1833 
THE RU8AL WEW-YOBKEK. 
SOI 
and pleasant home, in spite of the carelessness 
and neglect of the husband and father, who 
was idle and dissolute in his habits and seem¬ 
ingly indifferent to their claims upon him. 
She was one of those rare women who possess 
both tact and talent with a large amount of 
ambition thrown in. She had the soul of an 
artist and the mind of a philosopher; she could 
paint a picture, write an essay, recite a poem, 
do the family sewing, washing and ironing, 
put her house in order and cook a dinner and 
do it all well and equally well; but through 
overwork and “ enduring all things,” she had 
become physically diseased and weakened. 
This spring her house needed renewing from 
garret to cellar and the grounds around it 
needed clearing off, replanning and rearrang¬ 
ing. With her own frail body and small 
hands she scrubbed and cleaned, painted and 
papered and whitewashed, took up, cleansed 
and tacked down carpets, tore out and nailed 
up shelves, and made a closet in her sleeping 
room, cleared off and arranged plots and 
flower beds in the door yard, while he who 
should have been her helper and protector, 
who should have kept and guarded her as the 
apple of his eye, went hunting and fishing, or 
loafed about and let her do it. 
When all the rooms in her house 
(and there were a good many), and 
the grounds around it were made clean 
and sweet, she said, “ I am so glad 
and thankful that it is all done, but I 
feel so tired and there is such a pain in my 
side.” 
One quiet evening in June she kissed her 
little boys good-night, as usual, and, iu the 
morning her beautiful face and form were 
white and still and she was at rest. But, oh, 
the boys! the poor, dear little boys! who never 
more could have the mother’s love and care 
which was so much to them ! 
And the little world in which she had lived 
and moved, that must go on iu sorrow and 
loneliness without her ! For she was a leader 
in each and every good work iu the church 
aud community ; the promoter of that which 
was elevating and ennobling. Oh, mothers, 
dear precious mothers ! if no one else knows 
the sacredness and responsibilities of mother¬ 
hood, you know them ! Aud if you have care¬ 
less, unheeding, unloving husbands and no one 
else will spare you, I beseech you, spare your- 
SOlVGS ! GERALDINE G. 
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MEDICINAL VALUE OF BUTTERMILK. 
A sensible writer in the Popular Science 
Monthly, extols the virtues of buttermilk. It 
was given hot to a young lady suffering from 
a severe consumptive cough, and gave an un¬ 
varying relief to all previous distressing 
symptoms, as well as perfect freedom from 
the cough for several hours after each draught. 
Another person was cured of indigestion by 
its use. I am such a firm advocate of it my¬ 
self that I am apt to forget that “ what is one 
man’s meat is another man’s poison.” To me 
it is food anil drink. Last spring 1 gained 
ten pounds in le»s than as many weeks, aud 
attributed the gain to my daily quart of but¬ 
termilk. * * 
PULLED BREAD. 
Thebe is no nicer cles-.ert than a piece of 
pulled bread, a bit of cheese and a cup of 
coffee; besides, it is "so English you know.” 
To make pulled bread take a loaf of freshly 
baked bread, while it is still warm and rather 
underdone, and pull the inside out of it in 
pieces the size of an egg. Put these in the 
oven aud bake a delicate brown. They are 
crisp, and full of flavor and make a delight¬ 
ful combination with cheese, and tender 
stalks of celery or leaves of lettuce. 
MBS. If. c. 
MOTHS. 
“ What do I do for moths ? ” said methodi¬ 
cal Mrs. Murray, “Why, I never have to do 
anything for them. I am never troubled with 
them.” 
“ Oh,” said her friend, “ I suppose you have 
cedar closets, aud all that sort of thing.” 
“ No, indeed, I haven’t anything of the sort; 
but i do have a large trunk lined with tar 
paper. In this, as soon as the family are done 
with winter flannels, coats, and clothing of 
various kinds, 1 pack my faith aud winter 
clothes in camphor. 1 prefer it to snuff, to¬ 
bacco, or red pepper. There is nothing dis¬ 
agreeable about camphor to the human ol. 
factories, and moths do not seek it any more 
eagerly than they do the other preventives. 
A fur cloak, or other especially valuable gar¬ 
ment, I put in a linen pillow-case, after put¬ 
ting camphor among the folds. This 1 tie,and 
shut, wrap in largo newspapers, and then 
inclose the whole in a tight pasteboard box 
or in a drawer that nee^ not be molested dur* 
g the summer. 
“ If the edges and corners of carpets are 
swept thoroughly, moths will not lodge there. 
Besides, 1 don’t use carpets. I haven’t one in 
the house. I use rugs which can be taken up 
and shaken every two or three wepks. If your 
rooms are carpeted, and you have to shut 
them up for any length of time, sweep and 
dust aud sprinkle camphor, pepper or snuff 
over the floor. Take down the portiferes and 
woolen curtains, shake well, aud pack away 
in camphor. The Persian insect powder will 
kill anything that hasn’t lungs, but is per¬ 
fectly harmless to the human species. When 
you use it with intent to kill, the room must 
be shut, so as to exclude the outer air for sev¬ 
eral hours. 
“A good deal of trouble, do you say ? Yes, 
so it is, but the ounce of prevention is always 
less troublesome and expensive than the 
pound of cure.” Housekeeper. 
RENOVATING A BLACK CASHMERE. 
I have just made over a faded aud soiled 
black cashmere with what my slangy college 
lad calls a “ howling success.” I don’t know 
if the readers of the Rubal approve of such 
slang. I don’t, but “boys will be boys,” aud 
this fault, if fault it be, is the only one that I 
can lay to the charge of my brave, cheery 
Dick. 
Not to digress : wash the cashmere in suds 
made of soap bark, rinse in clear water, then 
in a second water, to which blueing has been 
added. If the goods are much faded, add a 
good deal of blueiDg, aud let the cashmere lie 
in this over-night. Pick it up by the edges, 
and hang in a shady place to dry, without 
wringing, and press while still damp. A plain 
skirt need not be ripped. 
1 turned mine into quite an elaborate after¬ 
noon dress, by inserting a panel of white 
Danish cloth, at eight cents a yard, which I 
braided with gold braid, adding a collar, cuffs 
aud vest front of the same material. I can 
wear it a whole season, aud then afford to re¬ 
make it. 
FANCY BAG. 
A very pretty bag to carry work for after¬ 
noon visiting is made from blue and white 
ticking of the old fashioned, narrow striped 
variety. Take a piece twice the length of the 
desired bag : sew flat gold braid over the blue 
stripes, aud feather-stitch the white stripes 
with colored silks. Double the piece and put a 
puff of satin of some pretty, contrasting color 
down the sides. Finish the top with a band 
several inches deep of the same; gather, and 
run iu a ribbon, leaving a ruffle at the top. 
mother. 
SENSIBLE WORDS. 
I do not think that in order to show real 
love for our children, we must make for them 
costly, much-trimmed clothes, or give them all 
sorts of dainties to lat; neither is it necessary 
to buy them every pretty toy, or let them have 
their own sweet (?) way at whatever cost to 
those around them; nor yet need wo lepeat in 
their presence all their own quaint sayings, or 
other people’s praise of them. 
But, rather, let oar great love for our little 
ones manifest itself in that ready sympathy 
and understanding which no other word de¬ 
fines so well as “mothering.” In their min¬ 
utes of fretfulness and obstinacy aud dullness, 
let us exercise such kind patience that they 
may see that while mother is firm and strict, 
yet she loves the good in them, and that their 
faults cause her only sorrow and not anger. 
Love springs up and thrives in a child’s 
heart, when he looks at his own act of naugh¬ 
tiness, and remembers that through all, though 
mother insisted that he must obey her, she 
showed no anger, no coldness, no impatience; 
but only a warm, loving, patient determina¬ 
tion to teach him what is right, and for his 
best good. mbs. levi h. niles. 
LEMON PIES. 
One small teacupful of butter, one pint of 
sugar added to it, yelks of five eggs, juice and 
peel of two lemons, one teacupful of milk 
and the well beaten whites of five eggs. This 
quantity will make two large or three small 
pies. To be eaten cold. 
CHOCOLATE CAKE. 
Two cups of sugar, one cup of butter, four 
eggs, one cup of sweet milk, three cups and a 
half of flour, three teaspoonfuls of baking 
powder. For the iciug: one teacupful of 
grated chocolate, one cup of powdered sugar, 
three tablespoonsful of sweet milk; heat 
slowly until very smooth. Spread between 
layers aud on top of cake. 
PICKLED WALNUTS. 
Gather walnuts when soft enough to bo 
pierced with a needle—July—prick each with 
a large needle well through, holding in a cloth 
to avoid staipluif the bauds; coyer with 
strong salt-and-water, a pint and a half of 
salt to a gallon of water. Let stand two or 
three days, changing the brine every day, 
then pour over them a brine made by dis¬ 
solving salt in boiling wafer (let it get cold 
before using) and let s’and .three days. Re¬ 
new the brine and let stand three days more. 
Now drain and expose to the sun for two or 
three days until they become black (or put 
in cold water for half a day). Pack in jars 
not quite full—-the proportions are a hundred 
walnuts to each gallon of vinegar. Boil the vin¬ 
egar eight minutes with a teacupful of sugar, 
three dozen each whole clove and allspice, a 
dozen and a half of peppers and a dozen blades 
of mace. Pour the vinegar over the walnuts 
scalding hot. In three days draw off the 
vinegar,boil aud pour back again while hot. At 
the end of three days repeat the process. They 
will be good to eat in a month and will keep 
for years. It looks like considerable trouble 
but they are worth it. 
COCOANUT DROPS. 
Half a pint of grated cocoanut, one-half pint 
of sugar, two eggs and a little flour. Bake on 
buttered paper. 
1 learned something this spring that others 
may be equally as ignorant of as I was and 
that isto^ieef asparagus from the head down. 
It is not much i rouble and is much better, and 
you can eat the entire stalk then. 
GINGER-BREAD WITHOUT EGGS. 
One pint of molasses, one glass of sour milk 
or cream, one tablespoonful of soda, one-half 
pint of melted lard. Put the soda into milk 
and molasses and beat to a foam ; add half 
a tablespoon t'ul of ginger and make the dough 
very soft. 
I don’t know what is the matter with the 
rural readers. I think Mrs. Fisher drew the 
Dark Side of Farming too mild. 
MRS. R. W. WILLIAMS. 
FOR THE CHILDREN. 
The following are some of the games that 
my children amuse themselves and little friend 
with: 
SHADOW BUFF. 
This is gentler and safer than the ordinary 
blind-man's buff, and is a favorite evening 
game. A white wall and a bright light are 
the only things necessary. If the wall is want¬ 
ing, hang up a white sheet or table cloth. 
Some one called Buff sits opposite this screen. 
The light is back of him. The players then 
pass behind him in procession, each distorting 
himself as he passes by every means in his 
power, aud the game consists in Buff’s trying 
to identify them by the shadow on the screen. 
Whoever is caught takes Buff’s place. 
THE GNOME. 
Let a person with a smooth, white hand 
close the fist so that the end of the thumb ap¬ 
pears between the middle and third fingers. 
The first finger is thus the forehead, the sec¬ 
ond the nose, the thumb the moving tongue, 
the third finger the chin of the gnome. Put a 
black shoe-button on each side of the knuckle 
between the first and second fingers. Drape 
this face in a kerchief and the effect will be 
startling. 
THE MAGIC EGG. 
Put pin-holes in the ends of an egg and blow 
out the contents. Wager that you can float 
an egg in a bowl of clear water. Get your 
empty shell and it will float safe enough. 
TO EAT A CANDLE. 
Cut an apple, so, that it will look like a part 
of a tallow candle. Crowd a bit of clean wick 
in the bottom end and stick a piece of peeled 
almond in the top for a wick. To prove that 
it is a caudle, light your bit of almond—it will 
burn—for a moment, blow it out and eat the 
candle. mother. 
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THE VOICE, when hoarse and husky 
from overstrain or irritation of the vocal 
organs, is improved and strengthened by the 
Use of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. Clergy¬ 
men, Singers, Actors, and Public Speakers 
find great relief in the use of this prep¬ 
aration. A specific for throat affections. It 
relieves Croup and Whooping Cough, and is 
indispensable in every household. 
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, 
Prepared by T>r. »T. C. Ayer Sc Co., Lowell, Mass. 
Bold by all PruggiatSf Pricj; $1 j pi* bottle#, 
Mrs. Dart’s Triplets. 
President Cleveland’s Prize for the three best 
babies at the Aurora Fair, in 1887, was given 
to these triplets, Mollie, Ida. and Ray, children 
of Mrs. A. K. Dart, Hamburgh, N. Y. She writes : 
“ I consider It very largely due to Lactated Food 
that they are now so well.” 
Cabinet photo, of these triplets sent free to the mother 
of any baby bom this year. 
Lactated Food 
Is the best Food for bottle-fed babies. It keeps 
them well, and is better than medicine 
when they are sick. 
At Druggists, 25c., 50c., $1.00. 
The Best and Most Economical Food. 
150 Meals for an Infant for $1.00. 
WELLS, RICHARDSON i CO., BURLINGTON, VT. 
nn nn A Month can be made 
3>/3.UU IO working for us. Agents 
preferred whocan furnish a horse and give their whole 
time to the business Spare moments may be profitably 
emploved also. A few vacancies In towns and cities. 
B. F. JOHNSON & CO., 100'.! Main St., Richmond. Va. 
Ilf HI It 8 Fa rilling with Green Manures. 
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for cash, free of postage. Address 
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paid. Fully warran¬ 
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