95 
YWI RUBAI* HIW^OBICEB. 
women.” Whether or no “marriage is a 
failure,” a large number of women in this 
Empire State, alone, can never enter the 
married state, for the very simple reason that 
there are not partners enough to go round. 
[Of the 5,082,871 people in the State in 1880, 
according to the last census, 2.505,322 were 
males, and 2,577,549 females, so that t‘ ere was 
a preponderance of 72,227 of the latter. 
There has been on increase since in the num¬ 
ber of both sexes; but the proportion has re¬ 
mained almost the same.— Eds.] Of the fit¬ 
ness or unfitness of many of both sexes to en¬ 
ter this latter state, this chronicler faith noth¬ 
ing, leaving that to the moralists and reform¬ 
ers on various subjects. The only question 
herein considered is the bread and-butter 
question. Tbe ave age man's salary will not 
support the quota of women who, as sisters, 
sisters-in law, maiden aunts, etc., will be de¬ 
pendent on him, if all are “ home-keepers ” 
only, though Miss Alcott did say that “ it 
takes three women to get every man into, 
through and out of this world.” Congress 
would surely have to make appropriations to 
maintain many of these seminaries of “ horned 
keepers; 1 ’ for house rent, fuel, and lights 
food and raiment, church dues and society's 
deman is fora houseful of adults, cannot be 
met by just making home pleamnt, however 
important for the good of the country that 
work may be. The extreme pleasantries of 
any home may be questioned, perhaps, in 
which from three to six “home beepers” 
make it their sole business to tinker at the 
household machinery. It would be as if as 
many engineers of the masculine gender 
were trying to run one rail-road engine; one 
would open the valves to go faster; another 
doge them to slacken speed, the third w. uld 
want to stop at every station, the fourth 
wouldn’t want to stop at all. etc , etc., and 
none of them would earn “ board wages.” 
“ POSTSCRIPT.” 
THE CHILDREN OF THE FARM. 
^HE frequent repetition of the question 
npHE 
“Why do the boys leave the farm?” 
goes to prove that it has not been satis- 
fac only answered. Perhaps no two boys 
leave their old life for exactly the same 
reason. Still there me some general princi¬ 
ples at work to that end, the correction of not 
a few of which depends on the farme- himself. 
Quite frequently the evil influences of forces 
far beyond his reach may be kept out of his 
own circle. He cannot control or banish the 
speculative epoch through which the world 
just now is passing, but he ran take up the 
attention of his sons and daughters with 
healthier in erests. But he so often feels that 
his power is so small beside this mighty enemy 
that it is uot worth while to try the contest. 
He is discouraged just, perhats, as you, dear 
readers, are at this moment. But you must 
conq er that weakness. Don’t think about 
your strength, but about the object you are 
trying for. Is that small* You must depend 
upon yourself, and the sooner you wake up to 
this, the befer. Take the children in band 
and teach them to love the world around 
them. Nature is the best corrective for such 
unnatural development as d earns of “idle 
splendor” in her creatures and where is Na¬ 
ture stronger than on a farm? Here on the 
stait you have a powerful ally. 
Hardly less in power, if rigbtlv utilized, is 
the cabinet collector's epoch. With some en- 
couiagemmt and help, the youDg children 
may be led to gather seeds; to study and 
label them, taking them not only from the 
grains bins but from tbe wreds as well. In¬ 
deed such study among the older members of 
tbe farmer’s family might often prevent the 
ignorant sowing or scattering of some noxi¬ 
ous weed. Then let them take the different 
kinds of forest wood, the bark, the leaves, the 
flowers, and fruit and study well tbe use and 
properties of each. Then let them try the 
stones and various kinds of soil. There is no 
place where so great a variety of studies can 
be applied as on tbe farm. Chemistry, geo- 
Jogy, botany, philosophy (at least mechanics,) 
and many other sciences and arts come into 
almost daily use with the farmer prepared to 
use them. 
As the children grow, share the responsibili¬ 
ties as well as the labors of the place with 
them. Give each one something of the com¬ 
mon product for which to be responsible, and 
thus early teach all to feel that every one has 
duties, on the performance of which other 
people are depeuneut. Give to one the garden; 
to another the yard; to another the potatoes, 
etc. It is well to give each one a patch of 
land to do with as he or she pleases; but give 
each one some share iu the common stock as 
well, increasing the share and extent of re¬ 
sponsibility as fitness for it warrants. Be 
watchful yourself, but let it always be iu a 
Spirit of genuine interest, uot from lack^if con¬ 
fidence. Be ready with advice when asked for 
or absolutely needed; but in tbe latter case, re¬ 
member that experience is a pretty thorough 
teacher. 
If your boys see that you are willing to con¬ 
sider tbe adv ce of others and read that given 
in some good agricultural paper, they will 
feel the freer to come to you while you will be 
the better able to assist them. 
If you can influence a neighbor to let out a 
portion of his farm among his boys, so much 
the better for your own. A friendly competi¬ 
tion will be pretty sure to follow. 
Nor are the girls to be forgotten in these 
plans. Give them something aside from the 
usual household drudeery so that they may 
also look for some returns besides the return 
of their tasks. 
Use your leisure hours in keeping up with 
the times. Don’t give your children cbaDce 
to feel that to become a farmer means to re¬ 
tire from all the outer world. Youth paints 
all walks of life in brilliant colors and loses 
interest first in that which seems diverging 
farthest from the rest. 
Don’t always talk of the work on a farm 
never being finished. This saving is no truer 
of the farmer than of the true man every¬ 
where whose work is only finished with his 
life. Avoid unnecessary shadows in tbe farm 
picture, but don’t wholly evade comparisons 
with other occupations if others bring them 
up, as any child might suppose that in that 
case, you thought farming would appear to 
di-ad vantage. 
Encourage originality and let your children 
see that as yet the room for advance is limit¬ 
less. Thus by always ke ping them employed 
with business of their own, you can tide 
them over the most fickle portion of their 
lives, at the same time teaching them self- 
control as well as self-reliance and making 
themselves into true men and women. Then 
those whom Nature meant for farmers will be 
true to her decree, and it is only those we 
wish to keep; while those who have some 
other mission to fulfill, experience has proved, 
will the more readily find their true calling 
and be the better fitted for it oy the broad 
and generous natural education every intelli¬ 
gent and observant farmer must acquire. 
WILDER GRAHAME. 
A LIBERAL EDUCATION. 
46 JT is an inspiration to go through Mrs. 
F D—’s house, and a liberal education to 
see her sweep aud dust a parlor,” said a friend, 
speaking of a mutual arqua ntance whom she 
had just visited. “ You see she takes the b°st 
household magazines, and profits by what she 
reads; in short, she does the things which you,” 
with a g’ance at my inky fingers, and a merry 
lautih »Inch robbed her words of their sting, 
“ which vou write about.” 
[ looked at the ink-stains, and then at some 
rather du ty bric-a-brac, with a sort of mea 
culpa expression, but since I havs reflected on 
my trieud’s words, I have come to the con¬ 
clusion that if I am helping to make good 
housekeepers I am peihaps doiDg as much 
go<d as if I merely ministered to my own 
pleasure and sense of neatness by keeping my 
shelves and vases immaculate. In my own 
secret heart I know that I can sweep and dust 
a room as well as Mrs. D—only sometimes 
through stre«s of other duties I delegate those 
duties to Norah, with strict injunctions to let 
every breakable article severely alone. Still 
the readers of the Rural are entitled to the 
best that I can give, so with the modesty 
which is a well-known attribute of my pro- 
I fession, I shall step on one side, aud tell them 
just how Mrs. D—proceeds to sweep and 
garnish her house. 
First, she arrays herself in her sweeping 
apron, three breadths of light print gathered 
on a band, and descending to the bottom of 
her morning dress. Next she dons a white 
muslin mob-cap, from which her sunny little 
curls escape here and there iu the most be 
witching manner. Lastly she draws on a long 
pair of wash-leather sweeping gloves, for a 
daintier little lady never wielded a broom, and 
her pink palms, and ro*y nails never bear 
about them a suggestion of housework. 
Being ready for work, Bridget is now sum¬ 
moned, aud the heavy cushioned arm-chairs, 
sofas, and lounge are carried to the wide 
veranda where they are well beaten; tables 
aud lighter chairs are dusted and taken into 
an adjoining room; rugs, large and small (there 
are no carpets) are also taken to tbe verauda, 
and subjected to a thorough sweeping on both 
sides, those that are not too heavy for Brid¬ 
get’s stout arms are thrown over the clothes¬ 
line and thoroughly beaten. Meanwhile our 
pretty housekeeper is industriously dusting 
and placing on the tables in the next room 
many precious bits of porcelain aud jiottery. 
Next, tbe book-cases all of which are open, 
are dusted, the shelves being emptied one by 
one, wiped with a damp cloth, and the books 
(lusted amt returned. These articles of furni¬ 
ture are then pinned up iu dusting sheets. 
Portieres, and curtains are lifted down, car¬ 
ried out-of-doors, shaken and laid on one side. 
The floors are then swept after which the 
picture-frames are dusted, and the glass 
washed and wiped; paint is wiped, not for¬ 
getting the tops of the doors, and windows 
are polished. The highly polished floor is 
then wa c hed with warm water and now to 
bring order out of confusion it is only neces¬ 
sary to replace the already dusted and 
cleansed furniture and ornaments, and our 
education is complete. palmetto. 
BREAD FROM ENTIRE WHEAT. 
In answer to an inquiry as to making bread 
from the entire grain, we cannot do better 
than republish the directions given by Alice 
Brown in the Rural of March 31, 1888. 
At n’ght, one quart of sweet milk is heated 
to the boiling point and one teaspoonful of 
butter (or one half pint of sweet cream) two 
table spoonfuls of granulated sugar, and one- 
fourth tea-spoonful of salt are added, stirring 
them in well. When cooled to blood heat, a 
small quantity of any good yeast is stirred in, 
and flour enough to make a thick batter. Set 
where it will keep warm over-mght. It is 
made into a stiff dough in the mornmg, when 
light, molded into loaves, raised a gam, and 
baked in a steady beat. The loaves we en¬ 
joyed were baked in one-quart fruit cans 
from which the rims around the tops bad been 
removed, and but a pint loaf was necessary to 
fill the can, when raised, even then puffing 
above the rim. 
EXTRACTS FROM PRIVATE LETTERS. 
Amen! Amen!! Is what I want to say to 
Leila S. Tavlor’s views on “Civil Government 
in Schools,” and to the review of Dr. Lucy 
Hall’s lecture on “Sanitation m the Country.’’ 
Ooe reform is almost as much needed as the 
other. 
The millennium must be nigh when a “lord 
of creation” can write such an article, as did 
Mr. Terry, on Woman’s Rightful Position, in 
the Rural of Jan. 19. And tbe Editor en¬ 
dorses it! Well, well, I wish my grandfather 
could have lived till now; probably tho’, he'd 
wish he had died before these degenerate days 
came. miss e. b. 
As to Charity’s “Reveries,” the shoe doesn’t 
pinch me. Thank Heaven! I have a wife who 
cares more for my well-being than for a dozen 
‘ blot®.’' If necessary, the work incident to 
slaughtering could be done in the kitchen and 
she would cheerfully clean up, even if I did 
not. G - H - s - 
Don’t omit the Sunday Evening Talks too 
often—-they deal with such practical religion. 
MISS E. 
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