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THE MIRAL NEW-YORKER. 
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him at any moment she struggled on until she 
reached his father’s house. There she found 
him chatting gayly with his brothers. He had 
tied his horse under a shed.and Prince, having 
broken his tether and run home had not been 
missed. The poor little wife was petted, cared 
for and taken home, but the fright and fatigue 
caused a long illness and the loss of one little 
life. 
Such incidents might be multiplied; but 
what need? An old adage says, “Every ill 
has its antidote;” what is the antidote for iso¬ 
lation? 
In our own case a private line telephone, 
bridging the space between a friend’s house, 
three-fourths of a mile away, and our own, 
has proved itself a comfort and convenience 
worth far more than its cost. Then the large 
farm bell is understood by master and men to 
have more meanings than “Come to dinner,” 
and with our code of signals may say “Tramps! 
Come home, D.” “bees swarming,” etc. For 
the feeling of loneliness which sorely tries 
some wives, the best remedy I know of is a 
bright, cheery home, no shut-up rooms or 
closed blinds, but plenty of sunshine and 
fresh air, flowers and other dumb companions. 
One friend says that when she is lonely she 
works with all her might; another takes up 
fancy work, and another painting, and so on. 
Each according to her taste may do some¬ 
thing to keep from becoming perfectly miser¬ 
able. An unfortunate woman in our neigh¬ 
borhood so dreads being left alone that she 
allows herself to become fairly hysterical 
when occasionally left, and the consequences 
are frequent visits from the doctor. Such 
womeu are to be pitied more than condemned 
perhaps, but I hope they are rare. 
There are other shadows over farm life. 
The “hired help” problem so much discussed 
is one, though I dc n’t quite agree with Mrs. 
Fisher as to the tieat nent of the “help.” A 
varied experience las shown me that over¬ 
worked, unappreciated wives, and vulgar, 
tyrannical husbands are quite as common in 
cities as in the country. Therefore, I don’t 
quite relish the citing of them, as a part of 
the dark side of farm life. 
There must be shadows in every beautiful 
picture, and there must be shadows to develop 
a well-rounded life. If our road sometimes 
seems to lie in the shade more than in the 
sun we can at least test the truth of Long- 
fcjlow’s sweet words: 
‘‘If thou art worn and heart beset 
With sorrows that thou wouldst forget, 
If thou wouldst read a lesson that will keep 
Thy heart from fainting, and thy soul from sleep, 
Go to the woods and hills!—No tears 
Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.” 
MARY MANN. 
Mr. Beasley, of England, who has been 
very successful in his treatment of stammer¬ 
ing, recently stated in a lecture that stammer¬ 
ing could always be cured if only the stam¬ 
merer desired a cure and would work for it. 
It is also necessary that he should know his 
own chief fault, for each stammerer has some 
leading failing, and in curing that first he 
would eradicate, or render more easy of cure, 
many other minor faults. He explained how 
by slightly opening the mouth, raising the 
head, and allowing the tongue to rest at the 
bottom of the mouth, a continuous flow of air 
would be obtained, and by this means, with 
continuous practice, the habit of the breath 
ceasing in the middle of a sentence would be 
overcome. It is this flow of air that enables 
stammerers to sing without difficulty. 
WASHING WINDOWS. 
Strange to say there is a right as well as a 
wrong way to wash windows, and it took me 
many a year to find out the former. I was 
once so unfortunate as to live in a city house 
with twenty large, plate glass windows, and 
they were the bane of my existence. When 
they needed washing I made up my mind to 
have no help from Bridget in the kitchen or 
elsewhere for at least one whole day, until at 
last I practiced for myself, and found how 
quickly and nicely it was possible to do it. 
Choose a dull day,or such a time of day that the 
sun is not shining on them, which makes them 
dry streaked. Take a painter’s brush, and 
dust them inside and out, washing all the 
woodwork inside before touching the glass. 
This latter must be washed simply in warm 
water with a little ammonia—no soap. Use a 
small cloth with a pointed stick to get in the 
corners, and wipe dry with a cotton cloth, old 
and soft. Never use linen, which makes the 
glass linty, and polish with soft old newspa¬ 
pers, or tissue paper. a. 
Did you ever know a woman with a small 
waist to acknowledge that she laced ? Usual¬ 
ly when taxed with lacing, she holds her 
breath, and running her fingers under her 
waistband bids you see for yourself how very 
)oosp her cjothes are. If you are not then 
,-onvifio?d tliat nature has given her a tiny 
waist, why, then you are a very incredulous 
person. 
BEFORE SPRING COMES. 
It is time to look through the cellar. We 
do not want spring-sickness in the family. 
Remove everything impure. Were those 
squashes a little frosted, before putting in?— 
they are likely to be decaying. Some of the 
onions may be bad. Potatoes may be rotting. 
Apples may need sorting; cabbages over¬ 
hauling. Let everything be put in first-class 
order. Cellars banked up and unventilated 
except through the door, should be particular¬ 
ly cared for. Get the men at it some stormy 
day. 
The boys are in school now; but when they 
go to work in spring they will need working 
clothes. Repair the old ones t if worth re¬ 
pairing—vests, over shirts, over-alls, etc.; for 
economy is a necessity with many, and should 
be a general virtue. Whatever is to be made 
for them, make now; don’t wait till the spring 
hurries you. 
Make summer clothing for the girls and 
yourself—plenty of it. It • need not cost a 
great deal. If there’s money to spare after 
the taxes are paid, ask for some if that is 
necessary, for this purpose. Men don’t always 
think. You cannot afford to wait till warm 
weather comes, and then with house-cleaning 
aud your flower garden on hand you can’t 
sew. 
Rip up all the cast-off clothing, wash what 
is good, if it is not clean, and put it to its best 
use. An old coat may have some good but¬ 
tons, something for patches, possibly for mak¬ 
ing a nice cushion or something else. Old 
blue pieces may be useful to mend the carriage 
cushions. The lining may do for carpet rags, 
and the canvas is good to mend bags with. 
Look over the grain bags, too; wash, mend 
and caution the men folks about the rats and 
mice. 
An old pair of pants with knees and seat 
ragged, may make a pair for little Johnny. 
An old vest may do very well for some time, 
if it has a new back. 
Get the carpet-rags all ready and have them 
woven, if you can, in time for spring house¬ 
cleaning. Sewed hit-and-miss, with no color¬ 
ing, and woven into colored warp, the carpet 
is very pretty, and costs less than 22 cents 
a yard, allowing 13 cents for weaving and one 
pound of warp to weave three yards of carpet. 
Save the paper-rags. They don’t amount 
to much if you make rag carpet, but they are 
worth something. This is a good time to get 
ahead with the spring work. But. withal, en¬ 
joy the winter. Take time to rest, time to 
read, time to think. Keep the rooms well 
aired, and don’t get sick from breathing bad 
air. Take an interest in the children’s studies, 
and train them to habits of reading aud of in¬ 
dustry. MRS. M. P. A. CROZIER. 
Harper’s Bazar says that for afternoon 
teas one should use English Breakfast tea— 
never green—allowing about two teaspoon¬ 
fuls for each cup. Let stand two minutes 
to draw. 
Green promises to be a fashionable color 
for spring wear. 
AYER’S CHERRY PECTORAL is the 
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Mrs. L. P. Cutler, 47 North Washington 
sq., New York City, says: “When I was a 
girl of 17 I had a cough, with profuse night 
sweats, and Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral cured 
me. 1 have recommended this preparation 
in scores of similar cases.” 
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, 
Prepared by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass, 
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