SEPT. 4 
MOOSE’S SURAL NEW-YORKER 
183 
A POETICAL CURIOSITY. 
The following lines are susceptible of two mean¬ 
ings. A bachelor friend reads the first. and third and 
second and fourth lines together, and seems to find 
au internal satisfaction in reading them thus, for 
some cause or other: 
The man must, lead a happy iife 
Who is directed by a wife : 
Who’s freed Jrom matrimonial chains. 
Is sure to suffer for his pains. 
Adam of old could find no pence 
Until he saw a woman’s faco 
When Ev • was given for a mate, 
Adam was In n happy state. 
In all the female hearts appear 
Truth, darling of a heart siueere. 
Hypocrisy, deceit and pride 
Ne’er known In woman to reside. 
What tongue is able to unfold 
The worth In woman we behold? 
The falsehood that in women dwell 
Is almost Imperceptible. 
Pooled be the foolish man, I ray. 
Who will not yield to woman’s sway; 
Who changes from his singleness 
Is sure of perfect blessedness. 
HIKED GIRLS. 
BY MRS. E. P. MILLER, M. Li. 
It has always been our way, my sister’s and 
mice—for she is my right baud in the house¬ 
keeping department—to take and keep in our 
employ, if possible, any giil that offers whom 
we tbiuk no one else will have. 
We c*o not always succeed to our mind, and 
it Is sometimes w ith much wear and tear of 
nerve and temper that wo are able to accom¬ 
plish anything. If. is also with many ailing and 
innuendo at ou r “reform school,” etc., by those 
who are behind the curtain with us that wo 
manage to work along and keep our faith in 
the good lime coming, which we see in the fu¬ 
ture for any girl w ho has a heart not yet hard¬ 
ened in vice or crime. 
The Jenme of whom May Maple wrote in 
a recent issue oi your Rural, brought so forc¬ 
ibly to my mind our Jennie, our Norau, and 
our Molly, and I don't know how many more, 
Unit I thought maybe our experience would 
help some other to persevere to the end, when 
I am sure some golden fruit will he matured 
and some bright blossoms gathered. Our No- 
kah was a araud girl, with capabilities for 
noble womanhood, but self-willed and stubborn 
as a mule. We could have managed hot by our¬ 
selves and not have clashed; but wo had other 
helpers aud others to be served and pleased; 
those who felt uo Interest in appealing to the 
better traits or in aiding her to subdue the 
worse, and the consequence was frequent fault- 
tlndiugs, uprisings, and almost constant torture 
to ua who knew aud prized Lor worth, while wo 
deprecated as sorely as any the evils with which 
she had to contend. 
At length there caino a point when the ques- 
tion, “ Which is .Mistress'/" had to he decided, 
and she was told, “if you go, you need not 
come back.” She went. A week passed, and 
another; then she came to see some of the girls. 
We met her, greeted her kindly but sadly, and 
sne went away, Another week passed and her 
ister came, Haying Norah does nothing 
but mourn aud cry; she has made herself sick. 
1 know she is sorry, and will you send for her to 
come hacu /’’ “ No ; but ir she chooses to come 
hack and ask it, wo will talk the matter over 
and If she is truly sorry she shall bo restored; 
but not to her old place In our hearts till she 
has earned It by proving ropeutanoe.” 
Another week passed and she came ; so thin 
and wan with suffering but so gentle, *o hum¬ 
ble, so willing to be guided, that we were won 
before wo knew it. Do not suppose, ho n ever, 
that nature tiover asserted itself—far from It; 
but the effort to subdue it, which was almost al¬ 
ways apparent, and which wo fostered and 
strengthened by every means in our power, 
told with force upon her every act, and b no be¬ 
came a treasure in our household such as few 
families possess. She remained with us until 
she married a man in our employ, and in due 
course of time having become a mother, we 
kept her till the babe was six weeks old and 
then sent them away to build a home-nest Tor 
themselves, where they live in harmony and 
happiness such as would never have been theirs 
but for the aids lu strict discipline which No- 
kau which they both, in fact—received while 
developing their characters in our household. 
Xo child ever turned to a devoted mother for 
advice aud counsel with warmer trust To 1 ness 
than NORAU to us. A nd we feel that she is ours 
by a stronger tie than hers who gave her birth, 
inasmuch as she g ive her only the physical iife, 
while We opened up to her and helped her to 
enter upon a moral and spiritual career. 
Then there was Jenny— that “ ne’er do we’el," 
that "fly o’ the creek,” as some one called her 
corning to us In tatters aud llltli, and ail alive 
with other lives besides her own human iife. 
How l cleansed and purified her with my own 
hands -partly to hide from others her condition 
and thus save her from the consequent slurs 
and mortification; partly that f might make a 
deeper impression upon her aud thus gain 
greater influence ; for no opportunity must be 1 
lost where the mother, friend, teacher—all com- i 
bined—will tell for the good of my pupil in the 
coming time. 
How wo taught and helped her to neaten her 
: clothes and tidy her hair and her feet, so that 
no one need be ashamed of her. Hated of her 
own kin because of a fearful burning and marr- 
. iDgin Infancy, she had been bruised and bat- 
i tered, kicked and cuffed, ever since she was a 
1 baby. Her own mother told us she wished she 
r had "Strangled the child the minute she was 
born!" she bore upon ber person great marks 
from her brother’s boot-heels; and is it any 
wonder that the bad, rather than the good, was 
uppermost ? She seemed to have spoils of per¬ 
fect wildness, when uo power of ours could con¬ 
trol her. At these times, it being necessary to 
preserve discipline—because wo had a dozen or 
more other girls-we would let her go, telling 
her when she wanted a home to come back to 
us, and never, never “go to the bad” for want 
of a home. 
After a time site would come back, perhaps 
sick, and we would take care of her perhaps 
when we bad no vacancy, and wo would keex> 
her till we could work her in, helping her, 
meanwhile, to fix up her clothes; we being 
scouted, all the while, for our truthfulness and 
leniency. Hut, we have our reward. After four 
years of this off-and-on, a good man saw and 
loved our Jenny. She married ; proves herself 
a more than commonly sensible wife, and has a 
baby daughter for whom she cares with the true 
motherly instinct. 
A good deed is never lust: 
A little kindness done 
May save a soul, and even thus, 
Sometime, may Heaven be won. 
• Home of Health. West 2Gtli St.. New York. 
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WOMEN PERSONALS. 
Mrs* Cora Bland lias editorial charge of a 
department In the Herald of Health. 
Mrs. Charlotte Whipple of Boston loaves 
the Washingtonian Home of that city $1,000. 
kate Stanton has live lectures to deliver, 
the most notable one being entitled, “ Why 1 
Studied Law." 
Miss Agnes Livingstone, the oldest daugh¬ 
ter of the explorer, has just married a orewer— 
Alexander Bruce. 
Mrs. Wm. C. Peck or New Haven has sued 
the city for $5,000 damages for injuries received 
from a defective sidewalk. 
Fanny Elhslku, the famous danseuse, is liv¬ 
ing at Bremen, the wife of a physician, aud is a 
well-preserved woman of 71. 
Emily Faith full says that in Lpndon'the 
custom of employing female clerks in large 
firms is gradually gaining way. 
Mrss Violetta Colville, the opera singer, 
foil oat of a row-lmat into the Hudson and 
came near drowning last week. 
Mrs. Eliza Gukatorex is the ouly lady 
among the 69 members of the Artists’ Fund ho- 
cioty of New York, instituted In ia59. 
Theresa Timixg is expected to visit this 
country In the autumn. She Is a great artist 
and a dramatic singer of a high order. 
M r<s. Betsey Tyler of Dalton, Mass., 80 years 
old, touched off a cannon twice during the cel¬ 
ebration of Independence on the Fourth. 
MIBS Emma J. Ely of New ftocholle, is one of 
I lie Committee on the Condition of Education 
for the N. Y. State Teachers’ Association, 
Grace Greenwood, who appeared on one or 
two evenings with some California recitations 
in Egyptian Hall, London, has gone to Brussels. 
Miss Bessie Eaglksfielh of Terra Haute, 
Iud., wlm graduated at the State University, is 
studying law with one of the leading law firms 
of that city. 
Widow Rebecca Wait died at Ipswich, 
Mass., recently, aged 91. Her father was a cap¬ 
tain In Gen. Washington’s army, and she her¬ 
self had seen the General. 
Lady Bulwkr, who is said to inspire mouy 
of the poems of her husband, “ Owen Mere¬ 
dith,'’ lias violet eyes with black lashes and au 
expression of almost childish innocence. 
Mary Clemmer Ames shows a solidity and 
grasp in her Washington letters which are not < 
common in women writers for the press and 
which might be well imitated by her contempo¬ 
raries. 
Miss Nixon, daughter of Judge Nixon of the < 
United States District Court at Trenton, N. J., I 
won a boat race a few days since ol’ a quarter of j 
a mile over two competitors of her sex. Time, ] 
2 min., 7 sec. ( 
Miss Mary Alcott, author of “Little Wo- < 
men,” for the last year or two has devoted her- 1 
self very much to copying Turner’s pictures, 1 
and many uf her copies have bsen sold in Bos- l 
ton and its neighborhood. a 
Miss Eda L. Howard, once a teacher at Mt. ;i 
Holyoke Seminary, and more recently connect- 1 
ed with the Western EemaJe Seminary at Ox- a 
ford, O., has been secured as President of the u 
new Female College at Wellesley. t 
Mrs. Dr. Etta Paine displayed from her * 
window in Westerly, R. 1., on Decoration Day, s 
tlio shot-riddled flag of Fort Sumter, which was a 
given to her by Gen. Anderson. Mrs. Dr. Paine v , 
did good service duriug the war us a surgeon. fj 
Sarah A. Hobart of Freeport, Maine, gives a 
to the American Colonization Society $5,000; n 
American Board of Foreign Missions, American tl 
Tr..et Society, American Home Missionary So- I 
clety, and American Bible Society, $2,000 each. tl 
xhq gmutg* 
THE SECRET OF A PRETTY FACE. 
BY FORT rr. LACA. 
My children, dear, can you tell 
The secret of a pretty face? 
Why is “ Susie ” ies^caressed 
Thau the blue-eyed" “ Darling Grace ? ” 
’Tis not because her face Is plain, 
Fur her cheeks are full und fair; 
Her eyes Hre black, her lips arc red, 
And rich and flowing is her hair. 
But Susie shows a look of pride, 
She’s void and careless iu her way ; 
She says “I will,” and then “I won’t.” 
And is so selfish in her play ! 
Whilo little Grace is kind and good, 
And ever wears u smiling face; 
That’s why SCMiS’S less caressed 
Than the blue-eyed Darting Grace. 
“Linden-Wold," 1S75. 
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LETTERS FROM BOYS AND GIRLS. 
From a “My Maryland” Boy. 
Dear Bubal :—As so many boys und girls are 
writing to you, I thought if you would allow 
me space in yotiroolumns l would write a short 
letter to tell you how well I am ploused with 
the Rural. I do not take the paper myself, 
but my brother takes It; he has taken it nearly 
three years now. I think that the Rural ia a 
very useful paper, and tnat no farmer ought to 
be without ft. As most of the boys and girls 
tell their ages I will tell mine. 1 was fourteen 
years old the twelfth of this month, I have 
been going to school all winter, but do not go 
dow. I like farming very much, and I don’t 
thiok we could got along very well without 
your dear Rural. I must close with a puzzle 
for some of the yonug folks.—[The puzzle will 
be given hereafter in the proper department.— 
Fn.j— J. L. Englar, Spring Garda,, Wakcfiekl, 
Carroll Co., Md. 
From a Pennsylvania Girl. 
Dear Mr. Editor ;-I have a kitten whoso 
name is “ Beecuer-Tilion." J named him 
after the trial. My grandpa has a. dog named 
Tasso; he can jump a stick, walk on his hind 
legs, smoke a pipe, look out of the window, shut 
the door, und speaks for his meals, l ride a 
horse whoso riumu la Holly, and loaded two or 
three loads of hay. It ruined here yesterday, 
and wo were out getting in the oats, hut wo did 
not got all in t hat were cut. I have two rows ol’ 
corn which I have the euro of, and I am t,r> have 
the crop if raises. There was a post-office named 
Vi into Church near here; It was named after a 
white church that was not far from the office, 
and a man said if they were to pal lit tho church 
some other color the name of the office would 
have to bo changed. I was twelve years old this 
summer. 1 think the litt le girl who killed the 
snake at the fishing party was very brave. Iff 
see this in the Rural J may try again.—M ary 
B., Erie Co., l‘a. 
From a Central Now York Boy. 
Dear Rural:—A s my other letter found a 
place in your good paper, I thought I would 
write again, hoping to find a welcome. I am 
attending school moat of t he time, occasionally 
being absent helping my grandfather in the 
harvest field. I rather not leave my studies, for 
we are having a good school, but 1 go to please 
grandfather. Jle owua one of the best farms In 
this town, which is on the line between Onon¬ 
daga and Cortland Counties, also the town line 
of the towns of Tully and Preble, f am trying 
to learn telegraphing and hope to bo a good 
operator sometime. 1 live near a station of the 
Syracuse aud Binghamton Railroad, and some¬ 
time help the agent to make out bills, cheek 
bugga.e, carry telegrams, etc. My father bus 
tdkeu the Rural twelve years and thinks he 
cannot do without it, ami my mother thinks a 
great deal of ft because it tells about flowers ; — 
she has a yard full of them now and some fine 
house plants.— Eugene Butler, Tally, Onon¬ 
daga Co., ;V. 1'. 
describe a lynx. I saw the skin of one when 
stuffed ; it looked as though it must have been 
a savage brute when alive. I would like to 
know how large a lynx Is when full-grown. 
Why don’t Frank Y. write again ? Tt is a long 
time since I saw a letter from him in the 
Rural. I wish the letters from boys and girls 
were published every week. The longer we get 
the Rural the better we like It.—R obert H. 
C., Wellesley, Waterloo Co., Out., Aug. 10. 
From a Michigan Boy. 
Dear Rural:—I have long been wanting to 
write to you. 1 am a boy eleven years old. Wo 
live on a farm or 200 acres, one and a half miles 
north of the village or Chelsea. I havo only 
one pot, and that, lg a big brown and white, 
shaggy dug. We had one pet die; It was a 
yearling co|t, named “ Milly." Wo have tour 
horses, nine head or cattle, over eighty sheep 
and about thirty lambs. Cm any of the Ru¬ 
ral readers tell mo howto keep doves? My 
brothers brought home four doves, and they 
all flew away except one. This is my second 
attempt at letter-writing. 1 hope this will not 
go into the waste-basket, bocause my big 
brothers laughed at rno aud said 1 would not 
eon it lu print. Pa has taken the Rural at 
different times for eighteen years. We are 
now having a heavy thunder shower. Good- 
by-G. F. .Snyder, Chelsea. Mich., Aug. 21. 
A Western N. Y. Boy’s Bird Story. 
Dear Rural.—A short lime ago I went to 
see Mr. Van Amrchgu'S great show of ani¬ 
mats, and of all j.ho animals then) exhibited I 
think the elephant, ia the most curious. I 
wonder if be can erect or spread out his great 
eai-a. I havo beard that ho can use them as 
fans. Of all the birds I love Clio talking birds 
bo. t. After one of the hardest showers wo 
have had this summer, I found a poor little 
robin drenched to the skin and almost dead, I 
took him by the lire, and when he was quite 
warm and dry he begun to sing swootly us ho 
sat upon the window-sill. Protty soon the old 
mother bird alighted upon a tree near tho win¬ 
dow, and thou came her mate, and with most 
endearing cries and tender love notes did they 
seek to chocr their loved and nearly lost one. 
But they now bethought thorn that poor Biroio 
must havo more substantial food than love 
and song, and then they boldly came with food, 
worms and tho most delicious tld-blta, until we 
were sure that, having escaped drowning, ho 
would now dio of surfeiting and gluttony. 
That evening we placed him upon tho limb of a 
tree near the window, and ho remained just In 
that place until tho next day, when wo saw 
him making an effort to fly away; ut last he 
succeeded, and we saw no more of ourshort- 
limo pet. Perhaps 1 may tell you some more 
bird -.(.nries If this one does not go to that 
fearful place, the waste-basket.—LoutB Lin¬ 
coln, Canandaigua Lake Shore, iv. r. 
From a New Jersey Girl. 
Deah Mr. Editor :-l would like to write a 
few Hues to be put iu print in tho dear old 
Rural, for I think if l could see my writing in 
such a good paper it would quite elato me. I 
live on a farm in New Jersey. Wo havo plenty 
of potato beetles hero. They are innumerable 
on the vines. 1 have been picking currants and 
blank-caps for market, and to-morrow we are 
going on an excursion with our Sunday School 
to ll-. if you will bo kind enough to cor¬ 
rect and publish this, I will try to write again 
and tell you everything of interest pertaining 
to our excursion. Many respects to all the dear 
Rural cousins.— Mabel G., HiUsdale, N.J. 
From a Live Canadian Boy. 
Dear Rural: —In my last letter to you I 
could give but a poor account of the prospect 
for the crops, but since llieu. I am happy to 
say, we huvo received an abundant supply of 
rain, and tho appearance of growing crops has 
changed for the better. I brought in, the other 
day, a blade of spring wheat, out of one or our 
fields, and It was about live feet high. We also 
have some flax over four feet high. Farmers 
here are beginning to harvest, as fall wheat 
and berleyare now ripe. Fail wheat is about 
an average crop here, but in some places it is 
badly winti r-killed. Spring wheat seems to be 
a better crop than lass year. 'There will bo a 
great musical festival this month in the town 
of Berlin, twenty miles from here, at which 
most of the Gorman societies of Canada and 
some from the United States will bo present, 
and a spacious building for that and similar 
purposes has been erected. I don’t think I can 
go, as it will be right in the middle or harvest. 
The folks about here have been alarmed about 
a lynx. They imagined there was one In the 
neighborhood, and were so frightened that 
they were afraid to go out after night fall; but 
I believe it was some old cat that went wild in 
the woods. Perhaps Young Naturalist can 
CROSS-WORD ENIGMA.—No. 6. 
My first is iu horse but not In dog, 
My second la iu stump but not in log; 
My third is In ram but not in awe, 
My fourth is in many but noo in few; 
My fifth is in look but not in seek. 
My w'hole Is a paper printed each week. 
*27“* Answer in two weeks. h. r. s. 
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NAME PUZZLE.—No. 1. 
1. A lady’s name. 2. A lady's name. 3. A 
lady’s name. 4. A lady'a name. 5. A lady ’3 
name. 0. A lady’s name. 7. A lady’s name. 8. 
A lady’s name. Little One. 
SW J Answer iu two weeks. 
WORD-SQUARE ENIGMA.—No. 3. 
1. A garden plant. 2. A bitter herb. 3. Affec¬ 
tion. 4, Mild of disposition. l. o. 
J2T“ Answer iu two weeks. 
PUZZLER ANSWERS.—Aug. 21. 
Word-Square Enigma No. 2.— 
BITE 
IDEA 
TEAR 
EARN 
Problems No. 1. — First, $75.50. Second, 
4 and 27. Third, 3 and 9. 
Drop-Letter Puzzle No. 2.—“They that 
sow ill tears shall reap in Joy.” 
Cross-Word Enigma No. 4.—New York. 
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