Sadies’ flmrtfolw. 
REPLY TO 41 WANTED TO FIND,” 
l» Rural or April 17. 
I dearly love a changing cheek. 
That glows or pales as feeling ohooses. 
And lets the free heart frankly spoak 
Upon It what tho touenc refuses. 
I dearly love a speaking eye. 
That tells you there’s a soul to wake it; 
Now fired with faooles wild and high. 
Now soft na sympathy can make It. 
I lore a lip that eye to match. 
Now curled willi room, now pressed In sadness 
And quick each feo'tng change to catoh— 
Next moment arched with smiles of gladness. 
I loro a hand that meets mine own, 
Bach grasp that causes some sensation ; 
I lore a roieo whose varying tones 
From truth has learned Its modulation. 
I oan boaBt of that regal eye, 
That smile and tonn untaught by art 1 
That cheek of ever-changing dye! 
That brave, free, generous, cordial heart* 
B. B. 
Photos exchanged willingly. 
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EEPLY TO “A SUFFERING WIFE.” 
If, as you say (In Rural of April 17), you and 
your husband are believers lu the doctrine* 
taught lu the Bible, I think your Bufferings 
may bo easily alleviated. Of oourae If your 
husband believes and praotleea Blblo dootrlnos, 
ho never said those things to you, and no one 
else has any right to. It Is true woman wsb 
made from a part of man, but did you ever no¬ 
tice that, It. was from tho side Instead of from 
the head or the feet that tho portion was 
takcu ? Is not that an Indication of her equal¬ 
ity? She 1 b nolthor above nor below, but be- 
Bide. 
Eph- b : "2 83, gives the Christian way for 
husbands and wives to live—“ Husbands, love 
your wives, even as Christ also loved the 
Church.” How did CiluiST love the Church? 
So much that He '*gave Himself for It." Gavo 
up Hit own life, having takon upon LHmsolf 
the form of a servant and lived a life of labor 
for the good of others; and Ho did this, not 
that Ho might rule over the Church, but that 
she might be raised to a place of endless Joy ; 
not for HU own pleasure, but for her eternal 
good. Do Christian husbands who are indif¬ 
ferent to or neglectful of their wivos' bnppl 
ness obey this command? Christ's love was 
not passive, but active. He did everything He 
could that the Joy of His people might be full. 
And wives bo subject unto your husbands, 
** on tho Church Is subject uuto Christ.” This 
!!).■ .u* a groat deal; but what Christian wife, 
whose husband fully obeys tho directions given 
In this chapter, cau do otherwise than yield a 
loving, cheerful and hearty obedience? If all 
who profess to love the Bible really did so, 
bow much happier huabandsand wives, parents 
and children, would bo! Daisy. 
The only way T oan propose to prevent hand¬ 
ing down our superstitious inheritances is to 
never refer to these strange “signs” before 
ohlhlren, and then, we hope, a few generations 
more will cause them to “ run out.” We say 
this with a fervent veneration for our dear old 
New England ancestors, who bo long perpetu¬ 
ated them. And while we find children so re¬ 
tentive of first or early Impressions, let us fill 
their young minds with such truths us they 
never will be a-bumed to tolerate and perpetu¬ 
ate 1 o after life, as well as such as shall be 
profitable. Aunt Flora. 
New LondoD, Minn., April 7. 
GOOD ENOUGH FOR HOME. 
“ Why do you put on that forlorn old dress ?” 
asked Emily Manners of her cousin Lydia, one 
morning after she had spent the night at 
Lydia’s house. 
The dress in question was a spotted, faded 
old summer silk, which only looked the more 
forlorn for its once fashionable trimmings, now 
crumpled and frayed. 
"Oh, anything ia good enough for home?” 
said Lydia, hastily pinning ;on a soiled collar, 
and twisting up her hair in a knot, sbe went 
down to breakfast. 
“ Your hair is coming down,” said Emily. 
“ Oh, never mind. It’s good enough for 
home,” said Lydia, carelessly. Lydia nad been 
visiting at Emily's homo, and had always ap 
peared lu the prettiest of morning dre.-sas, end 
with neat, hair, and dainty collars and miffs; 
but now that, she was back again ainon.;' her 
brothers and sisters and with her parents, she 
seemed to think anything would a mover, and 
went about untidy and rough In soiled finery. 
At her uncle’s she had been pleasant and 
polite, and had won golden opinions from all; 
but with her own family her manners were as 
cureless as her dress ; she seemed to think that 
courtesy and kindness were too expensive for 
homewear, and that anything was good enough 
for home. 
There arc too many people who, like Lydia, 
scrim to think that tu,y thing will do tor home. 
Young men who are polite and pleasant In out¬ 
side society are rude to their mothers, and 
snarl at their sisters; and girls who, among 
strangers are all gaiety and animation, never 
make an exertion to please tboir own family. 
It la a wretched way to turn always the 
smoothest side to the world, and the roughest 
and coarsest to one’s neare.it and dearest 
friends. 
AEOUT WOMEN. 
Of the 221,012 teachers In this oountry, 127,718 
are women. 
Miss Belle Leonard is a very successful 
Iowa revivalist. 
A DAUGHTER of the actor, Fechter, Is prepar¬ 
ing for her debut as a vocallBt. 
Maine claims to have boon the first State to 
allow women to solemnize marriages. 
The Illinois Legislature has passed an act 
allowing women to serve as notaries public. 
Reading for the §mmg. 
WORK AND SING. 
you must work, and T must Mng, 
That’s the way the btrdleB do: 
See the workers on the wing; 
See the ldio alugors too. 
Yet not wholly Idle these, 
They tho toilers do not wrong; 
For the weary heart, they ease 
With the ranturo of their song. 
If our work of life to cheer 
Wo no music hud, no flowers, 
Life would hardly seem so dear, 
Longer then would drag the hours. 
Like the blrdlc * let us bo: 
Let us not tho singers chide; 
There’s a use in nil we see; 
Work and sing! the world Is wide. 
[Emily Carter, in Nursery. 
LETTERS FROM ROYS AND GIRLS. 
From a Young Gardener, 
Dear Rural:—1 am eleven years old to-day. 
I love to read the boys’ and girls’ letters and 
often thought I would write one, too. The 
snow is all gone, arid It will be soon warm 
enough to work In the garden. I sp ided quite 
a pieoB of ground last week to plant some 
Peacliblow potatoes that T raised last year aud 
I tried to raise sorno onions. 1 have tomato 
plants large enough to put In the ground now. 
If the weather was warm enough. School begins 
thO first of May, anti then 1 will work In tho 
garden mornings and nights. Papa died when 
1 was six years old and mamma and my two 
brothers and 1 llvo alone, brother Jerkik and 
I help mamma In the house. We go to Sunday 
School. I would like to urk tho little letter 
writers how long Soiaimon reigned, and how 
old ho was when he died.— Eddie E. D„ One,Ula, 
N. Y„ April 20. 
From a Western New York Girl. 
Dear Editor:— I have read so many letters 
from tbs boys and girls, l thought 1 would try 
and write one myself. Papa has taken your 
paper ever plnce tho first year of Its publicat ion, 
and wo think wo cannot, do without It. I go to 
school, walking half a mile. I live on a farm. 
We have a view of the beautiful Cnyuga Lake, 
which bus beoti entirely frozen over for many 
weeks. We live ten rods from the Geneva, 
Ithaca /and Athens R.R , which wo find a great 
ooiiyca* -•f-o. Tl:,u Is a nice part, til New York 
State, N’ing betweeu Cayuga and Seneca lakes. 
This will do at present From a thtrteen-year- 
old girl.—E. H. C., Covert, Scncca Co., N. Y. 
From an Indiana Boy. 
Editor Rural:—Wc have been taking the 
Rural for several year*, and wo like It quite 
well. I like tho “ Story-Teller" ever so much. 
I have been going to school this winter,-and 
have not missed a day; our school is almost 
out but we havo three weeks yet. r saw In the 
good plan. In a week or so wo shall be In the 
midst of tho augar season, and then we shall 
have our hands full. Our sugar bush numbers 
1173 trees, and it keeps us or: the go during the 
whole of the ougar-nntklng weather. Thou we 
come to our spring labors—with which every 
farmer is familiar—such as plowing, sowing, 
dragging, rolling, &o. I beam groat many com¬ 
plaints among ray neighbor boys, that the farm 
is do plaoo to make money, and that, tho oily Is 
the place to go to if you want to get rich and 
be anybody; but as for mo, I will stick to the 
old farm and always think of the song Of 
” DodH you go, Tommy, don’t no.” 
If this meets your approval I will try and- do 
bettor at, no distant day. -Charles M., Jr., 
Mean, N. F., March 40. 
A New Jersey Girl on Spring. 
Spring— bright, glorious Spring lias oome 
again ; and with It have oome the birds to ohoer 
us with their melodious songs, after so many 
long months of cold and dreary weather. It is 
with ft*elin«3 of great Joy that we hall the com¬ 
ing of Spring ; for how much pleasanter it Is to 
walk out in the sunshine and pluck the tnodost, 
violet, and other flowers that blna-mm in the 
early Spring,and to watch the unfolding of tbo 
tender leaves and the springing up of tho beau¬ 
tiful green grass that makes our fields appear 
as If covered with a lovely green carpet. I think 
that old tyrant. Jack Frost, will soon have to 
yield to the more gentle rolgn of the Spring 
aim, who sends hlsrays from afar to melt tho 
snow aud loo from off the ground, no that the 
farmer may b»igit\t,0 plow and to sow the grain, 
that he may reap bountifully at harvest time. 
Wltn Spring comes better times, when the poor 
man may get work to support hlrasolf and fam¬ 
ily, whereas in Winter he lives In constant fear 
lest the morrow should find him without even 
the common noceesarl“3 of life. 
With March comes In the pleasant Spring, 
When little bints begin to sing: 
To build their nusts. to hatch their brood, 
With tender oaro provide them food. 
—S. A. H„ llopatwny, .V. J. 
From a Buckeye State Boy. 
Dear Mr. Editor: —Wo are taking your 
paper and I Ilko to road the boys’ and girls’ let¬ 
ters very much. I am ton years old and I live 
ou a farm of 132 acres, I have not had any time 
to trap, and plav wit h pet,a as -oit.o of tbi young 
RURAL readers have had. I have boen cutting 
and husking corn ; wo havo fed 100 head of hoga 
for market, and arc going to feed a carload of 
cattle. I am going to school at present and 
like It very much. I llko to work examples In 
tho arithmetic. Wo play ball and blackman 
and have good times. This is my first letter; 
If It Is worth publishing, please correct all mis¬ 
takes and bed spelling, and I will try and do 
better next time.— John Ellswoktu, Delaware 
Co., Ohio. 
§!he Duller 
CRC3S-W0RD ENIGMA.—No. 5. 
DON’T INCULCATE SUPERSTITION. 
! - 
As I read “A Weloomo Visitor” in Rural 
of March 27, and admired it so much, it brought 
to mind a never-to-be-forgotten visit I once 
had from a brilliant boauty of a bummlng-blrd. 
Unlike Ritty Rnr.n, however, I had early been 
tttuvnt that a visit from a bird was ominous of 
good tidings, and therefore when a bird en¬ 
tered tho bouse I was Instantly thrilled with 
exquisite delight. I presume this was also 
earned by my groat love for thoso creatures. 
There oume one day a ruby-throated hum¬ 
ming-bird Into the sitting-room, whevo I was 
quietly sewing. After making a few circles 
srouud the room It wout to the vase of fresh 
flowers and sipped a3 those birds do when out 
oi dour*, apparently much at ease In his situa¬ 
tion. “Julia," said 1, “run and get a few 
fresh honeysuckles for birdie.” This was said 
In the most quiet manner, but the flowers were 
brought quickly, as well as quietly, and as tho 
bird seemed to approach tho flowers without 
fear, 1 took them in my hand and held them as 
near to my eyes as was necessary lor the best 
view of the dear little fellow, and there and 
then I had my only deliberate and feasting 
look at n Inunming-blrJ. Probably for two or 
three minutes the bird was passing from flower 
to flower, which I held in my hand—not hur¬ 
riedly, either, but in a mauner Indicating his 
own enjoyment—then going out of the door 
which he came in at, but never said “ Good-by.” 
I feel adellghteven yet in repeating the story 
of that visit; but that is not.what, most I would 
like to say to yourself and readers, If you please. 
It 1 b to refer to the strong and ofttluiea unre¬ 
liable Impressions many mothers unwittingly 
make upon their children, which oltng to them 
In after years with the tenacity of childhood’s 
memory. A foolish and superstitious phrase, 
heard In childhood, has clung to many an In¬ 
telligent man or woman, as R. R. bints, long 
aftet they would not allow themselves to speak 
of It. For Instance, although I never allowed 
a superstitious phrase to be repeated to my 
children—never taught them to “look at the 
now moon over their right shoulder,”—never 
taught them any of the “ signs and wonders,” 
yet, to this day, I had a little rather look at a 
now moon over my right shoulder! When you 
are done laughing, I will refer to^the subject 
In the way I first intended. 
Mme. Ristoiu never takes a sleeping car, but 
sita up and out the longest railroad journey. 
Mias MULOCH is In Faria colleotln? material 
for a novel description of French life aud man¬ 
ners. 
Miss Knight, daughter of tho late Chariots 
Knight, has in preparation “Anecdotes of Men 
I Have Known.” 
Albani has gone to Italy to take part In the 
fetes to be given by the King of Italy to the 
Emperor of Austria. 
Miss Emma Beecher of Flint, Mich., has 
been appointed local agent of the Equitable 
Life Assurance Company. 
MRS. Chanfrau is going to try her hand as a 
manageress, aud baa taken the Now Orleans 
Varieties for the coming soaeon, 
MME. Ruttkay, sister of Louis Kossuth, tho 
late Governor of Hungary, is tbo guest of the 
Hon. Hirara Barney, at Spuyten Duyvil, N. Y. 
Jamb Grey Swtbhelm says that when she 
was a girl she was taught to cut and make every 
article a women is ever expected to wear, even 
the shoes. 
Miss Florence C. Perrins, daughter of 
Mrs. S. M. C. Perkins of Morris, N. Y., has just 
been chosen Valedictorian for tho June com¬ 
mencement at Vassar College, 
Miss Arch, daughter of Mr. Joseph Arch, 
tbechamplon of the English agricultural labor¬ 
ers, has appeared as a lecturer, with consider¬ 
able success, lu the provinces. 
Miss Ida Greeley, the elder daughter of the 
late Horace Greeley, was married on Saturday 
last, to Col. Nicholas Smith of Leavenworth, 
Kansas. The bridal party sailed immediately 
fur Europe, 
Ages or Literary Women.—A n exchauge, 
speaking of the lougcvlty of literary women, 
says:--Miss Martlweau, Miss Bremer, Mrs. 
Howltt, Mrs. Strickland and Mr*. Browning— 
all either living or not very long deceased 
were born almost at the beginning of the cen¬ 
tury. Mine. De Stael lived to be llfty-one, Mrs. 
Bradstreet, fifty-nine: Ida Pfeiffer, sixty-one; 
Miss Mltford, sixty-nine; Lady Wortly Mon¬ 
tague, seventy-two; Miss Edgeworth, eighty- 
two; Mrs. Ople, eighty-four, Mmo, D’Arblay, 
eighty-five; Mrs. Somerville* ulnety-ono; and 
Mrne. de Geulls, ninety-six. 
Rural dated Dec. t8, several words to define. 
They are Allay—to bring down or put at rest; 
Coral —a calcareous secretion by zoophytes; 
Belltil— Satan—an evil spirit; Docile—ready to 
bo taught; Hymonlal— pertaining lo marriage; 
Coadjutor-An assistant; Bronchitis —A n in¬ 
flammation of any part of the bronchial mem¬ 
brane; Sacrilegious—Violating .-.acred things; 
Sucrlflcable—One who sacrifices or Immolate*; 
Calliope -A steam organ or instrument con¬ 
structed like an organ, In which tbo tones are 
produced by steam Instead of wind. If you 
print this, perhaps I will write some other time, 
so I will close.—D. L. Me., Fort Wayne, Ind. 
From a Missouri Girl. 
Mr. Editor :—I come knocking at the door. 
May I be admitted ua one of your many friends ? 
I will not say much this time, as you may think 
my tongue i- too long. Where is Dew DttOP? 
I have not seen any of her letters for a long 
time. I hope that Cousin Johnnie, by her 
harsh criticism, has not frightened her away. 
1 would like to hear from Ethel again. Is 
Young Back afraid of Cousin Jou.vme? I 
should think so, for he has ceased to write. 
Aud now one word to you. Cousin Johnnie, 
before J close. Don’t be so severe In your criti¬ 
cisms, for If you do you will be an “ Old Maid ” 
the rest of your days. Good-by.— Wild Romp, 
Canton, Afo., April, 1875. 
From a Southern New York Boy. 
Editor Rural New-Yorker:— Seeing that 
you have a column which you dovote to the 
writings of boys and girls, I thought I would 
try and contribute something that would moot 
with your approval. I have been living on a 
farm some four years, with a very nice family, 
to whose fireside your excellent paper Is over a 
welcome visitor. During the winter I have had 
the oaro of two hundred head of sheep. We 
have some sixty hives of bees, which I have 
taken care of for tho last three years, and If It 
Is bragging a little, will say right here, that du¬ 
ring that whole time 1 have not lost a single 
hive. My method of keeping thorn Is very sim¬ 
ple, I take a little straw and cover over tho 
hives, and then take four hoards, out to proper 
length, and place thorn together, letting tho 
tops come together In the shape of a tunnel; I 
bore a hole or two In the sldea of the boards to 
furnish air. This I find to be a very simple and 
My first is In came but not In went: 
My second is In yours but not, in mine ; 
My third is In woman but not in girl; 
My fourth Is In bushel but not in peck ; 
Mv fifth In in leaf hut not in bud; 
My sixth is in short but not in long; 
My seventh is in length but not In breadth ; 
My eighth is in dagger but not in sword; 
My ninth 1 r in north hat not in south ; 
My tenth Is In darkness but not In light; 
My whole is the name of a river in tho United 
States. o. w. n. 
t&T" Ans wer lu two weeks. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA,—No. 8. 
1 am composed of 49 letters: 
My 11,12, 9. 28.84 Is what no one should do. 
Mv 18. 24,19.32, 44, 80 hi an animal. 
My 28, 42.36 Is ooncealed. 
M v .10, 2tt, 8,21 Is an animal. 
My 37 Is Mom<it,irnr>« a vdwel. 
My 20, 48. 5, 40. 2, 12 is a plant. 
My 4. 7, 11, 22.1, 47. 40, 18. 38 Is a will. 
My 41,3,14, 08 Is H deslro. 
My 25.17. 49. 43.20.10, 15,15 Is never sensible. 
My 6,31,38 is a girl s name. 
My whole is a quotation often U3ed. 
55F“ Answer in two weeks. x. y. z. 
CHARADE.-No. 4. 
Mr first you will find Is very fair, 
Although In spring It is far from rare. 
In win to re a« cold a is this has been 
My second will cost you lots of “ tin." 
Mv whole id found in piano and chair, 
Whero things arc so grand as to make you 
stare. 
C37" Answer In two weeks. l. j. a. 
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WORD-SQUARE ENIGMA-No. 6. 
1. What we should love. 2. From side to 
side. 3. To Intend. 4. A boy’s nickname. 
Answer in two weeks. L. J. G. 
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PUZZLER ANSWERS.-April 24. 
Hidden Motto No. 1. —“ Bo auro you are 
right, then go ahead.” 
Miscellaneous Enigma No. 7.—“ Honesty 
is the best policy.” 
Cross-Word Enigma No. 4.—Kansas. 
Word-Square Enigma No. 3.— 
MILAN 
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