JULY 2 
THE BUBAL NEW-YORKER. 
for t\jt Bonng. 
We have been having some “roasting” 
weather of late, I can tell you In the cities 
the heat is intense. The sun beats down on 
the stones nud bricks uutil the whole city is 
like an oven. This is the season of the year 
when the people who run stands at the street 
corners make money. There are many bar¬ 
rels of lemouade made and sold every day. 
The price per glass ranges all the way from 
one ceut up to five. One cent lemouade is 
pretty poor stuff, yet I notice it is quite a 
favorite drink with the newsboys. There 
seems to be very little lemon in it. For five 
cen ts you can get the juice from a whole lemon 
with two tablespoonfuls of sugar in a glass of 
ice water. _ 
I have been in the lemonade business myself 
and know bow it is made. When I was a boy 
I used to keep n lemonade stand on eircusday. 
I could generally make euough to buy a ticket 
for the circus, I always tried to sell good 
lemonade. One day I made the lemonade in 
a tub and put a big piece of ice in the middle 
of it, I left a small boy in charge while I 
went around to look at the crowd. That boy 
forgot to add lemons and sugar to the water. 
The ice melted fast and that lemonade became 
about as weak as the oue-cent stuff they sell 
on the streets. I lost almost all of my custom¬ 
ers before I got back. It pays to give a 
good article, you see, if we expect to do any 
business. 
A great deal of so-called ice cream is sold 
on the streets every day. A man gets a big 
freezer, fitted on wheels, which he can push 
or haul about, aud he is all ready for trade, i 
have never tasted this ice cream, and don’t 
care to, but the newsboys seem to think it is 
fine. For two cents you can get a large spoon¬ 
ful. You never get a plate, or a spoon for this 
price. The man wipes the cream off on a piece 
of brown paper, and you are expected to eat it 
from that as best you can. When you have 
eaten the cream you can use what is left of 
the paper for a napkin. This is getting back 
to the old style in vogue before plates were 
invented. Then people used a cake or a piece 
of bread for a plate. You could cat your 
dinner and then proceed to eat the plate. This 
saveil lots of dish-washing. 
CITY people think if they could only get 
into ihe country this hot weather, they would 
be all right. No doubt they would enjoy it, 
if they could lie in a hammock under a tree, 
and go to sleep during the heat of the day. 
If they had to work out in the sun, as farm¬ 
ers have to, they might not find it so pleasant. 
Hot weather in the country is a trying time. 
One can make sickness without much trouble, 
if he tries hard. A straw hat is a necessity, 
where one has to be out iu tbe sun. Green 
leaves put in tbe top of the hat, are fine. I 
believe it’s p good plan to have the hair cut 
pretty short. Plenty of bathing and rub¬ 
bing tbe body with a dry towel, are the best 
kinds of summer medicines. I have always 
believed that if people would lake the trouble 
to rub themselves dry before they sit down to 
dinner, they would have a better meal und 
have fewer aches aud pains. People always 
say they have no time for such things, but my 
idea is that they lose more time from ill-health, 
caused by uot taking care of themselves, thau 
these little details would amount to. The 
aches and the pains are thrown iu. 
Some people do not know how to eat and 
drink in hot weather. There is a right aud a 
wrong way to do things. Some people run to 
the well while they are as hot as they can 1)0 
aud pour dipper after dipper of water down 
their throats. We know wbat happens to a 
horse when this is done, Is it uot reasonable 
to suppose that a man can injure himself by 
doing so? I do not like so much ice water. 
It is almost impossible in the harvest held, to 
keep water cold without ice, though a wet 
cloth thrown over a jug will help, but this 
ice water should not be poured down as it too 
often is. it should he swallowed slowly aud 
well tasted. Drink slowly enough to taste the 
water aud it will rarely injure you. We 
could not get along without water, and yet 
we cun kill ourselves by its use if we try. As 
for eating iu summer 1 would make breakfast 
the best meal of the day. The morning is the 
time for strong food. We have the whole 
day’s work before us, I do uot like the great 
dinners that, people eat iu the middle of the 
day. 1 think they would be belter off if they 
would cat a lighter irn-al at noon and have an 
earlier supper. I think this plan will find 
favor with the the women folks too. 1 am 
sure that a great many people eat too much, 
particularly iu hot, weather. I find, though, 
that it is easier to talk about this than it is to 
carry out the talk iu practice. When I sit 
down to a good meal, I must say that my first 
impulse is to say to myself that I guess I will 
begin my plan of “light eating” at the next 
meal. 
This hot weather is very trying on mother 
and the girls, too. The kitchen is a pretty 
hot place these days. I think I would take 
my chances out iu the field. I think the wo¬ 
men folks of the preseut, day have an easier 
time than our grandmothers and great-grand¬ 
mothers did, but their work is hard enough as 
it is. It is a very poor specimen of a man or 
boy who would try to make it harder. I 
don’t think it is-iiuy woman’s business to chop 
wood or draw water while there is a stout boy 
on the place. Some of these mothers are will¬ 
ing to do all the hard work without complaint 
so that the boy can have more time for play. 
I am always sorry to see a boy let his mother 
do that. It is a very bad sign. 
Another thing that I have often spoken 
about. All tbe boys and men who see this 
paper want to remember it. Whenever you 
have a particularly good meal, it is your busi¬ 
ness to say that, you enjoyed it. A few words 
of praise are deserved, and it wou’t hurt any¬ 
body to speak them. When I was a boy I 
went to a great family reunion one Thanks¬ 
giving Day. After tbe dinner, which was a 
good one, it was voted that the surest way to 
show proper appreciation was to ‘‘kiss the 
cook.” As all the “women folks” had a hand 
in the preparation, nobody was slighted. 
When the cook happens to be a mother, a wife 
or a sister, Uncle Mark hereby declares him¬ 
self highly in favor of reviving this good old 
custom. 
A mortgage is a fearful thing to have on a 
farm. Those who have one for a daily com¬ 
panion will agree with me in this. It spoils 
lots of pleasure and makes thiugs look pretty 
blue at times. The paying of the last cent of 
u mortgage is about the happiest day of farm 
life that 1 can think of. If there ever was a 
time for a farm jubilee it surely comes when 
this troublesome fellow is kicked out at the 
door. 1 waut my boys to be very careful 
how they run into debt. It is the easiest 
thing iu the world to contract a deht, but if 
anybody can tell me a harder thing than 
paying a debt, I will make him a present. 
That is what my experience teaches me. 
“ Pay as you go” is the best motto 1 know of 
for a young man. If you find you can’t pay, 
why don’t go! If you must go, go just as 
little as you can. Stick to your money, boys. 
You will need every ceut of it later on. 1 
don’t want my boys to be mean or stingy by 
any means. There is a great difference 
between being stingy and economical. If 
you do not practice economy you never can 
be independent. If you are not independent 
you never cun be happy. 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark: We have iu bloom 
now 34 kinds of flowers, and there are several 
that have not bloomed yet, and some have 
gone out of bloom. Tbe Hibiscus has buds on 
it. We set out about 130 rose cuttings the doth 
Of December, ’86, and there are but five or six of 
thorn living now. We planted the Garden 
Treasures, but there are not many of them up, 
it was so dry, but we are having pleuty of 
rain now. The sweet corn is getting ripe. It 
is nice hut is small. The Poud corn is about 
five days later than the sweet corn, and aver¬ 
ages about six ears to the stalk. The Angel 
corn is later this year than it was last, and is 
about three times as large as it was last year. 
We have a plant with light crimson flowers; 
it grows wild here, and is very pretty. If 
you wish 1 will send you some seed of it, the 
next time I write. It is a perennial, and 
grows five feet in rich ground. We call it 
Scarlet Trumpet. We have a sunflower seven 
feet high, which came with the Garden 
Treasures. We have about a quarter of un 
acre plauted iu a white pea called the Purple 
Hull, so named from the color of the hull We 
sold about $40 worth of them last year. I 
was seveu years old when Father began taking 
the Rural, and I am nearly 10 now. 
Your Niece, tullula herron. 
Burleson, Co., Texas. 
Dear Uncle Mark: We have no chickens 
this year, so I will tell you about our pet 
birds. There is a mocking bird that stays 
here nearly nil the time. It sleeps iu a tree in 
our yard. At night sometimes it sings uutil 
nearly day. 1 like the moekiug bird better 
than any bird 1 know, unless it is the hum¬ 
ming bird. We have some young fruit trees 
bearing. We have a walnut tree about 10 
years old; it has been bearing three years and 
it is full of young walnuts now. We planted 
a small watermelon patch this year of 38 hills 
aud mauured it with stable manure, bone 
dust and ashes. We live iu the country on a 
small farm. We have dewberries, blackber¬ 
ries, mulberries and huckleberries. There are 
no raspberries or strawberries growing wild 
here. The prairies and sandhills around here 
are all covered with wild flowers. We have a 
little dog not as large as a grown cat. She 
will bark for her food and water. There is a 
Paradise bird’s nest close to our house. We 
have had plenty of rain since the 4th of May. 
Will some one please send me the words of a 
song beginning, “A lifo on the ocean wave; 
A home on the rolling deep?” We have some 
pretty mulberries in our yard for shade trees. 
We went traveling iu 1383. We saw mauy 
pretty flowers and trees; we went through 
many cities. We traveled nearly all that 
year. We went to see two of our uncles that 
year. We saw alsmt 1,000 acres of palms 
growing in a river bottom. 
Your Niece, mary herron. 
Dear Uncle Mark. Pa has a very fine 
half-blood Jersey heifer. Its name is Jersey. 
Pa has eight ewes and one ram. The ram is 
a Cotswold. He cost $0, We have one nice 
dog. His name is Smart, he is good as the 
name. I am going t/> make a harness for him 
as soon as possible. I made one for him last 
winter and he could pull 100 pounds on a little 
sleigh and at last ho pulled the harness to 
pieces; so he did uot have to do much work 
with that harness. I do not think there are 
mauy of the Cousius that know what snow 
shoes are. They are pieces of wood from five 
to seven feet long and from 3j£ to 5}4 inches 
wide bent up iu the front end. Mine are r> !-.j 
feet long and 3 U inches wide. It is one-half 
inch thick aud is made of white oak. They 
cau also be made of rock elm or birch or bass¬ 
wood. Do not lift your feet above the suow 
but slide them on the snow. It is best to have 
a stick from four to six feet long. 
Youre truly, 
Brown Co., Wis. lewis w. peterson. 
Uncle Mark : I agaiu desire to come into 
your columns. We like the Rural very 
much. I like to read tho Ladies’ Department 
aud the Y. H. C. columns very much. The 
peas which we received from you were very 
good, aud so were tbe beaus: all we bad of 
them were, for the grasshoppers ato all the 
leavesuoff iu one day. The grasshoppers were 
so bad on the corn, it didn’t amount to much. 
I think 1 will plant some canary-bird seed this 
summer. Wo have a very pretty canary 
bird, but it is not a siuger. We had a very 
nice winter here, with few exceptions; it was 
20 degrees below zero one day. Oar house- 
plants were frozen last winter. My winter’s 
evenings were sjient busily and pleasantly. 
We have a game of authors, and I tliiuk it a 
real nice and pleasant amusement. We bavo 
very good schools here. We have nine cows, 
aud sell cream in the summer, aud we thiuk it 
pays to keep cows. I help milk iu the sum¬ 
mer. Father gave me a calf last spring; I 
named her Bess. Your Niece, 
Kossuth, la. EMMA messenger. 
Dear Uncle Mark: Some of the Cousins 
have a lake right at home. We went to a lake 
last year which was 15 miles away. About 20 
of us were going, but it looked so much like 
rain that only nine went. We had a good 
time picking water lilies. We got three boats 
aud paid 15 cents an hour for them. We 
started at seven o’clock in the morning and 
did not get home till nine o’clock that night. 
Your Nephew, 
Glenwood, Iowa. Howard minti.e. 
Dear Uncle Mark: lam 13 years old and 
I live on a farm of 450 acres. 1 live about.3^ 
miles from the city. We raised about 200 
chickens last year aud still are hatching out. 
We have 14 stands of bees. My Mamma milks 
eight cows. My Papa has five horses. My 
Grandma is going to move to town and when 
she gets there both of my Grandmas will be 
there. The flower seeds that you gave us 
came up nicely, but they did not live, for it 
was too dry. Yours Duly, 
Mason Co., Ill. mklinda mccarty. 
Dear Uncle Mark: 1 have not written to 
you before, but my brother has. He liked the 
Garden Treasures very much. My Papa has 
taken the Rural for about 14 years. We all 
like to road it. I would like to join the Y. H. 
C. very much. We have moved a great many 
miles; from Nova Scotia to New Hampshire. 
I liked the ride very much ou the steamer. I 
will write agaiu pretty soon. 1 will close. 
Merrimac Co., N. H. a. harold baton. 
Dear Uncle Mark: 1 have not written to 
you for a long time. We milk eight cows. 
We have 2D head of cattle aud 18 head of 
horses. We have eight head of work horses 
and five colts. We have about 2(H) hills of 
watermelons. We have had a pretty wet sea 
son here, iu Linn County. 1 go three miles to 
school. We have 11 hogs. willie smith. 
Linn Co., Oregon. 
The potato bugs are eating my potatoes up 
about as fast as they can. It has rained almost 
every day so that the poisou will uot stick to 
the vines, 
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