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VKE RURAL mW^OEKE*. 
with a red head, so I was aflame in an instant. 
But, after thinking it ovei*, I concluded that, 
should a question arise as to which was the 
lady, I’d run as good a chance of being one 
as the person who could, unprovoked, slur 
another. 
Girls, be little women! Do not imagine be¬ 
cause you may live far out in the country on 
some lonely farm that it will not matter 
much. It will matter. God watches you in 
your lonely home just as much as He does 
those in the crowded cby. You may think 
that you haven’t any mission in life; that un¬ 
less you can do some great thing, there is no 
use doing anything at all. But it is not so, 
for “Great things from small beginnings 
rise;—Sands make the mountains, and trifles, 
life.” 
Do your duty always, as nearly as you can. 
Of course, it becomes awfully tiresome to 
wash the dishes three times a day—to sweep 
and dust, to make beds, etc., day in and day 
out, and sometimes we feel like saying 
“ What’s the use?” But if you don’t do it 
maybe mother will have to, and don’t you 
think that mother is tired of it as well as you 
are? Do you ever think of the years she has 
spent working from early dawn till late at 
night? She never says “ What’s the use?” but 
goes on patiently, year in and year out. The 
gray hairs as they come one by one, the 
wrinkles as they creep into her face, show the 
care she has endured. Even if you never do 
a thing that is heard of outside your own vil¬ 
lage, don’t you think you have done good by 
helping to bear the burdens for mother? 
Then, too, the sad day may come when those 
patient bane's are folded, those tired eyes 
closed, and mother’s work is done. Will your 
life be wasted if you are able to take up her 
work and do as she would have done—care for 
father and the boys? Or, perhaps, before she 
goes you may be able to brighten her life a 
little. Poor, tired mother! Girls, again I 
say. be women! 
Before I close let me also -whisper a word to 
the mothers. Do not exact too much from 
the girls. Remember they are girls, and if you 
want them to be a blessing to you in your 
old age, be patient with their faults. Do not 
be forever nagging and scolding them. 
Remember you were a girl yourself once. 
DORA HARVEY VROOMAN. 
color, for five pounds of goods, I use two 
pounds of camwood. Boil 15 minutes and 
dip the rags one-half hour; boil again and 
dip half an hour longer; then darken with 
blue vitriol, 1)4 ounce. If not dark enough, 
add half an ounce of copperas. For red, I 
use'the “Bright red on Cotton” that was ad¬ 
vertised by C. E. Heifer in the Rural of Feb¬ 
ruary 16. It is cheap and beautiful and 1 
consider it a great boon to rag-carpet 
makers. 
Be sure to'have your goods wrung out of 
clear water before putting them into aDy dye. 
I use plain brown warp, thinking that shows 
up all colors better than any other, aud it is a 
kind of which I do not tire so quickly. I buy 
it already colored. adelle button. 
“ Every woman is happy with her work 
well laid out before her for some few straight- 
yoiny hours ; her occupation is ordinarily 
so apt to consist chiefly in interruptions." 
RAG CARPETS. 
Charity may make herself easy on one 
score, and that is; no one will ever take her 
for a hyacinth, either straight or crooked. 
Two years ago I planted some African mari¬ 
golds. When in bloom the flowers were a 
beautiful shade of yellow, and of a good form. 
One day I pulled a few b ossoms, but I soon 
threw them away. Pretty to look at, but, 
faugh!—what an odor! Charity’s a marigold, 
not a hyacinth. a man. 
BREAKING THE WILL. 
A S my rag carpets have called forth many 
highly complimentary remarks from 
city as well as country friends, I thought 
that as the time for coloring and making 
such carpets is near at haud, I would give 
directions according to my way: First, don’t 
let the rags accumulate until there are enough 
to cause disorder and dust for days while 
tearing anct sewing. W nen a garment tnat is 
useful for nothing but carpet rags, has been 
washed and ironed, I tear it up and sew’ the 
pieces together if I can. If I have not the 
time do the sewing then, I put the rags into a 
basket I keep for that purpose, and the first 
time that is not tilled. I put into work on my 
rags, and then when the time comes for 
making a carpet, they are all ready, 
aud I can hardly tell when the 
work was accomplished. In tearing the rags, 
tear them entirely off; do not tear and tear 
back, for if you'do, little rough ends will stand 
up until tbe carpet is nearly worn out. Tear 
into narrow strips; for then the carpet will not 
be so heavy, can be handled more easily, will 
wear just as well and will look much prettier. 
Don't use any fulled cloth, as it wears out 
much faster than cotton. Allow one aud one- 
fourth pound of rags to the yard, aud you will 
probably have some left. I do. The finer the 
rags the less weight of rags to the yard. 
Shaded strips of brown, drab, or, in fact, any 
of the colors are pretty and can be made by 
removing some of the goods from the dye 
sooner than the others. 
One living near rubber works where rubber 
tubing is made, can procure the cotton strips 
after they are done with them very chfap. 
The strips are from nine to 30 feet long and 
from four to six inches wide. After a thorough 
washing they are ready for use. I presume 
most people are familiar with the coloring of 
brown, drab, green, blue, and yellow rags, 
therefore 1 will not give the recipes uuless de¬ 
sired. If the rags for green are made blue 
first, you will have a blue-green, aud if yellow 
first, a yellow-green. Uuless you waut a 
blue-green, color all the rags yellow together 
that you want for yellow, orange and green; 
make your orange by dipping the yellow into 
what remains of the red dye. It is much safer 
than lime-water, for if the latttr is a little too 
strong it makes the rags tender. For wine 
A NOTHER mistake formerly made in tbe 
rearing of children was the practice of 
wbat was called “breaking the will.” The 
outline of the work was this: The young 
child was allowed to do whatever it pleased 
(supposing, of course, that it could not be train¬ 
ed by gentleness and firmness) without any 
effort to govern it until it was three, four or 
five years old; then, when the fit took them 
the ignorant, unthinking parents, swayed by 
the old idea of despotic rule, and a mistaken 
sense of duty, upon the refusal of the child to 
do their bidding, fell on it with whippings, 
shakings and the like until the poor little thing 
too confused to know exactly what was re* 
quired of it, narrowly escaped convulsions, 
and if really obstinate, it either gave up the 
contest only when its strength was exhausted, 
or, having worn out the time and patience of 
the parents, the attempt to break its will was 
adjourned until some other day. 
Many children of originally sound'mindsin 
healthy bodies came out of such contests with 
their wills broken indeed, but with shattered 
nerves, and a vacillating purpose. Many lost 
in their ill-advised struggles the energy, which 
well directed, would have carried them tri¬ 
umphantly over the ills of life. It was then 
often said of a child who had disagreeable 
manners, that its will had never been broken, 
as if it had missed one of the great blessings 
of life. Fatal delusion of parents who stoi¬ 
cally desired to do their duty by their child¬ 
ren. The high spirit which needs only drill¬ 
ing to be a blessing, is ruined if broken. The 
intelligent horseman deals more wisely with 
the colt he wishes to train to drive in harness. 
It is oovious, however, that this mistaken 
severity of our elders cannot be charged 
against the present generation of parents. Is 
it not owing to a reaction against the undue 
haste and despotic severity which was the 
rule 40 years ago, that now children’s wills are 
hardly checked, to say nothing of being 
“broken?” Toooften they are not even train¬ 
ed to habits of obedience and respect for their 
elders Perhaps in the growing enlighten¬ 
ment on such subjects there may be a change 
to a middle ground between rigid rule and no 
rule at all, so that the true development of 
children may arise from a habit of obedience 
and order, due to love of what is good, and 
not to fear of punishment, aunt rachel. 
CHARITY'S CROOKED HYACINTH. 
C CHARITY moralizes very prettily over 
j the attempt of Mother Nature to cor¬ 
rect a bit of carelessness, which probably hap¬ 
pened while she was enwrapped in the mystic 
vail of one of her wonderfully entrancing 
“domestic reveries.” Poor Burt! the uncon¬ 
scious butt of ridicule for a “refined” and 
gentle sister! I never knew a sister's love; 
but had I one like Charity, how grateful 1 
should be for the affection that would exhibit 
me to thousands as altogether unlovely. How 
my heart would thrill with brotherly love 
when 1 read of the numberless tokens of sister¬ 
ly regard which have emanated from her 
ready pen! How pleased I should be to know 
that “ eulebah ” regarded my father aud my¬ 
self as having “ no more brains than so many 
calves!” 
Burt may be “the crooked hyacinth”; but 
Charity should know that the bulb was good 
until her carelessness placed it in au unnat¬ 
ural position, and eveu then Nature had done 
much to repair that fault. So with Burt; it 
seems that he is rude, etc., etc. Naturally, he 
is good and kiud, and “means well, but”— 
ah! that “but.” What a convenient peg 
upon which to hang uncharitable criticism, 
together with a goodly amouut of self-esteem. 
Placed unnaturally by the superior “refine¬ 
ment” of his long-suffering sister, the good in 
him will take its natural course, and we will 
see it developing under adverse circumstances 
into a nearly straight plant, and when the 
time of maturity arrives, we shall probably 
behold it expanding into a white hyaciuthiue 
bloom very like that intended by its Creator. 
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TWO GOOD RECIPES. 
At a recent dinner the company being es¬ 
pecially pleased with the two principal dishes 
—rabbit pie and snow-flake cake—I give the 
recipes, hoping thereby to benefit some house¬ 
keeper who may be puzzled about what to 
cook or how to cook it. I would add that 
veal, as well as chicken, makes an excellent 
pie of this sort, omitting only the soaking and 
parboiling required in cooking rabbit. For 
the pie:—After the rabbit is nicely dressed, 
joint and put it to soak in cold water so as to 
cover it well, adding a handful of salt. Next 
morning wash the meat in clear water, put in 
a kettle with cold water to cover, adding a 
scant tea-spoonful of saleratus. Let it come 
to a boil, then throw away the water, wash 
the meat and kettle, replace the meat, cover 
with cold water, addiug a table spoonful of 
butter, some sale and a good dust of pepper. 
Cook till tender, keeping it covered with 
water. When done, remove the meat, add 
more water if necessary, and thicken .the 
broth with a table-spoonful or so of flour stir¬ 
red smooth in a little cold water, addiDg more 
salt if necessary. Have ready a crust made 
of wheat flour snd one cup of thick sour 
cream, two cups of sour butter-milk, a tea¬ 
spoonful of salt, a heaping tea-spoonful of sal¬ 
eratus dissolved iu a little warm water. If 
butter be used for shortening instead of 
cream, one-fourth of a pound to a quart of 
buttermilk will be about the right propor¬ 
tion. M'x as for biscuit, roll out about half 
the crust and with it line a buttered four- 
quart pan, put the meat in, having first cut it 
in suitable pieces; fill the pan perhaps one- 
third full of the broth, adding a good lump of 
butter and another dust ot pepper. Roll the 
remaining crust to cover the pan, slashing it 
in the center to allow the steam to escape. 
Pinch the edges together and bake in a moder¬ 
ately hot oven till done. The remaining 
gravy, of which there should be at least a 
bowlful, should receive a lump of butter and 
be reserved to fill the pan when the pie is 
baked (using a tunnel to do so). Serve hot. 
SNOW-FLAKE CAKE. 
Cream together two cupfuls of sugar and 
six ounces of butter; beat in the beaten yelks 
of two eggs: add one cup of sweet milk, and beat 
iu three cups (scant) of sifted flour, to which 
have been added two heap ug tea-spoonfuls 
of baking powder. Last of all, add a tea¬ 
spoonful of lemon extract and the well beaten 
whites of two eggs; beat well aud bake in a 
deep basin well buttered aud the bottom lined 
with buttered paper—white, or the light 
brown wrapping paper will do. When the 
cake is done and partly cool, cover it with a 
frosting made in the proportion of five table¬ 
spoonfuls of granulated sugar to the white 
of one medium-3ized egg, addiug the sugar, 
spoonful by spoonful, to the stiffly beaten 
white of egg; and, after frosting, immediately 
sprinkle thickly with desiccated cocoanut, 
and set the cake in the open oven a few min¬ 
utes to set the frosting. Keep well covered 
in the cellar till used. gladdys wayne. 
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