V 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
hot cakes disagree with you. And If the said cakes 
are made of the raising—easy stuff called baking 
powder—very likely the disagreement can, in part, 
he laid to them, for analysis has also shown that 
baking powder contains a large proportion of desic¬ 
cated alum .—Journal of Materia Medica, 
UPON A STOLEN KISS. 
Now goutlc sleep hath closed up those eyes. 
Which, waking, kept my boldest thoughts iu awe; 
And free access unto that sweet Up lies. 
From whence I long the rosy breath to draw. 
Methinks no wrong it wore, if I should steal 
From those two melting rubies Odc poor kiss; 
None sees the theft that would the theft reveal, 
Nor rob I her of aught that she can miss; 
Nay. should I twenty kisses take away, 
There would belittle sign I would do so; 
Why, then, should I this robbery delay? 
O, she may wuke. and therewith angry grow! 
Well, if she do, I’ll back restore that one, 
And twenty' hundred thousand more for loan. 
t George Wither , 1500. 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
RESTAURANTS. 
Many of our farmer friends who make only brief 
visits to large cities, do not, perhaps, realize what 
an important part the Restaurant enterprise bears 
in the interest of line agriculture. There is not a 
more valuable means of distribution than these 
places afford. They form, in fact, a campaigning 
ground for the test of various products. They 
practically open an avenue of commerce that 
would prove tedious If the Introduction and trial 
of many commodities had to be gained simply by 
the slow process of family demand. 
Regular residents have been, as a rule, accus¬ 
tomed and satisfied with garden and orchard items 
In them season; restaurants help greatly to vary 
this feeling. Besides, In this age of railroads and 
steameraft, a miscellaneous congregation of con¬ 
sumers fs at all times, to be found In large cities, 
numerous enough to develop a demand for table- 
supplies that remind them of home specialties. 
Hence, there Is an eager spirit of competition 
aroused among managers of hotels and tlrshclass 
restaurants, aiming to render- their guests con¬ 
tented. With this point gained, another follows: 
Many busy regular residents choose, or are lorced 
to lunch away from their own tables, and another 
tributary to Increased demand la thus loosened. 
Good livers are not slow In taking hints from 
reputable restaurants In matters or cuintne, while 
they also avail themselves of the bulletins of nov¬ 
elties in market furnished by public lunch-rooms. 
01 course, we refer to the well-to-do rank and ille 
of citizens. The lime was, and not very remote 
either, when only an opulent few could enjoy ex¬ 
pensive hot-house fruit and vegetables. Now, 
with the enlarged garden culture of the South and 
judicious selection oi varieties In other parts of the 
country, products that once rated as luxuries have 
expanded Into crop significance. 
As this is the case, it is evident how important 
it, is to have the assurance ot steady sales. If the 
grower Is to be encouraged and compensated. Res¬ 
taurants largely effect this; their bills of fare 
must bo underlined so as to make almost a con¬ 
tinuous season for many things. There must be 
strawberries before May! Ripe Peaches many 
weeks in advance ol Maryland pickings! Green 
Peas and Asparagus before the frost is out of the 
ground hereabouts; New Potatoes long before the 
Fourth of July—a date once regarded as almost 
miraculous In this section. Apples, Pears, small 
fruits, Cucumbers, Cabbages, Kale, Spinach and 
Lettuce, are all stock affairs, weeks and weeks 
sooner than near by supplies can be obtained, in 
fact, the market frequently displays the green and 
tinted splendor of late summer while its patrons 
are yet winter-clad. 
These allusions to the help given by purveyors, 
must be gratifying to palns-taklng producers, as It 
Is pleasant, to know that outlet for their labors Is 
widening every new season, and In nearly every 
case, steady success Is promised for what was at 
one time timid experiments. T. A. G. 
—--- 
Mary had a little lamb. 
Its fleas were black as night; 
And everywhere that. Mary went 
Those wicked fleas would bite. 
I .hra. Hcmam. 
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PAINTING FLOWERS UPON MIRRORS. 
“ How to Grow Handsome : or. Hints toward 
Physical Perfection, and the Philosophy of Human 
Beauty." ahowitiK how to acquire, and retain nomly 
symmsbry, health and vigor, xcoore long lire, ana 
avoid the infirmities and deformities of ago. Hy y. 
G. Jaccicrs. author of “Tho Temperaments, etc. 
With introduction by Editor of Phrenological Jour¬ 
nal. New edition. Illustrated, Rtmo. Extra cloth, 
price New York : S. It, Wells it Co. 
This is a very valuable book on the subject of 
physical culture, and especially a work for ladtes, 
but of interest and importance to all. and may be 
recommended to mothers. 
The work Is very extensively illustrated With 
tine plates, consisting of upwards of one hundred 
Illustrations, taking up and elucidating distinctly 
the structure of the human body, Including tu 
brier, a system of anatomy and physiology. The 
perfect man and woman are held up to view with 
the contrasts which are found betweeen the two 
sexes < >ur author briefly discusses here tire tem¬ 
peraments, with Illustrations, also the laws ot con¬ 
figuration, showing the effects of education, cul¬ 
ture, etc. A very Important chapter Is that on 
embryology or heredity, showing that conditions 
are transmissible, with Important rules to be ob¬ 
served. childhood and the culture which should 
accompany It Is amply set forth, the relations lo 
body and brain, the moral and emotional influ¬ 
ences as affecting beauty, the Influences of the fine 
arts, social conditions, and occupations with the 
various causes of deterioration, the effects ot cli¬ 
mate and locality. Then comes the department of 
direct physical culture, including proper positions, 
tor sleeping, sitting, standing, walking, running, 
skating, riding, swimming, rowing, dancing, gym¬ 
nastic exercises, and all of the best means of phy¬ 
sical culture, with directions tor remedying the 
detects usually found. Practical hygiene shows 
how air becomes Impure, the abuses ol the stomach, 
what, tn eat and what to drink, rules for diet, ex¬ 
ercise and rest, cleanliness, etc. A chapter de¬ 
voted to womanhood contains a strong word for 
mothers and the marriage relations. The secrets 
of longevity show the perils of life, what consti¬ 
tutes vital power, human capacity for life, or how 
long we may live, etc. Dress Is discussed, with 
hints on colors, ornaments, etc. The work closes 
with the external indications of figure, and a com¬ 
plete index. 
ular “Songs for the Sanctuary,” In Its various 
editions, are used In more churches than all other 
similar collections put together, and yet It Is said 
that the entire Income received by Dr. Robinson 
from his Hymn Books for the past sixteen years 
has been given back to the churches In various 
ways for the cause of Christianity. 
An art revived In Rome within throe years past, 
Is the old Venetian art of painting flowers upon 
mirrors. Birds and butterflies are often added, and 
the effect of the glass underneath, especially when 
that is thick and bevelled, Is to make them appear 
as If suspended iu all-. Tourists remember seeing 
them in Venetian palaces, but faded and flecked 
with time, and often also, coarse and heavy In 
design. To-day the execution Is much liner, and 
besides, our flowers are enriched In quality and 
variety. Fornari is the best artist for this work In 
Rome, ills flowers are poised and painted with 
a grace and delicacy that nature, so reluctant to 
give up her subtle secrets, has herself granted him. 
This would be a pleasant study for the amateur 
artists who are springing up all over the United 
States, like wild flowers in the spring. The design 
must be traced from natural flowers with a litho¬ 
graphic pencil, and painted In oils with peculiar 
. are, for nothing can be more unlovely when badly 
done with muddy. Ill-assorted colors. These mir¬ 
rors are usually reamed Incurved ebony or ebon- 
ixed frames In the cinque cento style, another fash¬ 
ion revived wltliln a few years. In the house of 
Arse no Uoussuye In Paris, and In some others, the 
glass of the windows Is similarly decorated. One 
or two centuries ago. It was a fashion to cover the 
entire w alls of boudoirs with bcllowored mirrors. 
One of the prettiest Is in the “ Favorite” Palace 
at Baden Baden. Thus do we travel in circles. 
Art as w'ell as History always repeating Its tra¬ 
ditionary steps .—Syracuse journal. 
ijM*I of Jov.— By Rev. Sunn 
8. If. Pock. Bouton, Oliver Dltwon & Co. 
Tun title page informs us that this attractive 
collection Is for Gospel Meetings, Camp Meetings, 
and Sunday Schools. Its superiority in character to 
some former compilations will be sufficiently Indi¬ 
cated by several extracts from the preface. “ We 
call special attention to the large number ot hymns 
and tunes that have never before been published." 
There are nearly eighty of these, “ uur atm has 
been to present such hymns only as contain Gos¬ 
pel Truth; and which are themselves short ser¬ 
mons on given texts.” The title first selected was, 
the Gospel In Song, a most appropriate one; but 
It was abandoned for the reason that it somewhat 
resembled the name of another 000k, “We have 
striven to avoid the too prevalent dancing style of 
the so-called sacred music of the present day, and 
we believe that. In our effort to correct this abuse, 
many wilt give us their approbation.” In so doing, 
the authors have by no means fallen Into the 
opposite error of producing a dull book. The 
melodies are unusually bright and musical. “ We 
have also Inserted a choice collection of old favor¬ 
ites.” No singing book is complete without these, 
but they occupy only a few pages, and are very 
well selected. The uospel of Joy contains 135 
Hymns, and about 1»> Times, all of which are 
pleasing, and the bright book, with It bright name, 
can hardly fall to be a great success. 
tilth. _ hpi. _ . __ , 
laved in their Poverty. By Henry S. Drayton. 
With i llu.-trtttioiib. l2mo. pp. 276, cloth. Price, $1.35. 
Philadelphia. Cluxton, Reuiseu & Haffelltngttr. New 
York; S. R. Wells & Co. 
Some books are written for one purpose, some 
for another. In one we find a story merely, the 
author having drawn on his Imagination for a plot 
and exercised his ingenuity In creating novel 
characters and unexpected Incidents, in another 
there seems to be a desire to argue some point, 
teach some lesson or advance some theory, and 
the story, if It may be called such. Is subservient. 
In the book named above, the author seems to 
have attained the true position of a story-writer. 
He amuses and instructs at the same time. Ills 
recital is of a family In needy circumstances, and 
his teaching Is In showing how they managed to 
live comfortably on a small Income and brought 
happiness to themselves by conferring benefits on 
thos* about them, without turning aside from 
the course of the story or detracting from its In¬ 
terest, he manages to Introduce brief but Instruc¬ 
tive lessons on domestic economy, hygiene, cook¬ 
ery, physiology, dress, deportment, etc., so natur¬ 
ally that the reader scarcely suspects he Is the 
recipient of Instruction. 
Important Transfer of Hymn Book Interests. 
—Messrs. Scribner a Co., having, under the busi¬ 
ness management of Mr. Roswell smith, brought 
the publishing of Magazines from doubtful experi¬ 
ment to an unparalleled success, have now entered 
a new field with characteristic energy In the pub¬ 
lication of llymn and Tune Books for churches. 
Their recent issue of “ spiritual Songs' by Dr. 
Chas. s. Robinson, and “ calvary Selection of 
Spiritual Songs” (for Baptist churches) by Dr. 
Robinson and Rev. Roberts. Mae Arthur, In beau¬ 
tiful style, at very moderate prices, met with 
universal commendation from the critics. And 
now comes the announcement that the plates and 
copyrights of “Songs for tho Sanctuary,“ and all 
Dr. Robinson’s other works, have been purchased 
by this house from A. S. Barnes & Co. 
By this transfer, the works ot the most success¬ 
ful compiler of hymn and tune books are consoli¬ 
dated In tho hands of a firm which has ample 
facilities for bringing them out in the very best 
form at the lowest possible prices. 
Dr, Robinson’s earlier works, especially the pop- 
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Daughter; Glamour, Wm. O. Bates; Public Balls 
In New York; The.People for whom Shakespeare 
Wrote. It., Charles Dudley Warner; Recent .Modi¬ 
fications In Sanitary Drainage, George E. Waring, 
Jr.; Juno Ludovlsl, Iljalmar Hjorth Boyesen; 
Irene the Missionary. XIV. XVI.; The Morning 
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The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote.— 
In nothing was the Increasing wealth and ex¬ 
travagance of the period more shown than In 
apparel. And la It we are able to study the origin 
of the present English taste for the juxtaposition 
of striking and uneomplementary colors. In Cory- 
at’s crudities, 1611, we have an Englishman's con¬ 
trast, of the dress of the Venetians and the English. 
The Venetians adhered, without change, to their 
decent fashion, a thousand years old, wearing usu¬ 
ally black: tho slender doublet made close to the 
body, without much quilting; the long hose plain, 
the jerkin also black,—but all ot the most costly 
stuffs Christendom can furnish, satins and t.affe- 
tles, garnished with the. best lace. Gravity and 
good taste characterized their apparel. “In both 
these things,” says Coryat, “they differ mueh 
from us Englishmen. For whereas they have but 
one color, we use many more than are in the rain¬ 
bow, all the most light, garish, and unseemly 
colors that are in the world. Also tor fashion we 
are much Inferior to them. For we wear more 
fantastical fashions than any nation under the sun 
doth, the French only excepted.” On festival 
days, In processions, the senators wore crimson 
damask gowns, with flaps ol crimson velvet cast 
over their left shoulders; and the Venetian knights 
differed from the other gentlemen, for under their 
black damask gowns, with loug sleeves, they wotc 
pjd apparel, red silk stockings, and red pantofles. 
' Andrew Boord, In 1547, attempting to describe 
the fashions of his countrymen, gave up the effort 
In sheer despair over the variety and fickleness of 
costume, and drew a naked man with a pair of 
shears In one hand and a piece of cloth In tho 
other, to the end that he should shape- his apparel 
as he himself liked; and this he called an English 
man. Even the gentle Harrison finds It easier to 
inveigh against the enormity, the fickleness, and 
the fantasticality or tire English attire than to de¬ 
scribe It. So unstablo is the fashion, ho says, that 
to-day the Spanish guise Is In favor; to-raorrow 
the French toys are most tine and delectable; then 
the high German apparel is the go; next the Turk¬ 
ish manner Is host liked, the Morlsco gowns, the 
Barbary sleeves, and the short French breeches 
in a word, •• except It were a dog In a doublet, you 
shall not see any so disguised as are my country¬ 
men la England.” 
Thl3 fantastical folly was In all degrees, from 
the courtier down to the carter. “ It is a world to 
see the costliness and the dfirlosity, the excess and 
ilie vanity, the pomp and the bravery, the change 
and the variety, and finally the fickleness and the 
folly that Is In all degrees; insomuch that nothing 
Is more const ant in England than Inconstancy of 
attire. So much cost upon the body, so little upon 
souls; how many suits of apparel hath the one, or 
how little furniture hath the other!” And how 
men and women worry the peer tailors, with end¬ 
less fittings and sending back of garments, and 
trying on! "Then must the long seams of our 
hose bo set with a plumb line, then we puff, then 
we blow, and finally sweat till we drop, that our 
clothes may stand well upon us.” 
The barbeis were as cunning in variety as the 
tailors. Sometimes the head was polled; some¬ 
times tho hair was curled, and then suffered to 
grow long like a woman’s locks, and many limes 
cut off, above or uuder the ears, round as by a 
wooden dish. And so w lih the beards: some shaved 
from the chin, like the Turks; some cut short, like 
the heard of the Marquis Otto; some made round, 
like a rubbing brush; some peaked, others grown 
long. If a man have a lean face, the Marquis 
Otto's cut makes it broad ; if it be platter-Ukc the 
long, slender beard makes it seem narrow; “ if he 
be weasel-beaked, then much hair left on the 
cheeks will make the owner look big like abowdled 
hen, and so grim as a goose.” Nome courageous 
gentlemen wore In their ears rings ot gold and 
stones, to Improve God's work, which was other¬ 
wise- set off by monstrous quitted and stuffed 
doublets, that puffed out the figure like a barrel.— 
Atlantic for Jut j. 
Hari'Ek’s Mauazink lor ,lidy.—Narragansett 
Pier, Prof. Charles Carroll, with Mceon Illustra¬ 
tions; The Owl Cl itic, a Poem, .lamer: T. Fields, 
with two illustrations: The Land o’ Buries wil¬ 
liam II. Eldeing, with fifteen Illustrations; Tne 
Mowing, a Poem, s. u. M. Byers, with one illus¬ 
tration; A Ptiulnsulnr Canaan, Ill. Delaware, 
Howard Pyle, with nineteen illustrations; The 
Happy Island, a Story, Edward Everett Hale; A 
Romance of East Hampton. A. A. Hayes, Jr., with 
three Illustrations; The Storming of Stony Point, 
H. P. Johnston, with three illustrations; Fifty 
Years of American Art, I., S. G. W. Benjamin, 
with thirteen Illustrations; Young Mrs. Jardlne, 
Dinah M. Cratk, with three Illustrations; Recol¬ 
lections of Charles Sumner, E. P. Whipple; The 
Diary ot a Man of Fifty, a Story, Henry James, Jr. 
Editor’s Easy Chair: Blowing our own Trumpet; 
Carlyle and Scott; cowardly Good Humor; Revi¬ 
val of the Royal Prerogative in England; A Fal¬ 
lacy of “ First-class ” Americans. 
Editor’s Literary Record: Symonds’s Renais¬ 
sance In Italy'; The New Edition of Motley’s His¬ 
tories: Le Goff’s Life of Thiers; Church’s Spen¬ 
ser ; Oliphant’s Moliere; Shalrp’s Robert Burns; 
The Epic of Hades; Haywood s Willoughby; That 
Artful vicar; Martin’s lor a Dream’s Sake; Payn’s 
Under one Roof; Hassurek’s Tho Secret of the 
Andes; Boyesen’s Falconberg; Zola’8 L’As&om- 
molr; Porters In the Mist; Drlnkwat-or’s Tessa 
Wadsworth's Discipline; Airy Fairy Lilian ; Wild 
Life In a Southern Country; Burroughs’s Locusts 
and Wild Honey ; The American Plant-Book; Da¬ 
mon’s Ocean Wonders; Nlebhurs Greek Hero 
Stories; Cooke’s Stories of the Old Dominion; 
Buckley’s The Fairy-Land of science; Yonge’s 
Young Folks’ History ol England; Hill’s Washing¬ 
ton Irving; Mrs. Beecher’s Letters from Florida-; 
Flipper’s colored Cadet at West Point; Selss’s 
Voices trow Babylon; Shakespeare’s St, Paul at 
Athens; Klnglake’s Eothen; Beerbohm’s Wander¬ 
ings In Patagonia ; Brooks’s ZophieL 
Editor’s Scientific Record; Astronomy; Physics; 
Anthropology; Zoology; Engineering and Me¬ 
chanics. 
Editor's Historical Record; Political Intelli¬ 
gence; Disasters; Obituary. 
Editor’s Drawer: Juvenile Humor; An Epitaph; 
Sliuter and Wliitfleld; Cross-Examination; A Chi¬ 
nese Witness; Plea of a Jorseyman; Anecdote of 
Judge Kent; Humors from a recent Novel; A medi¬ 
cal Anecdote; A disgusted Judge; A French Peti¬ 
tion ; A Clerical Accident; A Typical American; 
The Marines In Church; A frightened Cbluarnan; 
The Reason why (illustration); “Listen to dot 
Mocking-Bird ’’ (Illustration); Country Board (il¬ 
lustration). 
Beaconsfield and Peel.—T he alleged growth 
of the influence of the crown Is coincident, with a 
great Increase of the court circle by the marriages 
of the various members of the royal family, so that 
the court Influence in politics becomes more and 
more evident. A recent incident shows the condi¬ 
tion of the public mind In EDgland, and the risks 
of the Be-aconsfield policy. Sir Robert Peel spoke 
severely in the House of commons oi the Queen’s 
correspondence with Lord Chelmsford, and alluded 
to Thackeray 's un flattering portraits of the Georges, 
one of whom, and the most reactionary, was the 
Queen’s grandfather. Presently a Blend of the 
Prince of Wales Intimated, in a paper called Vanity 
Fair, that the royal family Intended to cut Sir 
Robert. To this foolish assertion Sir Robert re¬ 
plied, In a letter which tho editor of Vanity Fair 
begged him to withdraw, and which was privately 
shown to the Prince of Wales, who caused Sir Rob¬ 
ert to b* informed that he had not authorized the 
statement in Fanil;/ Fair. This message Sir Rob¬ 
ert- sent to the Times, and the editor of Vanity Fair 
retorted by publishing sir Robert’s letter. It Is 
a letter In which, courtward and Queenward. Sir 
Robert uses very strong language, calling the state¬ 
ment of vanity Fair “ a very Impudent expression 
of the latest development of the ridiculous Imperial¬ 
ism of the present day;” •' a clear breach of privi¬ 
lege, recalling the most stuptd exhibitions of royal 
misconduct.” “ You invite me to a game which 
two can play at: one of the parties In the contest 
may prove a pungent critic of the coming K— 
and Co.” “ You act as the plenipotentiary of roy¬ 
alty : go and tell your master that I am not the 
sort of man to be smothered by imperial menaces, 
and unless I receive the most ample satisfaction 
from the royal sources which have made you their 
most Impudent mouth-piece, I shall send a copy of 
your statement, together with my reply, to the 
Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge." 
This is “ langwldge “ which even James Yel- 
lowplush could not mistake, and the courteous dis¬ 
claimer of tho Prince, which did not prevent lt3 
final publication, can not change the conviction 
that there Is very deep and strong feeling when a 
man of the position of sir Robert Peel, who is by 
no means a radical, can write In such terms of tho 
court for publication, and when another staid and 
substantial commoner can propose a virtual cen¬ 
sure upon the Queen, it Is not a favorable mo¬ 
ment for attempting to magnify personal monarch¬ 
ical power, and the course of events In England 
shows how singularly out of time with his own age 
the rrtme Minister Is. When he was made Chan¬ 
cellor, a few years since, he exhorted the students 
to study carefully the spirit of their age. and to 
conform their lives to It: and by way of Illustra¬ 
tion he chooses the time in which the Idea of mon¬ 
archy Is outgrown among the educated and Intelli¬ 
gent classes who Inspire and control the age, and 
In a country traditionally sensitive to the encroach¬ 
ment of prerogative, and In the prospect of the 
succession of a Prince who is thought too much to 
resemble his great-uncle the Prince Regent, to re¬ 
vive personal government, to enhance the power of 
the crown, and to belittle Parliament. There is, 
indeed, in the opinion oi shrewd observers, a reac¬ 
tion upon the continent against free government. 
But that ts impossible In England. The country 
has gone too far forward; the suffrage is too widely 
extended; there ts too much real liberty and 
soundness of thought, too homogeneous a people, 
too sturdy a national character, to permit any 
such reaction. There is nothing tn the purpose of 
Lord Beaeonstield which can contend successfully 
with the spirit of sir Robert Peel.— Editor’* Eos>j- 
Chair, in Hariirr's Mayan ne,for July. 
TheT weiLiy-fOv.rill Annual Commencement ex¬ 
ercises at St. Mary’s Academy, Notre Dame. In¬ 
diana. promise to be very pretty. The programme 
sent. us. clearly indicates i lie high standard de¬ 
manded of tho scholars. Mother Mary of St. An¬ 
gela, the Superior, may' well feel gratified at the 
success attending her efforts to make St. Mary’s 
one ot the best schools in the country, 
