THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
above all, unstimulating—weU adapted to 
their wants.”. The children are kept in the 
institution until 12 years of age. 
It may be well to explain that “chowder of 
salt cod-lish” is simply picked cod, prepared 
with milk and thickened with flour or corn 
starch. Dr. Learning says that salt cod coun¬ 
teracts the somewhat constipating effect of 
milk, and that when it is soaked, salt should 
he added to the water. Once, after examin¬ 
ing my lungs, Dr. Learning directed mo to 
drink milk until I could drink four quarts n 
day, and he added: “Eat four times a week 
of pickled salt cod.” An attending physician 
summarized the prescription: “Drink milk 
like a pig; breathe like a horse,” and that I 
have my bead well above ground is undoubt¬ 
edly due to the cheerful observance of those 
two lines. 
As to “boiled bacon," 1 very frankly con¬ 
fess that T would not allow my own child to 
eat it-—nor of swine flesh in any way, although 
it may not be in any degree harmful. But 
that meat is injurious to children, as a class, 
cannot be doubted, and that nearly every¬ 
body eats too much meat, is equally true. 
People who are ignorant of the action of foods, 
generally believe, or suppose, that flesh meat 
makes one stronger, or fat or hardy, as the 
case may be,over and above other foods, which 
is not true. A gentleman in Wilkesbarro not 
long ago, in Fpeaking of the hardy Scotch 
miners there, said that they ate from prefer¬ 
ence oat meal instead of meat, and 1 have 
somewhere seen the statement made with how 
much accuracy, I do not know, that one pound 
of out meal is equal In nutritive qualities to 
live pounds of meat. 
I do not think it matters so much what 
adults oat or read—they should be able to 
judge for themselves. But (f life is of value, 
and means anything, there is nothing more 
important than what children should eat and 
rend When I see children at table, eating 
just what their elders do tukiug wild doses 
of tea and coffee, meat, rich gravies, spiced 
puddings and (lies, rich soups, cake, pickles, 
hot breads, nuts, etc., etc., it makes me feel 
exceedingly uncomfortable, to *uy the least, 
and my “unruly member” is with difficulty 
controlled. Then, to cap the climax, the 
children are allowed to sit up until eight or 
nine o’clock, when they ought to bo in bed at 
six or seven at the latest! 
leet their wages. For a few years past neces¬ 
sity has compelled me to employ more or less 
help, but never a servant, for we have but 
“one master,” and I do not hesitate to say 
that many of them I have found to be ladies. 
Necessity to labor does not necessitate us to 
step Inflow the standing of a lady or a gentle¬ 
man. The services of such, and of such ouly, 
can find n place in my house as cook; for food 
prepared under my own roof would be very 
unsavory unless such a person prepared It. A 
person who would forget for one moment the 
ladyhood of any true and noble woman, 
whether in kitchen or parlor, is unfit for the 
name of gentleman or lady, and would not 
be worthy of the services of a “professional 
cook ” The good and the noble will be re¬ 
spected and loved, and some of the best women 
of our land from being' “professional house¬ 
keepers” and cooks, became the wives of great 
meu and the mothers of our Nation. All true 
men and women look with honest respect 
upon the dignity of labor, and professional 
housekeeping is nothing less than dignified la¬ 
bor. “a bknkdict.” 
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Is not always enjoyed by those who seem 
to posses* it. The taint of corrupted 
blood may be secretly undermining the 
constitution. In time, the poison will cer¬ 
tainly show its r fleets, and w it ha 11 (he more 
virulence the longer it has been allowed 
to permeate the system. Each pimple, sty, 
boil, skin disorder and sense of unnatural 
lassitude, or languor, is one of Nature's 
warnings of the consequences of neglect. 
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BOOK BINDING. 
In reply to the request of some of the read¬ 
ers of the Ruiial, I will tell them how I 
bound my books. I got my ideas from the 
Wide Awake, of January, 1S84 ; but I varied 
the directions there given to suit myself, ami 
proceeded as follows: The materials needed to 
commence with, are a vise, a clamp, two 
strips of wood ouo half an inch or more thick 
and two feet long, a pot of glue kept warm, 
some twine, strips of strong, white cloth about, 
au inch wide and six long, some strong tnanil- 
la paper (old paper flour bags answer) a hand¬ 
saw, a pair of shears, a knife, and some black, 
brown, red or other colored cloth for finish¬ 
ing off the covers. Prepare your magazines for 
binding by tearing off the covers and adver¬ 
tising sheets, arrange them in order, a volume 
iu each pile, putting the proper index on top 
of each volume. Ffts?tonyour vise at the end of 
atutile and let there lie something of nu equal 
hight, on which to rest the other ends of the 
sticks. Place a volume between the sticks, with 
the bock edges one-fourth of an inch above the 
edge; fasten one etui of the sticks between the 
vise and claim) the other end, resting it, on 
the support. Fasten firmly. Saw through 
the back of the hook in three places to the 
board, drop glue into each of these cuts, take 
a piece of twine about three fourths of a yard 
long, put the middle of ft. through one of the 
end cuts, as far down as it will go; then with 
both hands cross the twine back and forth 
through the other elite. Draw it very tight. 
When you come to the other end. bring the 
cord back to the middle cut, cross it, draw it 
tight, press it, in. and dowu with a knife, drop 
in a drop of glue, then cut the twine off very 
close to the book. Now take one of the strips 
of white cloth, double it, dip the doubled end 
iu the glue for a little over ouo half an inch, 
open the strip, take hold of each end, aud draw 
the glued part into one of the cuts. Do the 
same with the other cuts, leaving the ends of 
the cloth sticking out. Cut a strip of rnanilla 
paper just the size of the back of your book, 
and glue it over it. Remove the'book from 
its fastenings, and put it away a day or two to 
dry thoroughly. 
in the directions given in Wide Awake it 
tells how to smooth the edges of the leaves, 
but I did not find it stall practicable, and as 
there is no bindery near here where I could 
have the edges cut straight, 1 finished them up 
in the rough state. The putting on of the cov¬ 
ers comes next. 1 got sheets cf straw board, 
and had them cut just the size 1 wanted (cost, 
about one and one-half cent for each book.) 
Before putting on the sides, fix tbo Larks. 
Take black or brown cloth throe inches wider 
thau the backs aud oneiueh longer; cut bits of 
twine, five to a volume,> trifle longer than 
the width of the back, dip them in paste 
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PROFESSIONAL COOKS, 
It is seldom that 1 become so deeply inter¬ 
ested in tbo common literary effusions of the 
day as I have in those of our friend. Charity 
Sweetheart- Without any intention to flatter 
her. 1 think theio is more good sense in her 
letters than iu many more pretentious articles, 
ami I have boon inspired, when I read them, to 
think that woman was the connecting link be¬ 
tween man and tbe angels. 1 am certainly 
sony to see her spirit of repining; but not¬ 
withstanding this repining at her humble lot, 
I will wager a big apple, that as the “night 
draws her sable curtain down and pin* it with 
a star,” there is a sweet contentment that set¬ 
tles over her, in the realization that she has 
made the home for father and the boys so en¬ 
joyable, so pleasant, so home like and so beau¬ 
tiful, with its "flowers upon the tea table.” 
Such happiness is more soul-inspiring than 
auy gathered from the flimsy enjoymeut, of 
opera or the gilded saloon. Despite your con¬ 
tinued protest, Charity, that housekeeping is 
not a profession, I must insist upon it that it 
is an enviable profession, with its crown of 
honor aud wreath of joy. 
If it were not for the old adage, “Convince 
a person against his will, he's of the same 
opinion still," I would half believe that Char¬ 
ity would herself acknowledge that a genuine 
housekeeper is a person to bo honored, and 
that her position i* one to be aspired to, aud 
that she, herself, could produce an unques¬ 
tioned diploma to that very exalted position. 
She oven unostentatiously admits her fitness 
for tbe better part of this honored vocation, 
for a young lady who ean “hopefully clean up 
and begin anew after the boys,” has more of 
the spirit of the “master” than many a woman 
of fashion, and in tbe “spirit aud letter of the 
law,” is almost a “professional housekeeper.” 
Did not your mother and my mother, aud 
ten thousand other mothers, make housekeep¬ 
ing an honorable profession? Aud cannot you 
witb hundreds of “other girls” do equally 
well? Yea, better, for this is a progressive 
age. A woman has the same right as a man 
to ascend the ladder of fame, and she falls to 
fill her mission if she stands idle on the lowest 
round. Her duty is to ascend, removing every 
obstacle iu her path, and at last stand with 
Mrs. Foster Stanton and Mrs. Livermore 
upon the very piunacle of fame. Each of 
these worthies was first a “professional house¬ 
keeper,"then ready and willing to fill a public 
position Yes! and so you went to a “registry 
office! 1 Well, those that were there were not 
to be “your companions,” for as “all stars dif¬ 
fer iu glory,’’ so there are many grades of do¬ 
mestics. Few, if any, of those you saw at the 
“registry office” will ever aspire to more than 
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