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XUrnnan’s Work. 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY LOUISE TAPLIN. 
MOTHER KNOWS. 
Nobody knows of the work It makes 
To keep the home together: 
Nobody knows of the steps It takes, 
Nobody knows—but mother. 
Nobody listens to childish woes 
Which kisses only smother; 
Nobody's pained by naughty blows 
Nobody—only mother. 
Nobody knows of the sleepless care 
Bestowed upon baby brother; 
Nobody knows of the tender prayer 
Nobody—only mother. 
Nobody knows of the lessons taught 
Of loving oue another; 
Nobody knows of the patience sought 
Nobody—only mother. 
—Otago Witness. 
SUMMER SPORTS. 
Summer sport sounds an impossibility to the 
busy farmer’s wife. She has fruit to can and 
berries to pick; increased pasturage adds to 
her work with milk and butter, aud summer 
fabrics add to the work of washing and iron¬ 
ing. Winter seems bard enough, but the bright 
sunshine aud excessive heat, seem so utterly at 
variance with the depressing rout ine of house¬ 
hold labor. The men folks have plenty of 
bard labor now. But they usually have au 
hour or two to lay off at noon, while the busy 
housewife must beep on in her round of per¬ 
petual motion. A life absolutely without 
labor or some living interest must certainly 
be a weariness of the flesh. But we do want 
to take a little comfort as we go along, and 
summer is certainly the time to do it. Bo if 
there is the slightest possibility of lessening 
our work in any way, it is a positive duty to 
do it, 
Country people very ofteu ignore the neces¬ 
sity of fresh air, especially as far as outdoor 
exercise is concerned. Perhaps want of time 
is at first responsible; there is always so much 
to do, in the perpetual crusade against dirt 
and disorder. 
Really and truly, our own experience shows 
that country girls, who should be so much 
more rugged and hardy, take less actual 
exercise than the grrls in towns and villages. 
The benefit obtained by a good, brisk walk is 
unknown to many; in fact, walking for walk¬ 
ing’s sake is never indulged in. Yet this is the 
cheapest of luxuries—the most healthful aud 
satisfying of gymnastics. 
And a country walk means so much, to one 
with open eyes and inquiring mind. 
Or there is the delight of a day’s gossiping 
—not an elaborate picnic, w here one must wear 
Sunday frock and manners to correspond, but 
a jolly day in the woods, with nothing to do 
but loiter at one’s ease and eat an al fresco 
lunch—or several of them, for woodland air 
is a great provoker of the appetite. 
Other out-door amusements in country com¬ 
munities seem rather limited. There is the some¬ 
what nntiquated croquet; excellent, though 
somewhat languid exercise. Only, unfortu¬ 
nately, people have seen fit to cumber the 
game with some few rules that make it a 
weariness of the flesh. Tennis is more violent 
exercise; too violent for warm weather. Then 
a tennis court is often unattainable, unless 
there is a spacious lawn. Ami the parapher¬ 
nalia of the game is rather expensive. Still, 
if there is any remote possibility of the game, 
it is well for any girl to acquire a racket and 
ball, with instructions; she can perfect her¬ 
self iu serving balls and handling the racket 
properly, so that when opportunity offers she 
will be no novice at the game. 
Summer is certainly the time for outdoor 
sports, and even the scantiest leisure should 
be spent in acquiring health and strength in 
the life-giving sunlight. 
SELF-RELIANT WOMEN. 
MARY D. THOMAS. 
The time is fast approaching when Ameri¬ 
can women will be allowed more privileges of 
independent rights; they are allowed to pro¬ 
gress like the present nation. They no more 
sit in seclusion as in the dark ages of the past, 
but rise to give light, from thou* own sphere 
to aid in a good cause. It, is a good cause to 
go out in this world aud labor for its advance¬ 
ments ami all that will be for the protection 
of our homes. Our homes certainly will be 
protected from indolence and all vanity and 
false pride if our daughters will see the bene¬ 
fits of self reliance. “In all the pursuits of 
life we find that those who achieve honor and 
distinction are strong and self-reliant in their 
own powers, exercise faith in their own abil¬ 
ity, and carry out plans conceived in their 
own brains, Morse had faith in telegraphic 
wires and Field in sub-marine cables, aud to¬ 
day, in consequence thereof, the lightning is 
harnessed to convey the news of the world to 
THE B IDEAL MEW-YORKEB. 
every part of the habitable globe within the 
compass of a few hours.” 
Not only do we find men who achieve 
honors, but women who are now gaining a 
world-wide reputation by their own united 
efforts. They are not thus eugaged merely 
as a passing pleasure, but in work they have 
prepared themselves for, that gives in return 
its just rewards. 
A jierson’s successes aud failures in life de¬ 
pend upon the faculty of executing whatever 
is undertaken accordingly as lie has been 
trained; if any task has been undertaken, no 
matter how trivial a thing it may be, and al¬ 
ways euds in a decided failure, their whole 
life will be apt to terminate in a failure also, 
unless measures are adopted to overcome that 
failing. And for this reason (if no other) I would 
urge that every daughter in the land should 
be so educated in some particular branch of 
industry that if thrown upon her own resources 
she would have some vocation on which to 
rely, to attain a useful and noble life. In a 
portion of the public, schools of 35 American 
States, industrial training is included iu the 
course of instruction. And to those who have 
not the privilege of such schools can secure 
other places to a id in this oue important direc¬ 
tion; generally a “will” aud mind that tries 
to accomplish any deed, brings success. There 
are some people who seem to let their educa¬ 
tion lie dormant, for they do not know how 
to put it iuto working order, simply because 
they were not disciplined in anything save 
mental culture. “For exclusively mental 
training, which is only theoretical, is incom¬ 
plete and one-sided until that which is practi¬ 
cal is added.” 
If every one was educated for some particu¬ 
lar vocation, as she should be, there would be 
more self-reliant girls aud women. 
’Tis said that by cultivating laziness in a 
child you cultivate poverty, poor health, un¬ 
happiness and crime, and to avoid this, some 
occupation should be given, whatever the in¬ 
dividual’s abilities are most adapted to. For 
surely there may be a time in one’s life when 
a knowledge of some particular branch of in¬ 
dustry would be a great help, although it may 
seem quite the contrary when a family has all 
that heart could wish for. But we are aware 
that the wealthy class of people ofteu meet 
with reverses that change the whole course of 
their lives. What pursuits cau one follow in 
order to become self-reliant? Almost any¬ 
thing that is good and honorable, if well done, 
will more than compensate for the time given; 
and as honor lies in doing all things well, one 
will be honored in so doing. As I understand, 
there are continually now fields developing 
themselves, in which women staud on an 
equal footiug with the “sterner sex,” iu which 
they can find remunerative industries open to 
them. It is needless to enumerate all the dif¬ 
ferent work women are capable of perform¬ 
ing, but those of a more recent date are tele¬ 
graphy, stenography, medicine and law. 
Though these are few, with theminour minds 
we can see that there are higher callings for 
those who aspire to climb the hills of knowl¬ 
edge with ii true and noble purpose in view. 
As this nation grows older it certainly grows 
stronger, on the same principle that a child 
does; it began iu infancy, and as age contin¬ 
ues, developesuew ideas, new occupations and 
new resources. No more do we hear of the 
manufacture of linen and woolen goods for 
family use,as a domestic employment; for the 
advnueed race has brought about scores of in¬ 
ventions and modified the work of years ago 
to a higher degree, so that it has takun from 
our homes much that, we would in this age 
deem a drudgery. As wealth has organized a 
scheme for doing this work it has taken off a 
great deal of hard work from the household 
and left opportunities to do that which is 
more profitable to the mind and body. 
Then why not learn to do something that 
will enable you to support yourself if neces¬ 
sary? One of the best lessous to learn in early 
life is to rely on one’s self; this will be a staff 
on which to lean in declining years, should 
friends aud fortune fail; for there certainly is 
in this prosperous world something to do 
adapted to all classes of people, whether old 
or young, man or woman, as a means of gain¬ 
ing an honorable livelihood. 
THE MUSI NOB OF A JOURNEY. 
“Come to the woodlands, thou bright, bird of song. 
In far sunny regions thou nast lingered too long! 
The glad sun Is warming the earth with his rays. 
Nature calls thee to warble her blithe hymns of 
praise. 
• Then conic to the woodlands, thou bright bird of 
song, 
In far sunny regions thou hast lingered too long!" 
I was reminded of the above beautiful lines 
when on the road to take the train to New 
York recently. It was a clear, warm, beauti¬ 
ful spring morning—one of those exceptional 
mornings which may be compared, particu¬ 
larly this spring, to an oasis in the vast desert 
of damp, rainy, or blustering and melancholy 
mornings, so common during the months of 
March and April, Or like the mirage in the 
wilderness, luring the weary traveler on un¬ 
til weary and exhausted he sinks down, his 
disappointment the more complete, lieeatise of 
the enchanting views just apparently beyond 
his reach; so this was one of those days which 
lead us to suppose that spring is at baud rais¬ 
ing our ideas only to be ruthlessly dispelled by 
a fierce, blustering storm or rainy, cold, dis¬ 
agreeable weather. 
Arriving at the depot, 1 purchased the nec¬ 
essary ticket which places me on a level with 
the rest of traveling mankind and affords me 
an excellent opportunity for what is to me an 
exceedingly pleasant pastime—the study of 
human nature and outward signs of the 
thoughts within. 
Not far from a vhere I am seated is a finely 
formed and handsome gentleman, but whose 
listless, slow and languid movements indicate 
a victim of that terrible disease consumption. 
The shadow of death is over him. I sympa¬ 
thize with him; almost involuntarily I would 
offer him a part of my sound, robust health; 
my heart goes out to him. He, like most of 
those who are consumptively inclined, seems 
so patient, so resigned to what he knows is 
not among the remote certainties. 
Then my vagrant imaginings begin to 
romp. I see him as be exchanges his car for 
his sick room, and not long after bis bed. His 
eye grows more glassy, the neck looks whiter, 
more transparent; the lips, where some long 
gone mother, mayhap some wife, has fondlv 
hung iu the salute of which love never tires 
are almost colorless, and look blue aud 
swollen. I try to conjure him before my 
meDtal vision as the unconscious despot of 
the sick room. There he is learning his last 
world lesson in patience, waiting until con¬ 
sumption shall surely claim him and death set 
au unearthly beauty upon bis face. Death! 
and then? I am reminded of the graphic close 
of a fine sermon: “After death, the judgment.” 
We die, but intervening ages pass rapidly 
over those who sleep in the dust. There is no 
plate thereon which to countthehours of time. 
No longer is it told by days,or months,or years, 
for the planets which mark these periods are 
hidden from their sight. Its flight is no long¬ 
er noticed by the events perceived by the 
senses,for the ear is deaf, and the eye is closed. 
The busy world of lire, which wakes at each 
morning and ceases every night goes on above 
them, but to them all is silent and unseen. 
The greetings of joy and the voice of grief, 
the revolution of empires and the lapse of 
ages, send no sound witniu that narrow cell. 
Generation after generation is brought and 
laid by their side; the inscription upon their 
monumental marble tolls the centuries that 
have passed away; but to the sleepiug dead 
the long interval is unobserved. Like the 
dream of a night, with the quickness of 
thought, the mind ranges time and space 
almost without a limit. There is but. a mo¬ 
ment between the hour when the eye is 
closed in the grave and when it wakes to 
the judgment. 
But there sits a happy little fellow; a book 
or two strapped together, a little dinner-bask¬ 
et out of which a doughnut inquiringly peeps, 
proclaims him to lie a schoolboy. Earth now is 
raiubowed for him; long life, health, wealth, 
success, may bo bis. Borne mother's hopes, 
some father’s pride am encircled by that 
little overcoat. Borne heart flutters when those 
little boots which hang half-way between the 
car seat and floor, beat a rapid tattoo along 
the hallway. Ah! life would not be worth 
living, were it not made up of such little creat¬ 
ures, little paradises of the mind. 
Ah! the cheery voice of the conductor calls 
out as he opens the door, “Tickets, please!” 
His tone and actions proclaim lnui to be a man 
who makes himself a servaut of the public. 
I like such uieu. There are so tunny who, us 
conductors, seem to think they arc dressed in a 
little brief authority, acting as though the pub¬ 
lic were under obligation to them, instead of 
their being us they should be, the servants of 
the public. I am sorry to say there are many 
such persons. N. D. P. 
GOLDEN GRAINS. 
Wealth well won is entitled to social hon¬ 
or, but wealth ill won deserves social damna¬ 
tion. Here is a dollar. It is clean and bright 
—honor bright. There is a dollar that is 
smutted with the smoke of dark schemes uud 
stained with the blood of widows and orphans. 
To make no distinction between them is to 
confuse conscience aud debauch society. 
Tub child that is lugged through life on the 
back of his parent is no better than an Indian 
papoose. He is nothing but an everlasting 
baby.. 
The man who is full of knowledge, but who 
is lacking in love, is less likely to be of real 
service to his fellows than the man who is full 
of love, but who is lucking iu knowledge. 
That a good name is compared for value 
with riches, since it is very largely the cause 
JUNE14 
of riches, will not surprise any one. It is bet¬ 
ter than riches not only because of the pleas¬ 
ure which it brings, but because in any oi'din- 
ary career, it has the pleasure, and the honor, 
and the riches too. A good name is the best 
capital that a man can have. Silver and gold 
may make themselves wings and fly away; 
properties the most substantial, may be alien¬ 
ated in one way or another; but a good name 
abides aud is unto a man the source of more 
joy than any gold or silver can be. No won¬ 
der then, need be felt at this phrase. 
Notiunu is sacred because it has “come 
down.” It musthave an intrinsic sacredness 
in it which it brings down with itself. 
“No farmer owns any deeper than he can 
plow." . 
The best talkers are those who know how to 
be silent... 
Sympathy with others is not learned with¬ 
out personal suffering. The power to com¬ 
fort grows out of our own ntHlotions. Depend 
upon it, those useful workers whom you so 
much envy have their private griefs, which 
minister to their usefulness or keep them hum¬ 
ble under their success. 
Sects areeaudlesticks.nud a man or woman 
that is big enough to be good for anything, is 
too large for any sect. 
Every cold wind as well as ever}’- sunbeam 
helps to put oil into the olives, and grace into 
believers. Skillful mariners sail by all winds, 
and we ought to make progress through all 
circumstances... 
The mother’s heart is the child’s school¬ 
room . 
There is triumph where there is suffering 
that has self-denial in it, aud where that self- 
denial means the emancipation of nobler ele¬ 
ments from the bondage of lower ones. 
Bust lives like busy waters are generally 
pure; stagnant lives like stagnant pools breed 
corruption.,.... 
We understand Death for the first time when 
he puts his hand upon one we love. 
The talent of success is nothing more than 
doing what you can do well without a thought 
of fame. 
The revival that is most urgently needed is 
a revival of practical goodness. Sunday 
preaching is not enough; we want more ser¬ 
mons all through the week. 
Domestic <£jccwcnmj 
CONDUCTED BY MRS. AGNES E. M. CARMAN. 
Is there a scold iu the family ? Then the 
gentler graces will wither like tender plants 
in a frosty air. and every member of the 
household will feel the irritation as surely as 
the eyes will smart with pain In a smoke-laden 
atmosphere. Are you the scold ? Then take 
no rest until the fault is conquered. 
RANDOM PAGES FROM A HOUSE¬ 
KEEPER’S DIARY. 
PAGE VII. 
In my younger and more romantic days I 
planned to make an “artistic rag-carpet,” if 
rag-carpet can ever lie said to be artistic. It 
was to I hi of the “hit and-mfss” variety, and 
yet altogether different from the hideous crea¬ 
tions of that name that I bud generally seen. 
Indeed, 1 haven’t seen it yet, for. alas! the res¬ 
olution to make it evaporated before I had 
sewed rags enough lo make a yard of carpet. 
Other and more persevering hands than mine 
finished it. but not on my plan, and I am still 
convinced that if that plan could have been 
carried out, a lovely carpet would be the re¬ 
sult. 1 wasn’t particular to have bright col- 
ora in it, but 1 was determined to have every 
bit of it carefully shaded even if there 
were only blacks, browns and grays in tho 
whole thing. Five nr six strips of u dark color 
were to be followed by several a trifle lighter 
iu shade, then by those lighter still, aud so on, 
shading back to dark. Of course, there was 
to be no regularly recurring stripe, aud the 
width of the stripes could tie varied as desired. 
1 think a carpet made with this careful blend¬ 
ing of colors would produce a soft, subdued 
effect that would be pleasing and could be se¬ 
cured in no other way. If sober hues predomi¬ 
nated, a bright border to relieve the somber 
effect might lie used if desires!. 
Borne people seem to have a craze for braid¬ 
ing rag-rugs, aud their houses from garret to 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla, 
When she had Children, she gave them Castorla. 
