1887 
YORKER. 
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what he is in the real essence and substance of 
his own character, is far greater than that 
which ho consciously and intentionally ex¬ 
erts, says the Independent. 
Tins latter operates only occasionally, while 
the former is constant in its action, and at¬ 
tends the man wherever ho goes and what¬ 
ever he does. No matter what one says, if he 
himself in his own life is a contradiction of 
what ho says, then his sayings have very little 
weight with others.... 
Ruskin says it is better to bo nobly re¬ 
membered than nobly born. 
P o m (six c Qfconomi) 
CONDUCTED HY MRS. MINES E. M. CARMAN. 
A ml now good friends the holidays are 
once more upon us. Give to the poor alt that 
you can afford to (five, remembering mean¬ 
while that benevolence begins at home. 
A FARMER’S DAUGHTER’S DOMESTIC 
REVERIES. 
CHARITY SWEETHEART. 
I THOUGHT I wouldn’t write any more, for 
they all poke fun at my letters here: But, I 
really don’t see why Mrs. Fisher should be 
found fault with for teaching “ laddie” to be 
helpful. Dear little fellow! If ho ever goes 
off ranching, or has to live alone he will he 
ever so much better off than if she had done 
every little thing for him and never taught 
him to wait on himself. And, then suppose 
his mamma is taken away as mine was, he 
will lie a comfort instead of a drag to his 
sister if he lias one. For I do think that, as a 
rule, farm boys are dreadfully careless of 
their mothers and sisters and all the hard 
work they make for them that might be 
avoided. Now I don’t want some tidy young 
man, who wipes bis feet on the door-umt, and 
takes off bis boots when be goes into the 
house, to tuke offence, ami rise to vindicate 
his sex, for he is doubtless an exception, but 
noticing the boys 1 know I cauuot help think¬ 
ing how much nicer they would be if 
they were a littte more thoughtful of 
other people's comfort, and less inclined 
to pure selfishness. As Hurt grows older he is 
loss careful to pleaso me, more opinionated, 
and from associating with lads who “cheek 
their mothers,’’ as he terms it, he has cauglij, 
the tongue and temper that will not be re¬ 
proved, and glories in being rough, making 
the mistake that some boys do, that this is be¬ 
ing manly. When he comes out of the stable 
ami plants his feet in long boots ou the rug, 
and I say gently, “Why didn’t you take off 
your boots and put on your slippers'” be shuf¬ 
fles them over the rug with the remark, “It’s 
only an old rug anyway,” forgetting that it is 
the best we have and that, mud makes it shab¬ 
by. lie sits down to tea without combing his 
hair; bat if he wants to go and see any other 
girl, In- has to make a toilet and “slick up,” 
and just think, when be takes a hath he leaves 
his sister to empty the water, carrying it down 
a narrow stair, as we have not modern appli¬ 
ances. I wonder if he thinks I never get tired. 
Of course, he “doesn’t think” and I know he 
would thiuk any other boy very rudo if he 
acted in the same way. For to “see oursels 
as ithers see us; it would frae niony a blun¬ 
der free us and foolish notion”—so said Burns. 
I know he doesn’t intend to be bad, or so 
wickedly careless, for he has a good, warm, 
generous heart and does uot think anything u 
trouble if once roused to the necessity of it, 
and be was very much shocked on*' day when 
Jim (.niigtoug called bis mother “a liar” be¬ 
fore all the children, just because she had told 
him a few plain truths about himself that he 
didn’t like to hear. I dou’t believe Jim 
thought at the tune that it was the truth; but 
I said to myself: “Better for mother to be 
dead than that Burt should ever get so low as 
to say such cruel, unmanly words.” And 
there is no reason in the world why country 
boys should not be as gentle, manly and po 
life and considerate as any others. For they 
possess courage and honesty uud perseverauce 
and many of the good qualities that are 
worthy of admiration; but fail in the little 
tilings that, make up the grains of happiness 
that fall to the lot of the women of the house 
hold, and then they wonder that girls “like 
city follows” who often do not possess these 
good qualities. But I must stop, there 
is a jumble of boots ami coats and caps on the 
kitchen floor. Burt has pulled everything off 
the pegs, ami leaving his mud tracks every¬ 
where is asking everybody as usual, “Where’s 
my black felt batf” 
- »♦« 
Mothers, don’t allow yourselves from 
press of care and work to neglect your own 
personal appearance, We believe that one’s 
dress should be adapted to the work at band, 
but sueb dress is uot incompatible with tidi¬ 
ness. Example on the mother’s part will every 
time outweigh precept in grounding neat and 
dainty ways into the characters of her chil¬ 
dren. 
Apropos the help question, a subscriber 
writes: “I have had more or less experience 
with hired help iu the house the last 30years, 
and the help in that time has degenerated very 
much and there is a spirit pervading a largo 
class of that khid, which fills one with dread. I 
almost believe that nothing but our being 
spread over so large a territory, keeps us from 
having a French Revolution. Wo live about 
75 miles from Chicago, and of course hear con¬ 
siderable about the Anarchists, uud people tell 
us who were there;that the women are worse 
than the men, in fact that they urged the 
matter forward. 
A friend of mine, who has always been an 
invalid and dependent on hired service, tells 
me that it would frighten me if I could hear 
how her help talks to her. It would be as 
much as her life is worth to call her help a 
servant. 
The most of the time I do my own work 
because of the scarcity of any kind of help, 
the quality and the wages asked for, for the 
service performed. We live six miles from 
a watering place (Lake Geneva), and during 
the summer girls prefer to work at the sum¬ 
mer boarding bouses, and the wealthy people 
who live on the shores of the lake pay such 
wages and make such munificent presents to 
those they employ, that they have spoiled all 
the girls for common people who cannot ntford 
to do so. And hs to the farm work, they think 
there is too much that is coarse, and it is too 
confining and they must live where there is 
more excitement. 
»♦» 
As to the cause of baldness, Professor C. E. 
Rancour says that it may be‘due to intem¬ 
perance, tobacco, bad habits, fast eating, loss 
of rest, or want of proper cure of the hair. 
Dr. W. Leigh Burton has promised the 
New York Electric Club that before another 
year rolls around, the members shall eat oys¬ 
ters and drink coffee prepared by electric 
heat. 
BROWN BREAD AND BAKED BEANS. 
A writer attributes the degeneracy of the 
American of the present flay to such ft km I as 
cream puffs and meringue frippery, aud with 
some slmw of reason says that it was brown 
bread and baked beans that evolved the cere¬ 
bral tissue of Emerson and Lowell, Iluwthorne 
and Charming. 
It seems as if the daily press in its encroach¬ 
ment on the province of household journals 
and regularly organized household depart¬ 
ments of weekly and monthly farm juurnals, 
would succeed in doiug all the work of its 
legitimate contemporaries in the furtherance 
of the science of cooking. For instance, we 
clip the following from one of the largest of 
our metropolitan dailies: 
If you waut baked beans a la Boston for 
next Saturday night, pick and wash a quart 
ou Friday and let them stand all night. Next 
morning drain them, put in a pot with two 
pounds of corued beef or pork; cover with 
hot water and boll for half an hour, until the 
beans begin to split. Then drain them, rins¬ 
ing with two or three quarts of cold water. 
Take a deep eurthern pot, put. in half the 
beans, the meat ami thou the other half, ap¬ 
proximately, of the beans. Mix a tablespoon¬ 
ful of molasses ami a teaspoon of made mus¬ 
tard with a teacup of water and pour over 
them. Cover them with hot water and bake 
10 hours, adding more water if they get dry. 
Now, I would leave it to any sensible reader 
of the Rural what kind of a dish one quart 
of beaus and two pounds of pork or corned 
beef would make if the beans were treated as 
above. It is with great hesitation that to 
offset such unreliable information I give reci¬ 
pes for so well-known a dish. 
PORK AND MEANS. 
Soak a quart of beans over-night in cold 
\yater. The next morning cover with cold wa¬ 
ter and plaeoover the (ire. When they come 
to a boil add a half teaspoonful of carbonate 
of soda; boil five minutes longer, and drain. 
Cover again with cold water; add a large 
onion and half a pound of pork and boil very 
slowly until the beans are nearly tender, but 
not until they begin to break. Tut them in a 
two quart pudding dish, and bury the pork in 
the center, first scoring it both ways with 
a sharp knife. The water from the beans 
should have cooked away until they were just 
moist but not floating in a thin liquid. Rake 
an hour. Now for the true inwardness of 
Boston baked bean?, attend to the following 
rules. Rut a quart of Iteans into a bean pot; 
cover with cold water and let them stand all 
night. In the morning pour off the water, 
and cover with fresh cold water with which 
has been thoroughly mixed a tablcspoouful 
of molasses. Put a half pound of pork, scored 
as above, in the center, pressing it down until 
only half an inch remains above the beaus. 
Bake eight hours in a steady oven, and for 
the first six hours arid a cupful of boiling 
water every hour. Cooked in this way each 
bean will be perfectly whole and thoroughly 
cooked, and of a pale chocolate brown. Not 
being a Yankee, but claiming the State of the 
Rural Experimental Grounds for my native 
place, I prefer the first method. It may not 
be generally known that cold baked beans 
mashed with the back of a spoon or a potato 
masher, made into little cakes and fried in 
butter, are very nice. a. o. 
POINTS. 
The recent introduction of silver anchors 
as broodies aud charms is a child of the late 
yacht craze. 
Fur-lined circulars are still fashionable. 
Gobelin blue is one of the winter shades. 
Some one has said that the higher the hat 
aud the bigger tue bustle the homelier the 
girl 1 
TO COOK POTATOES. 
I want to tell Eunice Webster bow I often 
cook potatoes and “our” family of five all 
think it a nice dish. I take six good-sized 
potatoes, peel and slice quite thin, cook in a 
pint of water until soft then put in one quart 
of sweet milk, and pepper, salt and butter, 
let boil up and serve hot with crackers or dry 
toust. If the milk is not very rich beat up 
one egg very light and stir in just before 
sending to the table. Quite nice; try it. 
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That Feeling 
Of exhaustion expressed in the words 
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upon the Nervous System. Nothing 
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"I was all run down,” writes Mrs. 
. Alice West, of Jefferson, W. Va., “be¬ 
fore I began to take Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, 
aud now I am 
GAINING IN STRENGTH 
every day. I Intend using it till my 
health is perfectly restored.” 
“ Being very weak and despondent 
after an illness which caused frequent 
loss of blood. I tried Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, 
and two bottles bas e restored me to my 
former health,” writes Miss Blanche S. 
Brownell, 4 Boylston Place, Boston. 
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