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THE BUBAL MEW-YOBKEB. 
the Lord bath taken away; blessed be the 
name of the Lord.” 
BOTH EARNING AND SPENDING. 
T HERE are so many ways for money to 
go that it is not only pleasant, but it 
also helps a great deal for the wives and chil¬ 
dren to earn a little pin-money by some em¬ 
ployment that is their own particular care. 
Among the justly popular industries for this 
purpose is the raising of poultry and eggs for 
market. If one has a large inclosure and a 
pond for ducks and geese, they pay well and 
eat no more than chickens according to their 
size. They can be raised in a pen and swim 
in a pan, bu t in that case they are terrors so 
far as eating is concerned, as foraging, when 
they can indulge in it, supplies nearly one- 
half of what they need; but they are unmiti¬ 
gated nuisances if allowed to run at large. 
Keeping bees is both profitable and agreea¬ 
ble to many. The expenses are small and a 
woman can do all or nearly all the work, and 
without doubt the “guid mon” would lend a 
helping band when needed without any ex¬ 
pectation of reward except all the honey he 
wanted to eat at the table. 
In some localities it is considered a consid¬ 
erable advantage to board the school-teacher; 
but with us doing so is rather a doubtful gain 
as the price ranges from $1 to $L. 50 per week. 
In the summer there are generally dry 
goods, grocery and jewelry peddlers traveling 
about and it pays very well to keep them 
over-night or for a meal as it may happen. 
Generally they have regular days for their 
trips, and accommodating thorn causes but 
little extra work as one knows when to ex¬ 
pect tnem. In the “good old times ” many a 
woman dried $50 worth of apples in a season; 
but no one can do that now I suppose; still 
with a small stove evaporator some of the 
surplus berries, cherries, plums, pears or sweet 
corn could be dried, and these could be sold 
at a profit—you see I take it for granted that 
every farmer should raise all the berries he 
can use. Our pigs and sheep like apples so 
well that we are not tempted to use our sur¬ 
plus of that kind of fruit in any way, except 
as feed. If a man cares for and milks the 
cows and a woman makes the butter it seems 
to me it is only fair that the proceeds should 
be divided. The pet lambs disowned by their 
mothers and the lame pigs that have been 
raised by women are so much saved as well 
as earned. Many a wife feeds a calf through 
the summer and sells it in the fall; but here 
it is not profitable as a four-week’s-old veal 
will sell for as much again in the spring as if 
it were kept till the fall. There are many 
other equally pi-ofitable employments; but 
those mentioned are possible to any farmer’s 
wife, while most of the others could be profit¬ 
able or practicable only in exceptional cases. 
Generally speaking, I do not believe in 
allowances. Husband and wife should repre¬ 
sent a partnership, and as each is working for 
the same purpose, each should have an equal 
right to the money earned; and a prudent 
wife is as much instrumental in keeping ex¬ 
penses within bounds as is her husband, and 
many times a great deal more. There are a 
very, very, few women who want to buy 
everything they see, and who will run in debt 
for it if they do not have the money. The 
only way to check this extravagance seems to 
be by providing them with an allowance that 
must not be exceeded. It is sometimes 
thought necessary to adopt the same method 
in household expenses; as it has been very 
truthfully said: “ A wife can throw out with 
a tea-spoon all her husband can bring in with 
a shovel.” But, thank goodness! such women 
are the exceptions, and very rare ones I be¬ 
lieve, as nearly all women are glad to prove 
helps instead of hindrances. If a person 
weighs well the need of an article before buy¬ 
ing it, there is little danger of extravagance, 
and in many pleasant, bright homes the prac¬ 
tice of economy, not stinginess, is a necessity. 
Many people think it desirable that children 
should be taught the value of money by giving 
them an allowance, but it is bettor to let them 
earn pin-money by doing some little tasks 
they can perform, and then they will learn 
the value of money by experience. There is 
no other true way to teach it to them, aud 
surely no better one. It is a mistake to allow 
children to grow up without any cares; the 
hard work of afterlife will be so much lighter 
if father aud mother give them little duties to 
attend to, and make the latter as attractive 
as possible. No other class of people have 
the opportunities to benefit their children by 
amusement aud instruction that farmers pos¬ 
ses®. H. BELLE CHAPMAN. 
A LETTER FROM AUNT HETTY. 
life there has been one bright pleasure that 
few have enjoyed, and that has been due to 
the fact that I have never had to ask for 
money. In saying this, I feel that I have the 
envy of all, or nearly all, my lady readers. 
When my husband took on him the marriage 
vows, it meant to him that he had married a 
wife, and not purchased a slave. He looked 
upon her in the light of his helpmate, and his 
partner for life, and treated her as such. He 
told me all of his affairs and plans, thus show¬ 
ing me that be thought I was worthy of trust 
and confidence and, in return, I confided fully 
in him. He kept an account of every penny 
earned and spent, and I also kept a record of 
the money I spent. At the end of every 
week, we carefully looked over our accounts, 
and then he’d replenish my treasury accord¬ 
ing to our financial circumstances, and as the 
family increased, and our income too, he gave 
me more. How much we did enjoy looking 
over our accounts! He thought it was an ex¬ 
cellent nlan to keep them, for then we know 
where every penny was spent, and what we 
could afford. It is very galling to a woman 
to have to ask for evei-y cent, even if it is 
given pleasantly; but when it conies to com¬ 
plaining, scolding, and putting her off with 
less than is needed, it makes a woman feel 
worse than a slave. A woman works as hard 
in her spheie as the man does in his, and 
sometimes harder, and jet, as a rule, she has 
to ask for every penny, and when the husband 
dies, is entitled to the use of only one-third of 
his real estate, and now I see some legislators 
in New York State are trying to take even 
that away. Truly this is a cruel world. 
AUNT HETTY. 
gether about the outlay of their money, 
while each felt free to use it, where either had 
reason to regret It. mary l. worthen. 
I WISH to relate my experience concerning 
money matters during my married life. 
I am an old woman now, bqt iq piy DQITtad 
ONE WIFE’S EXPERIENCE. 
W HEN I bear domestic finances spoken 
of, I always think of what a lady told 
me of her experience when first married. 
When a child she had been used to having a 
little money that she called her own, and 
though it was but little, she felt very happy 
in its possession. Then she married at 16, 
and her husband having good business talents 
they soon acquired a good start in the world 
and every one pointed her out as a lucky 
woman. She had a pleasant home, a good 
husband, bright children and apparently 
everything that a reasonable woman could 
expect. But, although her helpmate was wil¬ 
ling that she should have whatever she want¬ 
ed, he deemed it a wise plan to do the i ur- 
cbasing himself, for at first she was young 
aud inexperienced, and so he bought all her 
dresses, purchased all the household necessi¬ 
ties and relieved her from the care of money 
in every way. Consequently, who can won¬ 
der that she suffered intense mortification 
when various little calls upon her purse 
feund not one cent in it, and how gladly she 
would have sank from sight when little inci¬ 
dents would repeatedly come up to reveal the 
true state of affairs. 
Whenever she went away from home for a 
fortnight's visit, her husband dutifully went 
to the depot aud bought her a return ticket 
aud sent her out into the world without a 
cent with which to help meet any contingen¬ 
cy liable to make demands on her purse any 
day. 
What chance had that woman in her life ? 
What possible chance for her if her husband 
should die ? He would leave her as unfitted to 
cope with business as an infant, thereby forc¬ 
ing upon der a double misfortune—years of 
torture from not being allowed an opportuni¬ 
ty to gain experience, and an extreme help¬ 
lessness should the entire management of the 
business be suddenly thrust upon her. 
Let a man make his wife an equal partner 
and initiate der into the secrets of the busi¬ 
ness, and she will be ever ready to be a help¬ 
mate in preference to being a nonentity. 
s. j. L. 
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( N OETHE said: If you have any faith, 
T give me, for Heaven’s sake, a share of it! 
Your doubts you may keep to yourself, for I 
have aplenty of my own. 
Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to 
which we cannot get but by rowing against 
the stream. 
We cannot be reminded too often of the fact 
♦ hat brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness 
the limbs and outward flourishes. 
Henry Thoreau, being urged once to pre¬ 
pare some of his feathered birds for the mu¬ 
seum, replied: “My field glass brings them 
nearer to me than a gun can.”. 
John G. Whittier says that it is creditable 
to human nature and its unperverted instincts 
that stories and anecdotes of reciprocal kind¬ 
ness and affection between men and animals 
are always listened to with interest and ap¬ 
proval.-. 
In the Scarlet Letter we find this sentence: 
“It contributes greatly towards a man's 
moral and intellectual health to be brought 
into habits of companionship with individuals 
unlike himself, who care little for his pur¬ 
suits, and whose sphere and abilities he must 
go out of himself to appreciate.”. 
No action, whether foul or fair, 
Is ever done but It leaves somewhere 
A record, u ritten by fingers ghostly 
As a blessing or a curse, and mostly 
In the greater weakness or greater strength 
Of the acts which follow It. 
—Longfellow. 
The Bishop of Minnesota says that we 
stand where two ways meet. We shall take 
care of the people or the people will take cai e 
of us. The people are the rulers; the power 
of the future is in their hands. Limit the 
horizon to this life; let penury, sickness and 
sorrow change the man to a wolf; let him 
know no God and Father who hears his cry, 
no Saviour to help, no brother to bind up; his 
wounds; let there be on the one side health 
and luxury and wanton waste, and on the 
other side poverty, misery and despair, there 
will be, as there has been, a cry for blood. 
Mr. Spurgeon bas a poor opinion of the 
Christianity of Great Britain. In a recent 
sermon he exclaimed, “Ah me, this is a miser¬ 
able age! Go with a lancet throughout these 
isles and you could not get enough martyr 
blood to fill a thimble. Backbones are scarce 
and grit is a rare article.”. 
As delicate a charity as I remember says 
a writer in the Chicago American was the act 
of a gruff, taciturn old physician in a Col¬ 
orado mining town. A poor, aged parson 
was carefully attended by the irritable doc¬ 
tor. When the preacher had sufficiently re¬ 
covered to dispense with further medical at¬ 
tention he asked for his bill. “\our bill? 
Here it is,” said the doctor, opening his 
pocketbook and handing the minister's wife a 
ten-dollar bill. 
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would be promoted by the outlay of the 
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