APBIL 10 
MOOSE’S BUBAL HEW-YORKER. 
THE GODS OF THE HEARTH. 
Om.v a picture, dimmed ami smirched 
By many a weary year. 
Only a plant, with a nigged stem, 
Its scant leaves frail and sere. 
Only a book, Its pages torn, 
Its dainty binding stained. 
Only a Itarp, with its music Jarred, 
Its strings all dumb and strained. 
Only a phrase, that strikes the ear 
As awkward, dull or cold. 
Only n ring, with its Jewel flawed, 
And rust on Its tarnished gold. 
Yet that portrait stirs one secret heart 
As no master** work can do. 
Those flowers for One uutbloom all buds 
Of royal scent and hne. 
No poet's gulden utterance 
t'harms as those pages did. 
No lute has melody half so sweet 
In Its measured cadence hid. 
Those rough, frank words, n courtly phrase 
Sounds scarce so dear or true. 
No sapphire shines the glow that once 
The poor pale turquoise knew. 
The Gods of the Hearth that reign supreme 
On the altar of the heart. 
Life flashes on its varying way. 
Each takes his destiuud part. 
The wheel revolve*, the sunlight’s glint. 
Storm.-, roar, and quick rains fall. 
The thorns grew thick on the rose’s stem, 
Heath strikes, to end it all; 
But, oh ! it is only Hi* mighty hand 
That can hurl them from their throne ; 
The Gods that Home, and Heart and Hearth 
Iu Lore unite to own. 
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MORE FROM THE HOUSEKEEPERS’ CLUB. 
BY DO RE HAMILTON, 
My vory worthy but nevertheless teasing 
Philander has not yet left off making quite 
withering remark* concerning our sayings and 
doings. J notice, however, that he never refuses 
to attend our winter meetings, when, by special 
favor, some of the sterner sex are graciously 
permitted to add to our numbers, I am quite 
willing to believe that ho considers a IJttie per¬ 
secution needful ror the best good of “ the 
oause," as lie will persist in styling our humble 
effort. 
Two years ago we became a moneyed institu¬ 
tion and started a small circulating library. 
This feature has been highly popular, and lias 
certainly been a source of pleasure and profit 
to us, and, although not yet at a loss as to the 
bestowal of our funds, wo have reason to con¬ 
gratulate ourselves on our success, financially 
considered. 
We have just been reading and discussing 
“The Schoolmaster's Trunk ''—a vory faithful 
picture, I fear, or many a country village, i 
can say quite truthfully that 1 ween it ia nU a 
photograph or Lancaster. I am perhaps a little 
proud of being one of the originators of our 
Club—I think I may safely *ay the originator - 
aud I have carefully noted the gradual changes 
that have obtained during the past four yoara. 
Very few of the many families that I know 
are in the habit of eating pics at breakfast, 
dinner and supper, but I did know many a one 
four years ago where pies were the almost un¬ 
varying dessert, where eight or ten were made 
at a baking, and the supply renewed w henever 
exhausted,—where puddings were a luxury al¬ 
most unknown. A Jikiug for pastry seems like 
total depravity, something transmitted from 
our ancestors, for which we are not wholly to 
blame, but from which we should seek by ail 
lawful means to be delivered. 1 never saw a 
boy who couldn’t eat pies as fa*t as he could 
wink. All there ia to do about it is to provide 
wholesome substitutes, and so remove the 
temptation and save Ills stomach. 
This pie business was thoroughly discussed 
by us long ago, and repeated discussion has 
produced a good result, in the houses of the 
faithful among us the pie is a thing indulged 
iu but seldom. Even 7 cannot always resist 
the temptation of slicing up a few apples and 
mixing puff paste; but! assure you that my pies 
have only an upper crust, which after baking 
is inverted and spread with the apples. J am 
sometimes seized with a longing for the spicy 
pumpkin plea that I tasted iu my childhood, 
but ’tis high treason at our table to taste the 
crust. Are my sisters holding up hands of 1 
horror at my wastefulnosa ? Other things may * 
be wasted, my dear sisters, besides lard and 
flour. i 
Speaking of desserts, why cannot the weary 1 
woman-of-all-work leave out. these topping* 
when there cornea a stress of duties? There I 
are only twenty-four hours in a day and night, t 
and if a woman doesn't havo help in the house .. 
it isnonsense to expect everything. 1 certainly . 
expect that if I were Mrs. Jonathan Briggs, i. 
with four children under eight years of age, 1; 
three hired men to board and a large house to r 
keep in order, 1 should either strike outright s 
or gradually lessen the length of the bill of 
fare. I woulda’t care if Mr. B. did object to a 
supper without meat and potatoes smoking 
hot, and as for warm biscuits half a dozen times 
a week, I should beg to be excused. ^ 
But, then, r might talk till doomsday, I sup- b 
pose, about the overworking of my sisters, and 1' 
not a man would stop to think whether he V 
could do anything to brighten the life of Ula tt 
housekeeper. If he would ouly step Into the 
bouse and keep matters going while she rode 
off to tlie (*. 0. for him, or jogged over to the 
mill with the grist, the fresh air would charm 
away that bad headache; the birds twittering 
in the budding bushes would wake echoes in 
her happy heart: she would forget for a little 
while the hundred small worries tli.it booloud 
her sky, and come back to kitchen and pantry 
with fresh courage, it is tills perpetual grind¬ 
ing of toil, tliits never-shifting burden of petty 
cares and plans, that breaks Gown our women 
and makes thorn discontented and fretful just 
when their lives should lie fullest of joy and 
sweetness. Moat of thorn plod along in the 
same weary path, year after year, and ’tis no 
wonder they lose heart. A little more cour¬ 
age, a little more Independence and common 
sense, a little more determination to do one’s 
best without murmuring in the process, and 
perhaps.we shall come out right at last. 
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LIGHT CAKES. 
What a pity 'tis that young married folks 
will not emulate the example of Japanese 
housekeepersl They are troubled very little 
by household cares. A few mats, a chest of 
drawers for clothing, two or three quilts for a 
bed on the floor, some simple kitchen utensils, 
and their houses are furnished. They have 
nevor known tho use of a bedstead, a chair, or 
a table, as wo understand these articles; and 
yet these people havo all the virtues of civiliza¬ 
tion, and perhaps not quite all its vices. They 
are polite,generous, hospi.able, perform their 
religious duties with exemplary piety, and if 
cleanliness be next to godliness, they are much 
more godly than wo are, for they are the clean¬ 
est people on earth, according to the general 
testimony of travelers. 
We havo certainly much to learn before our 
houses can be as immaculately neat as theirs 
arc. Their habit of doffing street boots aud as¬ 
suming slippers before entering a roam does 
much toward keeping their houses cleaner than 
our own. A poor Japanese housewife really 
enjoys more ease, after her simplo duties are 
don®, than many of our wealthiest dames who 
are weighed down with the cares of an extrava- 
j gam establishment. Amt as for young people 
Just entering Hie—compare their lot with that 
of tho people under discussion, and, it an ease- 
ioving person, you will soon render a verdict in 
favor of Japanese housekeepers. 
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A GOOD HOUSEWIFE. 
A good housewife is one of the first blessings 
in the economy of lire. Men put a great value 
upon the qualifications of their partners after 
marriage, however they may weigh with them 
before, and there is nothing which tends more 
to mar t he felicities of married life than reck¬ 
lessness or want of knowledge of tho new 
Housekeeper of the duties which belong to her 
station. Men admire beauty, order and system 
in everything, and men admire good fare. If 
these are found in their dwellings, and aro 
seasoned with good nature and good sense, 
men will seek their chief enjoyment at home_ 
they will love their home and their partners, r 
and strive to reciprocate the kind offices <»r t 
duty and affection. Mothers who study the i 
welfare of their daughters will not fail to in¬ 
struct them in the qualifications of married 
life, and daughters who appreciate the value of " 
these qualifications will not fail to acquire " 
them. v 
Heading far ihg 
THEY DIDN’T THINK. 
A POEM FOR LITTLE FOLKS. 
Once a trap was baited 
With a picoe of cliee.-e; 
It tickled so a little mouse 
It almost made blip sneeze. 
An old rat until, " '1'hrro’s danger ; 
Be careful whore you go !” 
“ Nonsense!’’ said tho other; 
“ I don't think that you know,” 
So he walked in boldly— 
Nobody in sight; 
First he took a nibble, 
Then ho took a bite, 
Close the trap together 
Snapped, as quick us wink, 
Catching " mousy ” fast there, 
’Cause be didn’t think. 
Once a little turkey. 
Fond of her own way, 
Wouldn’t ask tho old ones 
Where to go or stray. 
Bhe said, *' I'm not a baby : 
Here I am, half grown ; 
.Surely I am big enough 
To run about alone !” 
Off she went, but Mister Fox, 
Hiding, saw her pass; 
Soon, like snow, her reuthers 
Covered all the grass. 
So she was u supper 
Ere the sun did sink. 
’Cause she was so headstrong 
That slio Wouldn’t think !” 
Once there was a robin 
Lived outside the door, 
Wins wanted logo Inside 
And hop upon t he floor. 
“ O, no !” said the mother; 
“ You must stay here with me ; 
Little birds aro safest 
Sitting in n tree.” 
“ I don't care,'' mid robin, 
And gave his tail n fling; 
" I don’t think the old folks 
Know quite everything.” 
Down lie flew, and Kitty seized him 
’Fore he’d time to blink; 
" O !” lie cried, *• I’m sorry, 
But I didn’t think!” 
Now, my little children, 
You who road this song, 
Don’t yon see what troublo 
Comes of thinking wrong? 
And can’t you take a warning 
From their dreadful fate 
Who began their thinking 
When it wus too hue i 
Don't think there's always safety 
Where no danger shows ; 
Don t suppose you know more 
Than any body knows; 
But when you're warned of ruin, 
Pause upon the brink ; 
And don’t go over headlong, 
’Cause you didn’t think. 
OUK SOPHEONIA. 
WOMEN PERSONALS. 
Mrs. Annie Bksant has edited Mr. Brad- 
laugh’s paper during Ills absence, and with re¬ 
markable tact. 
Mrs, Harriet Fulton of Macon, Ga., was 
lately appointed Librarian of that city, at a 
salary of $1,400 per annum. 
Miss Mattie Strickland, daughter of Hon. 
Randolph Strickland, ex-mo tuber of Congress 
1 rum Michigan, is delivering lecturos Iu Iowa 
upon the Suffrage question. 
Mrs. Itoi'GK lias bequeathed the sum of $15,. 
(KM) in trust for the use of the New Jerusalem 
Church in tho United States. A portion of 
this has been appropriated to tho publication 
of a new edition of Swedenborg’s theological 
writings. 
Mrs. James k. Polk has presented ihe Ten¬ 
nessee Historical Society with a pen made from 
an eagle'sqvllll, dropped by an eagle In Virginia 
and presented to President Polk in 1845. Mr. 
Polk signed his first Message to Congress and 
many other important documents with the pen 
made of this quill. 
Miss Augusta Moore, who testified in the 
Beecher ease, eonld, according to tho Tribune, 
out-talk the lawyers,bullied them on thecross- 
examination, instructed the Judge, and came 
out of all the conflicts triumphant. Her cor¬ 
dial cooterapt for Mr. Tilton was only equaled 
by her inflexible determination to free her 
mind, no matter what the lawyers might do or 
say to hinder. 
Mas. Mahki. Hubbard of Carthage, N. V., is 
a citizen 103 years of age And the mother of 18 
children. She was horn In l/itohfleld, Conn., 
and remembers the cannonading when the 
British destroyed New Haven in 1778, also tho 
burning of New London by Benedict Arnold in 
1781. She onco had the honor of giving Gen. 
Washington a glass of water when he passed 
through Danbury. 
Miss Sophronia made her advent Into our 
: r ; l,,,i 'y 3om « f >vo months ago, being transferred 
thither from a subterranean apartment, of twi- 
’ light gloom, in a paper bag. 
Miss Sophronia is a kitten -round, glossy and 
. mischievous who wears a ribbon around her 
neck with a bell attached, which makes music 
wherever she goes, and which is exceedingly 
becoming to her. Although she commenced 
life in a very plebeian way, yet she is by no 
means a common-place pussy. It may be 
owing partly to tho circumstances which have 
surrounded her, and partly to the natural good 
looks which she is supposed to have Inherited. 
Sue was one ol five, and tho change from Iter 
companions and humble homo to ours was so 
great a surprise to her, at first, that, after look¬ 
ing around a few times, she gave one wild cry 
ami then disappeared to the attic, where I spent, 
all my spare (line for three days searching for 
her, which, owing to the almost complete dark¬ 
ness of that Uninhabited region, was not tis 
agreeable an occupation as it might have been. 
There was a species of ventriloquism about 
her occasional cries which was extremely aggra¬ 
vating. Now they seemed to proceed from a 
stove pipe, then from a roll of carpeting; again, 
from a cavernous box, whose rotund appear¬ 
ance suggested the accumulations of years; 
then, 1 felt sure they came from behind the 
chimney-all of which places I in turn searched 
in acautious manner,fearful of her little, sharp 
claws, which 1 had previously boon warned site 
kopt unsheathed, on the defensive. 
But my efforts to discover her hiding place 
were all Ineffectual, and I wh* afraid she would 
die of hunger, as she was scarcely more than a 
month old. At last, with the aid of an old gen¬ 
tleman who lived in the house, on the third day 
she was fished out from between the walls, near 
a high beam. How sho ever got there, unless 
she was born an accomplished gymnast, we 
could not understand. 
AHer that she hud a succession c>r fits, during 
which she regularly foil out of ray window and 
fell from the shed to the ground, and each 
tiino was given up for dead, but after a little 
nursing would come up again. All this made 
her very troublesome at first, but as time went 
on she grew stronger, aud became so playful 
and cunning In tier ways that l thought she 
must have gained, rather than lost, by her 
trials. 
Iler entree and exit from my room during the 
summer was through a window which opened 
on a vine-covcrod shed, and over this sho would 
go, flying back anil forth like a breeze, often 
reminding me of a squirrel, with her bright eyes 
and tali in tho air. Her curiosity Is great, and 
neither trunk, band-box nor bundle has any 
sacred ness in her eyes. And IT a drawer bo left 
open for a moment,she is quickly misohovioui;- 
l.v investigating its mysteries. Sometimes she 
gets in tho wash-bowl, either to play in the 
wat er or cltrl herself up for a doze, and getting 
on the bureau to stop the clock is a favorite 
pastime with her. When l go out site sits on 
the stairs until 1 return, to got the cooky 1 
bring her, which aim is very fond or. The snow 
has been quite a source of amusement t.o her 
this winter, as site will go out on the sited, 
after a storm, and play with it i'ora longtime, 
and then come flying into the room, shaking 
tho crystals in every direction. 
Another nno of her freaks is to get on tho 
hearth of the stnvo and scratch in the ashes. 
Tills site has spells of doing when 1 tell her I 
have no money for cookies. Sho Is always 
more playful at such times, and display's great 
indifference to food. 
Her fur is a btriped gray, shaded Into a leo- 
nirio tint, and hor paws arc short and tipped 
with white. Head small and symmetrical, and 
uoso and bosom white. Sho is very evenly 
marked, and tlto dark linos shading off above 
her nose form a perfect V, whlcii reminds roe 
of the conundrum, “ Why is your nose like the 
letter ‘v’ iu civility? Because it is between 
two eyes.’’ 
When I sing site comes and gets In my lap, 
and lies down. Whether it is because she 
thinks 1 am in pain, and desires to sympathize 
with me, or because she likes the music, I 
don’t know. Altogether, if sho was a crow, I 
should say she was a. whits one, if she lias upset 
milk, and broken, dishes and eggs. 
Before concluding, I would hero remark that 
site Is not a lady pussy cat, though from Iter 
general appearance of politeness and prettiness 
she has always been called Miss, and that her 
original name of “Sophronia" has long been 
abbreviated to simply “ Symphony.” This is 
my cat. 0 . N< a 
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MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA.—No. 6. 
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of the tut man frame. 
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dissimilitude in nature. ’ ’ 
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Mv whole is one or Scott Downey’s proverbs 
Answer in two weeks. Little One. 
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PUZZLER ANSWERS,—March 27. 
Miscellaneous Enigma No.4. T.S. Arthur; 
1 en Nights in a Bar-room, and Three Years iu 
a Man-trap. 
Diamond Puzzle No. 1.— 
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MOORAGE 
NBPTURIAN 
OBSGtrUEN ESS 
PRED IOA HI LIT V 
QUA II It U PL t C A T I O N 
TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
I’ltRSHY T M RIAN 1 8M 
flJTlS RE WITNESS 
PI) R PH YRITlt; 
METHODIZE 
MIGRATE 
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Double Acrostic No. 2.-Initials, Topeka 
Finals, Kausas. 
Central Puzzle No. 2.—Rhetoric. 
