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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
JUNE, 22 
^railing for % fjoimg. 
BABY’S TOES. 
O, the tiny, curled up treasures. 
Just as cute as cute can be 1 
Come and help me count them, Madgie, 
While the baby bends to see; 
Peeps demurely over dainty 
Skirts drawn up to dimpled knees. 
Hey. my lady Lily I whose two 
Roly-poly toot arc these ? 
See the darlinir’slround-eyed wonder— 
Docs she;real|y know they’re hers f 
Now she reaches down to feel them. 
While new triumph in her stirs. 
Crow your till, my little lady ! 
Those arc your own cunning’ toes. 
Round, and soft, and fat, and funny. 
And—how inanyf Madgie knows ! 
Call them lily-buds to please her ? 
Madgie says they are too pink. 
Say ten roses in two posies! 
Rather rose-buds, don’t-you think ? 
Come, wee hies, lie still; be covered ; 
You’ve cut capers quite enough ; 
If you don't, we’ll kiss and put you 
Each one in a paper ruff. [Companion. 
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“ POCKET-MONEY FOR THE YOUNG 
PEOPLE.”—No. 7. 
8. KUFU8 MASON. 
Many country boys have a turn for mechanical 
pursuits, and there Is no more extensive field than 
the country for Its employment. One advantage 
tills possesses Is that winters can be very profit¬ 
ably employed In making the little niceties and 
conveniences so “ nice to have " about the house. 
Let a boy get a few boards, a few tools, and at 
hla mother's suggestions, stock tbu house with 
stools, benches, towel-racks, towel-rollers, salt 
and knife boxes, clothes-line boxes, cozy corner- 
shelves, brackets, door-stoops, hat and clothes¬ 
pins, clothes horses, and a. hundred other things 
which only a mother or aunty can think of, and 
when neighbors drop In, a home market Is at once 
made. 
There Is a demand always existing for anything 
nice which wc see at a neighbor’s house. To be 
abio to set, a price promptly upon an article, 
count up the cost or the lumber and material 
used, and tr articles are well made, the labor 
should be as much more. That Is, if an article 
costs twenty-five cents tor lumber, and twenty- 
five cents tor hardware, nails, glue, etc., a fair 
price for a well-made article would be one dollar. 
Here, as In rarmlng or gardening, care must be 
used to make a good, strong Job; then make It as 
neat or ornamental as tno purpose It la for, de¬ 
mands. 
in a neighborhood where flowers are raised In 
pots, in the house or garden, plant-sticks, trel¬ 
lises, and plant boxes for windows are In great 
demand. Here paint can be used and taste exer¬ 
cised. 
In every locality certain things are constantly 
wanted, and In some, an MitUIclal want may be 
created by some especial puisult peculiar to that 
place. In such cases, ingenuity will suggest 
something new and appropriate, and a demand 
grows up at once. 
There la no reason why a boy may not employ 
the summer In growing something for market, 
and the winter In exorcising the mechanical pro¬ 
clivities; both are improving to the bodily, men¬ 
tal and fiscal condition or youth. 
But 1 hear some one whisper. "Is there no way by 
which country pirLs can make spending money ?’> 
Doubtless, but 1 am not competent to advise, one 
or the fair sex will rise to the emergency, l reel 
sure, and thus the girls will not be dependent 
upon their brothers lor pocket-pieces. 
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LETTERS FROM BOYS AND GIRLS. 
Wild Cherries In June. 
Good day, little Cousins; It was so pleasant I 
could not help coming to see you. Ah I here 
Is "Slayerofeoncelt.” Well, Master .Slayer, you 
wish us to listen to reason, do you v it you have 
anything to say, say It, and, If it Is reasonable, I 
am Bure we would all be willing to listen; but It, 
Is getting almost too warm for bcdijullts, and as 
for pie crust, something a little .s barter, please. 
That will do for the present. I have a Grandma, 
who has passed her ninety-fifth birthday. She 
Is as straight as an arrow, and as spry as a 
cricket. Her chief delight is in washing dishes. 
1 wonder it Uncle true Is as old as that. I 
guess not,; and It Is not likely he knows anything 
about dlsh-washlng, unless he la some old Maid. 
I see there has been a deal of discussion on that 
subject. Now, t rather like old molds. Those 1 
know are very line women. Of course, there are 
some exceptions; but 1 think, as a rule, the most 
noble women nr» those who remain unmarried. 
Probably because they meet with no one worthy 
of them; for I da not. believe the woman was yet 
born who could hot have married had she chosen. 
Some or the Cousins may think 1 am an old maid. 
I am perfectly willing. Perhaps, .though, I may 
as well tell my age. I am sixteen years old. 
Uncle Tkoe says the controversy had best end. 
Sole had, If the Cousins are going to a wordy 
war. I don’t think they are ,t inele Tkoe. It la 
good to write something tha l will advance each 
other in knowledge. Hut, fo mnnsernent, a good 
Joke, now and then given In fun, and taken In the 
same way, can do no harm. Of course, we must 
say nothing that, would injure one another’ll feel¬ 
ings ; and now we have commenced the thing, wc 
ought to carry it out In good style, and get angry 
at no one. Young “ Teetotaler ” seems to think 
I am proud. No; I am not. Porhapa ho is, 
though. T hope ho never forgets to put baking 
powder In his cake, Tor that, would be a terrible 
mistake. I should not wonder It ho intends to be 
a Bach, and keep bachelor’s hall. 1 wish to ask 
a question: Can anyone t-ell m e how often the 
word girl occurs in the Bible, and where found ? 
Good bye, Uncle and CouslnB; 1 will call again 
some day. WIld Cherry. 
Jim Crow. 
Dear Cousins: —I see you are Just as full of 
fight as ever and I do not proffer any treaty of 
peace. I want, to fight some, for you know it 
there Is a skirmish going on “everybody wants 
his fingers In the pte.” TTNor.it Jrum very kindly 
printed my other letter and that encouraged me. 
I am much obliged to Brown Badger for Inquir¬ 
ing about me. The work and study has not made 
me quite sick yet. You all Heorn down on “,««{/«- 
of conceit." Ho has one ally, however, and I hope 
that Alice v. will prove a most powerful one. 
Young Teetotaler was speaking of the length of 
time her father has taken the Rural. I mink I 
can beat her there, for my father has taken the 
paper ever since It first started. 1 will say that 
I am also a teetotaler, and If we were together I 
think wo should mUake hands on it and be friends. 
Perhaps some of the cousins would like to hear 
about the State Normal School here, and those 
living where there are others will perhaps tell 
me if it. is like theirs. There are three depart¬ 
ments in It, viz: Normal, Intermediate and Pri¬ 
mary. In all there are about five hundred 
scholars. The majority or the scholars are rep¬ 
resentatives of the female sox. There are five 
professors and seven lady teachers. Each of the 
lower departments has a Principal and Critic, 
and there Is a General Superintendent, of both. 
Nearly every thing Is taught In this school from 
the A B U’s to Hebrew, tf any one wishes to learn 
It. The School Grounds occupy about three or 
four acres in t,lio center ot our village, and were 
first, fitted up to have scholars from abroad board 
In the building; hut that plan was soon given up. 
Weill I think I have said enough about our 
school, and I also think that some or my friends 
may recognize the place and writer, l hope 
“Hawaii Net," “Madcap Mollle” and “Slayerol- 
concelt,” will write again. Jim Crow. 
A Nice Little Girl. 
Uncle True:— My father lias orten told me, 
when 1 entered a strange place, to address 
the gentlemen of the house first, and afterwards 
the children. I will do so now, arid t.rll you who 
1 am and what 1 came for. I am a little girl that 
has been much interested in reading jour paper, 
going round with you every week to see how 
you cared for your flowers and shrubs, and doing 
everything In such a nice way it made mo want 
to be practical too. I commenced at- 6 years old 
to follow your directions about, the transplant¬ 
ing, and cab now do it without rear ot failure, 
and I Have come In as a Rural Cousin to thuuk 
you Tor telling uaso plainly the nest way of do¬ 
ing everything. Please accept my thanks for 
the little “Cricket.” It arrived in duo time, ' ' 
in good order, ullve and chirping, and as I sit 
hero writing my acknowledgement, It occupies 
a place on my table, and Busins to be a vigorous 
little worker. We are veiy much pleased with 
it, and it is admired by all who see it. Dear 
Rural Cousins If your ting Is not already lull 
please accept me as one of your number, for 
I am much interested lit your columns, and 
will help you work for the good old Rural and 
the little Cricket. Mary E. Wright. 
Tuscola Co., Mich. 
Hew to Make a “Squaker.” 
Dear Uncle Truk:— I have been reading 
Lillie Lkks interesting letter, and I thank her 
for the information she lias given. As 1 look over 
the letters, 1 wonder what lias become of the 
boys. Perhaps I eau tell. Down by the river 
mpong the willows making whistles, or on tho 
bank, rod In hand, with an anxious look on the 
face as the first faint nibble la rolt, which sudden¬ 
ly changes to Joy as you land a shining—slilnner. 
Aye, to boyish minds the rod Is mightier than the 
pen. or, perhaps, In the swamp among The 
alders hunting the caLblrd's nest; or In the 
field, driving the hay-rake; or, worse than all, 
in the meadow picking up stones. Now that I 
have found you, I wlU toll you how to in eke a 
“squaker." Two piuu Btleks or equal length, 
about two Inches longhy one-quarter wide, and 
the same In thickness, Hollow out one side of 
each stick so that, when put together your knire- 
blado will pass between them. Take a blade of 
grass and put between the sticks, stretched 
across the opening between them. Place the 
sticks between your teeth and blow! 
Menzkr. 
Long Wished To Join Us. 
Dear Cousins I have long wished to join you 
I hope Uncle Truk wilt not criticise me too se¬ 
verely. I am very glad a row have come to their 
senses, and will say one good word or Slayeror- 
coneett. Perhaps he does not ask for pity, out I 
think ho noeds It. Iliope he Is not frightened 
from the field. Tho letters from Honolulu are 
very Internal lug. Will our Cousin tell us some¬ 
thing of tho government of that, country ? M ay I 
ask some questions? noptng that you all say yes, 
I will begin, i. Where does Dr. J. Q. Holland live ? 
2 . What form of government has Franco at the 
present, lime ? a. la It profitable to read any style 
or novels? 
We have taken the Rural for a number of 
years. We intend to sond Tor it and tho " Cricket ” 
this year. 
Espyvllle, Pa. kit. 
[I. Dr. nolland lives In New York City. 2 . Re¬ 
publican, Marshal MacMahon is President. 
3. There will be a series of articles presently 
on this subject.] u. t. 
From Ohio. 
Dear Rural Cousins: l stand at the door 
waiting for admittance: will no one bid me enter ? 
Thanks for at last, admitting me, I have long 
wanted to be. one of your number, but feared to 
try lest I should not. be received Into your 
circle. My father has taken the Rural ever 
since I can remember, and 1 think it Is the best, 
of all papers. I live on a farm and have a de¬ 
lightful time. I hope to hear rrom our 8wl33 
cousin often, and think he ought to write and 
tell us all about his country, I have often read 
of the boauttful lake and mountain scenery and 
would like very much to see some. I want to 
give the Rura i. Cousins a word of advice: 
write often. Dew-drop. 
The First 
Please i Noi R True and Cousins, may I come 
In? I have been much Interested in reading the 
letters, and have been longing to knock and ask 
admittance. I don’t think I am any smarter 
than many boys and girls who do write, bull 
think T am smart, enough to try, and it this finds 
a place In the paper, 1 may write again. I am a 
country girl, and am glad of It. T Uve on a farm 
and have plenty or work to keep me out of mis¬ 
chief. I am fourteen years old, and go to school. 
We have a new school-house, a mile distant, and 
I have’nt missed a day, this winter. 
Apple Blossom. 
HIDDEN APPAREL. 
1. The cigar terrified me. 
2. ne was shut up in a forecastle. 
8. She was a wine bibber. 
4. I saw the ruins of Babel tower, 
6. His ash tree gave good shade. 
0. A truffle la a species of mushroom. 
T. Sand always tickles my throat, 
s. In Japan Nle Raymond died. 
9. They had a scuffle, 
10. Make no Idol, man, for ’tls a sin. 
11. Why not shir this trimming? 
12 . He broke Ids hoe. 
IS. 1 can’t say boo to a goose. 
H. His lip performed Lta duty, 
is. t dislike this mockery. 
10 . Push, it the crowd presses. 
17. Your lunch, Em., Is elaborate. 
IS. Buy me a hassock, SamueL 
19. ills pence-robber is under urrest. 
20 . 1 havo a sick stomach, Ervlne. 
21 . Draw Erato's sled up the hill. 
22. can you usurp license ? 
23. I must suspend, Ersena. 
24 . Stop, Ohm, also .vour gizzard. 
25 . The gold was a red Ingot, Eva. 
tsr Answer In two weeks. Floridian. 
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CROSS-WORD ENIGMA. 
My first Is In heat but not in cold, 
My second Is In new but not In old ; 
My third is In wrong but not In right, 
My fourth Is In red but not In white; 
My filth Is In yes but not In no, 
My sixth is In wrath and also In woe; 
My seventh Is I n light but. nor in dark, 
My eighth la In oriole but not In lark; 
My ninth Is In neck but not In ear, 
My tenth Is In good but not In dear; 
My eleventh is in fat but not In lean, 
My twelfth la not In dirty but In clean; 
My thirteenth Is In low but not In high, 
My fourteenth Is m leg but not m thigh; 
My fifteenth Is In out but not In In, 
My sixteenth Is In wish but not in sin; 
My whole is the name ot a popular man, 
So, hoys and girls, please guess tf you can. 
tar - Answer In two weeks. Satie S. Story. 
HIDDEN NAMES. 
1. Nero saw a rat. 
2 . Ma, belts are not worn this summer. 
3. The evenings are getting shorter. 
< 1 . 1 cannot work to-day. 
6. Shall 1 renew our subscription ? 
6. I can hem ma’s rulfles. 
7. The duck ute tho apple. 
8. Bert has the book. 
9. The eel lay hidden In the mud. 
10. I carried the basket to the gate. 
IP' Answer In two weeks. R. A. Dukatb. 
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CLASSICAL DOUBLE ACROSTIC. 
l. A son of Priam. 2 . Wire of Orpheus. 3. The 
town of Etruria whore Sejanus was born. 4. A 
daughter of Jpbteles, 5. A king of the Cyclades, 
c. A town on the Danube founded by Trajan. 7. 
One of the Titans. Initials and finals form gods 
of mythology. 
pv Answer In two weeks. Dr. 
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TRANSPOSITION. 
Het mawr mesrura narl 
Somec gllntkrlc wodn tell nldwow nepa, 
Strlngub ebt sudb to eth gllbmlcn sero: 
Moleeew, reinsmu anlr. 
rr Answer In two weeks. Mary Waley. 
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PUZZLER ANBWERS.-June 8. 
Enigma.—T he letter A. 
Miscellaneous Enigma,—M en should be more 
guarded against the smiles of a painted Jezabel than 
the two-edged swerd of un enemy. 
Triple Acrostic.—P rimal®, Colorado; contraU, 
Nebraska; finals, Delaware. 
alihty pairing. 
PARAD1SI GLORIA. 
" O frato mio! elanoumana e clttadlna 
D’una yern eltta -.” [Dante. 
There is a city, buildud by no hand. 
And unapproachable by sea or shore. 
And unassailable by any band 
Of storming soldiery for evermore. 
In that pure city of the living Latub 
No ray shall fall from satellite or sun, 
Or any star; but Ho who said “ I Am” 
Shall bo the Light. He and Hia Holy One, 
Nor Hhall we longer spend our gift of time 
In time's poor pleasures—doing petty things 
Of work or warfare, merchandise or rhyme, 
But we shall alt beside the silver springs. 
That flow from God’s own footstool, and behold 
Tho salute and martyrs, and those blessed few 
Who loved us onoo and wero beloved of old, 
To dwell with them and walk with them anew. 
In alternations of sublime repose— 
Musical motion—the perpetual play 
Of every faculty that heaven bestows 
Through tho bright, eternal day. 
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THE CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST. 
D’AUBIGNB. 
[Jean Henri Merle D’Aubigne, D. D., came 
from a French Huguenot stock, that accounted 
life well spent In upholding evangelical religion. 
'His greatgrandfather had to fly to Geneva at the 
revocation of the Edict of Nantes ; and his grand¬ 
father was exiled to tho same city in old age. 
Here Jean was horn, August Kith 1724. Hla theo¬ 
logical studies, commenced at Geneva, were com¬ 
pleted at Berlin, under the celebrated Neander. 
After a pastorate in Hamburg, and later In Brus¬ 
sels as chaplain to King William, lie returned to 
Geneva lri 1830. At once ho was appointed presi¬ 
dent of Its new theological seminary, and vice- 
president of the Evangelical Society. His great 
work la, “ History or the Reformation of the six¬ 
teenth century, in the times of Luther and Cal¬ 
vin,” or which nearly a halt million copies have 
been sold. It 18an eloquent, pious, and Important 
portraiture of those thrilling times, nis appear¬ 
ance was noblo and commanding; his vivacity 
keen, and energy exhaUstless. Ho died In Gene ¬ 
va, October 21st 1872.] 
“ But God forbid that 1 should glory, save in the 
cross oj our Lord Jesus Christ.*— Gal, vl. 14. 
My brethren, God has not Intended that men 
should he deprived of all boasting. A disposition 
to boast la oneot the propensities most peculiar 
to ournature, and which we find la till classes of 
society and among alj varieties of the human 
race. From him who stands on the highest ele¬ 
vation In the world down to the most unknown ; 
from the Inhabitants of our cities, whoso spirit 
towers on high, down to the very savage, whose 
reason is scarcely observable ; all find something 
of which they believe that they may boost. And 
what la It. then 7 A ridiculous plaything, of which 
they should blush, instead of making it the ob¬ 
ject of thetr pride. Oh ! sad Hpectacle ot our van¬ 
ity, which proves with the greatest precision that 
the human race has lost that In which It could 
glory, that It haH coma short of the glory of God 
(Rom. 111. 23); and that In this great need It 
stretches out Its hand to the first play thing that 
It finds to put It In the place of the reality which 
It wants. Thus the Inhabitant or a city In the 
utmost state of famine seizes with desire tho 
most loathsome food, from the very sight of 
which at any other time all his senses would have 
revolted. 
God would give men an object in which they 
could better glory. He has given them the cross 
of Jesus Christ. 
“God forbid that I should glory,” says St. Paul 
In our text, “ save In the cress of our Lord Jesus 
Christ." And through those words he pro¬ 
nounces the sentence of condemnation against 
all deceitful things, which are in general our 
Idols; ho commands all men to cease rrom their 
vain endeavors, and ho exalts tho cause of Jesti3 
Christ, as the only object worth glorying In for 
all Intelligent beings till the end of time. But 
when tho apostlo Bays in the cross of Christ, think 
not that he understands tUorcby the wood, the 
outward sign, the figure which one meets so fre¬ 
quently In many regions of Christendom, and 
which has been so often ubusod by superstition. 
He Intends to denote thereby the death of the 
son or God, which took place when tho fulness of 
the time was come for the remission of our sins. 
But he uses tho expression the cross only to re¬ 
mind us that this kind of death Wits held as ac¬ 
cursed among all people, that tho death In which 
we ought to glory was full of humiliation, shame 
and Ignominy, and even accursed of God. 
The more any man Improves hla graces, tho 
clearer, tho sweeter, fuller and richer ib his en¬ 
joyment of God hero. There is no man In all the 
world who has Hucli enjoyment of God as the 
man has wUo most improves his graces. It Is not 
he who knows most, nor ho who hears most, nor 
yet no who talks most, but ho who exercises 
grace most, that has most communion with God, 
t hat has the clearest, visions ot God, and that has 
the sweetest discoveries and manifestations of 
hla Lord and Master. 
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Many are miserable by loving hurtful things; 
but they are more miserable by having them. It 
Is not what men enjoy, but the principal from 
whence It comes, that make men happy. 
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Where grace Is improved to a considerable 
bight, It will work a soul to sit down satisfied 
with tho naked enjoyment of God without other 
things. 
