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THE IVIED COTTAGE. 
Site dwells in an ivied cottage 
Half liidtlen by chestnut trees. 
Whose leaves betimes when they waver 
Have u sound like moaning seas; 
And oft in the quiet evening 
I've walked by thiil collage door, 
And seen, through the open window, 
The sunshine picture ihe door. 
And there, in that lonely cottage, 
I.ivos n maiden with blue eyes. 
That seem to her artless beauty 
What stars are unto the sides. 
She walks with it grace that's nameless. 
And ne'er u moment seems lone: 
The chastened charm In her features 
Pure as a Illy half blown ! 
She sits by the open window, 
And plies her needle and thread, 
When winds are swinging the roses. 
And the sun is setting red. 
When the winds have swung the roses 
They ripple her dainty curls, 
That fall in u glossy cluster 
On shoulders whiter than pearls. 
Near to that cottage I've lingered 
In the long, long summer eves. 
And sighed to talk to the maiden 
A s low as the fluttering leaves : 
To tell her 1 love her bounty; 
But all my wishes are vain— 
My heart. m.¥ heart Is the maiden’s, 
Yet hers I never may gain. 
[Harper’s Weekly. 
A PLEA FOR BIG BOYS. 
BY MAY MAPLE. 
Ik there is one class of the human family 
who deserves our sympathy more than 
another, it is that one known as “Them 
Big Boys." If there is a melon patch de¬ 
molished, or a chicken coop robbed, why 
its “ them big hoys have been out on a ram¬ 
page.” If I hero is n favorite apple tree in 
the orchard, it, is sure to be visited first by 
till tlie big hoys in town. There is a de¬ 
serted house; hut of course there is not a 
whole pane of glass left in the building, for 
the big hoys have 7 mined each and every 
one with stones ; possibly driving away all 
the ghosts from the vicinity. 
It a colt goes through the streets at a 
2:40 rate of speed, with a tin pail attached 
in close proximity to his heels, everybody 
knows whose big hoys are having a deal of 
fun at ihe poor frightened animal's expense. 
There is not a piece of mischief performed 
in the whole township but the big hoys 
must hear the blame. 
Did ever a poor, forlorn school inarm en¬ 
ter a “ dceslriet," wilh all intents and pur¬ 
poses of teaching a model school, without 
being warned by all the eommillee-men 
and their wives, and the majority of ihe in- 
habitants of said “doesiriet” besides, that 
site must “carry a pretty stiff baud if Mr. 
L-’# big hoys came to school, for they 
were a petty hard set, and gene’ly managed 
to break all the. rules of gov’munt, and then 
the school would soon dvviudle down to 
nothing ?” 
There is no doubt but that big boys can 
transgress often enough ; but if the truth 
must he told, the fault lies with the heads of 
families. Hmv often is the big boy called a 
coward or a numskull, if he implicitly 
obeys the rules laid down by some speci¬ 
men of gentle womanhood ? In nine cases 
out of ten it is not the big hoys who are the 
instigators of all 1 lie trouble; but if one 
would take the pains, it might he readily 
traced to the old hoys, who, if, is supposed, 
have long since sowed their wild outs. Lis¬ 
ten to their stories and exploits performed 
when they were no older than the hoys who 
are listening with eager ears, not only to 
the stories, hut to the praises bestowed by 
their elders upon the rein ! ers for their won¬ 
derful deeds—such as tiling a neighbor's 
well with various fin ning tools, during 
sonic dark night, reversing pumps, culling 
OUR GIRLS. 
Between the eras of swaddling bands 
and corsets and crinoline, there used to be 
a period of a few years, when arms and 
limbs could climb high trees and scale bights 
like their progenitors mentioned by Darwin, 
and muscle, sinew and blood hade fair to 
hold on to their own. The little bareheaded, 
tanned girl of ten, astride a bridleless and 
saddleless horse, or paddling down the 
stream on a raft of her own construction, 
had a season of pure animal enjoyment, and 
it was considered enough if she grew plump 
and rosy, was “ early to bed and early to 
rise,” and could sing the “fives” to the lune 
loung Bcoplc. 
TELL THE TRUTH. 
Boy, at all times tell the truth 
Let no lie defile thy youth. 
If thou'rt wrong, bo thine the shame: 
Speak the truth, and hour the blame. 
Truth Is honest. truth is sure ; 
Truth Is strong uud must, endure; 
Falsehood lasts a single day, 
Then It vanishes away. 
Boy, at all times tell the truth ; 
Let no lie defile thy youth. 
Truth Is steadfast, sure and fast, 
Certain to prevail at last. 
am seven years old. I have several pets real good; he is something like “Dog 
and a. great many toys. One of my pets is Charley ” that was described in one ot ihe 
a shepherd dog. and another is a kitten, lute Rituals. J think I iiomah way to Keep 
Among my toys are a little mouse, a brass a woodchuck is first,-rate (in Rural New- 
bell, a blue tin bucket., a tea set, a kaleido- Yobkeb ot Oct. 21.) 1 have a yeanling 
scope, and a heap of others. 1 have a heifer almost as big as one two years old. 
charm string with over two hundred and I have a musket that I shoot, with, and J. 
filly beautiful buttons, all different. Papa can shoot real good.—W. H. L>., Went in¬ 
takes a great many papers, and the Rural wavkie, Wi& _ 
New-Yorker is a favorite wit h us children. 
It tells us so many things. We read it all 
to pieces.—K ittib, Woodsule, Oct. 1(5. 
as considered enough if she grew plump Boy, at nil times tell the truth; A < So,Mt Letter from a Georgia Girl, 
rosy, was “early to bed and early to Let no He deffl* thy youth Dear Rural:—! have three pet kittens 
suui could sing llie " fives" lo thu lune '» y™ abo„l. One ot 
iTattkec Boo,Ue. 8 li» most luive Ueeo --...- “«"> Is while, mid the other Iwo are spot- 
iii her “ teens” or out of them before she m-trp nAflAO FRTTTT AND BLOSSOM le( *' i call the while one “ Snow, and the 
gift a glimpse of ihe model voting lady ™ ° A0A0 J,LUbWML others “ Tabby.” I have taught them to 
ii tapering waist, pinched leet, fastidious Humboldt says that “ La Guayra is one run up my shoulders and round my neck, 
etite and a general air of languor per- of the hottest places on the earth ” La They are two months’ old, and as smart as 
ing every movement and utterance. She Guayra is worthy of remark, moreover, ns they can he. I lied a blue lihhon imind 
ted upon the lay-figure with admiration, being the seaport whence are shipped the Snmv’s neck the other day, hut it, tried so 
fVirtl.avitli BMiHtDimn/trl vnmn Hftiimr lmr. I finest varieties of cocoa {'l'heobroma cacao) ; it hard to get it loose, that, I took ii of!. My 
is also the chief port In Ihe province of kittens are very fat, for T feed them on milk. 
Canteens, and the whole southern shore of They play together often, and sometimes 
the Caribbean Bea. they fight, but Snow always whips. Well, 
The const-line is fringed with the .■>>>»,, 
of Yankee Doodle. She must have been | -- 
far in her “ teens” or out of them before she 
caught a glimpse of ihe model young lady 
with tapering waist, pinched feet,, fastidious 
appetite and a general air of languor per¬ 
vading every movement and utterance. She 
looked upon the lay-figure with admiration, 
and forthwith commenced remodeling her¬ 
self, but with indifferent success. “As the is also the chief port in ihe province 
twig is bent the tree is inclined." Nature had Canteens, and the whole southern shon 
a good start, and she would not yield to art the Caribbean Sea. 
without a hard struggle. The few robust The const-line is fringed with Hie 
women of fifty to tiny are the ones whose palm (Cocas Nucifera ), which supplies 
young lives were free and careless as the the coco aunts of the fruiterer, and 
birds, whose clothing never fettered limbs abounds with flamingoes, pelicans ami 
nor pressed ibngs, whose impulses and in- cormorants; hut the cacao tree (Theo- 
stincts were never checked or killed out- broma cacao), from the fruit of which 
right by Mrs. Grundy’s strictures. cocoa and chocolate are made, grows 
Where are the girls now who can play, In the valleys running north and south 
and where are the clothes in which they through the inward table-land, 
can play without fear and trembling? For the cacao tree to he cultivated ad; 
Think of trying to wade through a brook, vantageously require# an altitude of not 
and lo enjoy the delicious sensation of water less than five hundred feet, and for the 
running over hare feet and around hare protection of the blossom and the well- 
ankles, when at, every step one must, ask, being of the fruit, a hilly range sheller- 
“ Sue, <loes the lower flounce touch the ing it from all easterly winds, 
water? Will the overskirt get splashed? A cacao plantation, or walk, as it is 
Is the pannier too low, and are the ends of called, may contain Home thousand 
the sash tucked up?” Think of trying to trees, seldom more than twenty lect in 
climb a cherry tree, and enjoying the feat, I hiehl. and verv freauently nlanled with 
and the fruit, when every limit threatens 
your chignon and frizzled “ top-knot," or of 
jumping from a beam into a hay-mow, When 
your nether limbs are laced in high gaiters 
and hound in light hands—one would drop 
down as straight and inelastic as a mummy I 
It is iiuwise generosity in American children 
to give those sports to the Irish and Ger¬ 
mans, reserving for themselves croquet and for il time to flirt,her ripen, the pod.- 
ple-nics, at which elaborate toilets cun be opened, the pulp removed, and the see 
displayed and studied etiquette observed, the cacao—spread out on mats in the 
These are for ladies, for if a child is left to As they dry, each obtains a hard, thin : 
act out childhood, it will no more choose a and is the size of a kidney beau. The 
play that is hounded by limits or rules than processes are those of the mamifactnrcr, 
would either a lamb or a squirrel. commences by roasting the nuts, am 
hard lo get, it loose, that I took it oft’. My 
kittens are very tat., for T feed them on milk. 
They play together often, and sometimes 
they fight, but. Snow always whips. Well, 
trees, seldom more than twenty feet in 
bight, and very frequently planted with 
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INDIAN MARRIAGES. 
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In some of the Indian tribes on the west¬ 
ern frontier the women are no longer treated 
as hearers of burdens only and made arti¬ 
cles of merchanUse, worth so much to their 
parents from the husband who bought them. 
As an evidence of the advance of civiliza¬ 
tion among the western Indians, ii is report¬ 
ed that on many of the reservations Ihe 
courting of wives is carried on in the same 
way as among the whites; the marriage 
ceremony is performed before a mission¬ 
ary or Indian agents, and the wedding 
certificate is taken, framed and preserved 
carefully. Only one wife is allowed, and no 
price, is demanded by the parents or given 
by the husband. 
DID NOT TRULY LOVE. 
A woman was walking, and a man look¬ 
ed at her and followed her. 'I he woman 
said, “ Why do you follow me?" lie an¬ 
swered, “ Because I have fallen in love with 
you.” The woman said, “ Why are you in 
love with me? My sister is much hand¬ 
somer. She is coming alter me; go and 
make love lo her. The man turned hack 
Intermediate rows of coffee trees, the > 
latter protecting the young cacao plants 
from the too scorching heat. 
The crops are in December and June, 
a well-hearing tree will produce twenty 
or thirty pods, which are gathered during a 
period of three weeks or so, as they turn 
yellow. After being allowed to lie in heaps 
for a time to further ripen, ihe pods are 
opened, the pulp removed, and the seeds— 
the cacao—spread out on mats in Ihe sun. 
As they dry, each obtains a hard, ihtu skin, 
and is the size of a kidney beau. The next 
processes are those of ihe manufacturer, who 
commences by roasting the nuts, and re¬ 
moving the husks. 
Many millions of pounds of cocoa are 
now annually manufactured in this country 
and England. Dr, Hassell m his work, 
“Food and its Adulterations, says;—“ Co¬ 
coa contains a great variety of important 
nutritive principles—every ingredient neces¬ 
sary to the growth and sustenance of the 
body:” Again, as a nutritive, cocoa stands 
very much higher than either coffee or tea. 
Dr. Lankeater say#:—“Cocoa contains as 
much flesh-forming matter as beef.” Dr. 
Hooper says;—“It is admirably adapted 
for the sick—for those in health, a luxury.” 
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LETTERS FROM GIRLS AND BOYS. 
From a Wide-A\vnIce Oregon Boy. 
Dear Mr. Editor:— As you were kind 
enough to publish a letter I wrote sometime 
ago, I take t he liberty of writing again. We 
live in way-off Oregon, yet we get Ihe dear 
Rural New-Yorker every week, which 
makes us feel we are not so far off after all. 
I was born near Greenville,East Tenn., but 
we moved lo Cedar Co., Mo., over two years 
ago. Missouri is a pretty country, hut the 
cold prairie wind caused Pa to have hemor¬ 
rhage of the lungs, so wc only staid there 
harness, taking out liiich-pius, stretching and saw a woman with an ugly face. Being eighteen months, and then started for Ore- 
ropes across frequented roads, taking horse# 
from stables lo keep on the road, traveling 
miles from home, returning them at dawn 
without the knowledge of the owner.smok¬ 
ing out the school-master by covering the 
wide-mouthed old fashioned chimney, possi¬ 
bly throwing down a roll of brimstone into 
the fire below, thereby causing strangu¬ 
lation, 
Do not the more youthful listeners soon 
determine, by the tone of ihe conversation, 
what will be expected of them? and think 
you they will not resolve to be as smart as 
their father# were before them? Leave out 
this vicious training, and where would you 
find a more honorable or sympathizing class 
than these same big boys? Who is more 
Willing to put himself out of his way to do 
another a favor? who is more attentive to 
the wants of the needy? Even in the 
school-room big hoys are of real service, in 
sustaining, by their example, law and order, 
when properly managed by the teacher. 
Some one lias said, “give Hie Devil his 
greatly displeased, he went again to the 
other woman, and said, “Why did you tell 
a story ?" The woman answered, “ Neither 
did yc j speak the truth; for if you are in 
love with me, why did you go after another 
woman ?" 
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THE GIRLS CAN DO IT 
Some one recently asked .Mrs. Cady Stan¬ 
ton it she thought that girls possessed the 
physique necessary for ihe wear and tear of 
a college course. “ 1 would like to pee,” 
said she. “ Take thirteen hundred young 
men, and lace them up, and hang ten to 
twenty pounds of clothes to their waists, 
perch them upon three-inch heels, cover 
their heads with ripples, chignons, rats and 
mice, and stick ten thousand hair pins into 
their scalps; if they can stand all this, they 
will stand a little Latin and Greek.” 
gon. Had a nice time crossing the plains; 
saw buffalo, antelopes and wolves—yes, and 
so many little sleek prairie dogs. Spent 
three days sight-seeing in Sun Francisco; 
was in a storm on the ocean while coming 
up to Portland; all thought ihe ship (Ori- 
flummo) would he wrecked, hut after riding 
waves mountain high, then plunging to the 
very depths of the ocean for two days and a 
night, the sea became calm, and wo reached 
Oregon without any accident. We like it 
very much. Pa has grown stout, and then 
this valley (Willamette) is so pretty; the 
winters here are warm and wet—the sum¬ 
mers warm and dry. I was eleven the 25lh 
Sept.; uin going to school and getting along 
well in my studies; got through fractions in 
arithmetic last week. Had a serious time 
learning and practicing the rule for finding 
tlie Common Denominator, but think I mi- 
_ +++ _ derslaud it now. I will close by wishing that 
Tiie eye of age looks into my heart! The you and all the girls and hoysol the Rural 
voice of age echoes mournfully through it! 
The heavy head and palsied hand of age 
due;” wc say, give big boys all the honor plead irresistibly lor its sympathies; I ven- 
thal is their due, and do not think they are erute old ago; and 1 love not the man who 
all the mischief-makers in the world. Give withoul emoiion upon the sunset 
AL' , , ip. .. i of hie, when the dusk ot evening begins to 
the n examples of true manliness and they glllhei : ()ver the Uie watery eye, and the 
Bill not he slow to lollow in tlie paths of shadows of twilight grew broader and deep- 
rectitude. " - ’ - - ’• r —- 
er upon the uuderstaudiug.— Longfellow. 
had some of our fine apples and pears to 
eat.— Scott M., Cor colli*, Oregon. 
From n Bright Little Southern! Girl. 
Dear Mr. Editor: —Perhaps you would 
like to hear from another liille South Caro¬ 
lina girl. 1 live in the country, and as there 
is no school near my sister leaches me, I 
CACAO FRUIT ANT) BLOSSOM. It 
I have finished telling you about my pet kit- fl 
lens. Pa Is taking the Rural New-Yorker ), 
this year and likes it splendid. I am not v 
going to school this year, hut I am going t 
next year. I am eleven years old, and can i 
read, write and spell. If you think this 
worth publishing, I w ill write another one. 
Adieu.—C ali.ie, Car ter smile, On. 
Wants to KnH« u Club. 
D. D. T. Moore —Dear Sir: I am not a 
little boy, but I am a big boy with poor 
health. T have been an invalid for about 
ten years,—so I thought I would write you 
for specimen number# of Hie Rural, for I 
would like to try to raise a club in this place 
and get One of the premiums offered in the 
Iasi; Rural (Oct. 21.) 1 would like to raise a 
club of twenty-five if I could, to begin with 
the year 1872. Please send specimens, show¬ 
bills, &e. Yoill's truly—W. S. M., Eagle Vil¬ 
lage, N. Y., Oct. 23. 
[We send specimens, show-bills, etc., to 
W. S. M., the same that we do to all other 
applicants. Hope our young friends will all 
be successful.—E d.] 
Anotlior Boy A (root, 
Mr. Editor of the Rural:—I am ahoy 
thirteen years ot age. We have taken your 
paper a number of years, and like it very 
much. My father has been dead nearly two 
years,and as he was an agent for your paper, 
I think that I will try and get up a club if 
you will send me some extra copies. Your 
friend—N orris ,T. B., West Cheshire, Cl. 
A Little Girl Agent for * It c Rural. 
Dear Mu. Rural : — I am a little girl 
only eleven years old. My pa has taken 
your paper for three years, and I would like 
to get up a club. Will you please send me 
a subscription list. I have to go to school 
three-quarters of a mile from home. Our 
school begins in about two weeks. My lit¬ 
tle sister died Hie 12th of August. She 
would have been seven years old the 22 d of 
August, and she died of the dropsy. Her 
name was Clara. Will some one please 
tell me how to make zephyr flowers?— Har¬ 
riet A., Camden Center, Hillsdale Co., Mich. 
Another Girl A Kent. 
Dear Editor:—I am a liille girl thirteen 
years old, and I am a going to try and get 
up a club. I have got the promise of five, 
and I want a list and two or three speci¬ 
mens. 1 want to send one to some persons 
in Canada, to let them see it. I have not 
got much more lo say now, but please send 
the list and the specimens as soon as you 
gel this letter, as I am waiting for it.—E mily 
W., Suspension Bridge, N. Y. 
From si Live Wisconsin Boy 
Dear Rural:—I am a rural boy, and I 
thought I would write to you. I like the 
Rural Nisw-Yorkeu, and I do not know 
who does not. I have a little dog and his 
name is “ Fido.” He can chase the cows 
How Annie May Wear her Hair. 
“ Annie,” of Columbia, S. C., asks how 
she shall wear her hair. As 1 have seen no 
answer, I will tell her how she can fix it to 
look “more in quantity.” It it curl# easily, 
she can hush it over a stick about three- 
fourth# of an inch in diameter, making just 
as many curls as possible. Then brush them 
back from the face and fasten with hair¬ 
pins on the hack of the head. Fuff the front 
hair to make ii becoming, and unless she is 
very old, I think it will be the prettiest way 
she can wear it.— Faye, West Creek, hid. 
(flic Dir,Her. 
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MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA—No. 16. 
f am composed of 10 letters. 
My 13, 2,3 is a healthy metal. 
My 15,14, 10 m an article of pastry. 
My 11 , 0,12 Is a conjunct ton. 
My 33 , 5 , 3 , I Is ft measure. 
My J. 7 , 11 Is a beverage. 
My 8, 10 , 9 , 9 , It, 14 , 0,10 is an article of dress 
goods. 
My 4 , 11 , 2 , 12 is ft verb. 
My whole is the name of a valuable sanitary 
article. Ella J. Hooper. 
J 3 F“ Answer in two weeks. 
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THE CYLYNDRICAL CUPS. 
The following rule will apply to calculate tho 
height of the frimtrum of a cone, about which 
“ W. S. It." asks in the ltmiAL NEW-Yorker of 
Oct. 28 : Square the half diameter of each end; 
also multiply them together. Add the three 
products; multiply one-third of Ihe sum by 
3,1410 and call Ihe product a "divisor.” Divide 
I,he contents of the frnsirum by tills “ divisor ” 
and tho quotient will bo the bight. 
For instance, Id the example which he gives 
''..a half diameters are 2>j and 3. Their squares 
are and #, and their product, is 7. The sum 
of ihe throe is22k. One-third of this multiplied 
by 3,1416 gives 23.3002 which wo will call tile 
“divisor.” A gallon contains 231 cubic inches, 
which la the contents of the tnistrum. Divide 
this by the “ divisor " and we have 9,9269 which 
is the answer.— Mathkmaticus, Boston, Mass. 
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ILLUSTRATED REBUS.-No. 15. 
j 
Answer in two weeks, when tho names oi 
those who answer correctly in the interim will 
be published. 
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ANAGRAM -No. 1. 
JAIN quillmorb; 
When rightly placed, these letters show 
A poet none should fail to know ; 
All who have read, delighted, say, 
“Di:et Haute s eclipsed"—and well they may. 
Rockford, Illinois. Fourteen. 
gw Answer in two weeks. 
««« — 
Constructing Ellipses.- Will “ Mnlhcmati- 
eiis," or some other mathemat icalgonius, please 
give in tlm Rural New-Yorker a method of 
constructing ellipses where the diameter thro’ 
and between the foci nregiveti ? 1 wish to make 
a small picture frame to inclose an ell ipso whose 
diameters are respectively 5 % in. and l>i in. As 
1 wish to ho very exact, I want to draw a pat¬ 
tern on pasteboard before working in the wood. 
It is to learn how to draw this that l ask. F. 
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PROBLEM. No. 14. 
The two lines bisecting the acute angles of a 
j right angled triangle, (and ter- 
/J minuting at the center of the tri- 
/J angle, forming with the hypoth- 
/ / enuse an oblique angled trinu- 
/ gle.) are forty and fifty chains. 
/ p Wlmt arc the sides of the tri- 
/ tAr angle? 
Elbert Place. 
i 3 W Answer in two weeks. 
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PUZZLER ANSWERS. Oct. 28. 
Illustrated menus No.,i».-A Rising Man. But 
two attempts to answer this ratal# have been io- 
ceived. S. J. K., Lawyersvillc, N. Y., thinks it is 
Up in a balloon: C. L. Donnell calls it, Chicago 
(Shn-cnr-go.) 
Riddle No :■ The whale that swallowed Jonah. 
The following :u’« the imnina. of tho*,, who have sent 
us correct answers: S. J.Chapmau. 'tl.'.i B. Uqli- 
iHHon ; K. K. Vim Kppsj Buttle; a. Mtfgnrahl. 
Jr - II. I’.; C. U, Sherman j Ella Uoudycur: A. "colt 
Marehunt; Mrs. I. B. Valiev : Isaac i’. Smith; Mrs. 
Snriili > 1 . aiosson; M. A. Hanlon; J. S. H.; J. V 
ltourlco : David S. llloUmiin. Sr.: >li:plio'; Htawoo ; 
Mrs A. B. Decker man; Ella L. Iltlls: Kittle (lido; 
j. straight. About thirty correspondents Bond “ A 
Whale'’ for answer, but do not specify whut wliule. 
Miscellaneous enigma no, 14.—Saianrauder. 
