THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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and from which were suspended fish entrails 
braided, and large fish bladders blown full, 
to dry, for bolding oil. We walked along the 
beach, plagued with gnats, and presently 
came to a flowery kingdom, where there were 
great spaces covered with low-growing vetch 
and lupin iu the most brilliaut colors, cycla¬ 
men of red and yellow, fiitillaria, the stalks 
being round with bells at the top, of nmroon- 
black with orange heart, and anon great 
spaces white with large strawherry blossoms, 
and the Captain said we were only a little too 
early! I doubt if the flora of any other spot 
in Alaska is richer than that in this pretty 
cove, and the timber edge was fringed with 
alder, cottonwood and pussy willow. 
That evening we sailed southwest, for Sitka, 
and the next morning we were in Peril Strait, 
with the tide running out like a mill stream, 
over a dangerous rocky Vied. There was but 
one thing to do—to run the risk of running 
the rapibs, or waiting for hours the rise of the 
tide. The captain decided on the former, and 
althougbt he had a most experienced pilot, he 
trusted to himself, and it was a pleasure to 
watch how admirably tbe vessel was handled. 
The strait is as lovely in scenery as it is peril¬ 
ous in navigation. A little before noon we 
were in Sitka harbor, and in view of the capi¬ 
tal of Alaska, once fittingly called New Arch¬ 
angel. if indeed any other town can be called 
angel, for the scene from Sitka can hardly 
fail to elicit from the most prosaic, the excla¬ 
mation, “How enchantinglv lovely!” While 
tbe town itself presents the first habitable and 
civilized appearance that we have seen. The 
stars and stripes waved from the marine bar¬ 
racks, the war ship “Pinta” lay at anchor, 
civil and naval officers gave to the crowd on 
the pier quite a distinguished appearance. The 
dome and minaret of the famed Greek church 
were conspicuous ahove the decayed roofs of 
the faded houses—in short, everyiiody felt as 
if he were no longer a thousand miles from a 
lemon, delusive as the feeling may have been. 
The sk v was cloudless, and the heat, in the sun, 
must have l»een well up to90°. 1 laughingly re¬ 
called what, a good lady in Seattle had said to 
roe: “You must wear your warmest clothing, 
for you can hardly realize to wbat a cold, 
chilly country you are going’’—for Anaximan¬ 
der and I had decided, if appearances were 
not too forbidding, to camp in Sitka for a 
month, and return to Port Townsend on the 
next steamer. A New York State man who 
keeps the only “first-class” boarding house in 
Sitka, soon learning our intention, came on 
board und announced himself. But I couldn’t 
think pleasantly of the boarding-house scheme, 
and in the afternoon went house bunting. 
Strange as it may seem, I soon heard of a 
“furnished” house, which bad been fitted up 
in tbe hope that the Governor would take it— 
and if a certain Russian Baron bad not come 
from Juneau, 1 could have it, for $12 a month I 
After a couple of hours I learned that the 
Baron had not come. 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
Warren Glass Works Co., 72 Murray 
Street, New York.—Circular of the celebrated 
Warren milk bottles. It is a fact that the 
milk we get in tbe cities is about the least 
desirable article of food in the whole list. As 
usually brought to the city in large cans, it 
gets shaken and churned about until in many 
cases lumps of butter have gathered in it. In 
others the caus are so imperfectly cleaned that 
the milk is taiuted and spoiled by reason of 
tbe infection left in the cans: or so much dirt 
gets into the milk that it is not lit for human 
food. By the use of the Warren gloss bottle, 
which is fully described in this circular, the 
milk comes in contact with nothing but glass. 
Being all glass, the house maid easily sees 
whether tbe bottle is washed clean; then tbe 
person filling it can see if it is or is not clean. 
Then, again, if the bottle is properly filled, 
there is absolutely no shaking about of the 
milk and not the lean chance of any dirt 
coming in contact with it. Although at the 
start these bottles may cost a little more than 
tin, it does not seem that auy person living in 
a city or town would consent to receive or use 
milk in any other package. And wlim we 
consider bow much milk is wasted, in the de¬ 
livery from large cans, and bow much is 
spoiled by dll‘1 nnd tbe unskillful handling of 
the large cans, we believe the Warren glass 
milk bottle is the most, economical. Circulars 
fully describing tbe advantages of these bot¬ 
tles will be sent to all who apply for them to 
A. V. Whiteman, 72 Murray Street, New 
York. In wrltiug mention the Rural. 
Holt Manufacturing Co., Cleveland, 
Ohio.—Circular of portable forge and set of 
blacksmith’* tools for farmers’ use. There is 
not a farmer who owns 50 acres of land, who 
w ould not make money by learning, ti > do many 
little jobs with tools, and then building a 
small shop and buying such a set of tools as 
are described in this circular. Iu hundreds 
of instances it takes much longer to go to a 
sbop'to have a job done than it would take to 
do it at home, and then it could be done while 
the teams are eating. Every farmer should 
learn the use of tools to such an extent that, be 
can hammer the cultivator pads sharp, and 
when the appliances are at hand, and the 
owner kuows bow to use them, he Is much 
more likely to keep them * harp, and one hour’s 
work with a sharp cultivator will really ac¬ 
complish more in killing weeds than a whole 
day with a dull one. This circular will show 
you for how little money yon can supply 
yourself with a set of tools. Send for it. 
A. W. Stevens & Son, Auburn. New York. 
—An illustrated price list of Stevens’s French 
buhr stone, corn and feed mills. This circular 
gives a full description of the goods made by 
this old-established house, and also, iu a plain, 
straightforward manner, tbe reasons why 
they claim bubr-stone mills are the best, and 
in the long run, tbe cheapest. This firm also 
make mills with bolting attachments for mak¬ 
ing marketable meal, and also a large-sized 
power com-sheller. All interested should send 
for this circular and read what they have to 
say on tbe subject. 
Wilder Manufacturing Co., Monroe, 
Michigan. Statistics of Systematic Feeding 
of Stock. This circular contains, in addition 
to the Illustration and descriptions of the 
various fodder and silage cutters made by this 
house, statistics furnished by the superinten¬ 
dents pf several street car companies, showing 
the rations given to their horses and how pre¬ 
pared. It is worth not only reading, but pre¬ 
serving for reference, as these men state the 
accurate results of very careful experiments. 
It will be sent free to any of our readers who 
apply. 
Dtexmxj. 
BOOKS RECEIVED. 
Anna, the Professor’s Daughter. By 
Marie Daal. Translated from the Dutch by 
Col. Cbas. Mueller. Lee & Shepard. Pub., 
Boston, Mass. 
Tills is a very readable story, and quite un¬ 
like the novels of to-day in some respects. It 
would almost seem a* though it had been 
written for Mr. Bergh, and in tbe interest of 
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 
Animals, if it were not a translation. But no 
harm cau be done—on the contrary we think 
much good may be—by giving it a careful 
reading, especially the lecture which was de¬ 
livered by “Dr. Van Warnsveldt’—who by 
the way is a grand, good character—on the 
subject of “the relations of man to the brute 
creation.” 
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life Among thf. 
Lowly. Bv Harriet Beecher Stnwe. Price, 
cloth. ?1. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Pub. 
This is a new American edition, with an in¬ 
troductory account of the origin of the story, 
by the author. It is a work which cau be 
read more than once with great interest. It 
is a good story for both old and young, and 
tbo rising generation should not fail to become 
familiar with this, one of the greatest novels 
ever written. 
Child's Health Primer for Primary 
Classes. A. S. Barnes & Co., Pub., New 
York City. Price 85 cents. 
This work is written so that tbe youngest 
learner can appreciate its teachings. It has 
been carefully prepared, and all technical 
terms are avoided, and only such parts of 
physiology developed as are necessary to the 
treatment of the effects of alcohol, tobacco 
and all stimulants. 
for Wotnrit. 
CONDUCTED BY MISC RAY CLARK. 
DRESS FOR GIRL OF TWELVE. 
Our out of a girl’s dress is full of sug¬ 
gestions to any mother or sister, who is 
familiar with making new, or fixing over 
dresses. 11 is of a Princess style, and for a 
dressy garment is pretty made of cream color 
nun’s veiling and scarlet velvet. The plas¬ 
tron, or the gathered front, is of a cream- 
colored satin, or surah. The buttous should 
be small, and the suuie color as the velvet 
used. The sash is of velvet ribbon, which is 
again a fashion. 
DOMESTIC HAPPINESS us. DOMESTIC 
UNHAPPINESS. 
A REPLY TO “j. H. G.” 
To ascertain the causes of domestic unhap¬ 
piness, is of such grave and universal interest, 
that it will not be surprising if “J. H. G.’s” 
well written articles in the Rural are widely 
read, and excite much comment. His asser¬ 
tion that women should learn domestic duties 
is one that admits no dissent, llis mistake 
lies in not relegating these duties to their 
proper place. His utterances are likely to be 
mischievous, in proportion as they are influ¬ 
ential; and it is, therefore, worth while to ex¬ 
amine some of his sweeping statements, and to 
note their errors. 
“Men,” he tells us, "admire before marriage 
Princess Dress for Girl of Twelve. 
qualities in women, which are worse than use¬ 
less in married life—music, conversation, and 
literature!” Arc these qualities “worse than 
useless”? What are the things “J. H G.” calls 
“the actualities of life”! Are they the cooking, 
the washing, the sewing—the existing to day 
merely that we may exist to-morrow I It is a 
poor tale that God has endowed half the 
human race with active minds and immortal 
souls, and then has laid his stem “Thou shalt 
not” upon every aspiration. We insult our 
Creator when we believe it! He never gave 
us life and reason that we might devote them 
to merely physical cuds. Ruskin truly says: 
“Things that only help us to exist ure, in a 
secondary and mean sense, useful; or rather, 
if they be looked for alone, they are useless 
and worse; for it would be better that we 
should not exist, than that we should guiltily 
disappoint the purposes of existence.” And a 
greater than Ruskin solemnly asks: “Is not 
the life more than meat, and the body 
than raiment !” We do not think so meanly 
of men as to believe that their ideal wire is 
merely a perfect domestic machine, and not 
rather a companion for their highest moods 
and deepest thoughts. Nor do we believe that 
true education is, in any wise, responsible for 
increasing divorce. That senseless smatter 
which feeds ignorance nnd vanity, does, no 
doubt, feed domestic discord too. But the 
great lack in marriages appears to be the lack 
of that education of mind and heart, which 
alone produces real congeniality, which alone 
sanctities the tie, elevating it from a degrad¬ 
ing bondage into a veritable ButTument, If 
statistics could be collected on the subject, “J. 
H. G,” would find that in nine cases out of 
ten, divorce is tbe re-ult, not of heavy bread 
and undarned socks, but of ill regulated minds 
apd characters. He inadvertently admits that 
fact when he says,“Unless a man finds a conge¬ 
nial companion, he will seek companionship 
at tbe club." A “congenial companion” is, 
we submit, more than a mere house keeper; 
if not, shame upon mankind! 
"But," it may be objected, “you cannot 
ignore tbe housekeeping.” We must have the 
well ordered home, to give a family the prop¬ 
er conditions of life, and how arc we to have 
it, if our girls indulge in music, art, literature, 
etc. Have you ever considered, readers of 
the Rural, what u Fetich we make of this 
same housekeeping I A young man devotes 
three years to the study of his profession, and 
and at the end of that time is prepared to 
practice law, mediciuo, or theology, as the 
case may be. But it takes u wonmn’B whole 
lire to learn to cook, sew. and keep a house 
clean! “No man,”says “J. H. G.,’’ "can excel 
in more than one or two occupations. 1 Very 
true, but what man is in bondage to his busi¬ 
ness as a women is expected to be to hers! 
The clergyman maybe a botanist,a musician, 
a novelist even, and no one cries out that he 
is leaving hi 3 “sphere.” Tii e wou’d fail me, 
to enumerate the men In all sorts of business, 
often the most strenuous and the least literary 
who have become even eminent in other direc¬ 
tions. Anthony Trollope has told ns very de¬ 
lightfully how he contrived to write his mul¬ 
titude of novels without ever neglec ing his 
arduous post office work. Still less favorable 
to their great achievements were tbe occupa¬ 
tions of Spinoza, Burns, Hugh Miller, Elibu 
Burritt. In like manner any women of aver¬ 
age ability may combine proficiency in domes¬ 
tic duties with a higher culture. 
Again "J. H. G.” tells us: “The sooner 
young ladies learn that they cannot step from 
the piano, George Eliot’s works, or crazy 
patchwork, into the position of the mistress 
of a household, and into successful domestic 
life, the better.” But that is just what they 
condo! Witness Mrs Carlylel Witness our 
Southern women, who, during the late war, 
rose from easel, from harp, from piano, from 
poem, from nil the dainty environment, to 
meet uncomplainingly and efficiently a 
sterner exigency of life than any we can 
imagine now! A sensible woman, accustomed 
to mental discipline, will be aide to turn her 
brains and traiuing to account, wherever she 
may be placed. A brief sketch of one woman 
of my own acquaintance may not be without 
profit in this connection. In 1870, Miss R. 
was graduated with honora from tbe Packer 
Institute iu Brooklyn. Her course there was 
followed by several years of study in Germany, 
whence she returned to teach, for half a dozen 
years in her Alma Mater. We, her school¬ 
mates, used to laugh, and her mother used 
almost to weep, over her absolute ignorance 
of all feminine handicraft. She bad never 
kept house in her life; I doubt whether she 
possessed a needle! At the age of 27 years 
she married, and went at once into a solitary 
country home in a wild forest region of Penn¬ 
sylvania. She was often without help in her 
household, and never had more efficient aid 
than was given by au ignorant native girl, 
who could relieve her of a little lifting and 
scouring—nothing more. Babies, too, came 
fast. What was to be expected of that house¬ 
hold? Here are the facts—the swift, sure, 
well-trained intellect, that had mastered tri¬ 
gonometry and Latin, was not to he daunted 
by a loaf of bread. Accuracy and thorough¬ 
ness enabled her soon to be as unerringlj suc¬ 
cessful as "Bartle Massey” himself. To her 
well-organized, genial home her city friends 
delight to come. They find no lack in the 
physical comfort she gives them, and all is 
made charming by the brilliant talk never 
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An efficient yet 
mild detergent with¬ 
out any of the objec¬ 
tionable properties 
of ordinary soaps, is 
what recommends the 
Ivory to intelligent 
and discriminating 
people. Its cheap¬ 
ness brings it within 
the reach of every 
one. 
•ee of charge. A full size cake of Tvor> Soap 
ill be sent toany one whooan not gel it of H 
ocer. H six two-cent stamps, to pay jmsUigi. art 
nt to Procter & Gamble, Cluciuiniti. '*■ 
entioa hl» paper. 
