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FES 2 
Of conifers we have many that do well here, 
though the noble firs and spruces that adorn 
your Northern lawns are shy of our hot suns. 
Cedrus Deodara grows magnificently and is, 
perhaps, more used than any other for larger 
spaces. Libocedrus decurrens does very well; 
but it bas not been planted long enough to 
attain any groat size yet. The Thujas and 
Biotas are planted mostly for lawn trees or for 
hedges, and are all perfectly hardy; so also 
are Cupressus aud the Retimsporas. The dif¬ 
ferent varieties of Japan Persimmon so far 
have proved hardy. 1 saiv some young trees 
at the Fruitland Nurseries of Mr. Berckmans, 
near Augusta, G-a., in Nov., loaded with fruit. 
Aiken, S. C. 
THE EYE-OPENER. 
the Mo.va.rcu Lightning Sawing Machine. -On 
our a«sth page npp ars ttie advertisement of tlie New 
Improved Monaven Lightning Sawing Machine, man 
ufactured by the Monarch M’f’g. Co., 163 Randolph 
Street, Chicago. The result of Long expet lence in the 
manufacture of implements for cutting up wood is 
the superior and valuable machine which Is adver¬ 
tised In our paper. 
Such of our readers who live In a timbered district 
and who need such a machine, should send for their 
large Illustrated tree catalogue. This company Is 
the largest and most successful corporation fti tbls 
city engaged in manufacturing one man power drag 
saws. The Monarch Lightning Sawing Machine has 
been sold all over the Western States, and always 
gives satisfaction. Itisa first-class firm, thoroughly 
reliable, aud their machine Is of superior excellence. 
—Farm, Field ami Fireside, January, issj. 
See their advertisement uu auother page of this 
Issue. 
So says the Prairie Farmer of January 29. 
This firm has been advertised in the Rural 
New-Yorker. Three weeks ago our con¬ 
tract with them called for but tbree more in¬ 
sertions. At that time and previously we re¬ 
ceived several complaints from our subscrib¬ 
ers that the firm was not what it ought to be, 
that it was, iu short, scarcely less than a 
fraud. We made diligent inquiry of the 
agency which sent us the advertisement and 
of others; all replies were to to the effect that 
the firm was wbat it professed to be. Still 
complaints came in from subscribers, so we 
concluded to throw up the coutraet, and not 
to allow the advertisement again to appear. 
We are still in doubt as to whether the goods 
of this firm are what they are set forth to be 
or not, and those of our readers who contem¬ 
plate dealing with them, are merely advised 
to act with caution as to making purchases. 
The Rural has rejected their advertisement 
merely to be on the safe side. 
Mr. Walling, Superintendent of Police of 
this city, has lately received a number of let¬ 
ters from different parts of the country com¬ 
plaining that the writers had sent money to 
E. V.Tiffany & Co,, 195aud 197 Fulton Street, 
who advertise jewelry, watches, firearms, aud 
similar articles for sale at astonishingly low 
prices, and had not received what they 
sent for. Detectives who visited the firm 
were told that the orders had not been filled 
because the firm’s business was so large that 
it could not be handled promptly, but that 
each purchaser would get what he ordered in 
time. A circular was recently sent to the 
creditors signed by J. M. Chapman, assignee, 
in which he begged to inform them that tho 
firm of E. V. Tiffany & Co. had sold tbeir 
business to J. H. Smith under a misstatement 
of facts. They told him that the back orders 
would amount to $2,500, all of which he as¬ 
sumed. After an examination of the books 
he found that Tiffany & Co. had received or¬ 
ders for $15,000. They had received the 
money and left the State. This state of things 
had forced J. H. Smith to make an assignment 
for the benefitof his creditors, the assets being 
between $700 and $800. After deducting a 
preferred claim of $000 tho balance would be 
distributed pro rata. This concern adver¬ 
tised very extensively and losses will be 
widespread. 
The Boston Silverware concern is an unmit¬ 
igated fraud and swindle. 
tox Women. 
CONDUCTED BY MISS RAY CLARK. 
WOMAN’S RECREATION. 
The one difficulty seems to be not in the 
lack of recreation, but in the inability, real or 
imagined, of woman to take advantage of it, 
to spare herself, nay. to fight herself, for it 
is our firm belief that woman is her own 
worst enemy'. The cause of this may not be 
in herself exactly, but the effect is there. 
She is the mother of ailing children aud has 
become a devotee with sickness for a shrine; 
she is a school-teacher whose patrons claim 
her leisure hour of rest; or she is the wife of 
an energetic, hurrying American farmer 
or business man, without power to stem the 
tide of money-making aud saving, a large 
share of which is forced through her own 
hands. Worse yet, she may be the wife of a 
sickly or a shiftless man whose little ones 
THE BUBAL NEW-YQBKEB. 
must suffer for tho necessaries of life unless 
her own shoulder is constantly at the wheel. 
Uowshall such women be reachedand warned? 
Experience says' ‘only by the physician.” True, 
there is enough written on the subject, but if 
she should ever fi id time to read, which is 
unlikely, what would she find relevant to her 
case in half a dozen articles? Newspapers 
frequently have articles on the subject of 
woman’s slavery to dress, overlooking the 
fact that the preity dress, both in making aud 
wearing, may be a recreation and a very' in¬ 
spiriting one iu itself. Most women really 
enjoy to be well dressed, and if enjoyment of 
anything pure aud simple be not recreation, 
what is? But she is warned to repress this 
wearing devotion to dress and devote herself 
to the concoction of the articles of delicate 
and healthful cookery whose recipes occupy 
the next column or two, wherein you will find 
a list of egg-whipping and chopping and 
nicely brow ning aud garnishing, which are 
supposed to have become necessary to the 
stomach of the dyspeptic (?) American. Some 
woman to whom cooking is a recreation in¬ 
vites her friends to a table loaded with these 
dainties, aud the next one must excel if pos¬ 
sible, though it overtask all her powers, and 
tne fashion rules, claiming more victims than 
all the ruffies, since men must be fed; but 
thank Heaven, they need not be rulHed—their 
dress 1 mean. 
Now where is the womau independent 
enough to invite her friends to a plaiu, com¬ 
fortably furnished table, and then enjoy a 
feast of reason aud a flow- of soul? the woman 
who turns from the solemn warning against 
dress and scans the fashion corner to see how 
she shall fix over that old merino she is so tired 
of as it is? The teacher who refuses an invita¬ 
tion at the risk of giving offense to take an in¬ 
vigorating walk ? W ell, these are not so rare, 
perha])S, but of the classes first spoken of there 
is little hope within themselves; the chances 
are health has been ruined before they real¬ 
ized what they were doing, aud there is little 
or no inclination for recreation. There is no 
desire in the mind growu morbid from worn 
out nerves for anything but rest. Yet, if they 
would, there lives even for these a grand rec¬ 
reation, a true re-creation, a new' body and a 
new mind creation, one which all women 
should avail themselves of and never give up 
(1 canuot speak too emphatically) from the 
beginning of life to its close; healthful, cheap, 
available for all who have limbs, but as yet so 
little used by American women, though it is a 
panacea for all ills iu utauy other countries; I 
refer to a walk out of doors. How shall I 
sufficiently urge the sisters of the home to 
this duty to the "temple of God?” Shut the 
cook-stove, drop the dress, milk less cows, 
gather the children aud march out iuto God’s 
free sunshine, and for a little space breathe 
the pure breath of heaven. 
But if you have never been guilty of so 
much selfishness before, do not go too far and 
come back with unaccustomed muscles tired 
out, and think it is no recreation for you. It 
is. Try'again, the oftener the better. Your 
muscles t ; re with sweeping and washing, but 
do you ever stop for chat? Not if I know you, 
and if your name is Average Woman, I think 
Ido. It is easier to walk than to do either of 
these; but you are not used to it, persevere 
till you are, aud remember you are renewing 
your life in so doing. 
If you are fond of fancy work, music, books, 
etc., get them, too, if you can; your daily walk 
will not take time from that, the added 
strength and energy obtained will enable you 
to put your house-work or other duties out of 
the way quicker. You lose nothing, you gain 
everything. 
I should exceed the limits of our department 
were i to elaborate on the advantages of this 
best of all tonics. Sensible women know its 
value, doctors urge it. What is necessary is 
for each woman to fight the obstacle in her 
own case whether it be herself, her husbaud, 
or her circumstances. Heaven speed the exit 
of the tearful, nerve conscious, fretful female, 
and give us the self-recreated helpmeet of man. 
SXLEXIA ENGLISH. 
THE MOTHERS OF OUR NATION. 
We admire very much a portion of S. H. 
R.’s contribution in the issue of Noveml>er 17. 
There is no doubt but that there is room 
"up-stairs” for the bright, energetic young 
girl as well as for the young man, The 
writer seems to think if a girl marries, her 
education is lost; or a girl does not u u ed 
much education if she expects to tie herself 
down to a husband. This is a grand mistake. 
Who should have a better right to a trained 
mind than the wife aud mother? Her mind 
should be a store-house of knowledge, from 
which she will have need to make many drafts. 
Tiny feet are to be taught the paths of truth 
and love; petitions granted and refused. Tho 
health and happiness of thousands of delicate, 
sickly girls might have been saved if they had 
possessed intelligent, thoughtful mothers- 
There can be no higher or more responsible 
position than that of the true devoted mother. 
She teaches the infant kings, queens, states¬ 
men and poets of earth their first lessons. In 
forming and developing the character no 
teacher exexcises such influence asthemother; 
the first impressions are the lasting ones. 
Then how necessary that she possess wisdom 
and discretion! The attorney, drawing upon 
the pathetic chords of human sympathy, the 
judge balancing the scales of life and death, 
the President wielding the scepter over fifty 
millions of the freest people of earth, have no 
more responsible position than the mother. 
We would not take one laurel from the brow 
of Florence Nightingale or Hannah Moore. 
Theirs were lone stars, that lit the midnight 
of woe but for a single lifetime. No escutch¬ 
eon can outshine the true mother’s, and as 
light and love and knowledge flood the world 
it will still grow brighter. There can be no 
greater field of good than for woman to edu¬ 
cate herst If, that she may educate the world. 
To day, cradled in the arms of loving moth¬ 
ers and kneeling at their feet for wisdom, are 
the rulers of the next generation. The 
good and great that are now at the helm of 
State will soon drop like the sear leaf, and 
the now tiny, docile child must take their 
place. Many of the illustrious in literature, 
art and diplomacy owe their position to an 
educated, thoughtful mother. If Florence 
Nightingale was a messenger of love and 
kinduess to suffering thousands, does it not 
reflect brightly upon a mother?—for she must 
have had a mother. A girl should never 
marry simply for a home: her whole heart 
should go with her hand. There will always 
be those that will choose to lead single lives, 
from various causes. They are the excep¬ 
tions, and should uot be taken as grand mod¬ 
els after which to pattern. We cannot go 
back of nature; wife and mother first, and 
then citizen. Let not the wile and mother 
think her opportunities for doing good in the 
world have fled, for they are only advancing 
to meet her. If her fame is not heralded 
from the high places of earth it is written in 
the great book of nature, aud shall endure 
when all earthly mementoes are forgotten. 
T. B. WOLFE. 
DRESSES AND DRESS GOODS. 
Brocaded stuffs of all kinds are once again 
worn, after many years of neglect. Brocaded 
wool, brocaded satin, silk brocaded with vel¬ 
vet, etc. But there are also for every-day 
wear plain soft wool stuffs, such as cash¬ 
mere, camel’s hair, and Chuddah cloth. These 
goods wear so well and always look so dressy, 
they probably will never cease to be worn. 
There are so many different styles of making 
up dresses, that one’s taste aud judgment must 
be used to accord with the age of the person. 
For young ladies the Breton vest is universally 
wont, and is made usually of velvet. Round 
skirts are still made very narrow, being not 
move than front two yards to two yards and 
a quarter around the bottom. Very high 
standing collars are added to dresses instead 
of the narrow' inchwide collars lately worn. 
Such a one can be seen In the cut we give, 
which is one of the prettiest styles of making 
a dress, The bottom of the skirt has a tuck 
three inches wide; above this is a band of 
velvet, then three more tucks. The polonaise 
is composed of brocaded wool, which requires 
no trimming. The front is gathered at the 
neck and waistline, and is then drawn back, 
giving the bouffaut effect which is becoming 
to almost everyone. 
Domestic (Economy 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
SNAPS AND QUERIES. 
ADELINE E. STORY. 
Good nest eggs may be made by tilling an 
egg-shell with plaster-of-Paris wet to a paste 
and left a few hours after filling to harden. 
In buying lamp chimneys, it pays to buy 
the best though at double the cost. One of 
the better kind will bear almost any ill usage, 
while the least sprinkle of even warm dish¬ 
water is enough to break one of the common 
sort. 
Why is it a man, if he goes to put anything 
away, from a hat-box to a violin, will invari¬ 
ably put it under the bed? 1 will give a pack¬ 
age of Kansas Sunflower seed to the person 
who will answer this question satisfactorily. 
Overalls are nice things to work in, just 
what the boys want to slip on when they come 
home from school; but I confess to a dislike 
to seeing them worn away from home. Some¬ 
how 1 never see a farmer iu town with over¬ 
alls on but the thought of tattered or greasy 
trousers is suggested by their shining presence. 
Ami right or not? 
It may be that the inventor of paper collars 
did the world, or the feminine portion of it, a 
good service when he gave our fathers and 
husbands a chance to wear clean linen (?) with¬ 
out the necessity of its being previously done 
up by us. But a paper collar is to me an 
abomination. At its best, it is only a sham, 
and so poor a sham that it can be easily de¬ 
tected a rod away. A man or boy with a 
collar made of the same material as the shirt 
he wears, both collar and bosom being nicely 
starched and ironed, makes a far better ap¬ 
pearance, other things being equal, than the 
one having a checked or striped shirt sur¬ 
mounted by a white paper collar. 
CHATS WITH OUR GIRLS WHO EX¬ 
PECT TO BE HOUSEKEEPERS. 
MAY MAPLE. 
Girls, did you ever notice how nicely Jen¬ 
nie Ray’s print dresses always look? 1 dare 
say some of you have, and almost envied her 
too. For if she were robed in costly silk she 
could uot look neater, though you might think 
it more elegant. Now why should her com¬ 
mon print dresses be "the observed of all ob¬ 
servers?” In the first place, she has learned to 
select the very best goods of the kind, and to 
lie sure that they have fast colors. Then she 
makes them in some simple, becoming style; 
and as they are well-made, handsomely fin¬ 
ished, and fit. her to a nicety, they are very 
attractive because there are so few calico 
dresses worn that possess so many good quali¬ 
ties. She washes and irons them herself, and 
is very particular to dip them in quite thick 
starch that has been strained through a clt tb, 
so there will be no lumps sticking to the goods. 
They are hung upon the line wrong side out 
and taken into the house as soon as dry. The 
dark ones are ironed on the icrontj side, thus 
preserving much of the appearance of ne*v 
calico. The light-colored oues she iroDs on 
the right side in imitation of French cambric. 
One day we were talking about laundry work 
and 1 inquired if she liked to iron fine shirts. 
"Yes,” was her reply, "but then I want to 
wash them; for I fancy 1 can make them look 
better when I do all the work. When I am 
sure they are quite free from streaks, and are 
thoroughly rinsed, I dip the bosom and wrist¬ 
bands in thick boiled starch iu which 1 have 
put a crumb of spermaceti and a bit of white 
wax, each the size of a pea. When the 
clothes are dry and ready to fold for ironing, 
I dip the fine, starched articles tu some thin, 
cold starch, wring and shake out, then roll up 
smooth and tight for the night. In the morn¬ 
ing my starched goods are iroued first, while 
1 am fresh and have a better stock of patience 
than I might huve after several hours ot hard 
work. With a good bosom board, under such 
circumstances, it is no harder or more weari¬ 
some to irou tine bosomed shirts than a ruf¬ 
fled pillow-slip. I like to do work that 1 >oks 
well wbeu completed. I have been very suc¬ 
cessful with our laundry work since I have 
undertaken the entire work myself, and if 1 
were obliged to go from home to earn my 
living, I would certainly go to the wash-tub 
and ironing-board," Now girls, don’t wrinkle 
up your "alabaster foreheuds” at that idea, 
for it was really a good thought and showed 
an independent spirit, She had stepped upon 
