NOV. 20 
THE RURal NEW-YORKER. 
777 
No. 1. 
#ot M outfit. 
CONDUCTED BY MISS FAITH B1FLEY. 
NO. 4. 
The highways throughout Germany are either 
bordered with trees, hedges, or low stone banks. 
Here, the effect was singularly beautiful tor 
stretching tar into the blue distance, the white 
smooth road, lined on either side with trult trees, 
looked more like a fashionable promenade than a 
lonely country road. Apples and pears were thick¬ 
ly scattered beneath the trees, and ray companion 
observing a couple of demure looking children 
gathering them In briskets, very Innocently pro¬ 
ceeded to till her satchel with some choice pears, 
when the sharp prolonged noise of a rattle re¬ 
minded her that she was In Germany and liable to 
arrest and fine If discovered by the Feld Sehuu 
(Field Guard), who Is particularly zealous In exer¬ 
cising his authority upon any who may chance 
ignore or forget the presence of his important self. 
Many amusing Incidents of cunnlug trickery and 
hair breadth escapes are related by youthful Teu¬ 
tons, who rather enjoy these dangerous exploits 
and evince a special relish for fruit captured under 
the very nose of this dreaded protector and guar¬ 
dian of the fields. w 
No. 5, 
NO. 5.—DOILY : CKEWKL-WOKK. 
The dolly Is of art canvas, with border and fringe 
of drawn threads. A spray of crewel-work orna¬ 
ments the center. 
NO. 6.—FOOTSTOOL. 
The top of the footstool is of crimson cloth, em¬ 
broidered with design in cross-stitch ; it Is cut In 
a circle of eight largo scallops, measuring alto¬ 
gether In circumference 40 Inches. The sides, 
measuring four Inches deep, are of plush of the 
same color as the top, and are sewn to It, a crim¬ 
son silk cord being sewn to both edges; a piece of 
stout black cloth or balzo will serve tor the bottom. 
The cushion must bo well stuffed with wool or 
hair, and when finished, a cord like that on the 
edges Is drawn tightly down between the scallops 
and over the outside, a loop of the same being left 
in the center by which to raise the cushion. 
No. 6. 
TOO LATE. 
BY ANON. 
Once your heart was mine, aU mine. 
Then I turned from you away. 
Dreaming not the love you (rave me, 
I would crave from you to-day. 
Weary yearn have loft me, left me, 
With a sad and aching heart; 
Knowing now, too well, my darling:, 
I must live from you apart. 
Yet I’m weary, still so weary 
Longing- for your smile once more. 
For the old love that you gave me, 
And I threw away before. 
I have lived and waited, waited, 
Hoping on from day to day; 
Empty anus are reaching to you. 
But you never come this.way. 
Now my heart is yours-all yours— 
Ah ! you turn from me away. 
Wanting not the love I give you: 
Loving some one else to-day ! 
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DESCRIPTION OF CUTS. 
SPECIAL ANN CLEMENT. 
Rural from date to January 1881 for $2.00. 
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Arthur has just proposed to Clara and has 
been accepted.— Clara— ” Dear Arthur, what 
pleased me most In your declaration of love, was 
the fluent eloquence with which you expressed 
your desires 
Arthur (forgetting himself) — “ Yes, dearest 
that is the result of long experience I” 
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SKETCHES OF GERMAN LIFE. 
BERTHA A. WINKLER. 
A Village. 
With German soli beneath our feet, a clear blue 
sky above our heads, and the cool, bracing air of a 
lovely October morning sharpening our sensibili¬ 
ties to a keen perception of the new and beautiful 
around us, we started afoot for one of those num¬ 
erous little villages which nestle in the bosomo 
huge, vine-clad hUls along the Rhine. 
No. i. 
It seems to me that our girls should be taught, 
from the first, to care for their bodies; to regard 
them as not their own, to trine with, and render 
weak and unfit for the sacred duties awaiting 
them In the years to come. A great lack of judg¬ 
ment Is shown by the mother In the yielding to 
the earnest protestation against wearing over¬ 
shoes, because “ they make their feet look so big.” 
Instead of strength of mind, weakness and pride 
of their natures, that boys should sow wild oats, 
and learn the ways of vice and corruption. I be¬ 
lieve they are born with as great a spiritual ten¬ 
dency as girls, It It was nourished. But Instead of 
providing for tfiplr uneasy, restless spirits at home, 
gaining their confidence and love by a well-directed 
sympathy, they are thrust out on the street at an 
early age, to pick up vicious associates, and wal¬ 
low In the mire of evil Inclinations. 
Whether the scattered trees and open unfenced 
fields and vineyards really require such stringent 
laws for their protection, or whether these laws 
are but another evidence of the peoples’ subjection 
to a despotic government which forces its officials 
into every village aud hamlet for the most trifling 
duties, I have not yet ascertained, the fact, how¬ 
ever, that the peasantry’ are forever waging a 
secret war of words with these blue coated servants 
of the law. Inclines me to favor the latter supposi¬ 
tion. 
I have tound the German peasant a most liberal 
and warm hearted character. Whenever we passed 
a jolly group of apple-pickers their morning salute 
was invariably followed with an invitation to 
•'help ourselves.” Their manners, too. though 
crude, are far superior to those of Americans of the 
same station. Every clumsey Bauer (peasant) who 
came rumbling along In his huge wicker-wagon, 
piled with bags of potatoes and apples, doffed his 
triangle-shaped hat with a broad smile and a 
hearty ** Guten Tag ? the very absence of polish 
revealing more plainly their simple, cordial ways, 
“ Ain’t you glad It’s a boy,” said a woman when 
my little son was born, “ he’ll be out of your way 
so much sooner tha n a girl.” “ Out of my way p 
Is It not as much my duty to teach my boy to cul¬ 
tivate a vigorous constitution and healthful Im¬ 
pulses; to look forward to becoming a husband 
and father; to lay something by for a home and 
support; as to Instruct my daughters In the like 
duties? Oh, mothers, awake to a sense of your 
responsibilities! “ The night Is tar Bpent. the day 
Is at hand.” Let us watch over the souls of our 
children as those who must give an account of our 
stewardship, and that we may he enabled to see 
them grow up strong In the knowledge that shall 
never fade away; and then, when we are old and 
well-stricken In years, they will rise up before us, 
strong men and good women, and call us blessed. 
NOS. 1 AND 2,—LAMP MAT. 
The mat measures nine Inches In diameter. It 
Is shown In a reduced size in No. 1, aud the border 
In the full depth m No. 2. The mat is of cloth of 
two colors; an olive-green center with pale blue 
border. Is pretty, or a dove-colored center with 
crimson border, looks equally well. The tassels 
which measure an Inch and a half when finished, 
are Of best fleecy wool tied with silk, combed and 
steamed, so as to give them as fluffy an appear¬ 
ance as possible. The border must be finely 
pinked, and laid over the center. The lattice pat¬ 
tern Is of wool sewn over with silk; the cross and 
long patterns are of silk of two colors. The mat 
may be mounted on a foundation of cardboard or 
not, according to taste. 
No. 3. 
NOS. 3 AND 4.— WORK-BASKET. 
For the foundation of the basket, cut two large 
hexagons, one of crash and the ocher of blue 
cashmere. Embroider the center of the erasb 
with a deslgm In cross stitch. Now cut card¬ 
board to the shape of a smaller hexagon, and place 
it between the cashmere and crash, to make a firm 
bottom to the basket, tack the materials together 
to keep the cardboard in place. Next cut six 
pockets, embroider each with a cross-stitch design, 
line with blue silk or cashmere, and bind with 
ribbon at the top, sew these pockets Into the point 
or the hexagon, fitting the bottom of pocket to one 
side of center hexagon (see Illustrations), hind the 
edge of the basket with ribbon, and edge with 
torchon lace. The handle Is made of a piece of 
whaleboue, measuring is inches In length, covered 
with crash, embroidered with a narrow cross- 
stitch stripe; It Is fixed to the basket with ribbon 
bows; lengths of ribbon are also sewn to the side 
of the basket to tie tt In shape; notches are made 
In the diagram to show where the ribbons are to 
be placed. 
course, but that’s not the thing. How Is Nellie to 
learn to make bread and cook potatoes unless you 
teach her. It will take a little time, busy mother, 
but you will have It back again In the years to 
come. Most children love to learn, and love to be 
useful; 1 have a little girl of eleven years living 
with me, whom I have taught to cook as well 
as to wash dishes; and although, sometimes, 
when she Is mixing up bread, I ache to do it my¬ 
self, I don't! She must learn, and if her pte>-erust 
Is a little tough, sometimes, and her bread not as 
light as It might, be, she has learned the first prin¬ 
ciples, and only needs practice to attain perfection. 
There is another scene upon which we must 
look. The girl enters upon the threshold of wo- 
manhood, casts off short dresses and docs trails, 
does up her hair, and makes ready for beaux and 
society. This is no doubt the most critical time 
Df her life; the time when she Is the mostunteach- 
able, aud the least confiding, and consequently, 
the time when the Instruction should be skillful 
and In tei estlng. But Instead of keeping her hands 
and head employed in household work, and good, 
healthful reading—the mother reading wtth her— 
encouraging letter-writing and good correspon¬ 
dents, and Ins lstlrg on an early bed-going, she Is 
given her time to dress and prepare for evening 
entertainments, from which she rarely returns 
until twelve and one o'clock; and Is allowed to go 
with anybody she “ takes a fancy to,” regardless 
of the pernicious influence of the many character¬ 
less young men she mingles with. No wonder so 
many of our young women grow up weak and 
vapid, fretful aud diseased. Mothers, realize your 
responsibilities! In these matters you are their 
educators. 
* With boys there Is, If possible, a greater de¬ 
ficiency. There is an idea afloat that there is not 
as much expected of them, so far as morals are 
concerned, as of their sisters. It they go astray. If 
they sin, the world will look over It; society will 
wink at it, and laughingly say *• Oh, Tommy win 
come out all right, ne’s a little fast, now, but 
he’ll get married after awhile, and then he’ll sober 
up." 
It is conslderd almost a thing Impossible for boys 
to grow to manhood without doing things, which, 
If committed by a girl, would banish her from 
society, and In very many cases, steel the mother’s 
heart against her. Oh, mothers, Is not a sin a sin. 
Does God make a difference ? It Is not a necessity 
MOTHERS AS EDUCATORS. 
MRS. T. H. GRIFFITH. 
Education Is holding the light up higher and 
higher, every year, saving its millions from the 
darkness of Ignorance and superstition; schools 
are fostered, and the girl becomes a slave to fash¬ 
ionable requirements, regardless of her health, 
contracting diseases which unfit her to undertake 
the real work of life. 
How often have I heard a woman say, “ oh, I’d 
rather do it myself than undertake to teach her 
how; I can do It in a quarter of ther time.” Of 
and colleges dot the land North and South, East 
and West, books and papers flood the country 
bringing within the reach of all the richest thought 
from the most cultured minds, while science la 
continually crying out “ Excelsior 1” 
Home education, however, Is becoming a thing 
of the past, and mothers are forgetting their mis¬ 
sion as educators of their children. 
“ But, we have so much to do,” urges some one of 
these domestic burden-bearers, " what with keep¬ 
ing a nice table, and fixing the children up so they 
can look as well as anybody, and entertaining 
company, we haven’t a moment of time to devote 
to their education. We pay for their tuition, end 
let them go to good schools where the teachers 
understand the system much better than we do.” 
Ah, my deai-sisters is this all that Is needful? 
is there not an educating influence to be brought 
to bear on the minds and hearts of children, 
which no one can exert but yourselves? But how 
to accomplish these things ? In the first place we 
mothers must educate ourselves, for If the In¬ 
structor knows nothing, how shall she Impart In¬ 
struction to her pupil? It Is natural that the 
child should look to the parent for precept and ex¬ 
ample, and Imitate that which he so closely ob¬ 
serves. A little couplet says : 
Baby’s skies 
Are mamma’s eyes. 
How true! Let mamma get up In the morning 
with a cloudy temper, and worry and fret over the 
difficulties besetting her path, and baby lets fall a 
shower of tears directly, while Johnny and Min- 
nle get behind the door to pout, and make things 
generally disagreeable. But if mamma rises wit h 
a smile on her lip and a song la her heart, what 
sunshine gilds the day with brightness. Baby 
sees the blue sky directly, and basks In t he genial 
glow of the sunny smile, while the gentle tone, 
and brisk light step, make Johnny and Minnie 
feel like loving each other and all the world. 
It Is a true saying, that “ our children are very 
much what we make them;” and the power of the 
motuer, as an educator or her offspring. Is almost 
unlimited. She Is with them constantly, from the 
time of their birth to that critical time when they 
are In such haste to put away chtldlsh things and 
become men and women; and upon her devolves 
the power, m great measure, of developing them 
Into true men and true women. 
