abirs* 11 art- 
LEAVES OF GOLD. 
BV AI.IQt’A. 
BlUOHTBV round her ns she walks 
Full the niitnmn loaves of gold, 
Rustling softly when she talks. 
Catching in her garment’s fold; 
Rising up to kiss her feet. 
Dropping down to crown her head. 
With a beauty bright but fleet 
That will soon be pale nnd dead. 
So I see her In my dnenrns. 
While the light of brilliant leaves 
All about me floats and gleams. 
And the wind of autumn grieves 
In a low and render tone 
For the beauty that decays, 
That the ghost* »f leave* alone 
Sadly haunt the later days. 
Nothing ever quite departs; 
And when brightest days are flown. 
Swift the thoiightof loving hearts 
Backward turns to find itsown ; 
Friends that long Intvo dreamless slept, 
Treasures that have slipped our hold, 
Are in loving kindness kept 
Among memory’s leaves of gold. 
So In autumn time t dream ; 
And the happy day* of old 
Bright and fair and present seem, 
While the falling leaves of gold 
Gently touch the marble cold 
Where her earthly name appears. 
Where beneath I he grassy mould 
She Inis slept these many years. 
EVENINGS AT HOME. 
Tnrc winter evening is in Hie truest nnd 
closest sense the Evening at Home. What 
one most misses in it, perhaps, is n little 
sensible organization. Nobody seems to re¬ 
alize how very hard jt, is torn number of 
people to amuse themselves and one another 
for dozens of nights in succession. There 
are n few traditions, like those of reading or 
music, that bring order into the chaos,but the 
hooks are chosen haphazard, and the music 
is left to chance. The family group which 
began so merrily over the fire breaks tip by 
a series of quiet secessions. Mamma re¬ 
sumes silence ami her knitting-needles, Mary 
wanders ofT to her music-stool, the school¬ 
boy flings himself on the sofa with a novel, 
papa is asleep in the easy chair. Every¬ 
body yawns with a certain weary relief 
when the prayer-hell rings, and yet nobody 
could exactly say why the evening had been 
so wearisome. The truth is that the bulk 
of people think that entertainment comes 
of itself, and that, the least organization is 
the death of any real amusement. The 
evening is left to arrange itself, and it ar¬ 
ranges itself in the way wc lmvo described. 
The hoy who loafs about a playground soon 
finds how wearisome merely casual amuse¬ 
ment, is, and betakes himself to the organ¬ 
ized “ game;” and the woman who once set, 
to organizing her evenings at homo would 
soon find that the prayer-bell came too early 
rather than too late. Variety is the first 
tiling heedful for amusement, and a little 
unwritten programme which arranged con¬ 
versation, music, reading, and the round 
game in their due sequence, would he sim¬ 
ply introducing into the family party Hie 
same principle which is proved by experi¬ 
ence to he essential to the success of any 
public entertainment .—Saturday Review. 
CHINESE LADIES. 
The Chinese women are as much slaves 
of fashion as Western Indies. The higher 
classes of Chinese ladies are taught, like 
ours, to control their voices ; that it is not po¬ 
lite to speak above a certain tone. They 
also study attitudes and effects before their 
mirrors for hours at a time, just like ours, 
nnd i-lioy bandage their feet for the same 
reason that our girls cramp theirs; and light¬ 
en their waists in order to produce elegance 
and gentility of form. In fact, small feet 
mean style and beauty in China, and it 
would he hard to find the American girl 
who would not walk on her head if that was 
necessary to “ style” among us. 
Chinese ladies, of the upper classes, are ex¬ 
ceedingly agreeable in their manners. There 
is only the same sense of restriction that 
there is in the presence of a Fifth Avenue 
lady. They arc much more polite tliuu our 
ladies in some respects; they always offer 
yon a cup of tea and something to eat. 
Anything that is pretty and useless is en¬ 
couraged for women there just as it is with 
us, and precisely for the same reason—be¬ 
cause wealthy men will not marry them if 
they have large feet and hands, coarse com¬ 
plexions, and look as if they were accus¬ 
tomed to labor. There is no difference in re¬ 
ality between the “ civilization" of the West 
and the “barbarism” of Hie East. In both 
cases, Hie high-class lady prides herself upon 
her helplessness, upon how little she knows, 
and how little she can do; and the more 
helpless they arc the hotter men like them, 
in New York as well as in China. 
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Very elegant bon-bon boxes arc of gilt 
and papier machc lined willi silk or satin, 
the candies being wrapped In silver paper so 
as not to soil the box, which can be used < 
afterwards for jewelry or gloves. : 
MRS. SIDDONS' FIRST STUDY 0E 
LADY MACBETH, 
It was my custom to study my characters 
at night, when all the domestic cares and 
business of the day were over. On the night 
preceding that in which I was to appear for 
the first, time in this part, I shut myself up 
as usual, when all the family had retired, 
and commenced my study of Lady Macbeth. 
As the character is very short, I thought 1 
should soon accomplish it. Being then only 
twenty years of age, I believed, ns many 
others do believe, that little more was neces¬ 
sary Ilian to get the words into my head, for 
the necessity of discrimination and tin* de¬ 
velopment of character, at. that time of my 
life, had scarcely entered into my imagina¬ 
tion. I went on with tolerable composure, 
in the silence of the night (a night I never 
can forget) till I came to the assassination 
scene, when the horrors of the scene rose to 
a degree which made it impossible for mo 
to get further. I snatched up my candle, 
and hurried out of the room in a paroxysm 
of terror. My dress was of silk, and the 
rustling of it, as I ascended the stairs to go 
to bed, seemed to my panic-struck fancy like 
the movement of a specter pursuing me. 
At last I reached my chamber, where I 
found my husband fast asleep. I clapped 
my candlestick down upon the table, with¬ 
out the power of putting the candle out, and 
I threw myself on my bed, without daring 
to stay even to take off my cloUics. At 
peep of day, I rose to resume my task ; hut 
so little did I know of my part, when l ap. 
pen red in it at night, that my shame and 
contusion cured me of procrastinating my 
business for the remainder of my life .—The 
Kembles, by Percy Fitzgerald. 
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CIRCASSIAN WOMEN. 
The Circassian women, concerning whom 
we have read such marvels, in prose and 
verse, are declared by Mrs. llnrvey to be not 
generally good-looking (though very great 
beauties are sometimes seen among them), 
and those of the Ahasiau province are de¬ 
cidedly plain, “The national dress," says 
the writer, “does not high ten their charms. 
They usually wear loose Turkish trousers, 
made of white cotton, nnd a peculiarly fright¬ 
ful upper garment of some dark cloth, made 
precisely like the coats worn by High 
Church clergymen—tight and straight, and 
buttoned from the throat to the lect. A 
striped shawl is sometimes twisted round 
them like an apron. A blue gauze veil is 
thrown over the head, and their hair, which 
is generally long and thick, is worn in two 
heavy plaits that hang down behind. The 
beauties who obtain such great reputation 
in Constantinople and Hie West almost, in¬ 
variably come from Georgia and the valleys 
near El Berouz. In those districts the 
women have magnificent, eyes and fair com¬ 
plexions." Il lias an odd effect, to find Mrs. 
Harvey lamenting that they lmd “arrived 
too late in the season to see the good look¬ 
ing girls;" ami a still more odd effect when 
she explains this vexatious circninstance in 
Hie simple words, they have all been sold. 
Early in the year the traders arrive from 
time to time, and Circassian parents do not 
or Dating jlfoplc. 
FANNY’S COSTUME. 
BY LAURA SOUTHGATE. 
PEttnAPS you suppose that this pretty young miss, 
Who looks so nent from her heud to her feet. 
Is n sweet llltlo girl who cun chatter and run, 
And who always is ready lor plenty of fun? 
She has a mamma, whose name Is riKi.i, Sr.vn: 
Very young is mamma, but she cuts and she sews. 
And makes with great care all tier little girl’s el othes 
And she loves very much this dear darling Fan, 
Though Fanny, In truth, I* slutted only with bran. 
So, of course you all know she can’t oven walk : 
Perhaps alio knows something, but then she can’t 
talk; 
It may bo Lho very least, bit she can think, 
And it mail he, sometimes, In ihe dark she will wink. 
Though I very much doubt it she does even this, 
And an to her fu oil tigs, 1 don’t think shod know 
If a very sharp pin In her body should go. 
But still hor m a in mu makes her clothes with delight: 
She says she can’t hour the child look like a fright. 
So she cuts nnd she Blltehos, nnd studies the style. 
And make* dross©*, and basques, and flannel things 
all the will In; 
And every small piece of lane, silk or pique. 
She carefully saves, till It comes in good play. 
One is really surprised nt the skill which slio shows 
In making from pieces this doll’s pretty clothes; 
And I can’t but believe this Industrious Bbll 
W ill soon learn to Ut her own clothes just as well. 
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ABOUT DOG CHARLEY. 
“2?-t 
A few weeks ago, I think you will re¬ 
member Dog Charley wrote to nsk if any of 
the boys or girls of the Rubai, would like 
to invite him to coine to live with them. 
Well, there came, prelly soon, it letter 
trom Freddie Sanders, who lives at Mor¬ 
ristown, New Jersey—and ho wrote: 
“ To Doc Oh a hi, by : —My name is Fred¬ 
die, ami I want a dog 1 can’t write, so my 
papa is wriling for me. 1 am a good hoy, 
nnd I will keep you awful good ; 1 won’t 
strike you, and will feed you nil you can 
eat. Come and live with me, won’t you?” 
Charley sent back word that he couldn’t 
object to dispose of their daughters for a write either, but his mistress was writing for 
, consideration; they only do it with more h' m 5 a,1 <l H'^t he should like to go to live 
candor and less cant than Bolgraviati pa- ' v ' 1 ’ 1 Freddie. 
rents. It is said that lho “moon-eyed" Then there enmo another letter—and that 
beauties themselves, far from making things ' vas bom Bn 111 , Now York—and it said : 
unpleasant, are delighted to escape from the “Don Charley:— My name is Eaten Smai,- 
tediumol house-life, and to take their clmncc lidge. I am a hoy twelve years oldw Last 
of being purchased by a rich pacha. "T k W . HS °" r F,,ir ’• 1 " vt ‘J y l,|l!y ,uul dhl 
FASHION SIFTINGS, 
Mazarine blue is the fashionable color 
for bonnets this season. 
Riding habits of water-proof cloth are 
considered the correct thing at present. 
Individuality in dress is said to he the 
rarest and cheapest thing in the world. 
Very dark blue in cloth, silk and salines, 
is to he very fashionable lor street costumes. 
A new style of sleeve buttons are oval, 
and open at the side to hold a miniature or 
hair. 
All Hie dresses for Winter wear are trim¬ 
med willi fur, and arc a very heavy, costly 
material. 
White astrachan is very much used for 
ladies’ dressing gowns, being very strong, 
warm and durable. 
A new style of neckties arc of colored 
him; and that he should like to go to live 
with Freddie. 
Then there came another letter—and that 
was from Bath, New York—and il said : 
“Don Charley:— My name is Fred 8mal¬ 
ii doe. I am a boy twelve years old. Last 
week was our Fair ; l was very busy and did 
not notice your lei ter until this morning, and 
I hasten to answer it, I would like to have 
you come and live with me. 1 live on a 
farm, three miles from the depot. I have a 
little dog my father brought, me from Oil 
Creek, because they misused him so. They 
used to take him and throw him into the 
tanks of oil. Now if you are disposed of be¬ 
fore this reaches yon, and you know of any 
olher dog ihat is misused, please send him 
to me. Please answer this, and let me know 
when I may expect you.” 
But when this last letter came, Charley 
had gone on the cars to Morristown ; and 
now the postman brings a letter about bis 
new home. It says: 
“ I have splendid times playing with 
Freddie. I am not very cross, though 
when Freddie gets playing with me, and 
begins to teuzu me, as lie someliiuea does, L 
snap at him, but have never bitten him very 
burd. I have a nice, warm place in his 
grandpa’s store, in which to sleep; and 
every morning at ubout six o’clock, when 
the store is opened, the filet thing 1 do is lo 
crepe trimmed with insertion, and edged run right up to Freddie's room, and wake 
with silk lace or fringe. 
Beef Tea is to he given this Winter be¬ 
tween the figures in the German, instead of 
cream and cake as formerly. 
A new style of necktie for ladies is of 
black silk, lined with red, pink or light blue, 
with fringe or lace on the edge. 
Lauge fancy pins for the hair in the shape 
of flowers are made of perfumed wood, and 
are the latest thing in ornaments. 
Green and gray valla are very much 
worn by ladies on tbo street nt this season 
of the year to protect their faces from the 
sun of heaven and from the sons of men. 
him up, and have a good romp before lie 
gets up. 
“ One day Fred and Ids papa went driving 
away out of town. 1 went along, and the 
folks all looked, to see me sitting on the seal 
so straight and independent. Bela some¬ 
times plays with me, and when she pulls 
my hair, as she is always sure to do, 1 know 
that she doesn’t mean to leaze me, and I 
never growl, or snap at her.) f have a very 
pleasant home and never gel. lonely—not in 
the least. But, although I have so nice a 
koine, l haven’t forgotten my kind mistress, 
nnd 1 should like to have her come and see 
me. Freddie would like to see her, too. 
Freddie has bought mo a nice collar and 
chain, and takes very good care of me. 
“Charley.” 
LETTERS FROM RURAL GIRLS. 
A Plucky Givi Akcmi!. 
D, D. T. Moore — JSir ,■ I am in great 
want, of an Organ, and lam afraid I shall 
never get one if i wait until I am able to 
buy one. Mother says, “ Wait till you are 
sixteen and you shall have one but I can¬ 
not wait that long, and I think 1 can earn 
one my sell this winter by canvassing for 
your Buual New-Yokicer. I am living in 
a good farming country, and I shall try it if 
it takes me four months, and I I ravel through 
Hie snow over so deep. 1 do not know any¬ 
thing about the Smith Organ, for I have 
never seen one. Can you send Ihe cut of it, 
as well as sample papers, Ac. ?— Yours Indy, 
Dora W,, Shiawassa Co., Mich., Nor. 18. 
[Miss Dora, we admire your pluck, which 
we think will enable you to win the Organ. 
We mail you an illustration of the Organ, 
together with specimen papers, etc., elc. 
How many of the Rural's Boys propose to 
equal Dora in efforts to secure Premiums? 
If they do not wake up the Girls will soon 
be ahead.— Ed.] 
A Good IiMier from nn Ohio Girl. 
Mr. Editor:— My father don’t, take the 
Rural New-Yorker, hut my big brother 
does, and I go there every week to read the 
hoy’s and girl’s letters. I live in Olmstead, 
Ohio. My father is a farmer nnd wc live in 
a red house. 1 have two brothers and one 
sister and one sister-in-law. I have a few 
flowers in the yard and a few house plants. 
But my pet is my brothel's lit tic baby ; she 
is five months old, and her name is Minnie. 
I never wrote for the Rural New-Yorker 
before, sol will say nothing to my father 
nor mother about it until I see whether you 
think best to print it or not; if you do when 
my brother’s paper comes f will show it to 
them. I guess the words are all spelled 
right, and if some of il. is not Grammatical 
please remember I am only twelve years old 
and have never studied grammar but a little. 
I guess this letter is long enough for the 
first one, and perhaps I will write another 
and send the girls my receipt for sponge 
cake.— Jennie N., Olmstead, Ohio. 
From n. (btiindiini School Girl. 
Dear Editor :—I have been reading the 
girls' and hoys’ letters in your interesting 
paper, and I thought T would like to try and 
write one, too, 1 read one in a talc num¬ 
ber from a Canadian hoy, and I thought 
perhaps you would print one from a Cana¬ 
dian girl also. We have taken your paper 
for a number of years, and I do not know 
what we would du wfilrmil it. 1 live in the 
country and go to school. 1 have about a 
quarter of a mile to go, and the same dis¬ 
tance to go to Sunday School. We had a 
Sunday School Festival a few weeks ago to 
raise money for prizes to he given at Christ¬ 
mas. We shall not have to wait, long for 
them, for Christmas will soon be here, with 
its frost and snow, and then we will have 
some merry sleigh rides. If you think this 
is worthy of a place in your paper, among 
the girls’ and boys’ letters, I will try and do 
better next time. And now I bid you adieu. 
Ella, Canada. 
Alin’s Birth-Day—Cnlio Itcclpc, 
Dear Mr. Editor: —As I am ten years 
old to-day, and have read so many of tbo 
Boys' and Girls’ letters in ihe Rural New- 
Yoiikeii, I thought I would write one. I 
live In Lac Mi Parle, a mile from our little 
village. I think our town has grown very 
fast, for a year ago the first of September 
there was not a building to be seen, and now 
there are sixteen. This fall we are going to 
have a school-house put up, and quite a num¬ 
ber Of other buildings. I have a nice cuke 
recipe which I will send you. It is this: 
Sponge cake,—One pound of white sugar; 
twelve ounces of flour; eight eggs.— Aim K., 
October 8. 
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EXTRA PREPdlUIVIS 
foil Tine vouisrcr people : 
In order lo stimulate the Girls and Boys 
—the Young Women and Young Mon—wo 
have concluded to offer the following Very 
Liberal Extra Premiums for (ho Three 
Largest Lists of Yearly Subscribers to the 
Rural Nicw-Yoiiker, obtained by persons 
under Twenty-One Years of Ago. These 
Extra Premiums, be it, understood, aregivon 
in addition lo those already offered to the Girls 
and Boys: 
FIRST EXTRA PREMIUM. 
$300.00,—We will give to the Person 
under 21 years of age who shall procure and 
pay for the Largest Number of Yearly Sub¬ 
scribers to the Rural New-Yorker, at our 
lowest cluli rale, ($2 per year,) previous to 
the 1st of March, 1872. a Yearly Scholar¬ 
ship in the ClaTcroek. Collfipfi and Hudson 
Hirer Institute, (h,ruled at Clavemck, N Y., 
three miles from Hudson City)- the price of 
said Scholarship being §300, and Including 
Board, Tuition in the Entire College or Aca¬ 
demic Course (Music and Telegraphy only 
excepted,) Washing, Fuel, Lights, Ac. The 
I orim commence the last week in March, 
and Hie Sill ol Sept.—so that, the person se¬ 
curing this Grand Extra Prize can receive 
the Scholarship in time to enter Hie College ( 
within a month. This offer is made to any , 
one not a patron of the College, and is trans¬ 
ferable — so that the winner can sell it to 
another. 
SECOND EXTRA PREMIUM. 
$200.00. For the Second Largest .Num¬ 
ber of Subscribers, obtained ami paid for as 
above, wo will give a like Scholarship for 
Two Thirds of a year, in ihe same Collego 
and Institute—on conditions above staled— 
the price of which Is $200. 
THIRD EXTRA PREMIUM. 
$100.00.—For the Third Largest List of 
Subscribers, ns ahnvcaud on likecomlilions, 
we will give a Seholurship in the aforesaid 
College mid Insiiiule tor One-Third of a 
Year the cost of which is $100 
The Claverack College and Institute (see 
its advertisement in this paper) is so favor¬ 
ably known as a first class school, for both 
sexes, that we need not add a word in its 
praise. Suffice it to say that above offers 
are I lie most Liberal ever mado to the 
Young Folks. Now, will you try ? 
tST" Answer in two weeks, when tho names or 
those who answer correctly in the interim will 
ho published. 
PHYSIOLOGICAL ENIGMA.—No. 1. 
I am composed of sixty-ono loiters. 
My 17, 3t, 22, 60, 26 la tbo largest organ in tho 
body. 
My 13, 30, 9.25, 34, It, 25. 45. and iny 19, 1, 21, 47, 
3, II, 13, 5, 0 are two chemical elements 
which urn normal constituents of the hu¬ 
man body. 
My 59, 8,15, 23, 34, 30, 13, 40. 41, 40. 12, 31 is an im¬ 
portant fluid or lho stomach. 
My 53, 37, 19, 50, 34, 41, 42 is ono of the bones of 
the arm. 
My 2,10, 51, 12, 24, Ifl l.s a covering for a musclo. 
My 49.68,36,53, I is the longest bone in tho body. 
My 44, 14, 15, 65, 33, 19 is a kind of tooth. 
My 59, lit, 33, 57 is a dark green and very bitter 
fluid of tho body. 
My 39, 31, fit. 50, 34, 58, 56,51 are a set of blood 
vessels- 
My 7, 4, 33,18.35 Is a coagulable fluid, and my 48, 
6,8,31,38 is Ihe principal organ contain¬ 
ing it. 
My 27,28,83,29, 60 is u bono in tho body which, 
once broken, never unitos. 
My whole is a Proverb. M. E. D. 
{37" Answer in two weeks. 
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CROSS-WORD ENIGMA.—No. 10. 
My first is in right but not in wrong; 
My second is in tall but not in long; 
My third is in night but not in day; 
My fourth Is In dance but not in play; 
My lirtli Is in barn but not in shed ; 
My sixih is In cart but not In sled ; 
My seventh is ill cj’C but, not in sight; 
My eighth is in road but not in write; 
My ninth Is in day but not in week; 
My tenth is In talk but not in speak ; 
My hist is in high hot not in eliinb; 
My whole is a mctisuroof olden time. 
|3&'“ Answer in two weeks. Isola. 
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HIDDEN ANIMALS,—No, 2. 
1. A sharp nip for a tup. 
2 . The lirido erred. 
3. Sarah and iluunuh arc going. 
4. Ho surpasses Jim in knowing. 
5. Consult tho duodecimo lexicon. 
6. Ho dives in tho sen ; lives largely on flsh. 
7. Not tnnizobut barley. 
8 . Stitch or sew evenly. 
9. While murder statics abroad. 
10. Shall n man ho more Just than his Maker? 
1L£1" Answer in two weeks. Fourteen. 
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RIDDLE.-No. 3. 
Of flesh, blood nnd bones I was conceived 
As other creatures be; 
Now noil her flesh, blood nor hones remain in mo 
They took me from my mother’s 6ido, 
Where I was bornoaud bred, 
And when I ctuno lo perfect ago 
Thoy did cut off my head, 
And gave mo such drink to take 
As ne'er before I had— 
Drink which will enuso variance 
Dot ween kin and kings 
And make true lovers glad. 
All ibis 1 do, men's fannies to fulfill; 
And yet I uover work uguiust my maker's will, 
Wm. B. Miller. 
SX7” Answer in two weeks. 
PUZZLER ANSWERS.-Nov. 18. 
Historical Enigma No. l.-Wllliam, Prtneo of 
Orange. 
Illustrated Rebus No. 16.-Wln© and youth are 
fire upon lire. “ “ ,u 
