THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
SHE SEWED ON HIS BUTTONS 
Old Blummer la tight,-listed, several days ago 
he said to his wife: “ Marla, I want you to look 
over that broadcloth vest of mine and put new 
buttons on It, ’cause I’m going to a card-party to¬ 
night.” 
“ But, Ely," answered Mrs. Blummer, “ I haven't 
any buttons to match tliat vest, and—" 
“ Thunder!’ broke In Blummer, “ the Idea of a 
woman keeping house as long as you have, and 
pretendin’ to be out of buttons. By George l I 
b’lleve you’ll ask me for money to buy ’em with 
next.’’ 
That evening Blummer hun-ted through his sup¬ 
per and began arraying hlrnself for the card-party. 
Presently he called for the broadcloth vest., and 
Mrs, Blummer, with marvelous promptitude, hand¬ 
ed It to him. He took it, hastily unfolded It,and 
then, as his eye took In his complete appearance, 
he stood as one transfixed. it was a six button 
vest, and there were six buttons on It, and the 
dazed optic of Mr. Blmnmer observed that the first, 
or top one, was a tiny shirt button, and the next 
was a brass army overcoat button with U. S. 
gleaming upon it, and that number three was an 
oxydlzed silver affair, and that number four was a 
horn button evidently from the back of one of the 
Puritan fathers’ coats, and then came a suspender 
button, and then, as the dazzled eyes of old Blum¬ 
mer reached the bottom button —a poker chip 
(found in Blummer’s pocket) with two holes 
punched through It—he gave a snort that made the 
chandelier JLngie. There is, after all, a fine sense 
of humor about Blummer, and lie laughed till he 
cried. And there won’t be any button money 
grudged In that household hereafter .—Cleveland 
Herald. * * * _ 
Estranged.—I t was a warm afternoon, and 
young Cummagen did not go tn the house, but sat 
down In the pleasant porch, as was his custom, 
after ring ing the bell. Her little sister came to 
tbe door and looked at him with some curiosity. 
“ Does your sister Mabel know 1 am here, Nellie?” 
he asked. “Oh, yes,’’ replied the innocent prat¬ 
tler, “ I guess she does; she told me to come out 
and see how shady It made the front yard when 
you put your feet up on the porch railing.” lie 
took them down and sat on them. 
Small girl, very harshly, to her doll in a toy 
carriage, dolly having tumbled from her seat: 
“Set right up, you horrid old tiling 1 Don’t you 
■dare to do that again, or J’ll whip you." Seeing a 
passer-by, wbo had approached unobserved, she 
mollified her voice, and continued In dulcet tones: 
“ Now, sit up straight, darling, and bo careful not 
'to fall and hurt yourself ."—Lowell Mail. 
A New Jersey firm Is putting up a Hackensack 
brand of mosquitoes, and palming them off on the 
public as potted lobsters.— Wheeling sunO+iy 
Xeader. 
No comment, is necessary on this assertion, ex¬ 
cepting to refer to the fact that It Is a Sunday 
ipaper which prints It. 
“ No, sir,” said the gentleman from Pittsburg, 
•“ 1 was not In the war, but my brother was, and 
be was wounded." “ Ah, Indeed. Seriously 
wounded ?” “ Yes, sir; he was shot In the horse.’’ 
A poem In a rural paper begins : “ ’Twere better 
tfar that I had died.” After perusing the effusion, 
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shown in the private character ot Lotta, Mrs. 
Landers, Modjeska, Cary, Kellogg, Llt.ta and many 
others of as great note, whom the Americans 
love to honor because of their virtue as well as 
their talent, we look with the same commends 
ble spirit. We cannot afford to cast a slur upon 
t he estimation in which we hold the record of 
these men and women, by receiving with open 
arms this brilliant but decidedly Immoral woman. 
With ber success upon our stage will come the 
seal of Immorality that has caused kings and po¬ 
tentates In power to exile theatrical representa¬ 
tions from national patronage and social influence. 
With her success, a flood of French immoralities 
will pour In upon us to be dreaded by all good 
people, all those who hope to see tlie drama made 
a power tor good Instead of evil, a power arm-in- 
arm with the press and pulpit to educate and 
rcllue, rather than to corrupt and debase the 
thousands of people who so readily drink In its 
pure or Impure draughts. If Sara Bernhardt 
Is received as she and her managers expect her 
to bo, It will be a blow to pure womanhood, and 
to a pure drama that It will take years for us to 
recover from if we ever do, and one to be deeply 
regretted at this period of our unsettled social 
condition and of our national history. 
Perhaps Its most valuable property Is its absolute 
power or detecting any of tbe Injurious and even 
dangerous Ingredients entering into tbe composi¬ 
tion of so very many of the cosmetics and face- 
powders In the market. Every lady should subject 
her toilet-powder to this test. Place a tea-spoon¬ 
ful of the suspected powder In a glass, and add the 
juice of a lemon. 1 f effervescence takes place It Is 
an Infallible proof that the* powder Is dangerous, 
and Its use should be avoided, as It will ultimately 
Injure the akin and destroy the beauty of the com¬ 
plexion. 
Preventing Sea-Sickness.— Of the many annoy¬ 
ances to which the traveling public is subject at 
thin particular season sea-alcknesH Is, perhaps, the 
most distressing. A perfect cure for this malady 
would rob ocean travel or half Its terrors. No 
drug, however, has been discovered which acts as 
a specific. Tbe cause of the sickness Is largely, if 
not wholly, due to the Involuntary and unexpected 
motions to which the passenger Is subjected on 
board ship. These cause undue pressure upon the 
stomach and liver, and derange the action of those 
organs. To prevent this, attention has recently 
been called to an old plan, which Is said to be very 
successful. It, consists In regulating the act of 
breathing according to the pitching or rolling of 
the vessel, drawing In the breath as she rises, and 
breathing out as she falls Into the trough of the 
waves. Alter a little experience the practice. It Is 
saliybecomes Involuntary. When sea-sickness has 
fairly set In, the only thing to be done Is to get rid 
of tbe extra bile thrown into the circulation, and 
to allay the Irritation of the stomach. For the 
latter, brandy Is the popular remedy, hut cool effer¬ 
vescing drinks are preferable. 
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CJftJC H ft supplied tn consumers at 
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ZULULAND 
Beaconsfxei.d Is the author of two tragedies. 
“ A larcos" was written by him when he was a 
young man. It has just been performed in Lon¬ 
don and the papers speak of It as a mournful and 
sombre drama. Ilia latest tragedy Is of the same 
cast. It Is being performed, but not In London. 
Here Is a description of the principal scene In 
Beaconalleld's tragedy ot “Zululaud” as described 
by a South African correspondent. Speaking of 
the field of Iaaudula he says: 
“ in this ravine dead men lay thick—mere hones, 
with toughened, discolored skin, like leather, 
covering them, and clinging tight, to them, the 
flesh all wasted away. Some were almost wholly 
dismembered—heaps of clammy yellow bones. 
Every man had been disemboweled. Some were 
scalped and others subjected to yet ghastlier mu¬ 
tilation. All the way up the slope l traced, by 
the ghastly token of dead men, the fitful line of 
flight. It was like a long string with knots In It, 
the string fonned of single corpses, the knots ot 
clusters of dead, where as it seemed, little grpups 
might have gathered to make a hopeless, gallant 
stand and die.” 
Easily Incurred, Terribly Obstinate, 
Is rheumatism. Even at the outset, the ordinary 
remedies are frequently powerless to cope with it. 
This is more particularly the case when a ten¬ 
dency to it Is Inherited. It should be combated 
before It becomes chronlo. When the first twinges 
are felt, recourse should be had to llostetter’s 
Stomach Bitters, a depurenc which expels from 
the blood thoee irritating principles which, by 
contact cause Inflammation and pain in tbe 
muscles and joints. Poisonous medicines which 
are usually administered for tills disease, but 
which, In a Blight, overdose, may terminate It by 
destroying life llfcelf, should be avoided, and tills 
safe and more effective medicine used Instead. 
Those disorder of tbe bowels, stomach and liver 
which frequently accompany rheumatic and gouty 
ailments, are invariably removed by tills excellent 
botanic corrective. 
SARA BERNHARDT 
A PLEA FOR A PURE WOMANHOOD AND A POKE 
DRAMA. 
Every woman who cares for woman’s purity 
and manhood's honor will endorse the following 
words, written by Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, In her 
“ Brio-a-Brac” columns or the Lafayette Courier: 
It Is a recognized fact among the amusement- 
loving people or the world that Sara Bernhardt 
Is coining to America. This queen ot the Come- 
die Fruncal.se Is an artist In more ways than 
one and the day she sets foot upon the Ameri¬ 
can stage will he an important one In the 
history of our dramatic representation. The 
eyes of the whole refined world will be t urned 
upon us, and we will be Judged according to our 
reception of thl3 gifted woman. An exchange 
says of her: “ Sara Bernhardt, the world-renowned 
French actress, noted lor her remarkable and 
varied Intellectual attainments and eccentricities 
—a tragedienne who la a sculptress, a painter, a 
writer, a poet, and aeronaut; who has an Insur¬ 
mountable horror of fools, dresses In male cos¬ 
tume, has a skeleton for a constant companion, 
and is a terror to authors and managers.” Bril¬ 
liant, so rraglie that she says of herself; " Je suls 
toujours malade.” aggressive, tyrannical, openly 
Immoral; such Is the character or the woman who 
will come to our shores as a “ star,” to leave 
her Impress, not readily effaced, whatever it may 
be, upon the moral standard of the American 
drama. 
The powerful Influence of the drama has been 
felt by every nation, tor good or for evil, and It is 
an agent second to no other In forming the char¬ 
acter of the people. Upon our own It makes 
Its influence felt more readily than upon any 
other, from the fact that we so hastily incorpor¬ 
ate all that is new, exciting and entertaining, 
and fall to consider the results until they are 
actually upon ub. 
At present we may hoast of a comparatively 
pure national drama. We point with pride to its 
growing Influence, aud to the fact that purity of 
character, In both the renowned men and women 
on the American stage is Its crowning vir- 
>tue. Upon such men as Booth, Jefferson, For¬ 
est, and to tho high type of womanhood as 
As Improved for 1879, 
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Take tlie leaves of the common rose, place them, 
without pressing, tn a large-mouthed bottle; pour 
some good spirits of wine over them, seal tbe bot¬ 
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for a month or two. 
Remedy for Freckles.—T he following remedy 
has been round etflcaclous in Europe for freckles: 
Finely powdered sulpho-phenate of zinc, one part; 
oil of lemon, one part; pure alcohol, five parts; 
collodion, forty-five parts. To be mixed well to¬ 
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To Remove Freckles.— Scrape horseradish Into 
a cup of cold sour milk; let It stand twelve hours; 
strain, and apply two or three times a day. or, 
mix lemon juice, one ounce; pulverized borax, 
one-quarter drachm; sugar, one-halt drachm; keep 
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without draught, make a hole through t he wall to 
the outer air, In a corner or the room Just above 
tbe skliimg. Through the hole put one arm of ft 
tube three Inches In diameter, and bent at right 
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air should be In length equal to the thickness of 
the wall, aud tlie other arm should be two reet 
long, standing vertically In tbe corner of the 
room ; if desired, It Can be covered with paper of 
the same pat tern as that on the wall. A tube of 
the diameter given above Is sufficient to ventilate 
a room of moderate size. 
The Uses of the Lemon—A piece of lemon 
bound upon a corn will relieve It In a day or so. It 
should be renewed night and morning. The free 
use of lemon-juice and sugar will always relieve a 
cough. A lemon eaten before breakfast every day 
for a week or two will entirely prevent that feeling 
or lassitude peculiar to the approach of spring. 
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