1889 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
763 
fails to do right, or the one that fails to 
accept an opportunity to learn the right 
and then pleads his ignorance as an excuse 
for wrong-doing? It is my belief that the 
latter is as deserving of punishment as the 
former. 
So I would have every boy and girl, every 
man and woman impressed with the idea 
that it is their duty as reasoning human 
beings to cultivate and improve the mind— 
to acquire information—just as much as it 
is their duty to preserve the health of the 
body. Both have been given us in trust, 
when we hand them back they will be ex¬ 
amined and measured for progress. That 
is fact one. Another fact is that education 
is a serious matter since every fact we as¬ 
similate increases our responsibility and 
decreases the number of excuses we might 
reasonably offer for wrong doing. 
A household cannot thrive whose mis¬ 
tress does net realize the value of fixed 
times scrupulously adhered to. 
ODDS AND ENDS FOR THE HOME. 
F OR years somber mahogany, walnut 
and ebony held sway. Now, how¬ 
ever, light woods, such as antique oak and 
ash, are used in preference. They give a 
cheerful, light tone to a room, and save the 
housekeeper lots of worry, for the highly 
polished dark woods always appear with a 
coat of dust, despite repeated brushing and 
dusting. 
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Superabundance of ornament, both in 
the way of pictures and bric-a-brac, wearies 
the eye and obtrudes unpleasantly upon 
the notice. It also gives one a heavy or de¬ 
pressed feeling to go into a room which is 
overcrowded in tins manner. Too little 
ornament is also to be avoided, for this lat¬ 
ter condition makes an apartment look 
bleak and bare. A happy medium is best. 
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SECURE a large proportion of plain neu¬ 
tral tints in your rooms. Positive or bril¬ 
liant colors shou Id be used only in small 
portions. 
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Plain colors are moi-e restful to the eye 
than any regular “ pattern ” can ever be. 
It is best, therefore, in the room where one 
spends most of the time—where one works 
—to banish patterns as much as possible. 
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Narrow oak frames, about three-quar¬ 
ters of an inch to one inch wide, are very 
pretty for etchings, engravings, or water- 
colors. To my mind plain frames are the 
best. Who has not seen an elaborate gilt 
frame, inches and inches wide, containing a 
tiny color or print in the center ? To me this 
is ridiculous. The picture should be the 
noticeable thing—not the frame. Plain, 
flat, natural wood frames showing the grain, 
are very pretty indeed. We are glad to see 
that they have been growing in favor for 
the last few years. 
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Another departure from the gaudy, 
glaring, gilt frames formerly the rage is a 
plain flat frame made of wood, with a thin 
coat of silver. The grain of the wood 
shows through and is very effective indeed. 
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Another cunning device is to extend the 
picture, or portions of it, across the smooth, 
flat frame. While in an art gallery in 
Philadelphia a short time ago, I saw several 
pictures treated in this way. Oue repre¬ 
sented a limb of an apple tree, filled with 
soft pink-aml-white blossoms. On the 
limb perched a bird, with its mouth open 
as if singing! The bough ran diagonally 
across the picture from left to right and 
continued over the frame, which was of 
flat natural wood about four or five inches 
wide. On the upper right-hand corner of 
the frame above the branches was a flying 
bird—probably the mate of the songster ou 
the bough. The effect was lovely in the 
extreme. 
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Another represented a chained lion and 
tiger. The picture was large and the 
chains were apparently of heavy metal. 
Where the chains ceased in the picture they 
commenced on t he frame, only on the latter 
they were made of metal and fastened to a 
stake. The effect was very good and one 
could scarcely detect where the picture 
ceased and the reality began. 
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Still another, twit ml in t he same )\py, 
represented a sea beach. Off in the dis¬ 
tance the fishing smacks were visible. On 
the beach were several men and boys, some 
preparing to leave, while others were mend¬ 
ing their nets. The nets were spread on 
the sands and extended across the flat 
frame, only on the frame they were made of 
the real material. 
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Money alone cannot make artistic homes 
—unless one who has money and no ar¬ 
tistic taste hires the proper person to spend 
the money for him. Refinement cannot 
be purchased at will along with expensive 
articles of dress or furniture. It must 
come by education in the principles of art, 
and, therefore, takes time. True culture is 
a growth, not a garment. 
DORA HARVEY VROOMAN. 
Life says that a skillful cook is the most 
popular of all interior decorators. 
MUNSEY’S WEEKLY: Mr. Filosopher 
(handing his wife a 20-dollar bill): “Woman 
is an enigma.” 
Mrs. Filosopher: “ Thanks, dear. But 
why did you make that remark?” 
Mr. Filosopher: “She will face a frowning 
world and cling to the. man she loves 
through the most bitter season of trial and 
adversity; but she wouldn’t wear a hat 
three weeks behind the style to save the 
government.” 
Joseph Jefferson in his Autobiogi-apliy 
in November Century writing of “hard 
times” says that his mother was a brave 
woman and endowed with that kind of 
pride that preferred the degradation of earn¬ 
ing an honest living to the more elegant 
profession of getting in debt. 
“ The tongue is the key of the mind: 
And whenever it opens the secret-hung 
door, 
What lies in the storehouse behind. 
Whether gems or mere rubbish is 
hidden no more.” 
HEALTH OF MOTHERS. 
* * T BELIEVE it is a positive sin for me 
A to be sick.” says one mother, “fori 
never can feel or act like a Christian when 
I am ill.” All women certainly should de¬ 
sire to be well and strong, and mothers 
particularly need the blessings of health, 
yet how pitifully few of them are free from 
bodily ailment. So many requirements of 
their lives are opposed to the best conditions 
of health, that, unless special care is taken, 
illness seems well-nigh unavoidable. 
The numerous, varied, and continual de¬ 
mands on time, strength, patience and 
every mental and moral faculty, are ex¬ 
hausting in the extreme, and unless one is 
able to marshal sufficient physical force to 
meet them fairly, life can be little else than 
a burden. All honor to those rare, beauti¬ 
ful souls who have learned to bear invalid¬ 
ism with patience and sweetness! But the 
accomplishment is too difficult and doubt¬ 
ful of attainment for most of us, and she 
who would best minister to her loved ones 
should make all possible effort to secure 
and to keep good health. 
If mothers fully realized how much 
health depends ou the amount of pure air 
taken into the lungs, they would at least 
try to breathe better. They do have time 
for that, if not for regular out-door exer¬ 
cise. What a grand thing it is to breathe 
—really breathe—long and regularly to the 
very depths of one's lungs! It is restful 
and invigorating, yet thousands of women 
never know this luxury, simply because 
their manner of dress will not permit it. 
If only women would cease to consider cor- 
sets a necessity ! If they would only assert 
their rights and declare themselves free 
from the thralldom of that health-destroy¬ 
ing implement! But they won’t! They will 
continue to spend money that might mean 
shoes, or bread, or bibles for somebody, to 
squeeze the life out of themselves. Not 
that they ever wear corsets tight—oh no, 
“ why you could put your whole hand un¬ 
der ” every time; and then if they didn’t 
wear them, they “would drop all to 
pieces,” you know. Their muscles so long 
cramped and insufficiently nourished have 
not strength to be self-supporting, and they 
probably would fly into thousands of frag¬ 
ments if corsets were removed. 
Men are much healthier than women and 
corsets are undoubtedly mainly responsible 
for this difference, yet multitudes of women 
might believe and know t hat who would 
cont inue to wear them just the same. They 
would tell you how nice they think it must 
be to be well and strong; but then they 
“ would be of no shape at all without cor¬ 
sets.” Besides, if they should get very sick 
there are plenty of pills and powders and 
liquid swindles at SI per bottle, the swal¬ 
lowing of which is much less bothersome 
than the doing of some sensible thing in 
the way of dress and exercise; and so their 
precious God-given health must be sacrifi¬ 
ced for looks ! But Dame Nature has her own 
tyrannical ways and will not accept medi¬ 
cine as a substitute for pure air. Her meth¬ 
od of purifying the blood is to let plenty 
of oxygen into it, and if people will prevent 
the free action of the lungs they must 
sooner or later be severely punished. A 
whole army of diseases just outside the hu¬ 
man citadel lies in wait to attack the first 
weak point. Strengthen every part that it 
may successfully resist disease, and the 
secret of good health is won. As there is 
no sti’engthener like pure blood and no 
blood-purifier like pure air, coilmion sense 
and religion teach the folly and sin of dis¬ 
regarding human nature’s grand processes. 
But wrong as it is for any one to do this, 
the crime seems tenfold greater when 
mothers ignore the righteous laws of hu¬ 
man life and health. If mothers and all 
the d**ar girls who may become mothers, 
would breathe, dress and exercise properly, 
the dawn of a healthier, happier era would 
be at hand. Consumption, rightly called 
“ lung starvation,” would be well-nigh 
impossible if right breathing were always 
practised. Thousands of people who seek 
health in Florida and elsewhere, might get 
well at home if they were willing and per¬ 
severing enough to make right use of their 
lungs. If pure air could be sold by the bot¬ 
tle or the pound, it might, perhaps, be 
more properly regarded ; but it is so cheap 
and so abundant—to be had, like salvation, 
simply for the taking—that its curative 
powers are greatly underestimated. 
Oh ! mothers, weak and exhausted with 
your many cares, threatened, perhaps, with 
disease, but without time or means to take 
expensive journeys, even though you die, 
try this simple remedy—not spasmodically, 
but regularly and persistently. It will help 
you far more than all the medicine you can 
take, and it will not cost you a penny 
either. Take care of your bodies, dear 
mothers; they are the soul’s necessary ma¬ 
chinery during this life, and one’s best 
work can never be done unless the machine 
is kept in harmonious working order. It 
is a religious duty to keep as well as possi¬ 
ble and mothers owe it to the generations 
following to bequeath them as perfect 
health as lies in their power. Take needed 
rest and recreation, take rides and walks 
and frequent baths—and daily naps, if you 
can—but whatever else you do or fail to do, 
wherever you are or however you feel, be 
sure that, you breathe, breathe, breathe. 
CARRIE ELLIS BRECK. 
According to the London Queen, black 
will be much worn this winter. The fashion¬ 
able colors of the moment are pampas- 
green, emerald-green, bison-brown and red- 
dish violet. 
Pi.$ccllanrou$ dvcvti.oimi. 
For Women 
Of delicate constitu¬ 
tion, no better medi¬ 
cine can be recom¬ 
mended than 
AYER’S 
Sarsaparilla. 
[jit is highly concen- 
j trated, economical, 
f safe, and pleasant to 
to take. 
“This is to certify 
that after having been 
siek for twelve years 
with kidney disease 
and general debility, 
and having been treated by several physi¬ 
cians without xelief, 1 am now better m 
every respect, and think l am nearly well, 
having taken seven bottles of Ayer's Sarsa¬ 
parilla.” — Maria I.udwigson, Albert Lea, 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, 
Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. 
Price, S>1; six, $5. Worth $5 a bottle. 
THE CREAT ENCLISH REMEDY 
Beecham’s Pills 
For Bilious and Nervous Disorders. 
“ Worth a Ciuinea a Itox ”—but sold 
for 25 
by all i»ki 
cents, 
1STS. 
W.R&CO’S 
IMPROVED 
BUTTER 
COLOR 
IF YOU REALLY WISH 
to ns* th» wrj beat Batter 
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utv tarsi rancid, alwayn 
give* a bright, natural color, 
and will not oolor the batter 
uk (or Wills, Richard, 
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Sold everywhere. 
J ore of It Used than of 
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Send for our valuable circu¬ 
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TV. BAKER X CO.’S 
Breakfast Cocoa 
Is absolutely pure and 
it is soluble. 
No Chemicals 
are used in its preparation. It has more 
than three times the strength of Cocoa 
mixed with Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar, 
and is therefore far more economical, 
costing less than one cent a cvp. It is 
delicious, nourishing, strengthening, EA¬ 
SILY Digested, and admirably adapted 
for invalids as well as persons in health. 
Sold by Grocers everywhere. 
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