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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
case of persons with feeble constitutions, and 
who disregard knowingly or otherwise, and 
most frequently otherwise, the conditions of 
healthy existence, no degree of care will pre¬ 
vent the taking of t ' n« it is termed. They 
may live iu houses regulated with all the 
precision of a hot-house, they may cover 
tnemselves with the most highly protective 
clothing the market provide*, and yet they 
will take cold. I do not think the consump¬ 
tive person lives, or ever will live, even if 
kept in a temperature absolutely uniform, 
and clothed iu a wholly faultless manner, hi 
whom the well known signs of one cold after 
another will not be apparent. But. on the 
other hand, there aro those who, like the 
late Sir Henry Holland, of good constitutions 
and living in accordance with the laws of 
health, may travel as he did from the tropics 
to the arctics again and again, clad only in an 
ordinary dress coat, and yet scarcely know 
what it is to have a cold or a sickness of any 
kind. The truth is that to avoid taking cold 
from ordinary or even extraordinary expos¬ 
ure the vital processes must be made strong 
enough to rise above the mi toward influence 
of external conditions. 
and druggists who have practiced and pre¬ 
scribed from the time of Esculapius ; aud 
that, too, in the one matter of saving the 
health of children. 
L cau imagine—and the pity is ’tis true— 
the thousands of little folks under ten yearn 
of age, who are daily given to eat meats, hot 
cakes, with butter aud syrup, pastry in 
various forms, rich puddings, sauces, etc., 
etc.—an extravagance of the most dreaful 
sort, breeding puniueas, disease and death. 
Feeding children like adults, and decking 
them out iu finery like grown people, n.re 
two great curses of the age. Children don’t 
need strong meats any more than they need 
diamonds What they do want up to ten 
STATE GRANGE AGENTS 
HOUSEHOLD EXTRAVAGANCES AND IN 
DISCRETIONS. 
In twenty-six of the States there are busi¬ 
ness agents appointed by the State Granges, 
As wo have 1'requont inquiries 08 to the 
name and address of these agents, we will 
here givo them ns they appear on the last 
bulletin from the National Grange. 
Alabama.— G. W. McDowell, N. V.; T. G. 
Garrett, St. Louis, Mo..* A. J. Vaughan & Co., 
Memphis, Tenn.; Hattie & Deburdeleben, Mo¬ 
bile, Ala.; Harrington, Now Orleans, La.; 
A. F. Elabeu , Montgomery, Ala.; A-S. Harper, 
Tuskegee, Ala. (Sewing Machines). 
California.- T. G. Gardner, No. 6 Leiderstlorff 
Street, 8an Francisco, Cal. 
Delaware.—Herbert, Hanston & Co., 85 and 87 
South Charles Street, Baltimore, M. D. 
Florida.—W. A, Brinson, agent Florida Co-op¬ 
erative Stock Co., P. of H., Live Oak, Suwannee 
County. 
Illinois.—Hudson Bros.,212 North Second St., 
St. Louis; Grunt & Houston, ;80I North Com¬ 
mercial St.,St. Louis; S. ,T. Frew, Aledo, Mercer 
Co., Illinois. 
Indiana. Mp'caus Tyner, No. 76 West Wash¬ 
ington St.., Indianapolis. 
Iowa.—Spencer Day, Dos Moines, Iowa. 
Kansas.-J. 0. Otis, Topeka, Ka. 
Louisiana. —N. D. Wotuiore, 166 Gravier and 
17 Union St., New Orleans, La. 
Maine.—Nelson Ham, Lewiston, Maine. 
Maryland.—Herbert, Hairston & Co., 85 arid 87 
South Charles St., Baltimore, Md. 
Michigan.—D. Duncan, Schoolcraft, Mich. 
Minnesota.—J. S. Denman, Winona, Minn. 
Mississippi.—Geo. Toney, Liverpool, Eng¬ 
land ; W. Harrington & Co., New Orl nns, La.; 
A. J. Vaughan & Co., Memphis, Tonp.j B. F. 
Fitzpatrick, Mobile, Ala.; A. M, Hardin, St. 
Louis, Mo.; Dan’l S. Farrar. Natchez, Mies.; 
W. G. Paxton, Vicksburg, Miss. 
Missouri,—Wm. M. Price & Co., II South Com¬ 
mercial St., St. Louis. 
Nebraska.—Win. McCaig, Lincoln, Lancaster 
Co., Neb. 
Now Hampshire.—Christopher C. Shaw, Mil¬ 
ford, N. II.; Job Griscom, 101 Vino St., Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 
New Fork.—Bertholf, Smith <fc Co., 300 Green¬ 
wich St., N. Y.; general produce, except hay, 
grain and wool; Wbodcs & Server, 2-1 Whitehall 
St., N. Y.; butter and cheese. 
Ohio.- Wm, II. Hill, Sharonville, Hamilton 
Co., (box 73) Ohio. 
Oregon. A. J. Dufur, Portland, Oregon. 
South Carolina.—11. P. Green, Columbia, 8.C. 
Tennessee.—W. Harrington & Co., New Or¬ 
leans, La.; A. .1. Vaughan A Co., Memphis, 
Term.; Rees A Dawson, Atlanta, Ga. 
Virginia.—Wm. T. Dupuy, Richmond, Va.; E. 
D. PhUllpa, Norfolk, Va.; W. B. Westbrook* 
Petersburg, Va. 
Wisconsin.—Adelrnore Sherman, Janesville 
Rook Co., Wis. 
Colorado.—Henry Lee, Denver, Col. 
BY MARY A. E. WAGER. 
Ben Franklin added to the stock of truth 
when he affirmed that if the pennies were 
cared for the dollars would take care of 
themselves. Economy is, and must ever re¬ 
main, the real source of prosperity ; and of 
economy Americans know comparatively 
nothing. The waste iu country homes, espe¬ 
cially in those of farming classes, is enor¬ 
mous. The extravagance of housewives, 
who fully believe that both ends of the year 
are made to meet only through their eco¬ 
nomical management. Is nevertheless greut. 
Nothing shocked me more upon my return 
home, than the waste of food and fuel. 
Fanners were cutting down trees for fire¬ 
wood, when ou the grounds surrounding 
house and barns, was fuel enough, in one 
shape and another, to keep a furnace at red 
heat for six months. From one end of 
Franco to another, there is not enough of 
wood left lying on the ground to make a 
broom handle. Our era of forest clearing 
for grain land is gone by, and the men who 
fell thriving green trees for fire-woocl, are 
cutting so much off their own wealth and 
that of their children, for I believe in nearly 
every instance the necessity of such work ts 
fancied and not real. T have seen some door- 
yards in which there was enough fuel in 
the shape of old brooms, tubs and pails gone 
to ruin,last year’s straw hats, unredeemable 
hen-coops, and the general debris of brush 
and bits of shingles aud boards, to serve as a 
substitute for at least one tree, to say noth¬ 
ing of tho mission of tidiness accomplished. 
But the loss in the waste of fuel in small 
in oompariaon with that of food. Tho waste 
is made, or allowed, unconsciously, because 
in detail that seems insignificant. If a pru¬ 
dent housewife will for one week put all the 
remnants of food, that she is in the habit of 
throwing away, into a disli, she will be sur¬ 
prised at the amount. The scraps of meats, 
fowl, fish—the small quantities of vege¬ 
tables, rice, bread, cake, etc., etc., a;« 
thrown away because of their littleness, and 
sho does not know how to utilize them to 
advantage. A French family would live— 
and well live—upon such “leavings.” The 
cold meats would go into soups, and the bits 
not suitable for that, along with the fish and 
fowl and vegetables, be transformed into 
e’minre —hash of real deliciousness, or into 
croquettes, into which rice, bread, and other 
cooked grain, make up well. All these 
things give variety, and are especially 
adapted for breakfast, the meal most bother¬ 
some to insure that. 
Then in the use of animals there is great 
waste. Tho head of a rooster is the most 
delicious pait >>f him, and yet this chief end 
of him 18 the first rejected. The comb is of 
groat delicacy. The. head of a calf is deli- 
ciou? cooked, if served with oil and vinegar. 
By the way, can any of the Rural readers 
furnish us with positive testimony in regard 
to the table-oil manufactured from sun¬ 
flower seeds. I remember in deploring the 
difference between olive oil in France and 
Italy and that we get here, hearing a gentle¬ 
man say that the oil made from gun-flower 
seeds was a most excellent and agree¬ 
able substitute for olive oil. If true, It is a 
mo; t valuable thing to know, as olive oil for 
salads is expensive, and in many places diffi¬ 
cult to be had. Moreover, it is moat whole¬ 
some and nutritive, and would make a great 
variety of salads, possibly, and of daily lise 
iu hundreds of houses now ignorant of them 
and their appetizing wholesomeness. 
Soup is a cure of and prevention against 
dyspepsia. We are the most dyspeptic of all 
natioiiB, and eat the least soup. In most 
farm- r’s houses, where there is everything 
to make delicious soup of, it is served about 
twice a year. The family sit down to dine, 
and without any preliminary preparation of 
tho stomach by the introduction of light, 
diet, as well as judiciously tempering the 
appetite, proceed at once to till if with 
strong food, and cud with 
much in the way of dessert, 
ciple that “ All’s well that- en 
in the matter of dining the 
until next day, next week, c 
never. The exercise of a bi 
will at, once convince any housewife that it 
is far better, as well as more economical, to 
have soup than to have dessert. The man 
or woman who succeeds in converting every 
American housekeeper to the practical doc 
trine of soup will have served the true wel¬ 
fare of the people better than all the doctors 
fruits, Tl children must eat with grown 
people, and be tempted by the sight of food 
only suitable for adults at best, the parent is, 
of course, obliged to cxerciso constantly a 
restraining power. A failure to do this is* as 
much a dereliction of duty, as to restrain a 
tendency to lying, theft and general or par 
ticular badness, and the consequences arc 
nearly as deplorable. The gift of life when 
it has to be borne with aches and pains, aud 
maladies of various sorts becomes a curse. 
The children of the extreme classes cf 
society, the poor in the country, and those 
of princely families, usually have tho most 
healthful bodies, because of the necessitated 
simplicity of the one class, and the intelli 
gent seu3C exercised by the other. Now 
that the spirit of retrenchment is abroad in 
the land, these suggestions in regard to pos¬ 
sible economies and the dreadful waste and 
ruin of health in the little folks may not be 
untimely. 
HARD AND SOFT WATER, 
There is a notion quite prevalent in the 
minds of the people that the drinking of 
hard water is injurious to health, and most 
physicians have warned people to as far as 
possible avoid the practice. But Dr. Lethe r- 
by, an English physician, who has devoted 
much time to investigating the subject, finds 
as the result of his observations, that hard 
water is not only clearer, colder, and more 
free from air, and more agreeable to the 
taste than soft, but that it is less liable to the 
absorption of organic matter and to the sus¬ 
tenance of the life of zymotic organisms, or 
to exert solvent properties upon salts of iron 
or upon leaden conducting pipes, And ho 
claims that, the lime-salts exert a beneficial 
influence. It is asserted that, a practical tost 
of the truth of this new theory is to be lmd 
in the caso of the residents of mountainous 
districts, where the water is almost invariably 
hard and where the inhabitants exhibit tho 
best physjcial development. He claims that 
water '. tit,'lining six grains of carbonate of 
lime lo^he gallon is suitable for uso in all 
household purposes, for such water offers the 
necessary amount of carbonate of lime for 
the support of life in the simplest and most 
digestible form. 
SELECTED RECIPES, 
Clove Cake .—One cup molasses—1 cup 
sugar—l cup butter—1 cup buttermilk—5 
eggs—3 cups flour—1 tablespoon cloves—1 of 
cinnamon—1 teaspoon saleratus in milk— 
raisii s. 
Jelly Cake .—Ono cup butter, 1 cup sugar— 
4 eggs— 1 kj cups flour—beat the eggs sepa¬ 
rately. 
To Make Grandmother's Gingerbread.— 
Cup and a half of rnolawes, cup of rich sour 
cream, teaspoonful saleratus, teaspoonful 
of ginger ; mix a little stiff. 
To Make Muffins.— Two eggs, one quart of 
flour, a piut of sweet milk, two pounds cf 
butter, a gill of yeast, a tcaspoonful of salt. 
Beef Slcu \—Six pounds of the flank of 
beef, cut in small pieces ; boil in two quart# 
of water until tender. Then put in a dozen 
potatoes, a dozen onions, and four turnips ; 
cover it go that the steam shall not escape; 
salt and p«rper to the taste. 
THE DISEASE OF THE DAY, 
A Correspondent of the Boston Journal 
writes ;—Paralysis is becoming a prime dis¬ 
ease. It is not confined to the fleshy, the 
plethoric, nor to the aged. The fast life of 
our business young men tells on them. It is 
a very common thing to see men of thirty 
and thirty-five bald-headed, feeble-galted, 
and walking about with canes, their under¬ 
pinning knocked out, with other signs of 
premature age. These signs of early weak¬ 
ness develope in paralysis. Sudden deaths 
from this cause are very common. Several 
have occurred in railroad trains ; the vibra¬ 
tion seeming to predispose persons to the 
disease. Not long since a gentleman died in 
ono of our churches. He was interested in a 
case of discipline. He made a report to the 
church on the case, sat down, laid his head 
ou the hack of the seat and instantly expired. 
In another ease a man not accustomed to 
public speaking arose to relate his 'religious 
experience, He was so excited that he could 
scarcely *peak. In the midst of his remarks 
he was seized with paralysis, and carried to 
his home. Our youug men will have to tone 
down their style of living if they amount to 
anything. 
NEWS AND NOTES FOR PATRONS 
TnK Secretary of the Kansas State Grange 
claims for it, 1,380 granges with 40,000 
members in good standing. 
Brother T. A. Thompson, Lecturer of the 
National Grange is of opinion that to get 
drunk is to violate the Patrons obligation. 
The defaulting treasurer of the Missouri 
Stat? Orange has been deposed. 'ITie order 
will lose nothing, but he will be left penni¬ 
less. 
The Iowa State Grange has purchased the 
right to manufacture harvesters and reap¬ 
ers, and sell them at cost and transporta¬ 
tion. 
The Executive Commit,to of the National 
Grange has issued a circular calling for the 
correct addresses of all masters of sub- 
grauges. 
Essex Grange, Mass., has adopted the 
system of direct trading. Its first order is 
for a car of oorn and another for mill-feed 
from the Indiana State Grange. 
Withdrawal cards in Iowa are valid for 
only six months. 
The North Carolina State Grange meets in 
Raleigh, February 17. 
Noimr Carolina has 483 granges with a 
membership of 12,000. 
There were 408 Granges organized in the 
United States in October. 
The lecturer of the National Grange is 
now* at work iu this State. 
The Grangers in Douglas county, Kan., 
have resolved to enforce the herd law. 
The Grange at Baraboo, Wis., has ar¬ 
ranged for a series of discussions at its week¬ 
ly meetings. 
M atne has 46 Granges ; New Hampshire 
10 ; Vermont 139 ; Massachusetts 64 ; and 
Connecticut 4. 
A patron’s exchange will, it is stated, 
soon be opened at Des Moines, Iowa, ro 
facilitate direct trade. 
HOW TO AVOID TAKING COLD 
A COLD is 6imply a developer of a diseased 
condition, which may have been latent or 
requiring only some favoring condition to 
burst into the flame of disease. That this 
is usually the correct view of cold as a dis¬ 
ease-producing agent under all ordinary cir¬ 
cumstances may be mode plain by reflection 
upon personal experience even to the most 
ordinary* understanding. When the human 
body ts at its prime—with youth, vigor, 
purity, aud a good constitution on its side- 
no degree of ordinary exposure to cold gives 
rise to any* unpleasant effects. AH the ordi¬ 
nary precautions against colds, coughs and 
rheumatic pains may be disregarded and no 
ill effects ensue. But lot tho blood become 
impure, let the body become deranged from 
any acquired disorder, or let the vigor begin 
to wane, and tho infirmities of age be felt by 
occasional derangements iu some vital part, 
either from inherited or acquired abuses, 
and the action of cold will excite more or 
less disorder of some kind, and the form of 
this disorder, or the disease which will ensue, 
will be determined by tho kind of pre exist¬ 
ing blood impurity, or the pre-existing fault 
of the organic processes. It follows from 
so much too these facts and considerations that the secret 
ou tho priu- of avoiding the unpleasant consequences 
s well.” But thought, to spring wholly from the action of 
“end” is not cold upon the body has very little dependence, 
id sometimes upon exposure, butt a great deni upon an im¬ 
pure and week condition of .ill the vital pro¬ 
cesses. fn other words, with ail average or 
superior constitution and an intelligent cb 
servance of all the laws of health, men and j ou 
women could not take cold if they wanted 
to ; they might be exposed to the action of 
cold—to a degree equal to the beast of the | influence i 
field, and with like impunity. But in the Transcript. 
HYGIENIC POWER OF THE SUN 
America—should court the sun. The very 
worst soporific is laudanum, and the very 
best, is sunshine. Therefore it is very plain 
that poor sleepers should pass as many hours 
of the day in sunshine, and as few as possible 
in the shade. Many women are martyrs, 
and yet do not know it. They shut the sun¬ 
shine out of their houses and hearts, they* 
wear veils, they carry parasols, they do ull 
that, is possible to keep off t he subtlest, and 
yet most potent influence which is intended 
to give them strength and beauty aud cheer¬ 
fulness. Is it not, time to change all this, and 
so get roses and color in our pale cheeks, 
strength iu our weak barks and courage in 
timid souls ? The women of America 
rc pale and. delicate ; they mav be blooming 
