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top of the jelly,then cover tightly with another 
piece of paper, so as to prevent, as far as pos¬ 
sible, any entrance of air. I formerly used 
this method, but mold it would , except un¬ 
der the most favorable circumstances, and 
even then it is not reliable. Now we use a 
soft buttered paper applied to the jelly, but¬ 
tered side up; be very careful not to leave the 
least air bubble under the paper, and fit it 
closely to the side of cup; then paste another 
paper (not too stiff ) over top of cup, and I 
think you will find your fruit as good as when 
first put up. Do not use tin or glass covers. 
BONA FIDE. 
MISPLACED ECONOMY. 
S. J. L. 
In farming, economy is a very necessary 
adjunct, but is it necessary to select the oldest 
wagons and the most dilapidated harness 
with which to drive about in, fully aware 
that when their strength is most needed they 
will fail you? 
Where is the economy in trying to resusci¬ 
tate an old wagon, by patching up this and 
strengthening that, until there is only enough 
left of the original to weaken the whole? 
Farmers cannot afford to indulge in fancy 
vehicles; let them get the plain and substan¬ 
tial, and it will pay for itself. Spending 
money to make new out of old is far from 
economy. 
In regard to harness, the solid comfort 
some well-to-do farmer takes in driviug about 
with a harness that only the staying qualities 
of various pieces of twine and rope festooned 
here and there to prevent it from parting 
company from the animal it so loosely adorns, 
with one blinder swinging in the breeze and 
a wagon that baffles description, is a study 
worthy of a philosophic mind. He, secure in 
the belief that he is a living example of econ¬ 
omy, knowing there is no necessity for such 
extensive shabbiness, glories in the thought 
of possessing thrift above his neighbors. 
In this time of cheap buggies it seems as if 
the tired farmer’s wife (for some of them do 
get tired) could, without transgressing the 
rules of economy, ask for one to use, in lieu 
of the lumber wagon or elevated Democrat 
that, if she is advanced in age, renders it a 
precarious venture to get in or out of. Of 
course, it is a question of “affording it,” but 
as it often seems quite possible to afford un¬ 
necessary articles, why not ring in a few of 
the comforts? 
Too much economy is distressing to behold 
ers; for instance, the man who insists on get¬ 
ting all the wear out of his clothes. The cloth 
gets so ancient it refuses to hold the stitches 
and tatters are the result, developing the 
wearer into an animated scarecrow. No 
amount of persuasion will induce him to render 
himself less ridiculous, unless it is a few quiet 
expressions of ridicule, given by a stranger in 
whose eyes he wishes to appear all that he is. 
If the seed falls in fertile ground a business 
suit is the result, and economy does not suffer 
by the change. 
OVERWORKED MOTHERS. 
RURAL READER. 
As I am a constant reader of your good 
paper I want to express my thanks to Mrs. 
Fisher. It takes a brave heart to boldly at¬ 
tack a wrong, as it incurs the greatest dis¬ 
pleasure, and especially from those we desire 
to help. I have felt for years that if anything 
should excite pity it certainly should be the 
overworked farmer’s wife. I know there are 
others besides farmers who neglect and are 
careless of the comfort of their wives; but 
they are not so general. I have often seen 
farmers who were able to hire several hands 
or working men, the wife with small children, 
her health poor, no help for herself, cook, 
wash and do all the work, milking, attending 
to the milk and butter. Just able to work, 
each day bringing its duties, I have been told 
they never got rested. I noticed the farmer 
was a great deal more careful of his fine brood 
mare than of his wife. I could name a large 
number who never made the garden; the wife 
had that to do; if it was plowed it was thought 
quite enough, and such a thing was not 
thought of as the husband and father making 
a fire in the moruiDg or helping with the sick 
little one during the night. If she had flowers 
she spaded and made the beds for the seeds, 
and perhaps was told it was a waste of time. 
I dare say if all who have seen this evil would 
come forward there would be quite a surprise 
party. And as to spending money, not long 
since the most heart-touching appeal came to 
me about the same where nothing was given 
and the wife felt loth to ask. I think we, as a 
general rule, feel too sensitive on that point. 
An over-worked mau or woman is sure to 
feel gloomy and look on the dark side of life. 
Life at best is full of little worries, and to be in 
the best possible condition to meet them, let us 
take all the rest possible, and put away “need¬ 
less care.” Much that we do can be done with 
less work. If the little ones are sweet and 
clean, it will be as well if their clothes are 
plainly made. Many aches and pains go into 
ruffles and puffs, which do not add to the 
wear of the garment, aod if it shortens the 
life of the mother, and hastens the coming of 
strange hands to care for the dear little ones, 
why not see the truth before too late? 
THE KING’S DAUGHTERS. 
PALMETTO. 
A SUGGESTION in the “Chat by the Way” 
of a recent number of the Rural New- 
yorker that a “Book lending Ten” be 
organized among the “King’s Daughters,” 
would, if acted upon, undoubtedly be the 
means of doing great good. The eagerness 
with which the offer to send “Wikkey” was 
accepted has proved this Forty requests for 
the book have been received, and doubtless 
only modesty has kept many more from send¬ 
ing for it. Owing to the limitations of my 
purse I have only sent out half that number, 
but have sent cards to those first receiving the 
book, requesting them to send it to some given 
address, so that in time all will be served 
The letters that the book has called forth 
have made my heart go out in sympathy to 
many a weary and silent woman throughout 
this land. There are very many of our sis¬ 
ters who scarcely see a friendly face from 
month to month, and who have no books. 
One dear lady writes: 
“I saw your kind offer in the Rural. I 
don’t know as you would think I live in an 
out of-the-way place, but I feel that way. I 
have not read many books in all my life, i 
think my neighbors have but very few books, 
depending on their weekly papers for infor¬ 
mation and stories. We are not a church-go¬ 
ing people, thirty families attending church 
but very seldom. I have often felt the need 
of some dear friend or good book to teach me 
to be a better mother to my children. I am 
sure they don’t care for me, because I have 
been so cross. Any one would think I would 
govern myself. With Paul I can truly say, 
‘What I would, that I do not ’ Life is a sad 
mistake. I have always dreamed of a higher 
life, a more useful life here on earth, but it is 
all a mistake. I am only fle3h and blood, and 
every year growing weaker. Unloved and 
lonely, I pray our Heavenly Father to send 
some one on a mission of good to me to-day. 
to raise me up for his glory.” 
Cannot we of the Rural organize a book¬ 
lending ten? Think of it, you who have shelves 
full of books, many of which you could spare 
without inconvenience to yourselves. There 
are women hungry for books who cannot get 
them. If any persons who may have a book 
to spare will send their address to “Palmetto” 
care of the Rural, she will furnish them with 
the name of some one of these hungry ones 
whose cries have come to her from far away 
States all over the United States, and even 
from Canada. Think of the heart loneliness 
of the woman who could send out the despair¬ 
ing cry in the above letter. Her self-reproach 
that she has been “so cross” is pathetic. Un¬ 
doubtedly the feeling of irritation which 
makes her call herself “cross” comes from 
overwork. Those who are shielded and cared 
for should have the tenderest sympathy for 
this poor sister. God, who has said, “Come 
unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden 
and I will give you rest,” has surely heard 
that pitiful prayer, but wo are not absolved, 
for God works through his creatures. It 
seems to me that I have only lately come to 
feel the responsibility that is laid upon us in 
the command “Bear ye one another’s bur¬ 
dens.” Perhaps at the judgment day it is not 
so mu Mi what we have done that will tt-11 
against us, as what we have left undone—the 
cheering word we have left unspoken; the 
tangled thread of some life that we did not 
try to help unravel. I know one of the King’s 
Daughters (there are many who wear no 
badges), who never passes through the tene¬ 
ment portions of this crowded city without 
scattering kind words and smiles, or gifts of 
an apple, or a penny, to the poor, dirty, 
ragged waifs that throng the sidewalks, until 
her sweet face has come to be the signal for 
an infant mob whenever it appears. I will 
venture to say too that the kind words, and 
smiles, and little pats of approval, are treas¬ 
ured in the loving little hearts more than the 
thought of the occasional apple or penny. 
I wonder if Miss Taplin cannot help us or¬ 
ganize a letter-writing ten. The idea is not a 
new one, except as applied to the “King’s 
Daughters.” Suppose every woman in or near 
some “seat of culture” with privileges denied 
to many, should have for a correspondent 
some otherwise unknown woman living away 
off in the unsettled part of the country, what 
a power for good they might be in each other’s 
lives, for the helper is often benefited by his 
own kindly act as much as the one to whom 
the assistance is given. It may seem a sar¬ 
casm—like giving stones when bread is called 
for—to offer an occasional'letter to a hard¬ 
working woman who has scarcely time to read 
the book she would so gladly receive, but it 
would not stop with the letters. Papers and 
magazines that are now thrown away would ■ 
find their way to new fields of usefulness. 
I shall keep for my correspondent the friend 
whose letter I quoted above. How many of 
you want another? 
GOLDEN GRAINS. 
Lyman Abbot says “This is my only chance 
to take the Gospel of God’s love, that burns 
and blazes and warms in my heart more and 
more as I grow older, and carry it to the lost 
and the perishing. God help me to fill up the 
measure of my opportunity to do Christ’s 
work here and now”. 
There are no royal roads to learning. Plod¬ 
ding is a common word. It is plain and home¬ 
ly, and it is significant of sturdy labor. It 
carries with it a degree of slowness, but as¬ 
sures ultimate certainty. 
Mr. Beecher thought that science and re¬ 
ligion will come together coyly at first like 
other lovers, but there will be the kiss and 
embrace, and at last they will marry and 
there will be no more trouble between them 
than is usually found in well-regulated fami¬ 
lies . 
Irving asks who can look down upon the 
grave even of an enemy and not feel a com¬ 
punctious throb that he ever should have 
warred with the poor handful of earth that 
lies mouldering before him?. 
Confidences are more frequently reposed 
in others from want of discretion than excess 
of friendship, and are oftener betrayed by in- 
continency of speech than from motives of 
treachery. 
Wondrous truths and manifold as wondrous 
God hath written in those stars above: 
But not less in the bright flowerets under us 
Stands the revelation of his love. 
You may safely commit the child’s clothes 
to the servant, but the rest of the little one 
you had better take care of yourself. 
Abraham Lincoln said he had been driven 
many times to his knees by the overwhelming 
conviction that he had nowhere else to go. 
His own wisdom, he said, and that of all about 
him, was insufficient for that day. 
Mrs. Oliphant makes one of her heroines 
speak of herself as one who can “take in wash¬ 
ing if necessary; whatever a woman can 
honestly do I am willing to try, and I don’t 
care the worth of a pin whether it is the place 
for a lady or not”. 
Dr. Hall says men do things which their 
fathers would have deprecated, and then draw 
about themselves a flimsy cordon of sophistry, 
and talk about the advance of humanity and 
liberal thought, when it is nothing after all 
but a preference for individual license. 
Prof. Gray «ays when Christ himself directs 
us to consider the plants around us—to notice 
how they grow, how varied, how numerous, 
and how elegant they are, and with what ex¬ 
quisite skill they are fashioned and adorned, 
we shall surely-find it profitable and pleasant 
to learn the lessons which they teach. 
He who, from zone to zone, 
Guiles through the boundless sky thy certain flight, 
In the long way that I must tread alone 
Will lead my steps aright. 
All the Ladies 
Who have given Ayer’s Hair Vigor a trial 
are enthusiastic In its praise. 
Mrs. J. J Burton, of Bangor, Maine, says : 
“ I have been using Ayer’s Hair Vigor with 
marvelous success. It restores the original 
color to gray hair, promotes a fresh growth, 
and keeps it strong ancl healthy. As a toilet 
article I have never found its equal.” 
Ayer’s Hair Vigor, 
Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. 
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