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pear Charity Sweethearts, do not let this 
longing for self-improvement die out, on ac¬ 
count of the dull, prosaic life many of you arc 
called to lead. \Y r e know that presiding at 
the butchering and assisting in the sausage 
making are not conducive to aspiriug 
thoughts or “flights of fancy free,” but if our 
lot is cast in these places let us make the best 
of it, and try to take as much interest as pos¬ 
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not despise those who have endeavored to 
lighten oar labor by giving us recipes for 
the bast methods of “trying lard and for 
sausage meat.” When we see the minds of 
our friends so taken up with their wood-haul¬ 
ing and pig-ldlling, their rag-carpet-making 
and patchwork pieeemg, let us not consider 
ourselves superior beings fit for some higher 
sphere, whom oven unkindly fate has placed m 
such uncongenial surroundings; but let. us be 
humbly thankful that to us has been unfolded u 
nobler plan of life, and remember that Mac¬ 
aulay has said; “I would rather be a poor 
man in a garret with a love for reading, than 
a king who did not care for books.” 
In Charity’s *' reverie” she speaks of Doro¬ 
thy's death in Ike Marvel’s •• Farm at Edge 
wood” with a pity almost too deop for words; 
and that her flowers “ bloom on” after she 
who loved so well was gone, she considers as 
the bitterest “ mockery.” If this life were the 
end of all, we might justly regard such death 
with this heart-breaking pathos, but when we 
remember that this life is not all, only a vast 
school in which to prepare for that which is 
to come, and which will be everlasting, where 
all the Dorothies who have been faithful, who 
have worked, and vainly hoped and lunged 
for so mueh in this world, will receive the 
fame and honor which is their due, such deaths 
do not seem such pitiful facts. 
The German poet, Schiller, has sung of this 
in words of inexpressible strength and comfort 
to those who, iu the faithful performance of 
daily duty, think that their life is reaching 
no great ends; 
“ What shall I Uo to be forever known? 
Thy Uuty ever. 
This dlil full mauy who yet slept unknown, 
Oh.' never, never! 
Thlukest thou, perchance that they remain unknown 
Whom thou knowest not? 
Bv angel trumps In heaven their praise is blown. 
Divine their lot. 
What shall I do to gain eternal life? 
Discharge aright 
The simple dues with whieh each day Is rife; 
Yea, with thy might. 
E’er a perfect scheme of action thou devise. 
Life will he Med. 
While lie who ever acts as conscience erles. 
Shall live though dead.” 
MARGARET D. CLARKE. 
A REPLY, 
I have waited for some farmer’s wife to 
take up the gauntlet cast by *• Fermented 
Maid,” and since none has done so, l, a farm¬ 
er’s daughter, would like to tell her of a home 
on a farm where nil is not discord ami discon¬ 
tent. Farmer D. lives in Connecticut, ami 2S 
years ago purchased a farm ofr’O acres, which 
by dint cf hard labor and economy, both in¬ 
doors and out, lie in tluio paid lor, and when 
opportunity offered, bought still more, until 
now ne owns 200 acres of the most productive 
land in the town. When l said he worked 
hard und practiced economy, 1 did not mean 
he was stingy; for he thinks one who fears to 
buy the best and i.lwuys plenty, loses iu the 
end, lie says one reason why so many far¬ 
mers make hardly enough to live upon is be¬ 
cause they hire only one man to help, and ex¬ 
pect him to raise enough to pay his own wages, 
support the family, and supply the “Boss” 
with rum und tobacco.. Farmer D., on the 
other hand, hires three men the entire year, 
sometimes four, and extra help during the 
busier seasons, and so raises enough to live in 
comfort, and, not using cither rum or tobacco, 
he has considerable for luxuries. Ills v\if©and 
daughters work (and where can you Hud a 
home worthy of the name where wife sad 
THE RURAL REW-YORKER. 
daughters do not And work to be done?) and 
you never hear them say: “ They don’t care if 
Father does like pies, etc., let him go with¬ 
out.” Their home, which they helped to beau¬ 
tify, is filled with flowers, birds, music, and 
books, papers, and magazines help to improve 
and cultivate their minds. Wife and daugh¬ 
ters have their own horse and carriage. Now 
who can say they are to be pitied because they 
live on a farm? You may say this is a farmer 
with plenty of means. True, he has now, but 
he commenced at the foot of the ladder, and 
any one who will always fellow his rule will 
find farms and farm life not quite so degrad¬ 
ing as Fermented Maid would have us think 
them. Buy of the best, and pay for it; work 
yourself; be careful of things purchased, and, 
last but not least, always be cheerful. I know 
whereof 1 write, for I am 
ONE OF FARMER D.’S DAUGHTERS. 
DISH WASHING. 
Though many do uot find “pearls in dish 
water,” yet we know that some do find pleas¬ 
ure in dish-washing. When my little “ maid- 
of-all-work” came to make ter home with me, 
she had much to learn, and, like most girls, 
had no particular love for the above-men¬ 
tioned duty. I told her, however, that it she 
would follow my directions implicitly, iu less 
than a month she would love the work which 
then seemed so distasteful. As the modus 
opernndi might benefit others, I will give it, 
believiug that every duty pertaining to the 
house-keeper may be made pleasant, if set 
about in the right manner. In the first place, 
all milk dishes should be thoroughly cleansed 
and scalded. This being attended to at once, 
their removal give more room, and the same 
water is useful for soaking tne cooking uten¬ 
sils, pots, pans, etc., etc. Next, place on the 
stove a large tin dish-pan (containing soap, or 
pearline anil water), into which slip the plates 
as the table is cleared: then gather all knives, 
spoons and forks These should be washed 
and polished before commencing on the dishes. 
Now remove to the table and wash from the 
water containing soap with a clean, clear 
water, from which stand perpendicularly to 
drain in alarge tray, remembering always to 
use in washing a tooth-brush (kept for the pur¬ 
pose) about all handl s, and cat glass-ware. 
We find the tray a great advantage, it so 
greatly facilitates the work of drying. After 
each piece has found its appropriate niche in 
the closet or pantry, we turn our attention to 
the pots and kettles, when, lo! a few- vigorous 
scrapes with a broad oyster shell removes the 
loosened particles, and after one more wash 
in the water with which we have rinsed our 
cup towels, the dreaded dish-washing is over. 
SALLY LU.NN. 
Two eggs, two cups sweet milk, u little salt, 
two teaspoonfuls cream-of-tartar, one tea¬ 
spoonful soda and flour lo make a stiff batter. 
MRS. J. E E. 
THE FEMALE FAULT-FINDING 
SOCIETY. 
It seems to me from the late tone of the 
Domestic Department in the Rural that 
there is danger of its developing into a Female 
Fault Fiudiug Society. I am glad, however, 
to notice a slight modification iu that line iu 
the last issues. Not that the overworked wife 
of the farmer has not often good reason for find¬ 
ing fault, but is the busbaud always to blame 
for this? By uo means. In this country, w here 
help is so scarce, we know that many times he 
would provide a woman to help, if money 
would secure her; or, better still, he would 
himseli turn iu and help, it ic were uot that the 
busy se eon of the housewife is equally busy 
with the farmer. Now 1 see these poor wives 
smile at the idea of a clumsy farmer in the 
kitchen, and your smile may broaden into a 
laugh, when I tell you I would rather have 
my husband to assist me about general house¬ 
work than any woman 1 know of. Further¬ 
more, In- is uot cluuisy, although be was reared 
at the plow-handle. >either is he a dolt nor 
sluggard about his own affairs, being equally 
skillful iu managiug the most modern ma¬ 
chines uml in arranging the table as neatly 
and tastily a> any woman. Nor does he scorn 
to do more meniat services, such as drossiog 
fowls, paring vegetables and fruits; he even 
makes beds nud sweeps floors when necessary, 
though be doeso t fancy dish-washing. Aud 
as tor wash-day, he L better than Frauk Sul 
nail's soap. “O !” some one says, “sAie is a 
bride that will so n bo old.” On the contrary, 
1 am the mother of two children, in tin- care 
of whom my husband is equally skillful, dress¬ 
ing them often of mornings as deftly as most 
mothers. Pray do not suppose 1 so impose on 
good umure as to require all this of him when 
I am well aud fully able to do it myself, Al¬ 
though some days 1 get very tireu and some- 
times "blue,” still 1 am a farmer’s very happy 
wjfe. “JUSTICE.’ 
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derangement of tbo liver, kidneys, and 
stomach, in which the disorder of each 
organ Increases tint infirmity of the others. 
The immediate results are Loss of A ppe¬ 
tite. Nausea, Foul Breath, Heart burn, Flat¬ 
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