heroic 
deeds at Gettysburg, that she had let him 
see more plainly how proud she was of her 
manly boy ; she wished that his first expe¬ 
rience of undue restriction had been outside 
of his home. 
She had been ambitious for her boys; she 
had sacrificed for them strength and com¬ 
fort ; she loved them ; but the expression of 
pFT Answer in two weeks, 
CHASING THE BOYS. 
A FUMY SNOW IMAGE 
New Year’s night Dick Dakin called the 
boys to see his snow image. There were 
Tom and Jimmy, and Harry and Dan, and 
, Tip, (Dick’s dog) beside. They came run¬ 
ning as fast as they could, and then how they 
shouted when they saw the image 1 
“ Let’s make it bigger,” said Dan. 
“No, no!" said the others, “let’s snow 
ball it.” „ . , 
So they began to throw snow balls. Ami 
then what happened—would you ever guess 
Dick laughed, for hr knew something, 
he did'ut tell; i „ 
something, too,but he d’id’nt tell 
beganto throw snow 1- 
An ingenious clerk, And!#* in a paoKiise ui 
pocket 1 -ulea six broken ones, remodels them 
into three pair of Shorter ones, (each ul the pair 
being of equal length,) and ascertains Unit the 
greatest triangle they will all inclose by placing 
two on a side is equilateral, and that the next 
greatest triangle they will thus Conn basils sides 
unequal,and contains just as many squm-etnehes 
us lire expressed in th©square root ol the number 
1 l!>8U”ti; cun hi lie, however, have loft each of ins 
! longest pair of just mic-imirth of the combined 
I ii.nirt.h of the throe pair he has remodeled, no 
THE SNOW IJYLA.Or.tL 
hard to blame one so heavily burdened as 
Martha’s mother ; but she must have been 
“ tired to death” getting father ready to go 
to the village, and then hanging up his old 
coat, setting his muddy boots in the wood- 
house and picking up his odorous stockings 
long before the boys were old enough to 
form habits, and I think she ought to have 
had sufficient consideration for her daugh¬ 
ters and possible daughters-in-law to have 
brought up her 3011 s in a better way. Per¬ 
haps while mother was teaching tire chil¬ 
dren habits of neatness and order father 
might have learned some too. It is well that 
our aim should be to benefit others; but we 
steer wide of the mark when we do anything 
that fosters habits of selfishness in those over 
whom we have any influence. — N., Brewer- 
ton, N. Y. _________ 
Why Should I? 
We are a family of five. There is no de¬ 
partment in house-keeping but what is con¬ 
ducted entirely by myself. In the course of 
a week my husband has many leisure horns. 
From Monday morning until Monday morn¬ 
ing again, I have not one leisure hour unless 
taken from needed sleep. Now if I wish to 
subscribe for a paper or magazine, why 
mums, and a great, many others in bloom all 
the year round. 1 live down in the “ Sunny 
South.” This is ray first, year in the coun¬ 
try, and although there is a great deal of 
work to do, yet I am very well contented; 
so much so that I prefer it to the city. 1 
make twenty-five different kinds of tatting, 
and have crocheted a great many tidies. 
, b U t Now if any of the girls wish to correspond 
and Tip laughed, for he knew with me, and exchange flower seeds, or tat 
- -) Then they ting and crochet patterns, they can do so bj 
balls at the image. writing to Isabella Mackay, Amite , La. 
out reproof.” How cruel to tone down a 
child’s soul to suit the condition of a uer- 
vous mother or a weary father! They 
should have a cheerful sitting-room, with 
books and pictures, and never be made to 
feel that strangers were more deserving of a | 
pleasant room and bright smiles than they, 
her own precious boys. They should never 
long for the future because there was in the 
present no chance of freedom. They should 
be guided tenderly, denied hurtful indul¬ 
gences, and, above all, never scolded for 
being boys, with the waking brain and 
bounding blood of boyhood. She, this re- 
sretfud mother, saw that the faults ot chil- 
PUZZLER ANSWERS 
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MtSCEI.I.ANKUCaJ 
must loyal heritage 
loves ana most forgive*. 
i v. AnuAMrt OF Bums No. i 
a Doctor of Medicine. 
1 U.—Huts’round a house 
n and wrong end to. 
. No 10. -The world’s 
vrsc who most enjoys, most 
Natkft; 2. Heron; 
ti. Ptarmigan; 
10. Storm 
The Burnt’* Young pouts v 
give them more reading and P* t! 
We are going to try to do as wi 
in future — giving the Young 
columns to a whole page each 
Boys, do you bear that ? won 
