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THE BUBAL new-yorker. 
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forts, they would pity him, instead of blam¬ 
ing him. Debt has him firmly fixed in its 
clutches, his creditors control him and say 
just how much pin-money his wife shall have. 
It matters not which one holds the purse now, 
debt rules it. If the ancient Egyptian law was 
in vogue in these days, I think debt would be 
the exception rather than the rule; a person 
who died in debt, according to that old code, 
was left unburied, and was supposed to be de¬ 
prived of future happiness. 
Debt lures the Demon of Want to our fire¬ 
sides, and banishes comfort and good cheer. 
In its wake follows the real dark side of farm 
life. _ THEMIS. 
EXTRACT FROM LETTERS. 
Back on the dear old farm, and how nice it 
seems, notwithstanding the lack of conven¬ 
iences which we must “put up” with while we 
re-build the farm house aud barns. When we 
left it desolated by the forest fires, I thought 
I never should want to look at it again. But 
Father Time heals many wounds, though may- 
haps the scars are deep. And now when the 
second spring has come, there is no spot quite 
so dear to me as this dear old houseless farm. 
The old foresters that were left untouched by 
the destroyer, give us a royal and dignified 
greeting, and the birds—did birds ever sing 
sweeter than the great choir of starlings that 
gather in the tree tops morning and evening 
for matin and vesper services, and not in¬ 
frequently for midday sessions; and the rob¬ 
ins, bluebirds and wrens, are they not fully 
up to the mark, with the sweet harmony of 
bird music? No English sparrows are here 
with their disagreeable-squack and voracious 
appetites, and we are willing to leave them in 
town. 
The domestic animals and the house pets 
settle down to the pleasure of a quiet life, 
glad to be out of the way of the cruel street 
Arabs. Even the window plants put forth a 
more vigorous growth than they ever thought 
of doing in town. The shrubs and plants in 
the yard look as though a friendly hand clasp, 
would be very acceptable. 
A few of the plants from the Rural “Free 
Seed Distribution,” also give us a similar wel¬ 
come. “ You will be so lonely away up there 
on the farm,” said many friends. And there 
is never a doubt but we shall miss their cheery 
calls. But we hope to retain their sweet friend¬ 
ship, and what we miss of the pleasures of 
town life will be fully made up by the com¬ 
forts and luxuries of the farm ; for farm life 
really has a very bright side if looked at 
“aright.” It was a great comfort to us last 
winter, when hundreds of our town people 
were thrown out of employment, and there¬ 
fore deprived of the means of providing prop¬ 
erly for their homes, by the failure of 
manufacturing firms, to know that we were 
not dependent on mechanical work for our 
sustenance ; there was the farm with its 
many broad acres ready to yield its wealth of 
produce when the spriug should break the icy 
fetters of the long tedious winter’s reign. 
_ MAY MAPLE. 
There is a feeling—and where it comes 
from who can tell?—that the residents of a 
town are superior in every way to country 
people. This is shown by people who live 
even on the cross-road settlements, where a 
blacksmith shop, a variety store, a butcher 
shop, and saloon make up the business part of 
the town. I have seen so much of the over¬ 
bearing spirit manifested by such frauds that 
I despise them heartily. In the large villages 
through the State of New York (and I know 
something about a few of them) there seems 
to be such a desire to settle girls in the world 
so that they will not have to work, that 
although it is not an acknowledged principle 
in words, it is so in fact, that parents in effect 
sell their girls to old, wealthy men, often of 
dubious record, too, merely to win or keep a 
position in the world. This sounds hard, but 
I have seen so much of it that I know it is true. 
In a village in Central New York there was 
a great deal of aristocracy and wealth, and 
eligible matches were scarce, or at least the 
supply of desirable men was not equal to the 
number of women, and there was much wire¬ 
pulling to bring about results. A little girl 
whose father was a widower used to have hex- 
compositions praised by the teacher, who was 
a well-preserved maiden lady. A little school¬ 
mate said to her one day, after hearing it, “If 
my father was a widower, my compositions 
would be just as good as yours!” 
_MRS. B. C. D. 
I can conceive of no “ darker side ” than 
that of two intelligent beings on a lonely farm 
trying to live without that true understand- 
ing and tender appi-ociation of each other 
which alone make life wox-th living. Let 
there be poverty aud privation, sickness 
and death, care and hard work, and it mattex-s 
not to the pair truly mated. The fact that 
every trial is bravely borne together, and 
tb&t each sympathises wit!? the other, bin fa 
them more closely ; and when, in the homo 
circle, the inner man, the real heart, rests 
quiet in the cheery sunshine of mutual con¬ 
fidence, then ax-e man, woman and child fit¬ 
ted to do brave, honest, every-day work. 
The loneliness of a bad mari-iage is felt worse 
on a farm, for in towns or cities the woi-king 
classes are in daily contact with fellow- 
beings and their thoughts are di-awn from 
themselves by countless, trifling incidents. 
MRS. L. H. N. 
Soyer says: “ Cookery in our era has been 
thought beneath the attention of men of 
science, and yet was there ever a political, 
commercial or social event but what has been 
always celebrated by a banquet”? 
Liebig says : “ Led by an instinct which 
has reached the dignity of conscious knowl¬ 
edge, the experienced cook by the choice 
admixture and preparation of food has made 
acquisitions surpassing all that chemical 
and physiological science has done in regal’d 
to the doctrine and theory of nutrition. In 
soups aud meat-sauces he imitates the gastric 
juice, and by the cheese he supplies for the 
table, assists the action of the stomach.” 
But it will not be until our girls are trained 
to consider tbe art of cooking as worthy of 
their consideration that chere will be any im¬ 
provement in the “ help ” question. The 
young ladies of many households pride them¬ 
selves on their ignorance of this department. 
The younger members hear and imitate their 
scornful tones, and the servants are made to 
feel that their work is menial. a. l. j. 
Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it 
and tried and happy is he who passes through 
uuscorched. Chapin so wisely said: “Many 
a man who might walk over burning plow¬ 
shares into heaven, stumbles fi-om the path be¬ 
cause there is gravel in his shoes.” And how 
many would grow hei-oic and noble if encour¬ 
agement came from the right source and at 
the right time? * * * 
A LITTLE CHAT. 
“I just dropped in to ask how you manage to 
keep your girl so clean. I visited school last 
Friday and her clothes wex-e no dirtier than 
my children’s are after two days’ wear; yet 
my Minnie tells me she had worn the same 
dress all the week;” thus spoke little Mrs. 
Baker as she seated hei-self in Mi-s. Gardner’s 
cosy arm-chair and untied her bonnet. 
Mrs. Gardner looked pleased, as we all feel 
to hear our child honestly praised, and an¬ 
swered. “As soon as Rosy is home from 
school, she slips off her school-dx-ess and puts 
on another. In the morning she wears the 
other till school-time. As she is at home as 
long as at school, she wears one dress only 
half the week. There is a great deal, too, in 
the way clothes are washed. I get the white 
ones out of the way first, and always try to 
get calicoes and ginghams out to dx-y as soon 
as possible. Any one is more careful to keep 
a garment clean before it is faded and old- 
looking, and soaking in suds spoils most colors. 
I use fine wheat flour for starching, and add 
a little salt after it is cooked. Clothing nice¬ 
ly starched aud ironed, not only keeps clean 
longer, but it will not catch on evex-y bush ox- 
nail and tear as that will which is not starch¬ 
ed. So I starch the men’s and boy’s every 
day shirts as far as the waist line, too. Then 
I am convinced that napkins ai-e more “use¬ 
ful than ornamental,” and serve to keep child¬ 
ren clean.” 
“ Thank you,” said Mrs. Bakei-. “ I have al¬ 
ways noticed that when people wex-e taught 
while young to be neat and careful in their 
every-day wear, aud wei-e accustomed to 
seeing their clothing whole and clean, they 
never have that uncomfortable dressed-up 
look wheu they occasionally wear their best. 
Neither ax-e they obliged to be always think¬ 
ing about being careful ; for it is second na¬ 
ture, and they are neat without knowing it.” 
MRS. LEVI H. NILES. 
— ■ »♦«- 
WINDOW SCREENS. 
If you want a novel as well as an 
atti-active screen for your windows, in¬ 
stead of the cross-barred or wix-e net¬ 
ting that is commonly used for this purpose, 
try these transparencies. Tack to frames 
fitted to the windows a piece of oi-gandy, 
being cax-eful to have it perfectly even and 
taut. Take some lai-ge-flo wered chintz of 
rather a thin quality. Cut the flowers from 
the chintz and ari-ange the design according 
to your taste. Have a paste i-eady and put 
the flowers, one by one, on the foundation of 
organdy. Place a bit of thick paper behind 
the flowers when you have them in position 
and be cax-eful to press them so that the mus¬ 
lin will not be dx-awu. When this is quite 
dry, put a thin coat of white varnish overall 
to keep the decoration in place rei)4er tbe 
whole more transparent, 
LEMON CRACKERS. 
Take one pound of sugar, one half pound of 
butter, one pound and a quarter of flour, 
three eggs, and the grated rind of two lemons. 
Mix in the usual way and set it away on ice, 
or in a very cool place for two hours, then 
roll it out and cut into diamonds or rounds 
with a cutter, and wash the tops with beaten 
egg; bake in a quick oven. 
SUGAR CRACKERS. 
Two pounds of flour with one t aspoonful of 
baking powder sifted in one pound of sugar, 
one-half pound of butter, five eggs, and one 
cup of milk. Cut them out with a round 
cutter, wash them on top with milk, and 
sprinkle them with granulated sugar. Bake 
in a quick oven. 
BUTTER CRACKERS. 
Beat two eggs very light and add them to 
a quart of flour, a teaspoonful of salt, two 
tablespoonfuls of butter, one of lard, and a 
cupful of milk. Mix well and cut in small 
i-ounds. Roll one-fourth of the dough at a 
time. 
CINNAMON WAFERS. 
One cup of butter, two of sugar. Beat six 
yelks of eggs to a foam, add to the butter and 
sugar with one tablespoonful of freshly ground 
cinnamon and flour sufficient to make a soft 
dough. Roll very thin. 
SPICE PUDDING. 
Very nice and will keep for quite a time 
like plum-pudding. Rub together one-half 
cup of butter with one cup of sugar, adding 
three well beaten eggs, a small quarter of a 
teaspoonful each of cinnamon, cloves, all¬ 
spices and mace, with one cup of flour aud a 
half teaspoonful of baking powder, one cup 
each of raisins aud currants, and one half cup 
of citron. Put in a mold and steam four 
hours. 
In pi-olonged nose bleeding, if you cannot 
get tannic acid to snuff, take the dust of tea, 
and it will have the desired effect. 
A wooden fork is best for stirring salad- 
dressing, cake, or candy. 
Black coffee, very hot, will stop the severest 
retching when every other prescription fails. 
The soda mint pills sold by all druggists for 
dyspepsia will greatly relieve a loose, i-attling 
cough. 
Chloroform will take out stains -from silk, 
cloth, or any woolen goods, but always remem¬ 
ber to keep the bottle corked while using, or 
you will lose mox*e than you use. 
AUNT ADDIE. 
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 and healthy. As a toilet 
article I have never found its equal.” 
Ayer’s Hair Vigor, 
Prepared by Dr. .T. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. 
Sold by Druggists and Perfumers. 
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COME TO VIRGINIA, 
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This 
Month 
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