MAY 24 
MOOBE’S BUBAL NIW-VOBSCER. 
|)ort folio. 
PLEADING. 
Give me thy faith, that, looking down 
The misty vale of years, 
1, too, may see our dear life’s crown 
1 to paying present tears. 
Give mo thy faith so firm and strong, 
Thy trust so large and free. 
To feel the years that roll along 
But bring me nearer thee. 
Give tne thy hope to charm away 
>ly life’s untold regret, 
And whisper to tny heart it may 
Know love’s own gludness yet. 
Glvo mo thy hope, so warm, my dear, 
So sunny and so sweet, 
To teach my heart with olden cheer 
And new-born life to beat. 
Give mo thy patience, dear, to watt 
Till from time's hand hath Hewn 
The crowning hour designed by Fate 
To blend our lives In one. 
Give mo thy patience, hope and faith— 
1 need them, thou art strong; 
But I am weary unto death : 
This waiting is so long! 
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WHAT GIRLS REALLY WANT. 
BY BE8SJE BEECH, 
Girls really want more self-reliance. They 
want more liberty to choose for themselves. 
The majority of girls have every article of their 
wardrobe selected by some friend. Of course 
the grown-up ones arc taken shopping, the 
goods are selected, and mamma or an older sis¬ 
ter says“ There, that's Just exactly what yon 
want. Of course you like ir." The young Jady 
looks dissatisfied, and in a low voice says:—“ T 
had rather have that patternhut mamma re¬ 
plies:— ** O, no! it isn't half as suitable or be¬ 
coming n* this one,"—and the daughter seldom 
Contradicts “mamma" before tin: attentive 
clerks. Then the dressmaker tells Iter just bow 
it must be made, it must be cut and trimmed 
in a certain manner, anti it Is Anally finished 
without once heeding the wishes of the young 
lady. Ten chances to one, if she had selected 
the dress, It would have been unbecoming : and 
if made in the style she directed, nearly ruined; 
lint we lieg to know how the poor child is going 
to correct her taste or improve her Judgment, 
if never allowed to use either? 
We stood by the counter, riot, long ago, look¬ 
ing at goods, whim a mother and daughter came 
in and asked to he shown some kid gloves. Tho 
young lady selected a pair, and the mother said: 
" You can't have those; they are too light; they 
will soil in wearing once," True, it was a fact: 
but the daughter felt a hitter sense of wrong as 
she turned away without any glove*. Had she 
been trusted to purchase these, and told that 
they must be made to last as long as a pair of 
dark ones, might she not have learned to bo 
prudent and thoughtful ? 
What if the fathers and mothers do sulfer 
some for the blunders their daughters make? 
Are they not expecting some good young man 
will eventually marry these daughters? Somo 
parents are so blind as to think it a kindness 
to select everything n person needs, especially 
those for the girls. There is no hotter way 1o 
make weak. Inefficient wives, and extravagant 
mothers, than this habit of being taste, sense 
and Judgment for one's children or friends. If, 
after your kindly hints about their purchases, 
they make blunders, let tho blunders come. 
Reason will soon give aid to their efforts, and 
by failures their judgment will be disciplined. 
Do you wish your daughters to begin their ex¬ 
pensive experiments in making purchases out 
of their husbands’ purse ? Tho gentleman who 
fancied he was wedding an angel, might he 
sadly disappointed to find your daughter en¬ 
tirely ignorant of every thing like domestic 
economy. 
A lady, who had been married several years, 
said to mo recently that she never bought hut 
three articles for herself while she lived at 
home. Said she:—“ You don’t know what a 
trial it has been for me to make my own pur¬ 
chases. Half the goods I have bought have 
been worthless, because mother never allowed 
me to select, anything for myself. Not that \ 
believe in letting'daughters have a hundred or 
two dollars to use without discrimination, but 
I do believe in their choosing for themselves, 
and thus learning the quantity, quality and 
suitableness of all kinds of wearing apparel.” 
Very few daughters refer to this kind of in¬ 
dulgence with pleasure. In their eagerness to 
be independent when wives, and choose for 
themselves, they hardly atop to consult what 
judgment they do possess. They are often 
shocked by enormous bills, beside seeing them¬ 
selves look like frights in the garments they 
have selected and paid so dearly for. 
To select a nice, juicy steak and a tempting 
roast, and $urvg the same in good style, might 
he more difficult than to purchase an elegant 
dress pattern. We know hundreds of fashion¬ 
able mammas who tremble to think of their 
daughters knowing anything about work, yet 
they insist that these daughters shall have the 
power to vote. 
There is more serious work than in learning 
the details of domestic economy. Out of kind¬ 
ness, many a mother removes all responsibility 
from her daughters. She buys, and has made 
to order, every article of dress; sin holts every 
avenue to labor; she shuts every door leading 
to healthful exercise, and at the last serenely 
yields her charge to the complicated cares of 
wife and motherhood ! IJv sad experience many 
daughters learn here that idleness has been 
no friend to them. The exercise they ought 
to have had In mother's kitchen would have 
strengthened the lax muscles. The hundred 
pleasant tasks of early home-life would have 
developed their bodies naturally. 
There is a groat deal said about woman's in¬ 
efficient way of doing business. Wo are told 
thoy want the earnestness that characterize, 
men, and yet are they to blame that do not 
have this? Perhaps two-thirds of them were 
never taught, to so much as take care of their 
own wardrobe. What has been their business 
more than to attend a boarding-school, thump 
the piano, speak German and dress fashionably, 
until they “caught" a husband? To make n. 
self-reliant, independent, business woman, bo- 
gins in the nursery, and is the outgrowth off 
discipline. 
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A WINDOW FULL. 
What beautiful pictures Goo is painting for 
us these lovely' May days! Sitting here, this 
morning, my window-frame incloses one more 
beautiful than any which hang in the famous 
galleries of art. Let me try to describe it. Away 
in the distance stretches a long range of bills; 
not hills that are high or rugged, or that in any 
way approach to the dignity of mountains,, but 
simply gentle elevations, upon whose verdant 
sides the little farm-bousesstand, embowered 
in trees. Look at those trees 1 What a glory 
of white blossoms crowns the cherry mid the 
plum. What a delicate Hush upon the apple 
blossoms ; the old tree has bent, down so often 
to kiss tho little, timid, blushing peach, that, 
his blossoms have caught the same rose hue. 
In all this beautiful coloring, and these deli¬ 
cate shadings, do you not trace tho band of the 
Master ? 
Nearer, the hills are crowned with tall forest 
trees, which stand with their green arms out¬ 
stretched, as if to welcome tho advancing sun. 
Every leaflet expands lo its utmost extent to 
greet, his coming, and the dewdrops upon its 
surface reflect his splendor. 
Still nearer, sloping toward us from the. hills, 
lie the green meadows, and through their midst 
the road comes winding downward to tho town. 
Here and there, along the roadside, near tho 
fence, elms and maples stand like sentinels, 
while through their branches the robins and 
bluebirds flit to and fro, 
“And, u-sudden, like a uictcor, gleams along the 
oriole.” 
At our foot a tiny sheet of water is outspread, 
reflecting all the beauty we have tried to show 
you. 
We have given you hut the faintest outlines 
of this picture ; your imagination must supply 
the rest all the bloom and verdure, the still 
water, the clear sky, and the warm sunlight 
flooding the whole. 
On such a morning, with such a scene before 
our ey r es. our hearts overflow with joy and 
song, and we cannot but echo the Words of tho 
Psalmist: 
“ Praise ye the Loan, Praise ye the J.orn> from 
the heavens; praise Him in the hlght*. 
“Praise ye Him all His angels: praise ye Him all 
H Is hosts. 
“ Praise ye Him sun and moon; praise Him all ye 
stars of light: 
“ Kings of the earth and all people; princes and all 
judges of the earth : 
“Both young men and maidens; old men and 
children: 
“Bet us praise the name of the Lord, for His 
name alone is excellent; His is above the earth 
and heaven.” Lettice Vaynk. 
A MOTHER’S LOVE. 
•** *' '} 1 4 C * * — 
LamaRtIne gives this Illustration :— 1 “In some 
spring freshet, a river widely washed its shores, 
and rent away n bough whereon a bird had 
built a cottage for her summer hope. Down the 
white and whirling stream drifted the green 
branch, with Its wicker cup of unfledged song, 
and fluttering Reside it went the mother bird. 
Unheeding the roaring river, on she went, her 
cries of agony and fear piercing the pauses in 
the storm. How like the love of an oid-fash- 
ionod mother, who had followed tho child she 
had plucked from her heart all over the world. 
Swept away by passion, lie was bearing away 
with him the fragrance, of the shattered roof- 
tree, yet that mother was with him, a Ruth 
through all his life, and a Rachel at his death.” 
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EVENING HOURS AT HOME. 
Husband your evening hours. The night is a 
profitable season of mental culture, social hap¬ 
piness and rest,. Hooks, conversation, music 
these fit well the night. Happy now are they 
who have homes. A bed to sleep in, and a ta¬ 
ble to eat. from do not constitute a home. Any 
old bachelor, with a salary- can purchase so 
much of the world's comforts. Hut the mag¬ 
netic fireside circle, the smiles of mother or 
wife, the talk of the sensible old folks, the 
songs of sweet-voiced sisters, the affectionate 
good night of children; Gie wholesome occu¬ 
pation of heart and mind in social and intellec¬ 
tual enjoyment -these are the unjmrehasable 
comforts of home, and the winter nights, 
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To harmonize discordant natures, and out of 
discordant individualities to develop a happy 
home, is oue of the greatest triumphs that 
woman can achieve. 
leading for tho ifouitg. 
THE BABY. 
Where did yon come from, bnby dear ? 
Out of the everywhere Into here. 
Where did you get your eyes so blue? 
Out of the sky as I came through. 
Where did you get that little tear ? 
I found It waiting when l gut here. 
What makes your forehead so smooth and high ? 
A soft hand stroked It as I went by. 
What makes your check like a wnrin white rose ? 
I saw something better than any one knows. 
Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss ? 
Three ungels gave me at onee a kiss. 
Where did you got this pearly ear? 
God spoltc, and It come out to hear. 
Where did you get those arms and hands ? 
Love made Itself Into hooks and bands. 
Feci, whence did you come, you darling things? 
From tho same box ns tho cherubs’ wings. 
How did they all come to he you ? 
God thought about ine, and so I grew. 
Hut how did you come to us, you dear? 
God thought about you, and so I um here. 
[Good Word.* for the YoU/ng. 
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LETTERS FROM BOYS AND GIRLS. 
From a Young Naturalist. 
Dear Cousins:—A s tho editor has been so 
kind as to publish all my letters heretofore, I 
am going to trouble him again. 
To-day I have been off rock-hunting, for the 
first Mine thisspring. I visited a lodge of Niagara 
Limestone, located some t wo miles from our 
place, Around our place the rocks all consist 
of Medina Sandstone. The rock is commonly 
red, but Is sometimes found beautifully mot¬ 
tled, it contains but, few fossils in fact tho 
only one of importance being a petrified sea¬ 
weed, known as " MedinaFucold." It is some¬ 
times found covering the nicks. Interlaced in 
all directions, forming quite a curious-looking 
stone. Therefore I have to go some distance to 
find rocks abounding in fossils. 
It was late when I found the quarry, and 
hence I did not get as marry specimens as l 
otherwise would. First, I have two pieces a few 
inches square, completely covered wilh fossil 
shells similar to those I spoke of in my last let¬ 
ter, which I found in the rocks of the Hamilton 
Period. Then l have a couple coni,uining stems 
of the Encrinlt.e, a kind of Crlnold, or, us they 
are more commonly called, from their shape, 
“Stone Lilies." These Cricoids grew upon a 
stem which was fastened to the ocean bed, 
something as the Star-fish, a living Radiate, is 
attached to the earth. 
I also found a few pieces in which those stems 
formed Hie greater portion of the rock, being 
massed together in every conceivable shape, 
broken off and crossing each other in all direc¬ 
tions. Those stems are composed of a great 
many parts joined together, ami one of these 
joints when broken off looks a great deal like a 
button mold so much so I have heard people 
style I,hern “fossil button-molds." These stems 
are hollow; and at a place a few miles away, 
where they nrovory plenty, the hoys sometimes 
gather them and, after disjointing them, string 
them as beads. 
1 see I have written a very long letter, and, 
for fear it will he doomed to the waste-basket, 
I will dose. In iny last 1 requested correspond¬ 
ence with some other “Young Rurallst," and 
have been very much pleased to receive three 
letters, all of which I have answered. I hope 
more will write soon.— Young Naturalist. 
How to Catch Rats. 
Editor Rural: - I am glad to let you know 
that we received tho Rural and the beautiful 
picture. Father has taken the Rural New- 
Yorker for several years. 1 think it a very in¬ 
teresting paper. I am fourteen years old. We 
have a dog; his name is Watch. He is good to 
catch rats, See. We goto the woods a-hunting ; 
wo caught two woodchucks tills winter. Father 
gives us (IfLeon cents for each ftkin a id five 
cents for every rat that wo catch. Perhaps the 
Rural hoyswould like ro know a good method 
of catching rats : — Take a barrel and part fill it 
with water; balance a lid by driving a nail in 
the center of it, and suspend it in the barrel 
eight, or ten inches from the top. Put some 
meal or some kind of bait on the lid ; the rat 
gets on it to get some, and the lid tilts him 
Into the water, and he is safe. I know It to be 
effectual by experience. Try it.—C. L., SripU)- 
vttle, N.Y. _ 
Trailing Arbutus. 
Dear Mr. Editor: I am only a little girl of 
ten. I thought I would write and ask you if 
you would like to have, a bunch of Trailing Ar¬ 
butus? They are very sweet-swelling flowers, 
and very plenty here. 1 can't attend eihool, 
because it is a mile and a-half one way, and the 
other two miles. My father take# the Rural 
and the Agriculturist; my mother takes the 
Fruit Recorder, and my cousin takes Hearth 
and Home, and my brother takes the Examiner. 
So you see wc are not without reading. ALLiK 
L. Y., Brlck*buro, A'. 1’. 
A Minnesota Miss. 
Dear Mr. Editor: I live out in the coun¬ 
try, in the State of Minnesota. I like the coun¬ 
try' much better than the city. I have been liv¬ 
ing in tho city this winter, going to school, as 
we do not live very near a school house. Wo 
have lived within a quarter of a mile from 
where wc live now for nine years. We take the 
Rural, and all love it very much. Cannot say 
too much for the premium picture which ac¬ 
companied it. Carrie M.J., Winona Co., Minn. 
lilt' filial IT. 
ILLUSTRATED REBUS. No. 13. 
£3?" Answer in two weeks. 
BIBLICAL ENIGMA. No. 1. 
Composed of letters, syllables and words I am : 
la verse I'll tell of each, the number, if l enn. 
The first contains, less ten times ten, the square feet 
In a owl; 
The second m the Bible is a very common word; 
To multiply It liy a four, just makes the first nor less 
nor more: 
The third, when multiplied by five, makes two more 
than the first; 
The two last in oue number put, just makes, plus one, 
the lnuhoti lit a foot. 
My 1,23,0. 4 and 5 is the name of him whom St . 
Paul styled Ids own son "after tho com¬ 
mon faith. 
My 2, 7, 10, 25, 15 and 6 is the name of the mother 
of him who began the order of the Proph¬ 
ets and the ITth Judge of Israel. 
My 3,10, 14 and 13 is the name of a prince of 
Midisn, and who was slain on a rock bear¬ 
ing Ilia name. 
My 4 and 10 is the name of the birthplace of 
him in whose seed God promised that all 
rial ions of I he earth should ho blessed. 
My 5, 13, 1 and HI is t he mime of the first King of 
the Israelites, and the Hebrew name of 
one of the most learned Apostles named 
in t he New Testament. 
My 7, 10, IK, 10. 15 and 24 in the name of a moun¬ 
tain in Armenia in Asia, whose summit 
has never been reached, although several 
attempts have been made. 
My 8, 18. 13, 7 and III is the name of him who 
took udvaiiuige. of (lie necessity <d' his 
nephew, who sought for protection iu his 
family Trum the threats of an exasperated 
brother, by forcing him to toll -even years 
longer than the time covenanted for In 
withholding the real consideration for 111 * 
services. 
My 10. 14,13 and II is tho name of the mount 
from which Moses beheld the promised 
land. 
My 13, 21, 24, 3, 4. 30 and II) is I lie name of the 
maternal grandfather of EsaU and Jacob. 
My 14, 5, 1, fl, 21 and hi is the name of her who, 
by remarkable accomplishment *, gained 
tne affection of agnail king, and by mar¬ 
riage to him ontno to t he t hrone of one of 
the kingdoms of Asia, and a lso, by a pe¬ 
culiar and humane interest manifested in 
the Jews, devis'd means to save them 
from a general annihilation planned 
through the offended pride of a very wick¬ 
ed man. 
My 16, 7, 2. 18 and 13 Is (lie name Of the mother 
of him who bore the name of one of tho 
two brazen pillars which Solomon erected 
in the porch of the tern pie. 
My 17, 26, 28, 24, 4 and 27 Is the name of him who 
refused to so disregard I he Roman custom 
in tho administration of the law as to con¬ 
demn one of the A post le* without a hear¬ 
ing, although importuned to do so by a 
Jewish rabble. 
My 22, 15, 12, 26 and 16 is a word often used in the 
III ole, ami the name of a thing used in the 
performance id a church ordinance by all 
denominations of worshippers. 
My 23, 27, 15, 23,18 and 6 is the name of the son 
of Amos, and first iu order among the 
l'ropbet*. 
My whole is a command, Ihe violation of 
which has jeopardized the liberties of thou¬ 
sands and sacrificed the lives of millions. 
E3T" Answer in two weeks. 
•-I'M- 
PUZZLER INQUIRIES, No 2. 
1. Willie II. Mead writes with reference to 
the first inquiry under this head. Rural, May 
3: -“There Is no way of solving the example 
about the ditch so that. A and It could make $50 
each, if one received 12‘ ,,c. arid the other «7‘ ,e. 
per rod. /Too/.* If each one made #51), a, who 
received per rod, would have as many 
rods to dig as $I.I2«% is contained In $511. Thus, 
$50 divided by ILY' j- 41 4-fl rods ; 10il rods 44 1-71 
rods-55 5 - 9 , the number of roils B had to dig; 
55 5-fi • 87!i-$48.01 * B received. There is no way 
of working that example. 
2. Will sortie of the ltu UAL readers pie ise give 
a correct explanation to the following algebrai¬ 
cal promblem : Let t l And y 
course r— u ; multiplying both members of t he 
equation by g, we have r u~il ; subtracting 
from both members, we have .r // r =;/•'—r-’; 
dividing by y —;t, we have t- j/ ,r : , as./' 1 and 
y= L we have 1—1*1, or 1 -2.- Andrew W. 
{W Answer in two weeks. 
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PUZZLER ANSWERS.-May 10. 
Illustrated Rebus No. 11. — Children are 
usually not without petuiancy. 
Cross-Word Enigma No. 9.—Europe. 
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