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THE ROME WEW-Y0ME1R. 
JULY 28 
eyed beauty with a classical nose, and the 
strong and firmly molded chin of an Anti- 
nous. 
Disregarding the beauty that is only skin 
deep, however, you may, by beginning in 
time, and pursuing the right course, make a 
perfectly beautiful soul, which shall so illu¬ 
mine and transfigure the plainest face as to 
render it perfectly beautiful also. We forget 
to note the size and color of eyes that always 
beam with love for us, or to remark the lack 
of symmetry of the hands which are always 
doing kindly deeds. 
As for beauty of complexion and brightness 
of eyes, the secret of these, in spite of the col¬ 
umns that have been written on the subject, 
lies in the single word “health.” If you are 
out of tone, you cannot expect rosy cheeks, 
though you should use all the cosmetics and 
lotions, and washes, known to Cleopatra, 
which modern research puts at 400. Never 
mind the almond pastes, and oatmeal washes, 
and bran bags: at least don’t mind them un¬ 
til by plenty of air, exercise and sleep, you 
have got your system in good shape. If you 
drink two or three glasses of beer a day,as so 
many society women do, you must not com¬ 
plain if the results are obesity and a coarse 
skin. A noted society doctor is winning fav¬ 
or among the ladies by prescribing horse-back 
exercise. This, inasmuch at it promotes cir¬ 
culation and assists digestion, is a great beau- 
tifier, so ride horse-back by all means if you 
can; anil if you can’t,try an hour’s calisthenics 
with a broom in the early morning, or make 
the beds with the windows open, even if the 
air is frosty. With the desuetude of feather 
beds and the necessary beatings and thump¬ 
ings, which these adjuncts to ease required, 
may come a palid,narrow-chested race of wom¬ 
en, if some other form of exercise is notin- 
vented. I see the busy readers of the Rural 
smile at the necessity of inventing any form 
of exercise for their already over-strained 
and over-tired muscles. To such I would pre¬ 
scribe rest—not exercise. 
“ Just like a woman who writes,” says some 
poor tired housewife whose immaculate floors 
and windows testify to her neatness. Rut have 
you quite settled it fo>* yourself that your win¬ 
dows must shine, though your back ache never 
so badly ? Well, I have decided that I will 
wash windows only when my strength will 
permit, and at the present moment I am simply 
shutting my eyes to three very dirty ones that 
the rain is trying in vain to cleanse. I console 
myself by thinking that my face will be bright 
to-night when my husband returns, if my win¬ 
dows are not, and I know that plain as it is, 
he is absolutely incapable of seeing whether a 
window be cl< i au or dirty when 1 am around. 
It has been iny experience that the machine 
woman who works from five in the morning 
until eleven at night, as if she had been wound 
up, is never half as much appreciated as the 
one who meets her Jack with bright eyes and 
a fresh ribbon, even though you may be able 
to write your name in dust on her parlor table. 
So, kind reader, if you will cultivate a lov¬ 
ing, kindly spirit, sleep nine hours, take as 
much exercise as is good for you and as much 
air as you can get, and bathe often enough for 
perfect cleanliness, you will have as much 
beauty as God meant you to have. 
ALICE CHITTENDEN. 
1 Apollo was some heathen god or other.” 
We cannot tnter an art gallery without see¬ 
ing a Venus, a Diana, a Jupiter. We cannot 
pick up a magazine without coming across the 
name of some god or goddess, yet I am amazed 
to find how little is really known about them, 
even by some very intelligent people. They 
know, as the boys did, that they are “some 
heathen gods or other.” 
But to come back’to my story. They all 
wanted me to tell them what I knew about 
Apollo. There is so much said and written of 
him that I could not begin to tell all.so 1 simply 
gave them a mere oui line telling the principal 
things known of him. I said that he was one 
of the best known gods of Grecian Mythology < 
He was the s'on of Jupiter and Latona, and 
twin brother of Diana. The island of Delos is 
generally given as their birth-place. He is 
also called Phoebus and sometimes Phoebus 
Apollo. He is the god of music, poetry, 
prophecy and archery. He was the president 
and protector of the muses. He was also 
called the god of beauty, and the sun god. 
He is generally represented with a bow, or a 
lyre. Diana, his twin sister, is the goddess of 
virtue. She was a huntress, and presided 
over the chase. She is genei ally represented 
with a bow. arrow and quiver. She was also 
called the moon-goddess and as such is repre¬ 
sented as wearing a flowing robe with a 
crescent above her brow. 
When I had finished, the boys, who had 
been intensely interested, insisted on my tell¬ 
ing them about some of the other gods and 
goddesses. Sol picked out a few of the most 
prominent and gave them a brief sketch of 
each. 
They had a “bunk” fitted up in the carriage 
house where they congregated in the long 
winter evenings to read, play games or tell 
stories. We decided to devote one evening a 
week to spend with the gods. I would give 
out each evening the name of the deity to be 
discussed on our next meeting night. I would 
first tell the story of said deity as best I could, 
then the boys would tell anything they had 
been able to learn about him or her in the in¬ 
terval. 
Thus we passed many pleasant and profit¬ 
able evenings, and, as some one generally 
found some pretty little story to tell in con¬ 
nection with the deity under discussion, it 
was bed-time long before we dreamed of such 
a thing. Now, if the Rural can spare me a 
little space each week, I’ll tell the boys and 
girls who may not have any Mythology to 
study, just what 1 used to tell our boys in the 
winter evenings at home. 
DORA HARVEY VROOMAN. 
THE BOY’S MYTHOLOGICAL CLUB. 
“ I say, Dol, we’ve named our club the 
‘ Apollo,"' cried Walter, one evening, as ho 
danced into the dining room where 1 was bus¬ 
ily engaged in clearing away the debris after 
tea. 
“That’s a good name,” said I, “but why 
did you call it so ?” 
“ Oh ! Because-”he responded. 
“Because wliat?” asked I. “According to 
some folks that is a woman’s reason.” 
“Well, then, because we thought it would 
sound nice,” said he, “ and, besides, that’s the 
name of the swellest club in the city.” 
“ Do you mean to say,” asked I, in surprise, 
“ that that was your reason ?” 
“I guess so—maybe some of the other fel¬ 
lows had a reason, but if they had, I don’t 
know it,” said he, pettishly. “You always 
ask a fellow why he does everything !” 
“Who was Apollo, do you know ?” queried 
1. 
“ Yes, that’s his bust on the mantel, isn’t 
it ?” said Walter, pointing to a statuette. 
“Yes,” said I, “ that’s Apollo, and ho has 
stood there ever since you can remember; and 
do you mean to say that you never even won¬ 
dered who or what he was ?” 
“ Don’t know as 1 did,” said he, “but you 
needn’t put on such airs just because you bail- 
pen to know. I’m not half as old as you 
are!” (but he is.) “ I’ll bet none of the other 
fellows know auy more than 1 do. I’ll call 
them in and you can ask them.” 
So he did. They were all bright lads, 
ranging from 10 to 1(5, but none of them 
hfjemetj to know IBOIT fb/ll) t/)0’ fact- that 
fife is too short to require such a terrible 
sacrifice. Then, how about educating the 
children for whose sake this move was osten¬ 
sibly made ? Unless the wife and mother is 
well educated, they will stand a poor showing 
for instruction ; for the father will have no 
time to bestow upon their culture, even if he 
has the inclination ; for the life of a pioneer is 
a toilsome one at the Vest. There are a thou¬ 
sand and ore little things that will annoy and 
worry a delicate woman and make her un¬ 
comfortable, and of course unhappy There 
are reptiles and insects to guard against, as 
well as wild animals to frighten one by their 
howling concerts. I promise you, my dear 
friends, that you will have real cause for 
nervous affections in case you decide 
to migrate to the El Dorado of your 
thoughts and wishes. Home sickness is not 
the only evil to be dreaded, a. d the visions of 
the night will carry you back to the far-off 
home that you left, and the morning sun will 
back in saddened contrast, the stern reality 
of a lonely barren home, with a torrid sun, a 
fearful blizzard or cyclone hanging over you 
and your loved ones. Think well, parents, of 
the awful responsibility of going to a solitary 
home, in a strange land, with no near neigh¬ 
bors, and no sympathizing friend to break the 
monotony of a frontier life, or cheer you in 
your solitude. Better work hard, Jive cheaply 
and economise closely, and stay at home than 
to go where you will have to do all these 
things. GRANDMOTHER. 
John Ruskin in his “ Ethics of the Dust,” 
says that taking up one’s cross means simply 
that you are to go the road which you see to he 
the straight one; carrying whatever you find 
is given you to carry as well and stoutly aj 
you can: without making faces, or calling 
people to come and look at you. Above all, 
you are neither to load nor unload yourself, 
nor cut your cross to your own liking. Some 
people think it would be better for them to 
have it large ; and many that they could 
carry it much faster if it were small; and even 
those who like it largest are usually very par¬ 
ticular about its being ornamental, and made 
of the best ebony. But all that you have 
really to do is to keep your Lack as straight 
as you can; and not to think about what is 
upon it—above all, not to boast of what is 
upon it. 
GOLDEN GRAINS. 
GOING WEST TO LIVE. 
I believe I promised to tell some more about 
going off to take up a homestead in the un¬ 
broken regions of the Far West, and I should 
have done so before this late date, had my 
health admitted; but be sure I was not pre¬ 
vented by somebody’s “ Granddaughter” 
throwing down her gauntlet to see if I dared 
to pick it up. Nor did I dream of hurting 
any one’s feelings when I penned that sketch. 
I was only addressing those people who were 
comfortably located in nice, convenient homes 
in the East, and were selling off their farms 
and furnishings at a great sacrifice, in order 
to go to the land of promise, in the new Terri¬ 
tories, little dreaming of fhe privations and 
discomforts that were unavoidably instore for 
them in a new home, far from kiudrid and 
friends. 1 have not a doubt but what young 
ladies do stand a better chance to find hus¬ 
bands in the thinly populated West than at 
home, where it is stated there are seven maid¬ 
ens to one single man, and if matrimony is the 
sole object of emigration, I should say, “Go 
West, girls, by all means; there are lots of 
bachelors that need wives, and housekeepers, 
but they are too poor to go back to civiliza¬ 
tion to find them, and so jump at every fresh 
importation, hoping to attain a helpmate 
without any extra expense to themselves. It 
is a fine thing for them to have girls come 
handy, and time will tell the story whether it 
is so nice for the girls; but one thing is 
very certain—some refined youug ladies 
in this country have mated themselves with 
men at whom they would have turned up their 
noses, aud whose attention they would have 
resented, had they mot them while “at home.’’ 
But if “ matches are made in Heaven,’' as the 
old saw says, they get terribly twisted some¬ 
times ; but enough of this. 
I am thankful that “ Grandaugliter ’* is so 
happy in her new home, with her preacher 
husband and her nice house ; perhaps she had 
no more convenient one at her father’s ; if so, 
she could not understand the inconvenience of 
being cramped for room and having to live in 
a trunk for lack of closet room. But I should 
not like to advise a friend to leave a cozy homo 
and all the comforts appertaining to society 
and civilization, for a lonely home on the 
jimirip, T >)0 pop prwt WPllM P& tP9 ffrept, and 
“I have,” says Dr. Guthrie, “four good 
reasons for being an abstainer—my head is 
clearer, my health is better, my heart is light¬ 
er and my purse is heavier.”. 
Talmage says, there are passions within 
your soul that have never been unchaiued. 
Look out if once they slip their cables. 
Bacon says he who gives good advice,builds 
with one hand: he who gives good council and 
example, builds with both; but he who 
gives good admonition and bad example, 
builds with one hand and pulls down with the 
other. 
The Churchman says the great, the supreme 
attainment is the Christlike life. With the 
heavenly life, heaven is an experimental veri¬ 
ty. This is a possession for the present, as 
well as for the future. But how much of it 
do we see illustrated on earth? How vital 
and commanding is its power with the living? 
Go where men deal with each other, see them 
in their cares, and labors and pleasures, and 
what one fails to find, with lew exceptions, 
is a transparent unworldliness, heavenly 
mindedness, consent to the rule of divine chari¬ 
ty. We do not see professing Christians or¬ 
dinarily denying themselves for others, tak¬ 
ing crosses for the weak and helpless, sacrific¬ 
ing their pride, and prejudice, and bad appe¬ 
tites, in a great passion for godliness, holding 
their brethren everywhere in tender and com¬ 
passionate sympathy, and dwelling in the in¬ 
spirations of the leadership of love. 
As a matter of course, it was Sam Jones 
who said, “if the hypocrites are in your way, 
it is becaise they are ahead of you; aud if I 
were you, I would not confess that I was hin¬ 
dered from serving God by a hypocrite. Let 
me tell you, in all candor, that I think you 
are lying, when you talk about being kept 
from serving God by us poor fellows who are 
in the church.”. 
It was Daniel Webster who said by the 
Christian world throughout its broadest ex¬ 
tent, it has been and is held as a fundamental 
truth, that religion is the only solid basis of 
morals, aud that moral instruction not resting 
on this basis is only building on sand. 
Dr. Haypord says while in the nature of 
things, all duties are duties to God, yet, as a 
matter of fact, nearly all the specific duties of 
life grow out of human relations, and are 
what we owe to one another. For the most 
part religion consists in meeting lovingly and 
faithfully the obligations that grow out of 
every-day human relationships. Some of 
them are of a very lowly and commonplace 
sort, but, in a true sense, it is this precisely 
that makes them sacred. 
The remark of the Rev. John Newton, be¬ 
low, deserves to be written on the tablet of 
every heart. “I see in this world two heaps- 
one of human happiness and one of misery ; 
now, if I can take but the smallest bit from 
the second heap and add it to the first, I carry 
a point. If, as I go home, a child has dropped 
a half-penny, and if, by giving another, I can 
wipe away its tears, I feel that I have done 
something. I should be glad, indeed, to do 
great things, but I will not neglect such little 
ones as this. These little things are what we 
all can do, and we should encourage ourselves 
with the thought that 
" The drying up a single tear hath more 
Of honest fswo than shedding seas of gore,” 
CONDUCTED BY MRS. AGNES E. M. CARMAN. 
No half-way doin’s, hredren! It’ll neber do, I say, 
Go at your task an’ finish It, an’ den’s de time to play; 
For eben if de crap is good, de rain’ll spile de bolls, 
Unless you keeps a pickin’ In de garden of your souls. 
Keep a plowin’ an a hoein’, an’ a scrapin’ Ob de rows, 
An’when de gln’nins ober you can pay up what you 
owes. 
But If you quits a workln’ cbery time de sun Is hot, 
De sheriff’s gwine to lebby on ebbery ting yon's got, 
for 
Whateber ’tls you’s drlbln at, be sure an’ dribe it troo. 
An’ don’t let nullin’ stop you but do what you’s gwine 
to do. 
Russell. 
SUMMER DISHES. 
I have a Norwegian girl who makes a 
very excellent Norwegian bread, especially' 
recommended for dyspeptics. Sift one pint 
of barley meal, with one and a half pint of 
Graham flour, and half a pint of whiat flour, 
a teaspoonful of salt and two of baking pow¬ 
der. Mix to a batter with one pint of milk. 
The batter should be rather firm; pour into a 
greased baking pan, and bake forty minutes 
in a moderate oven. 
A very delicate omelet is made by beating 
the yelks of six eggs and the whites of four; 
season with salt and pepper. Meantime fry 
small dice of bread in butter, and throw into 
boiling milk, gravy, or sauce of any kind; 
take out, mix with the beateu egg, an.l fry 
like an ordinary omelet. 
A plain omelet with small dice of fried 
bacon, is an excellent relish. A baked omelet 
is rather an economical dish. Beat four eggs, 
whites and yelks separately, add a cup of 
milk, a tablespoonful of flour, as much butter, 
and a seasoning of salt and pepper. Bake in a 
buttered dish in a quick oven. 
A boiled ham is a good summer stand-by. 
It will keep a long time, and should unexpect¬ 
ed company arrive, backed by a cold ham, 
you need never be afraid to extend your hos¬ 
pitality to them. You have of course your 
kitchen garden. Suppose you arrange a dish 
something as follows: Rut a few slices of pale- 
pink ham, cut artistically thin, in the center 
of a large, flat dish. Around these put a cir¬ 
cle of the tender green leaves of lettuce; sur¬ 
round this with the crimson glow of small 
French breakfast radishes. Lot the outer 
row be slices of ham alternated with dark, 
curled parsley, and slices of hard-boiled egg. 
What could be prettier or taste better? A 
Sally Lunn is an excellent accompaniment. 
Sift a pound and a half of flour, and add two 
ounces of butter heated in a pint of new milk, 
a little salt and three eggs well beaten. If 
you can set this over-night, with two table¬ 
spoonfuls of good yeast, well and good, but if 
not, use two tablespoon fills of baking powder 
with the flour. 
Coffee jelly served with whipped cream is a 
nice dessert for a hot day. But one ounce of 
gelatine in a saucepan with half a pint of 
strong, clear coffee, and three half pints of 
boiling water; sweeten to the taste, and when 
just at the boiling point remove from the fire, 
and strain into a buttered mold, palmetto. 
MOTHERS, SPARE YOURSELVES. 
There was a lovely and beloved woman, the 
mother of two little boys, who was all in all 
to them, and who made them a comfortable 
When Bauy was sick, we gave her Castoria, 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, 
When she became Miss, sue clung to Castoria, 
When she had Children, she gave them castoria 
