THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1889 
731 
Be frank ; be true ; be bappy ! 
Time for study for both young and old. 
Yow that, should health and life be 
spared you, you will know more about 
someth Inn by the first of next May than 
you do now. 
ENTERTAINING THE BABY. 
MARY WAGER-FISHER. 
A S I was riding in a railway coach be¬ 
tween New York and Philadelphia 
not long ago, I noticed, as I often had be¬ 
fore, a baby traveler and the perpetual dis¬ 
tractions to which it was subjected by the 
woman—presumably its mother—who had 
it in charge. The child was possibly one 
year old, and when its attention was not 
being directed to objects outside the car, 
it was nudged, and poked, danced up and 
down, fed with knick-knacks and so pes¬ 
tered with what was designed to be divert¬ 
ing, as to weary an onlooker, to say noth¬ 
ing of the effect upon the nervous organiza¬ 
tion of the child itself. Unquestionably, 
in no other country in the world do young 
children receive the amount of coddling 
they do in this, and of all people we are the 
most nervous and restless. How much the 
lack of a quiet, undistracted babyhood has 
to do with this, may be left to individual 
opinion. But it is reasonable to suppose 
that a child left to its own self for amuse¬ 
ment, its mental faculties being allowed to 
develop slowly and naturally, its infancy 
in brief passing in the most uneventful 
manner without excitement of any kind, 
must develop into an adult of far more 
physical and nervous endurance than the 
child subjected to what may fittingly be 
called the forcing process. Mental alert¬ 
ness is a valuable quality; but there is a 
certain commonplace sturdiness that is not 
at all brilliant, but which* is indispensable 
to prolonged self-maintenance. 
The quiet way in which English and Ger¬ 
man children are reared is very different 
from the American plan, and the outcome 
is equally different. Our women have a 
delicacy of organization, an unabashedness, 
and a quickness in repartee, that are both 
exquisite and startling, while our men have 
a push and “go” that to the Old World 
folk seem phenomenal. Surely we are not 
a nation of plodders, but if it were not for 
the continuous intermixture of the “plod¬ 
ding ” element, the saving salt of imported 
slow-going-ness, would we not in due time 
become a nation of nervous “ drive-ahead ” 
lunatics? I remember meeting a little girl 
betwixt seas, who was making her fourth 
trip across this continent, and she hail 
reached the mature age of 18 months. The 
alertness and intelligence of the child were 
remarkable, and her American parents 
were very proud of her achievements. She 
was pale, restless, bright-eyed—enough to 
give one a heart-ache and to predict an 
early grave or an insane asylum as her ulti¬ 
mate station. And she has her counterpart 
sisters the “ States ” over, babies tender in 
years, but old in experience, babbling of 
fashions and plays, of the cities they have 
seen—never of the quiet fields and meadows 
—of party gowns and dances, of the times 
they have been out of bed until midnight, 
of the money spent in confections—a hot¬ 
house existence that has crept even into the 
remote villages of the country, so that to 
see a little old-fashioned child, round and 
rosy, that sleeps 12 hours out of the 24, 
lives on bread and milk,’and who has ex¬ 
perienced nothing more exciting than the 
slow jog of the family horse, never says any¬ 
thing “smart” nor anything committed to 
memory to “show off” on occasions, is a 
grateful relief to the mind. It yields a 
restful sense as of a growing oak that in 
years to come will be a source of strength 
and security. 
THE BLUNDER BOX. 
P UT a pasteboard box with a slot in the 
cover in an accessible part of the 
house for receiving slips of paper upon 
which are written grammatical errors made 
by the different members of the family—it 
is well also to include slang. Each mem¬ 
ber is to write down the mistakes that he 
or she hears with the maker’s name attach¬ 
ed. The box is left undisturbed for a week. 
At the end of that time let the family as¬ 
semble. Appoint some one to open the box 
and read the “blunders.” As he or she 
reads, the member whose name is attached 
to the slip corrects the mistake and gives 
the reason for doing so. 
It is a capital brake on careless speech. 
Try it. 
HUSK BEDS. 
I N a late Rural I noticed an item in re¬ 
gard to husk beds, and wish to urge all 
who use straw for beds to try at least one 
bed made of corn-husks. I am sure they 
will be repaid. The husks make a soft bed 
and one which is always light and easily 
stirred, never becoming matted, like straw. 
They are also durable and cleanly. Place 
the husks—or part of them—on the table. 
Use only the inner husks. Take a few at a 
time and cut off both ends, using a pair of 
sharp shears. With the “ husking-pin,” 
or an old-fashioned, two-tined fork, split 
them in strips not more than an inch wide. 
Drop the refuse in your lap, and the pre¬ 
pared husks in a large basket at your side. 
This is not so tiresome a task as it seems, 
and even the little children can help. 
Every fall the old husks should be emptied 
out on sheets spread out-of-doors, and left 
to air in the sun. With the addition of a 
few new ones, the bed is as good as new. 
MRS. LEVI NILES. 
O UR boy was a kicker. We knew that 
an ounce of prevention would be 
worth pounds of cure if we could only pre¬ 
vent his catching cold at night from kick¬ 
ing off the blankets. We had tried un¬ 
successfully pinning and tying the blankets 
down. Finally we found our ounce of pre¬ 
vention in the form of a bag. It was made 
of soft flannel, quite wide, of good length 
and secured to his night clothing at the 
waist. The confinement was so slight that 
he did not object and there was enough 
warmth in the flannel to prevent the little 
limbs and feet from becoming chilled even 
did he succeed in throwing off his blanket. 
GRAHAM GEMS AS MADE AT THE RURAL 
GROUNDS. 
Three cups of milk—when milk is scarce 
we use half water—two well-beaten eggs, a 
little salt, four cups of Graham flour and 
two full tea-spoons of baking powder. Beat 
all together. Have a hot oven. Grease the 
gem pans and place in the oven until hot. 
Dip in the mixture and put into the oven 
at once. The success or failure of these 
gems depends largely upon the tempera¬ 
ture of the oven. 
When You Know 
That scores of people 
have been cured of 
Boils, Carbuncles, and 
Scrofulous Sores by the 
use of 
Ayer's Sarsaparilla 
why not try it your¬ 
self 1 As a blood-puri¬ 
fier, this medicine has 
no equal. Listen to 
good advice: Take 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, 
and no other. 
“ I had numbers of 
carbuncles on my neck 
and back, with swellings in my armpits, 
and was tormented with pain almost beyond 
endurance. All means of relief to which I 
resorted failed until I began to use Ayer’s 
Sarsaparilla. One bottle of this remedy re¬ 
stored me to health.”—S. Carter, Nashville, 
Tennessee. 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, 
Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. 
Price #1; six, S3. Worth 85 a bottle. 
For a DISORDERED LIVER 
Try BEECHAM’S PILLS. 
26cts. a Box. 
OK AXjXi DRUGGISTS. 
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COLOR 
IF YOU REALLY WISH 
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Color arar made ; one that 
narar turns rancid, always 
(iraa a bright, natural color, 
and will not oolor the butter 
milk, aak for Wills, Richard- 
s on frCo't, and take no other. 
Sola everywhere, 
loro of It Used than of 
other makes combined. 
Send for our valuable circu¬ 
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& Oo., Burlington, Vt. 
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The Cabinet (,rgan was introduced in its present 
fomiby Mason & Hamliuin 1G61. Other makers fol- 
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the Mason & Hamlin Organs have always main¬ 
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and now known as the “Mason & Hamlin Fiano 
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•with descriptive catalogue, lo any applicant. 
Pianos and Organs sold for cash or easy payments; 
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Bream Cocoa 
Is absolutely pure and 
Grandmamma Carman’s baking powder 
biscuits are hard to beat. \Ve have always 
thought that in connection with her good 
ingredients and the “quick” oven, her 
swift manipulation of the dough after add¬ 
ing the wetting went far towards insuring 
her unvarying success. 
We remember a pleasant picture of 
Grandpapa and Grandmamma in the 
kitchen “ at the farm.” Grandmamma had 
just started to make the favorite bis¬ 
cuits while Grandpapa sat close by, watch 
in hand, timing her. When the biscuits 
were placed upon the tea-table he announc¬ 
ed with pardonable pride that it had then 
been just thirteen minutes since “Mam- 
mie ” had started to make those biscuits 
and then asked in a challenging tone, if we 
younger cooks could beat that ! 
^UorcUancouo ftdvcrti.sing. 
pure 
it is soluble • 
No Chemicals 
are used in its preparation- It has more 
than three timee the strength of Cocoa 
mixed with Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar, 
and is therefore far more economical, 
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Sold by Grocers everywhere. 
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