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can claim more than one generation of ances¬ 
tors. 
It is, however, a matter worth the consider¬ 
ation of women, that it is their manners, and 
not their dress or money,that can give them a 
rigid, to be considered “ludios.” lu all of the 
large cities that I have known it is no uncom¬ 
mon thing to meet several women walking 
abreast who never stop to consider the limit¬ 
ed passage, but appropriate the whole walk as 
coolly as they would a sent, in a car. On a 
muddy crossing they will take the dryost side 
irrespective of the right of way, leaving the 
unfortunate pedestrian whom they may moot 
to step out into the mud, when, according to 
the “law of the road,” he is entitled to the 
other side. That this is not so generally true 
of men, is in a great measure owing to tin fact 
that they know that one of their own sex will 
elbow them into the mud withouttho slightest 
ceremony if they neglect to keep to the right. 
There are too many women who will accept 
a seat in u ear. particularly if it bo offered by 
a workingman, ora lad, without the slightest, 
acknowledgment of n courtesy, while there 
are others, true women and ladies, who will 
refuse, with graceful thanks, n seat that will 
compel a tired workingman to stand, and lie 
it said to the honor of the few, 1 have seen 
richly dressed women give their seats to a 
poor woman burdened with bundles or a 
baby. 
You can tell a lady at once by her manner 
of addressing her inferiors. She will speak to 
a servant so kindly and at the same time so 
firmly that while obedieuce might he a pleas¬ 
ure, it would also be recognized as a neces¬ 
sity. 
A gentleman who has truvcled extensively 
and observantly in Europe, says that the 
men of America are largely to blame for this 
disposition on the part of the fair sex to take 
this surrender of everything to them as a 
matter of course,for they have so long treated 
them with courtesy that many have been edu¬ 
cated into regarding as a right what is 
merely a matter of gallantry. 
It is true that iu Paris or Vienna, for in¬ 
stance, if a street car be crowded with males 
and a lady should enter, not one of them, un¬ 
less ho happened to be an American, would 
offer a seat, and the lady herself would not 
expect it. Indeed if the American should so 
far presume, the lady would consider it an im 
pertinence, and he would be stared at as if he 
were an escaped lunatic. 
It is to be hoped that American ladies will 
remember that they are ladies and not forget 
to return kindly thanks for kindly attentions. 
MARRIAGE VS. SINGLE BLESSEDNESS. 
SELMA CLARE. 
“Marriage is like a besieged fortress; those 
who are out wish to enter, and those who are 
within wish to get out,,”—Arab proverb. 
There is a work entitled “flow to be Happy, 
Though Married,” but I never remember to 
have seen any rules for leading a happy single 
life. This is, possibly, because writers, who are 
fond of giving advice, consider that the hap¬ 
piness of a single life is too self-evident and 
cert ain to need any directions for finding what 
is sure to come. There are many men, and es¬ 
pecially many women, who, for reasons of one 
kind and another, cannot, marry or at least do 
not marry. If anysneh feel tempted to mourn 
their lonely life, they need only look among 
their Married friends, to find those whose lot 
is worse than their own. Better a thousand 
times a life of single blessedness than a love" 
less marriage. Unmarried people may recall, 
and imitate with advantage to themselves, 
the contented frame of mind of the old Scotch 
lady who said, “I wadna glo my single life, 
for a’ the double aues I ever saw.” 
In all ages there have been found philoso¬ 
phers to advocate the advantages of a single 
life, including the Apostle Paul, whoalthougb 
he permitted others to marry, found it expe¬ 
dient for himself to remain single. 
In Emerson’s “Representative Men” he says 
“Is not marriage an open question, when it is 
alleged from the beginning of the world that 
those who are in the institution wish to get 
out, and those who are out wish to get inf” 
The rude and silly ridicule that is often be¬ 
stowed upon elderly women who have chosen 
to remain unmarried, caunot bo too strongly 
protested against. Few of these foolish and 
cowardly detractors perhaps could give as 
good reasons for having married, us those 
whom they deride may be able to give for 
having remained single. Who of us, romem- 
^bcfUaiteouje 
When Ilaby was sick, we kuvo her Castorla 
When she was a Child, she cried for Custorlu, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla, 
Wic-n i he hud chlldruu, she gave ihein ( outerla 
bering the lock of hnir and miniature that 
was found under the dying pillow of Washing¬ 
ton Irving, does not honor him for his con¬ 
stancy. 
In view of the many unhappy marriages it 
is not so much a matter of wonderment that 
there are so many unmarried people, and that 
there are so many married ones. At leust, 
girls, don't lot your fear of being old maids 
lead you to take this serious step without due 
consideration, and don’t put a halter around 
your necks by marrying for money. A wise 
old writer of the 17th century says, “They 
that marry ancient people iu expectation of 
burying them, hang themselves in hopes that 
one will come and cut the halter.” 
WISE CHARITY. 
At a meeting of the Syracuse Farmers’ 
Club, Dr, Fisk made an address in which he 
said that whenever any great movement for 
the elevation of the moral standard iu cities is 
begun there conies evidence of the compara¬ 
tive freedom of country life from demoraliza¬ 
tion, and from the temptations which contin- 
al risk and continual competition surround ns 
with iu cities. But us to dignity and attract¬ 
iveness, the advance of privileges and intelli¬ 
gence among the rural population is doing 
much to reduce the differences between the 
city and the country bred. 
Dr. Fisk gu .e an account of a Bureau of 
Labor and Charities established in Syracuse, 
Its first object is to search out every case of 
suffering from want, and second to take 
measures for relief. This relief is giv- 
ou by finding employment or making 
temporary loans, or otherwise stimu¬ 
lating self-exerlimi whenever exertion can lie 
made; street begging is repressed and impos¬ 
tors are exposed and ptiuished. Efforts are 
made to systematize all the charities of the 
city, so that they may not overlap in some 
cases and lt'ave oilier* unaided; t he investi¬ 
gating agencies of the Bureau are placed gra¬ 
tuitously at the service of all who seek to give 
effectual help to the poor, and especially to 
the superintendents, overseers and heulth offi¬ 
cers—sanitary and social reform being includ¬ 
ed objects of effort. There is a chairman and 
corps of visitors In each ward, and the main 
reliance is on their efficiency. They endeavor 
to have so many visitors that no one of them 
need have the oversight of more than three 
families during the year. These visitors are 
mostly ladies, whose gentle, ways and kindly 
hearts prevent any offense being taken when 
they express sympathy, offer aid or tender 
advice, or make notes for the books in the 
office of the Bureau. 
There wore 821 applicants for work lust 
year, and of this number fifiO were found em 
ployment. Only 18 of these were farm hands; 
ami few of the unemployed were willing to go to 
farms; but many orphan children were found 
homes in the country. The saving to the tax¬ 
payers of the city in the reduction and preven¬ 
tion of vagrancy, idleness, truancy and the 
crimes and cost to which they lead is becom¬ 
ing very manifest, ns well as the increase in 
general homo comfort and happiness. Sys 
tern is evidently us useful in charity, as iu 
other lines of useful effort. 
GOLDEN GRAINS. 
MBS’* words with rmpty chnff tiro stored; 
God's scriptures golden urnlii* afford: 
Reject the chaff and spend thy pains 
Iu sat boring up those golden grains. 
— Written in an old Hihlr about 17911. 
A kink lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with 
small airs and small notions, about as applic¬ 
able to the business of life us a pair of tweez¬ 
ers to the forest. 
We need to be always watchful. When 
alone, we have our thoughts to watch; iu our 
families, our tempers; in society, our tongues. 
The pious man and the atheist alike talk of 
religion. The one speaks of what he loves, the 
Other of what, he fears.. 
He that has something tc do has less tempt- 
tation to doubt than the man who has nothing 
to do but to doubt. 
Domestic Cjcemonuj 
CONDUCTED tlY MRS. AGNES K. M. CARMAN. 
THE CUISINE OF A CALIFORNIA 
RANCH.—NO. II. 
It must not be supposed that the piece of. 
baked pork described in my last letter wus 
consumed in one meal by our family of three, 
even with the help of the one hired man who 
was “found” on the ranch. A day or two af¬ 
terwards an odd-looking dish,apparently com¬ 
posed of some kind of oblong and round frit¬ 
ters arranged alternately, made its appear¬ 
ance on the lunch table. The oblong fritters 
proved to be thin slices of our old friend the 
baked pork, which had been dipped in a battel’ 
and fried a golden brown. The round ones 
were apples that had been pared, cored, cut 
in slices a quarter of an inch thick, dipped in 
the same batter and fried in the same manner. 
The batter was inude from three beaten eggs, 
one gill of milk, a little salt, and four ounces 
of sifted (lour. With this we had a dish of to¬ 
mato toast. Half a can of tomatoes were 
stowed with salt, pepper and half a teaspoon 
l'ul of sugar for half an hour, pressed through 
a sieve, returned to t he fire with a spoonful of 
butter, thickened with a heaping teaspoonful 
of flour wot with cold water, and poured over 
thin slices of utcely browned and buttered 
toast. Cake, stewed fruit and chocolate com¬ 
pleted our tasteful lunch. 
Another dinner began with a bean soup. 
Nothing very new about a bean soup I grant 
you, but this w as a baked beau soup, if you 
pleaso. A pound of beuns wero boiled aud 
baked in the regulation manner, half a 
pound of pork that had been parboiled, was 
added during the latter process, care being 
taken to bake them brown. The pork was t hen 
cut into bits, and put over the fire with the 
beans, three quarts of cold water, a cupful of 
chopped celery, a sliced onion, uud boiled for 
an hour and u half until the broth was reduced 
to two quarts. It. was then mashed through a 
colander, seasoned nicely, usiug cayenne pep¬ 
per, returned to the tire, aud a tcospoonful ol 
Hour into which a lablespoouful ol' butter had 
been rubbed was stirred in, simmered for ten 
minutes and served. Nearly a quart of this 
soup was left., arid the next day half a can of 
tomatoes were stewed as above and added to 
it, and dice of fried bread put in the tureen 
before the soup wus poured over. 
Ilome-made sausages we had of most delic¬ 
ious make, and the second course of this din¬ 
ner was baked sausages. Lay them iu a bak¬ 
ing pan side by side and bake in a very hot 
oven for fifteen minutes, if they are thick 
ones, basting them with their own gravy. 
Serve with apple sauce. The dish of potatoes 
that came with this I am sure were cooked iu 
a way that w ill be new to some of our readers. 
Slice very t.hiu enough raw potatoes to three- 
quarters fill a quart pudding dish, dropping 
them in cold water. Drain and put iu the 
dish witli salt, pepper uud minced uursloy aud 
bits of butter between each layer. Cover with 
cold milk. Mix tw o cups of cracker or bread 
crumbs, with cream and one well-beaten egg, 
until soft enough to spread nicely over 
the top of the potatoes. Cover with 
an inverted pun and bake an hour; remove the 
pan and bake fifteen minutes longer. 
The dessert wus only a pretty “trifle” (this 
was a Sunday dinner; we did not have such 
fancy desserts oil other days). One-half Clip ol' 
gelatine was soaked for one hour in cold water 
with a dozen halves from a can of peaches and 
a cup of sugar; one cup of boiling water wus 
then poured on, and the peaches mashed 
and strained through a piece of rnuslin. If 
the gelatine does not all dissolve, stir over 
ttie fire before straining unliL it does. 
When cold and beginning to congeal 
slightly, have ready half a cup of rich cream 
with the least pinch of soda m it,that has been 
whipped light in a syllabub churn, and berft 
this iu quickly, a spoonful at a tune. Turn iu 
a mould wet with cold water, uud set in a cold 
place to harden, which it will do without ice. 
For a breaktust wo bail at one time bread 
fritters and broiled sausages. This unusual 
way of cooking sausages deserves to be better 
known, as they are much more easily digested, 
being quite free from tut. Split them m two 
lengthwise,and broil on a double-wire broiler, 
the split side down. A few drops of orange 
juice were squeezed over each. For the bread 
fritters two cups of bread crumbs w ere soaked 
over-night in u pint of new milk, and in the 
morniug two beaten eggs, salt aud pepper, 
and just as much flour as would make this 
batter drop from a spoon, were added. Drop 
by the spoonful in a pan couluiniug a little 
very hot dripping and fry brown. 
1 will detail one other breakfast, and the 
antiquated hen will have to wait until another 
chapter. 
Cut some very thiu rashers of salt, not 
smoked, bacon, and fry on a very hot pan, 
they will color yellow uud curl up. If there 
is not enough fat iu the pan to try eggs, add 
some ol' the fat that has been tried out of salt 
pork, and fry half a dozen o,:gs on one side 
only, leaving them soft. Lift carefully 
with a skimmer to a hot dish which already 
contains the rashors of bacon,and a little round 
of toast for each egg; pour a small half cup of 
vinegar into the fat in the pan, boil up, Season 
with pepper, and pour over the eggs and 
toast. Serve with baked potatoes, and finish 
with buckwheat cakes. palmetto. 
ONE WINTER. 
ANNE THRIKTY.—NO. XI. 
One afternoon the postman brought a letter 
for Uncle John from his brother-in-law at 
Roekmade Farm. After the children were 
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fast asleep, he gave it to mo to read. The 
letter contained a proposition that uncle 
should take charge of t he farm for the coming 
season. The offer was straightforward and 
made in detail, so we wore able to discuss the 
question very fully. “I’ve been worried and 
bothered enough,” unelo “said, to see things 
wearing out. in the house with no prospect of 
replacing them. . And I’m afraid to stay here 
another summer, the drainage is so bad. It 
will be better for the boys to be in the country. 
They have so far been kept off the streets, but, 
this yard will seem small to them this summer.” 
“But what will you do with the boys?” for 
it was already settled that I would return 
home if the change was made. 
“I can only think of one plan, that is to ask 
my sister Ella to take them to board.” She 
lived alone on the old homestead, not fur from 
Rockiuade, and it seemed probable she would 
lie glad to have the twins, to brighten the old 
house, and chaso the loneliness from its empty 
rooms. 
At last uncle decided to make a trip to the 
farm and see ills sister and brother-in-law. 
Ho would visit at my futher’s too, and tell 
them how soon they might expect me at, home 
again. He was gone one night. Mrs, Turner 
staid with us to protect uk from fear, but she 
was awake and away to her own home at five 
o’clock in the morning, in spito of my urgent 
invitation that she should stay for breakfast. 
We looked eagerly for Uncle John’s return 
and overwhelmed him with questions when 
ho came. He brought a large package with 
him, its contents sent by the different rela¬ 
tives. There was one of my mother’s dried- 
apple fruit cakes, a glass of Aunt Edith’s 
crab-apple jelly, and two quarts of canned 
peaches, from Roekmade Farm, the rest of 
the package held russet apples. All the plans 
for the change had been completed by uncle, 
and in two weeks we would start, away from 
the city. 
The Monday before we were to go the work 
of packing began. As uncle uailed up the 
first box, he asked, doubtfully, “Could you 
get iqi a dinner or supper for a few of our 
friends before wo got” “Why unde!" I said 
aghast, “everything must be packed up right 
away; how can I stop to get up a dinner for 
company ?” 
“We won’t stop packing, but get everything 
ready and give a “mover’s spread” in the 
empty house. Could you uninage that?" “Oh, 
yes, that would be fun,” I said, taken with the 
oddity of the thing. 
Ho invitations were sent to our minister’s 
family numbering four, there being two boys 
near the age of the twins, and to Mrs. Leader 
and her daughter Nannie, neighbors who had 
shown us much kindness. 
The invitations wero for ton and the supper 
would be a cold one. Our hens that had 
given us eggs so faithfully were to be sacri¬ 
ficed for their meat and the canned fruit, 
jelly aud cake, our donat ions from the country, 
1 had saved until our last week iu the city, 
thinking 1 would have little time to cook 
during the work of packing, and they too 
should bo used for the spread. 
When the liens were ready for cooking,I de¬ 
cided to steam them until tender, before put¬ 
ting thorn into the oven to roast. Rut the big 
pot was too small for them and steaming one 
at a time seemed the only way out of the trou¬ 
ble. But a large stone crock formed,upturned, 
a second story to the pot., solved my difficulty 
and shut, in the steam effectually. 
Packing, cleaning and cooking went on to¬ 
gether and i lie afternoon of the day before we 
expected our friends everything was packed 
that we could spare. The next morning while 
1 cleaned and scrubbed in the kitchen, uncle, 
with his coat off aud his sleeves rolled up, was 
mopping the bare floor of the sitting-room. 
We then arranged tho smaller boxes of the 
packed goods along tho side of tho room 
where they would answer for seats. Tho 
chairs we had not packed, but otherwise the 
house was almost emptied. Tho boys had been 
bubbling over with excitement ever since tho 
packing liegan, and now the expected visit, 
from Joe and Ralph Ra 3 T , the minister’s sons, 
was all that, was needed to make them unman¬ 
ageable. But an errand to the Works gave 
them an outlet for their vitality and left mo 
the opportunity l wanted to set t hotublo for 
tea, without their help. The chickens were 
very juicy and tender and madea nice platter 
of meat. The ji-lly turned out of the glass in 
perfect shape, and those two things proving 
good, my anxieties were over until time to 
make the tea. Our friends all came together 
aud brought with them a cordially social at¬ 
mosphere that filled the house at once and 
mtwlc their visit one to bo loug remembered. 
The four boys found the house too small for 
tho noise pent up in their active bodies, and 
escaped into the yard as soon as they could, 
where they climbed tho lone tree, in the corner 
of tho lot, perched upon the shed, and finally 
formed a procession, each boy beating au old 
