THE BUBAL NEW-YORKER. 483 
The difficult things, if they are inevitable, 
are the very things which the wise man sets 
himself to accomplish first of all; the easy 
things may be done at any time. Submission 
does not mean, as some of the old anchorites 
thought, the effacement of self and the sur¬ 
render of all the joys of natural life; it does 
mean a deep faith that there is a wisdom high¬ 
er than ours which has fixed the conditions of 
our life, and from whose hands come the events 
which make our history; and that our part is 
neither to ignore nor to struggle against that 
which comes to us from the Infinite Wisdom, 
but to work with instead of against the high¬ 
er purpose. The prize scholars in the great 
school of life are not those who evade its les¬ 
sons, but who learn them the most thoroughly. 
Domestic Ccoircmuj 
CONDUCTED BY MRS. AGNES E. M. CARMAN. 
HOPE. 
But He who sustains in trials like these, 
New strength and fresh energy giving. 
Provides a swift cure. 
And our ills we endure 
With patience, for love of the living, 
Though deeply our hearts are attached to the 
dead, 
And the past that is always so sweet: 
Though the scenes of delight. 
So sacred and bright. 
Can never their beauty repeat. 
Some pleasures in life we can find to enjoy 
By comforts and kindnesses giving, 
For ’tis true as we know. 
That our love we may show 
To the dead, by our care of the living.” 
This is the way we must look at life. When 
we are very young it seems as if we could not 
do so, but as we grow older we become more 
philosophical. If we all give up when Death 
steals into our homes and robs us of our 1<-ved 
ones, what will become of the world? For 
is there a home where he comes not? If he 
has not visited you yet, he will some day. 
You may be the first one called. Be brave 
and patient. Do each day what that day 
brings to be done, then when the messenger 
does call, you will have no neglected duties to 
leave behind. dora harvey vrooman. 
A GENTLEMAN once said to a little col¬ 
ored boy whom he met by the way: 
“Sonny, how old are you ?” 
“Well,” replied the ebon youth, “ ’ef yer 
gose by wat me muffer says, I’se six yeahs 
ole; but ’ef yer gose by the fun I’se hed, I’se 
mos’ a hundered.” 
This is the way we measure our age. The 
cares and sorrows which come to one add 
more wrinkles and gray hairs than do the 
years. My years to some of my readers 
might seem but few, but when I think of the 
sorrows which have fallen to my lot, I feel 
like the little darkey did in regard to his 
pleasures—almost a hundred. Some time ago 
while brooding over the past, eating out my 
very heart in bitterness, my eye fell upon the 
following lines which were in a paper that 
had come around a parcel. They seemed to 
set themselves into my mind and have since 
helped me over many a rough place. Hoping 
they mav help some one else, I repeat them: 
•‘Has your life a bitter sorrow ? 
Live it down. 
Think abouta bright tomorrow. 
Live it down. 
You will find it never pays 
Just to sit, wet-eyed, and gaze 
Live it down. 
Has your heart some secret trouble ? 
Live it down. 
Useless griefs will make it double. 
Live it down. 
Do not water It with tears— 
Do not feed it with your fears— 
Do not nurse it through the years- 
Live It down. 
Have you made some awful error ? 
Live it down. 
Do not hide your face in terror: 
Live it down. 
Look the world square in the eyes; 
Go ahead as one who tries 
To be honored, ere he dies: 
Live it down.” 
How easy it sounds to say “ Live it down,” 
but when one thinks of the loved ones lying 
cold ’neath the sod, is it so easily done? Ah, 
no! But our grief cannot bring them back— 
perhaps a loved father, a self-sacrificing 
mother, a tiny, sweet-faced baby the touch of 
whose warm little fingers seem almost yet to 
linger on our breast, a tender lover, or hus¬ 
band—tears are of no avail! We who have 
given up our loved ones can never forget, but 
if there are still those living who have a claim 
upon our hearts, it is unjust to them to spend 
all our days in weeping. Those who are with 
us yet, may, before many days go by, pass 
over beyond, and then we will remember in 
bitterness what we might have done while 
they were yet here. 
No, we can never forget. In the silent 
night the loved faces come before our eyes; 
we see the same old smile, we hear 
the soft tones, hear the loving words 
repeated by the dear voices that have been 
hushed and stilled by death. These are our 
sacred hours, aud then it is that we may weep 
if we will, but when the day dawns, bringing 
new duties, we must take up our tasks aud do 
them faithfully, living in hope for the future. 
We must battle bravely to live down our use¬ 
less grief and fretting. 
" For love of the living we take up our cross, 
And strive to be cheerful anil brave. 
When hopes fondly cherished 
Have faded and perished, 
And buried our heart In a grave. 
For still there are duties for us to perform, 
A chance for more generous giving 
To those who are left, 
And when death has bereft 
More closely we cling to the living. 
We may feel that there's nothing remains 
to be done. 
That all need for exertion is o’er 
When our hands are unclasped 
From the dear one's they grasped, 
For whom they can labor no more; 
F lorence nightingale wrote the 
following to the Band of Hope of the 
Mayfield Free Church of Edinburg : 
“ Don’t think you can do anything worth 
doing in a fit of enthusiasm, but train your¬ 
selves carefully to any work you are called on 
to do; and think nothing too small to do care¬ 
fully, or to train carefully for, that is for the 
good of your fellow-creatures. For instance, 
good or bad cooking may make or mar 
the lives of thousands, and those, coo, who 
are tryiDg to do great things for our race. 
God sends us real and lasting enthusiasm— 
that is, the spirit of love and of power, and 
of a sound mind to carry us through our 
tramiDg and our discipline. It is He dwell¬ 
ing in us. That is His goodness to us.” 
SOFT SOAP. 
H AVING lately read considerable in the 
Rural and other farm periodicals on 
making soft soap, I thought I would give my 
experience, as it has extended over 40 years of 
married life and in my girlhood at home we 
never failed to make our barrel of soap, any 
more than the “ gude raon ” failed to put in 
his spring crops. With one or two exceptions, 
I have made it m the good old-fashioned way 
from lye of my own leaching, and shall ever¬ 
more make it in that way. 
We found the same difficulty when using 
bought lye or potash, that your contributors 
complain of—that it would not keep. We 
used Babbitt’s extract of lye and while it made 
nice, white soap it would not keep. In a little 
while it had a bad odor. Others have used 
potash with the same results. All the diffi¬ 
culty I ever found in making the old kind (if 
the ashes are good) is that it will come before 
the grease is eaten up, if put in the rough, 
and that necessitates taking the top off and 
putting the soap away, and then putting back 
the grease, and adding more lye. But we 
have obviated that difficulty by never using 
any grease in the rough. We never put in 
any more bones, but pick them clean, and 
then, if we wish, throw them into a low box 
where the hens can pick them without scat¬ 
tering them around the yard, aud where we 
can gather them up, burn and pulverize for the 
poultry yard. We keep an old dripping-pau, 
or spider where it is bandy to throw in our 
scraps of fat meat and the rinds of 
shoulders and hams, and when it is 
full enough we put it in the oven aud bake 
until it is crisp aud brown. Take out aud 
pour off the fat for soap and break up the ref¬ 
use for the hens. You will be surprised at 
the amount of fat that will come out of what 
you had supposed was already cooked clean. 
In the same way serve all uncooked scraps 
of meat or tallow. These and the scraps from 
lard and tallow rendering are all we use, and 
the latter being clean and already tried out, 
cau be used without even boiling, if one 
wishes. 
It is true that many farmers in the country 
do not make their own soap any more, eveu 
though they are always wishing they had a 
few gallons for house cleaning and rough 
work. They say: “ Bar soap is so cheap, and 
then we do not own a largo kettle.” It is not 
a necessity to have a large one, though very 
convenient. If your keg or barrel for soap is 
good and strong, put your grease into it, and 
heat your lye hot aud pour it on, stirring it 
every now and then as you add hot lye. Keep 
doiug so until the lye seems to have eaten up 
the grease, and the stuff is of the right con¬ 
sistency. 
For putting up a leach, we have a frame 
made three feet long, or more, and two feet 
wide, anti a couple] of inches higher^at the 
back than at the front. On this we put a 
wide board for a large barrel; cut a crease in 
it outside of the barrel and let the sides come 
together within a few inches, from which place 
it should run into a jar or kettle (wood is not fit 
for that use as it will shrink and fall to pieces 
afterwards). Boro a few gimlet holes in the 
lower side of the barrel, set it on the frame 
and put half a dozen sticks crosswise in the 
bottom, and on these put a handful of hay or 
straw. Put a couple|of quarts of lime on this, 
if you have it. 
Now put in three or four pailfuls of ashes, 
pound them down, then add a pail of water, 
keep on doing so until the barrel is full. Let 
it stand and soak a couple of days, covered 
from rain, with a jar under it, or until you 
are ready to go at it in good earnest. Then 
keep the ashes covered with water and you 
will soon have lye enough for your purpose. 
Watch the jar to prevent the contents from 
running over and wasting the strongest lye. 
We always keep our leach standing after soap 
making so that if at any time we want a weak 
lye for cleansing purposes we very soon have 
it by putting on a pail of water. It is nice 
for hulling corn. Keep the barrel covered, 
and if at any time the jar gets full from it, 
throw the contents back into the barrel. A 
pound of dissolved borax adds a good deal to 
tbe bleaching and cleansing qualities of a 
barrel of soap. It is cheap and will take the 
place of all fluids and powders for making 
washing easy and will not in the least injure 
the clothes. c. R. davis. 
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For oh! It Is not always May. 
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To some good angel leave the rest; 
For Time will teach thee, soon the truth— 
There are no birds in last year’s nest.” 
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