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To have to take a back-seat and listen to the 
spokesmen of the party making a confounded mess 
of it. and knowing all the while how much better 
you could do It yourself. 
To use the best argument In your power for 
your side when you are morally certain that your 
opponent Is an Ill-used man. 
To be a lawyer and have to brow-beat a fair 
witness, and Imply she Is not speaking the truth, 
when, to meet t he same lady under other circum¬ 
stances, you would consider It an, honor, and the 
greatest pleasure In life to show her every possi¬ 
ble courtesy and politeness. 
To want a little liquid refreshment for the In¬ 
terior department, and know that your credit Is 
exhausted and the slate broken. 
by the great unfeeling world,and so on up through 
the different yradaltxms of penury, the lives of 
the children in a greater or less degree are lives 
of toll and of privations. 
Of all this though, the gentlemen who clamor 
for the expansion of the race take no account. 
“ Give us the children" they cry, “ What if many 
of them are cruelly confined at a tender age In 
stores, and factories, and that very many die 
from want of proper care, and that some of them 
rasing and binding the oata or wheat, or setting¬ 
up buckwheat, digging potatoes, or In almost any 
kind of farm work. I also made our own cloth In 
the time of war, made linen, for summer and 
woolen for winter, which was a great help, as 
such goods were very high In those days. 
I continued Lo help my husband In the field (if 
necessary) until about three yeare ago. Four or 
five years ago my husband was taken sick; he 
could not work, but was around. It was getting 
rather late for digging potatoes. I asked him if 
he could drive the wagon Into the field where the 
potatoes were; If he could, I would go and dig 
potatoes. At this time we had a dairy of sixteen 
cowb ; had no help, excepting my daughter, who 
was teaching school. Well, I went, to work dig¬ 
ging potatoes. I think It was nearly noon when 
I commenced; I dug till 3 o'clock. Then we car¬ 
ried sixteen bushel baskets full of potatoes Into 
the cellar. 
We increased our dairy so that a year ago last 
summer we milked twenty-two cows. I have 
done alt my house work and the dairy work with¬ 
out assistance, excepting the working of the but¬ 
ter. That part fell on my husband to do. Last 
season we had a dairy of twenty-six cows. I also 
did my work alone the most of the time. AH 
through the summer season I get up early on 
Monday and do my washing before breakfast— 
have that ready at 7 o’clock. We keep hired men 
most of the time. 
Some will say, “That Is a Dutch woman, or she 
never would perform such labor." But I say nay; 
I am a Yankee. I sometimes write a piece for our 
County paper; I am also agent for a medicine In 
your city. I get up clubs for the Bubal N’ew- 
Yokker. l< 
[In face of such a working record as the above, 
what have those who so dismally howl about the 
physical degeneracy of women, to say ?— Ed. 
[CONDUCTED BY MISS FAITH RIPLEY. 
LOVE SONGS 
bonded. 
Kiss me, sweetheart, the spring is here; 
And Love is lord of you and me ! 
The blue bells beckon each passing bee. 
The wild wood laughs to the flowered year; 
There is no bird in brake or brere, 
But to his little mate "inns he: 
Kiss me, sweetheart, the spring is here 
And love is lord of you and me." 
d he blue sky laughs out loud and clear. 
The missel-thrush upon the tree 
Pipes for sheer KlarlnefiB. loud and frt e; 
And I go singing to my dear: 
Kiss me, sweetheart, the spring is hei o, 
And Love is lord of you and me,” 
rondjuo. 
Life lapses by for you and me. 
Our sweet days pass ns by and flee; 
And evermore death draws us nigh, 
The blue fades fast out of our sky, 
The ripple ceases from our sea, 
What would we not give, you and 1, 
The early sweet of life to buy ? 
Alas! sweetheart, that cannot we; 
Life lapses by. 
But though our young years buried lie, 
Shall Love with spring and summer die ? 
What if the roses faded be! 
We in each other's eyes will see 
New springs, nor question how or wh y 
Life lapses by. 
[John Payne, in London Athcnccum. 
It Is supposed by some that the practice of 
sending likenesses of criminals at large from one 
town to another, dates only from the Introduc¬ 
tion of photography, it is muoli older. In Mas¬ 
singer’s play, “ The Duke of Milan,” published In 
1023, Graccho, after telling Francisco that he Is a 
“ condemned man," adds: 
" Ail passages 
Are intercepted, and choice troops of horse 
Scour o’er the neighboring plains; your picture’s sent 
To every state confederate with Milan.” 
RECENT LITERATURE 
N. W. Ayrk & Son’s Manual, now in Its third 
edition. Is an excellent hand-book for the adver¬ 
tiser, and It condenses clearly about all that It. Is 
essential to know on the subject of advertising, 
and wc can recommend It to the business public. 
'The third number of The American Bicycling 
Journal reaches us brimful or enthusiasm on the 
subject of bicycles. That the Idea of cavorting 
over the land at a rate somewhat less than steam, 
is oaptlvatlng to the fancy, may bo Judged by the 
fact that The Journal has bloomed into a weekly 
(W.50 per year) and has a satisfactory patronage. 
Those Interested in the sport should read the 
paper. It Is published at Boston. 
That Wile of Mine. Boston: Lee & Shepard. 
The author of “That Husband of Mine” con¬ 
cludes to look at the reverse of the medal, and as 
wus to be expected, as lie speaks of lovely 
A FAMILY TALK, 
MRS. FOTIPHAR. 
TOILET BOX 
From time to time there ascends a lamentation 
because American women are averse to having 
large families. Direful prophecies as to the ex¬ 
tinction of the race fill the air, and women are 
called upon by the love they bear their country 
to amend their ways. 
The gentlemen who Indulge in these jerem- 
ladea make a great ado about quantity and lose 
sight entirely of quality. Pat’s dirty, Ill-favored, 
ignorant brood, most of whom wilt find their way 
at one time or another Into 3ome one of our penal 
institutions, are of more account In the eyes of 
these clammorers for " more children" than the 
well trained and respectable solitary child of 
American parents. It seems to me to be prefera- 
able to sacrifice numbers to superiority, bur. it is 
The foundation of this pretty addition to the 
toilet table Is a very strong cord or wooden box: 
on the ltd of this are arranged five smaller bones 
as shown In the design. The foundation box 
measures twelve Indies long, Beven inches wide 
and two inches deep. The center one of the small 
boxes on the top is larger, than the four others! 
the others are all one size; they must be carefully 
fixed to the lid of the foundation by strong glue. 
The boxes may be made by glueing pieces or thin 
cardboard Into the required lorm and Unlngthem 
with tin-foil; they with the foundation are next 
covered with the separa te petals of fir cones fixed 
with glue; acorns, oak galls, the shells of beech 
nuts, small fir cooes, and seed vessels, are ar¬ 
ranged on the lid of the foundation according to 
taste, A small round pin cushion is fixed to the 
lid of the center box which Is ornamented to cor¬ 
respond with the foundation. The outer cover¬ 
ing of a beech nut with a utile of the stalk at¬ 
tached u glued to the center of the lid of each of 
tlie little boxes to form a handle to Iltt It off with. 
The center box serves as a receptacle for small 
articles of jewelry; the others for powder, lip 
salve, pins, &c. The foundation will answer well 
for a glove or handkerchief box. After the whole 
Is completed It should be varnished with good 
copal varnish. 
Fig. 2 is a catchall. It Is a Japanese cuff of 
brown straw which can be bought ror a small 
price at a Japanese shop. Embroider a pattern 
over It, fine It with silk or satin, and fasten a 
small bag of the same material to the bottom 
drawn up with a ribbon, bow or a tassel. 
Fig. 2—Catchall. 
will be vagabonds and hardened wretches, so 
that as to-day our prison population foots up to 
40 , 000 , “ Give us the numbers!" 
What would the world have lost had those 40 ,- 
ooo never been born ? It Is appalling, such an 
amount of concentrated wickedness. Who Is to 
blame? The parents? Indubitably. They failed 
In some particular to do their whole duty by 
these their children. 
It. redounds to the honor of American women 
that they shrink from assuming responsibilities 
of this kind on the wholesale and reckless plan In 
vogue among foreign peoples. There Is another 
phase of this question that I will merely hint at. 
Did our Creator design that woman should spend 
her whole life In a nursery? Is she just to her 
and highest nature when she sacrifices all 
the gTand possibilities of her life to the petty de¬ 
tails and the wearying routine of cradle tending. 
was iu ue expect,ea, as lie speaks or lovely woman, 
“ it” has made a cleverer book than was the first 
venture, and this Is using “ tall" language. That 
wife Is a charming little Americanized German 
who, when excited, takes droll liberties with the 
vernacular, but Is altogether so charming, that 
the reader envies the husband his exclusive right 
of possession. We shall not anticipate the read¬ 
er’s curiosity by skeletonizing the plot. Read the 
book, and then “ declare to the tocsin” that It Is 
capital. A paper edition Is sold for fifty cents, 
while the more durable boards may be had for 
$1.50. 
WHAT ONE WOMAN HAS DONE, 
Economic Mono graphs. No. X.; Wliv we Trade. 
rn a m e ‘Ett? 0, DA VII> A. Wells. So. 
rn.. ihu lantr Question ami lis Relation to the 
present Commercial Crisis. Bv Horace White. 
New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 
In these small pamphlets are condensed the 
gist of the causes of our present troubles, and the 
palpable way out of them. We are glad to see 
that, the pertinent views of such men as Mr. 
Wuitk and Mr. Wells are put Into this popular 
form, and we earnestly recommend every reader 
of this journal to expend twenty-five cents and 
seciro the treatises. Their Intelligent perusal 
will do as much to set their views aright as to the 
causes of ouc commercial depression as tho Illim¬ 
itable demagogue has done to berog them. 
Especially to be commended Is the plain, clear, 
succinct way la which the argument Is put. Thu 
simplicity of style alono ie irrefraglble proof of 
of the grasp of the subjects by the writers. The 
simple need not fear to encounter words of learn¬ 
ed length and thundering sound. We are too 
modest to make any suggestions to some of our 
wondenully Informed contemporaries further 
West, but It would seem as It the careful study 
of these unpretentious little hooks might have a 
very modifying efleet on their ideas of political 
economy. Their editorials would thereafter reac! 
less like the exploi tation or tho won - erf ul schemes 
of “ C01. Sellers,” partlculary where they dwell 
on the advantages of unlimited sliver. Again we 
GRANDFATHER TO THE FRONT 
I am afraid grandmother doesn’t live In the coun¬ 
try where she was born and reared, but has fol¬ 
lowed one or the daughters she cuddled in her 
bosom to the city when she has become the wife 
of some fashionable, and has given herself to so¬ 
ciety. My experience has been, in cruising around 
the world, that the changes we notice are more 
in ourselves and our changed situations and sur¬ 
roundings, than In the differeHce in matters in 
general. When grandmother was young, she 
moved In one circle; now she 13 older, and 
moves In another circle, she looks through dif¬ 
ferent eyes — not becam e there was not just 
such a place when she was young as she now oc¬ 
cupies, or because there is not just such a place 
now as she filled when a girl; but because then 
It was not her desire to be where she now is, or It 
was not within her power—at least she was not 
there. She may live in the house where she was 
born, and her country home may have become 
t be center of a great city, or some npsnrt village 
more presuming In lis demands for fashion; may 
she not, ir site will, find just such a place as she 
lived in wbeu a girl ? Would she know It if she 
round It?—if she found tt and knew she had found 
1% and could lake Just i ue same place there that 
her old grandmother Ailed when she was nest II eg 
on her mother’s breast, or exchanging glances 
with some of the stalwart sons of her mother’s 
neighbors. Would she do It? Would she? 
Grandfather. 
Tins la a clear presentation of the science of 
numbers, admirably arranged and carefully writ¬ 
ten. The difficulties of the subject are explained 
in au admirably dear manner. The publishers 
uave supplemented tho work or the author by 
good typography and substantial bindlug, that 
are lmr-fiy secondary merits tn text-books. Teach¬ 
ers win find this book well worth tnelr consid¬ 
eration. 
L °Dhla an T n'VK’ By Mr ,:- HUUBACK. 
pma. I, B. Peterson A Bretuers. 
. J®? b0Qli wUl appeal to a large circle of read- 
eis. i ue story Is exciting and the interest Is sus- 
. _“ P .f, w 11,11 enrt - “ Love and Duty " makes the 
twelfth volume of the “Dollar Scries." 
Phfialde 
can you, will you.be instrumental In forcing your 
child to drink of the same bitter cup ? la that 
doing us you would be done by. Is lc not ra her 
a most heartlessly cruel procedure? 
A child has a right to be well born, a right to 
the broadest, culture aud to the graudest and 
richest experiences of life. 
Try and re illze the misery that dtseaso aud 
poverty cause the world. Think or the thousands 
of worse than orphans, who crowd our cities. 
Poor little waifs, forced from their babyhood to 
fight their own life battle, cursed at and bullied 
Let us give to women suchtratnluT, physically, 
Industrially, lntelleclut lly, and spiritually, that 
we shall shaiLe the w rds "supern -.utts” out of 
the vocabulary, as descriptive of w omen. And 
this will help tnen, and elevate them, quite ns 
much as ny special work which might be done 
for them,—Jtfary a . Livermore, 
L. E. S., Waynesvllle, N Y. — Unless you can 
afford to purchase a new black silk next season, 
we would not advise you to get a dumasse. Plain 
silks are always more serviceable, ana If taste¬ 
fully trimmed are quite as elegant as fancy ones. 
went: to commence my work, and to my husband’s 
sut prise (by his mowing around the slumps), l was 
able to keep right up with him. We mowed until 
noon; then the hay was ready to be raked up and 
drawn into the birn. My htrebmd helped me 
rake around the piece until he could commence 
loading; then lie an l one of my lit-tle toys began 
drawiug the hay into the barn, which was about 
twenty rods off. l could rake as fast as they cou'd 
draw it in to the bvrn—so our haying was soon 
finished up for that season. 
Then came harvesting. I aided my husband In 
