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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
among which has been the arranging of the 
wheels that gauge the quantity sown perma¬ 
nently upon the shaft, so that it is impossible 
for them to get disarranged or lost. Among 
the claims made for excellence, in favor of this 
drill are, substantial manufacture, elegauce of 
finish, reliability and accuracy in distributing, 
lightness of draft, convenience in handling 
and adaptability to all kinds of work. We 
have not space to give more of a description; 
but it will pay to send for the circular, which 
is free to all the readers of the Rural. 
Hebener & Sons, Lausdale, Montgomery 
Co., Pa. — The illustrated catalogue of tbi3 
firm shows the construction of their level- 
tread horse-power, which they claim to be ou 
an entirely new principle, combining simpli¬ 
city and durability with great ease for the 
horses. It also describes the firm’s thrashers 
and cleaners, drag and circular saws, and the 
Uuion Feed-cutter, which, in addition to cut¬ 
ting the food, runs it through a pair of cylin¬ 
ders armed with sharp knives, which reduce 
it to a uniformly fiae mass; also their eoiyi- 
shellers and grinders and field rollers. This 
circular will be sent on application, free. 
The Disposal ok Sewage in Suburban 
Residences by Edward S. Philbriek C. E.— 
Very much of the sickness among country 
people is the direct result of an improper 
system of sewage. The wastes of the premises 
are allowed to contaminate either or both the 
drinking water or the air we breathe, and 
this little book is a plain treatise ou this sub¬ 
ject, with plain directions how to remedy the 
evils, and it is full} 7 illustrated. It can be 
had for 3U cents at the office of the Sanitary 
Engineer, 140 William St,, N. Y. 
Gleason & Bailey Manufacturing Co., 
Limited, Seneca Falls, N. Y., with office at 
corner of Houstou and Mercer streets, this 
city,—Catalogues of hydraulic rams and va¬ 
rious styles of pumps and pumping machinery 
and water drawers. Those who need any of 
these goods,and especially water rams, can do 
no better tbau to send for these circulars. 
J. A. Cross, Fultonville, N. Y.—Descrip¬ 
tive circular, and price list of Cross’s improv¬ 
ed hay-carriers, buckets, pullies, etc. The 
buckets are for handling silage, aud are self- 
emptyiug. There are too many new points 
in this apparatus to permit us to describe 
each, but the circular will be freely sent, and 
this will make all plain. 
Rollo G. Crist, New Market, Indiana.— 
A list of specialties in seeds—Prolific Tree 
Bean, Golden Dawn Pepper, Perfect Gem 
Squash, White Star, Early Ohio and London 
Lady Potatoes; Sweet Potato Pumpkin, 
Wouder of France Bean, etc. Wyandotte eggs 
are also offered. 
Quarterly Report of Kansas State 
Board of Agriculture, Wm. Sims, Secre¬ 
tary, Topeka, Kansas.—It has several valu¬ 
able papers aud will be sent on application, 
as above, to all who contemplate a removal to 
the West. 
How to Succeed with Small Fruits 
and Poultry.— A little book of 100 pages, by 
Robert Coats, Norwood Park, 111.; price 35 
cents. 
C. H. Hovey & Co', 69 Tremont St., Boston 
Mass.—A catalogue of seeds, plants and bulbs 
—30 pages illustrated. 
J. C. Dillon, Bloomsburg, Pa.—A descrip¬ 
tive catalogue of roses. 
for lUomnt. 
CONDUCTED BY KISH RAY CLARK. 
KEEP AHEAD OF YOUR CHILDREN IN 
KNOWLEDGE.—THE DUTY OF 
PARENTS. 
The present means of gaining knowledge 
are so much superior to those which most of 
us enjoyed in our younger days, with the mul¬ 
titude of books and papers written expressly 
for the young by the best minds of the age; 
the schools conducted after the most advanced 
ideas of education, the methods of which have 
been elaborated iu the brains of educators of 
long experience and wisdom,are so much better 
adapted to thB mental capacity of children, 
that our sons and daughters possess au im¬ 
mense advantage over their parents so far as 
comparison of school days may be. Too many 
women when called to assume the care of a 
household lay aside all mental recreation— 
reading or study are uot to be thought of. 
Their time is so completely absorbed iu tbe 
numberless tasks that their minds are left to 
retrograde,so that the acquirements of school¬ 
days in time seem like the faces of friends loDg 
passed away. The barrenness of one’s own 
mind is not the only los3 or danger in this 
neglect of self-improvement. If we fall so far 
behind our children iu the race for knowledge, 
is there not danger of weakening their respect 
for our advice and counsel, and of thus result¬ 
ing in direct harm? Their inquisitive minds 
prompt them to be continually asking ques¬ 
tions, and if we are able to answer most of 
them, or point them to some authority where 
they can obtain the desired information, it of 
necessity increases their respect for us, while 
it has a corresponding tendency to keep down 
their self conceit. Besides, the home training 
which the children of intelligent parents re¬ 
ceive is a large, and 1 may say, the best part 
of their early education. An unabridged 
dictionary is indispensable, both for our own 
use and that of our children, and it is well to 
teach them in their reading to never pass a 
word whose meaning they do not understand. 
Then, if we are not able to define, or are not 
sure of the correct pronunciation of a word, 
require them to look it up, aud together we 
have learned a lesson. It takes but a little 
time, and the habit once established becomes 
invaluable through life. 
There is small use in reading words whose 
meaning we do not understand. The world 
is full of books, both good and bad, aud here 
we are left, as in questions of morals, to 
choose. The adult mind, if it. has been pro¬ 
perly trained, takes the wheat, leaving the 
chaff and the noxious weeds; but the inex¬ 
perienced mind of the child, if left to itself, 
devours indiscriminately everything which 
comes within its reach, good or ill. It is 
right here that the mother needs not only the 
experience which her years give, but a cor¬ 
rect mental training, to discern and eschew 
the unsafe literature, which comes not ouly in 
the sensational, yellow-covered novel, out 
often finds circulation in the weekly paper. 
There is abundance of ennobling and instruc¬ 
tive reading for the youug, in attractive and 
fascinating form, found iu such papers and 
magazines as the Youth’s Companion, St. 
Nicholas, Wide Awake, Harper’s Young Peo¬ 
ple, and many other periodicals; besides a 
vast number of good Docks; and the parent 
may better let his children go very simply 
and plaiuly dressed, than not furnish their 
minds with abundance of good reading. The 
clothing of the body is but for the present; 
that of the mind is for all time aud eternity. 
If the mother keeps in advance of her chil¬ 
dren, she becomes not only a more intelligent 
companion, but an instructor and guide. 
Their thoughts are in common, aud while the 
children advance in maturity, she in a great 
measure retains her youthful feelings and 
sympathies. Let her take a lively interest in 
the news of the day, in history, science, reli¬ 
gion, aud even in politics, for her boys will 
some day become citizens, even if their 
mother is not—according to the definition that 
Webster gives of that word. 
Those of us whose school days extended suf¬ 
ficiently into the remote past to embrace the 
Old English Reader may remember this 
among the “Select sentences, and paragraphs:” 
“Whatever purifies fortifies also the heart.” 
If one’s reading always be pure, our minds 
and hearts are as certain to grow in moral 
and intellectual strength, as is the tree when 
planted iu rich soil, aud nurtured by the sun 
aud rain, to reach toward heaven. 
Elizabeth Cady Stanton has said, “There is 
no reason why a woman from fifty to sixty- 
five or seventy should not be enjoying her 
best days.” Her children no longer require 
her constant care, and her industry combined 
with that of her husband has usually secured 
a competence; so that if her mind is weli- 
stored with useful knowledge, she is better 
qualified to do work for the great cause of 
humanity than at any other period of life. 
Statistics show that mental activity is fa¬ 
vorable to longevity. A beautiful old age 
is far more to be coveted than a beautiful 
youth; for the latter one is indebted to nature, 
but the former comes only as the reward of a 
beautiful life. 
Then, may we so improve our oppor¬ 
tunities that as time takes the bloom from 
our cheeks, and deepens the furrows ou our 
brows, the soul may shine more clearly aud 
with a radiance which is the index of a spirit 
purified aud made fit for Heaven! Mrs. tv. C. o. 
-♦ » » ■ ■ 
COMPANY VS. HOME COMFORT. 
What a bugbear “company” is to some 
households! The best of everything must be 
saved for thechance visitor. The family may 
get along in any quarters, partake of the 
plainest fare, live in the most uncomfortable 
manner imaginable; but when the company 
comes, Presto! Change! The parlor windows 
are throwu open; the sunshine streams across 
the floor; the children peep in at the open 
door, aud are so glad that “somebody has 
come.” It is so much pleasanter there than it 
is in the back part of the house, where the 
boiling, stewing and baking are forever going 
ou; and mother and the big sisters will don 
their best dresses, sit in the easy chairs and 
do fancy work, and will uot dare to scold 
before “company,” even if the little fingers 
wander to the forbidden books aud bric-a-brac 
on the center table. Why is it that so many 
of us seem to think that anything is- good 
ouough for our pyyu family, aud s]i thy 
little comforts, all the sunshine, to the visitor? 
Do we think more of a casual acquaintance, 
or even a dear friend, thau we do of our own 
flesh and blood? It looks that way very, 
very mauy times. 
To always be ready for company amounts 
almost to a mania iu oue woman I know. She 
always has cakes packed away iu tin boxes, to 
be eventually eaten by the family, if uo oue 
conies until they have become too stale to be 
eaten by auy except “our own folks.” 
Tempting pickles and delicious canned fruits 
fill the storeroom shelves; but they are saved 
aloug for company, and the surplus eaten 
wbeu canning time comes again aud they are 
not needed. 
All through the long winter mqpth3 all of 
the household sleep upstairs, remote from the 
fire or any warming apparatus whatever; and 
there is au old grandpa there, too, 75 years 
old, climbing the winding staircase with its 
elegant banisters, totteriug along to his 
frosty room in the second story. To be sure, 
there is oue cosy bedroom below. The door 
into it opens close to the sitting-room fire. 
But it must be kept in order fur the chance 
visitor, to be occupied two or three times, 
perhaps, through the Winter. Of course, it 
makes a flue appearance from the sitting 
room, if by chance the door swings open; 
the painted chamber set, the snowy spread 
aud fluted pillow shams, the toilet set on the 
bureau, and the delicate carpet, all make a 
finer show thau would a room fixed up for the 
comfort of an old mau, with its big. soft 
feather bed, its cushioned chair, and perhaps 
his pipe and tobacco in place of the toilet set. 
But I think it is a crime, and I wouldn’t want 
to be that woman when our Saviour comes to 
judge the world! 
Why not have the family rooms the very 
pleasantest in ihe house} Why take for the 
guest chamber the brightest, cheeriest room 
and perhaps have some oue of the household 
live in discomfort the year round? 1 like to 
have company and give them of the best the 
house affords; but I will uot keep a room, 
shut up to be used only a dozen or more times 
in a year, when the everyday use of that 
room is necessary for oue of my own family’s 
comfort. FANNY FLETCHER. 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
LETTERS FROM THE “HUB.” 
surprising how one can economize when'the 
necessity comes. 
Oh, I must tell you how T “sold” him on the 
first of April. I bought in the market a veg¬ 
etable called salsify, and as we had been ex¬ 
perimenting with it at the cooking school, I 
just knew how to fir it up nicBly. I kept my 
bauds under water while scraping it, so that 
it would not lose its color; then cut it into 
bits as nearly like oysters as possible, and 
boiled it. Then I had ready some milk and 
cracker crumbs, and put the salsify in; when 
it was cooked L seasoned it with pepper and 
salt and added a little butter and a soupQon 
of cream. Harold came iu just at the nick of 
time, and ate it with a relish; but as he 
pushed back his plate he said, “Those oysters 
are uot as fiue-llavored as some I have tasted.” 
Then I had to confess, and he enjoyed the 
joke, but I Imve a feeling that he knew all the 
time and said that non-committal sentence 
just to please me. That’s the worst of living 
so with oue persou who is all the world to 
5 ou; there is always a feeling of wanting to 
see into his or her heart and knowiug what 
he or she really thinks, aud I often repeat the 
lines in my own mind, 
“Not oven the tendered heart, tho’ next our own, 
Knows half t.be reason why we smile nr sigh.” 
Boston is getting lovely; the trees are tak¬ 
ing on a tender green,'spring flowers are iu 
bloom, the Common and Public Gardens are 
a blessing to us all, and I wish you could come 
and see for yourself. 
Your domestic friend, Margaret. 
SOMETHING ABOUT MANAGING 
CHILDREN. 
ZENA CLAYBOURN. 
Husband said once that I ought to write 
about taking care of children, because 1 be¬ 
lieved in making them happy. No amount of 
sweetmeats, playthings, pretty clothes or in¬ 
dulgence will make a child happy without 
that genial kindness which is to human hearts 
what sunshine is to the plant, aud when treat¬ 
ed with fairness aud consideration, children 
will have a good time in spite of hardships 
and discipline and necessary denials. One of 
husband’s maxims is not to force a child’s will 
when it is angry. He came in one day just in 
time to relieve me from an unpleasant pre¬ 
dicament. Pet, 14 months old, had removed 
au empty frying pan from the stove-hearth to 
the floor, and as the stove-hearth was forbid¬ 
den ground to liar, l bade her to pick it up 
and put it back. Bhedid uot obey at once, and 
I, as I thought iu duty bound, set out to make 
her. I coaxed and scolded and slapped her 
tiny hands till they were red, but though she 
PiscfUa»couj9! ^dmtising. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
Dear Nan:—Y ou could hardly believe, un¬ 
less you came to visit me, how quietly one 
can live in ttais city of culture, and how taken 
up one cau be with her own little domestic 
affairs. I never had the slightest idea what 
“stock” meant in housekeeping, though I 
heard enough about certain “stocks” being 
“up” or “down;” but I fiud it is just as im¬ 
portant to have good stock a3 to have any 
other department of the culinary art perfect. 
I learned at the eookiug school to have a por- 
ceJaiu-lined kettle with a tight-fitting lid, and 
to put into it, with cold water, pepper aud 
salt, all the bits that are left from our table. 
We have neither dog nor cat, so there are 
many leavings. All the gristle and pieces 
otherwise useless are simmered in this pot, 
and it can stand on the back of the stove aud 
be skimmed as one has leisure. Then it is 
strained through a gauze-wire strainer aud 
set away to cool. I said cold water, because 
if hot, it seals up the juices, while cold water 
draws them out. When it is perfectly cool, 
you would be surprised at the cake of nice 
dripping that is on the top. It Is a nicer fat 
than lard for many purposes, and the clear 
jelly below is the “stock.” A little of it is so 
useful in mauy things. The other day l did 
uot know what to get for dinner, and did not 
care to go to the market, so I took Borne 
“stock” and put it on the fire with as much 
water us I thought would do for two after it 
was boiled down. I only had one small onion 
in the house; it was enough when cut up tine* 
and there was a sliee of toast left from break¬ 
fast. This 1 crumbled iu and added some of 
tbe outside stalks of celery cut into bits, that 
we had discarded the day before. 1 don’t 
know anything that gives things such a flavor 
as celery—it is wonderful how it will give one 
an appetite in any form. My soup was a suc¬ 
cess, though Harold wondered how l made it, 
fpr Ue knew wo had uo meat iu it. it is often * 
The clearness and 
brilliancy of hand¬ 
some cut glass is al¬ 
ways impaired if 
washed with soap con¬ 
taining resin, which 
invariably leaves a 
thin semi-transparent 
coating in the grooves 
or furrows, giving the 
article the appearance 
of cheap moulded 
glassware. Ivory Soap 
contains no resin, is 
easily rinsed off, and 
if used with hot wa¬ 
ter and a soft brush, 
will give your cut 
<dass the clearness 
o 
and brilliancy which 
produce the beautiful 
prismatic effects. 
Free of charge- A full size cake of Ivory Soap will tie 
sent to uny one who can not got It of tliolr grocer, if 
si* two cout slumps, to pay postage, ureaeni to I'roelm 
<k UattUUs*. CUrIuuoU- l lutwe iweowuu this paper. 
