THE RURAL «£W-YQR&ER 
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walked out to the play house of the six-year- 
old daughter of the house—a charming little 
house with engravings on the wall, a little 
cook stove and all her‘playthings, where she 
could have her playfellows and cook their 
own dinners. The acacia trees were showing 
their coining bloom; but lieautiful as this tree 
is, it seems to require great care to keep it 
from splitting down. I said to Mr. R, that 
the place was so delightful that I shouldn’t 
think ho would over wish to go anywhere! 
He said that was true; he really found no 
spot to his eyes so lovely as the “Highlands,” 
the name of the place. He quoted his little 
daughter, a quaint, mature child of old-fash¬ 
ioned ways, who upon a recent visit to New¬ 
port, which they found very beautiful, said: 
“Well, papa, I think the ‘Highlands’ will 
carry off the cake, after all.” The place is 
seven years old. The many rich men in Cali¬ 
fornia use their wealth lavishly in making 
their houses marvels of loveliness, and their 
hospitality is of that largo and gracious pattern 
that we imagine belongs to the country houses 
of the European nobility; while many of 
the former have vastly more money than have 
the latter. Although they are often people 
lacking culture, 1 doubt, from what 1 have 
heard of them, if they lack in intelligence, 
which, allied with a good, common education 
acquired early in life, lits them for almost any 
position they may find themselves obliged to 
till. The rich .Mrs. Mackey was the daughter 
of a barber, the wife of a dissipated drug¬ 
gist, and she hail to earn her own living for a 
time and took in washing—which was then 
profitable. Another grande dome kept a 
hoarding house, and another was an illiterate 
Irish woman. But, luckily, they all have 
good, native sense, and when in their own 
homes are in no danger of over being mistaken 
for a chambermaid. Money can supply a 
first-class butler aud a first-class housekeeper 
and artistic surrounding, but it is very difficult 
for money to put good English into the mouth, 
unless it has been acquired in youth, and 
nothing more quickly betrays good or ill 
breeding, than cue’s speech, and the care of 
the teeth! And the wise American youth— 
if wisdom could only come a few years earlier 
when one has not wise parents to pour it out 
of their experiences — will not mind mean 
dress, plain food, ugly, unfurnished lodgings, 
or obscurity, but they will study good conver¬ 
sation, master a good style of writing, so as 
always to be able to write a flue letter in 
every particular, keep erect, preserve a spot¬ 
less reputation, aud take the best core of the 
body. Then if wealth comes in later life, 
they will be ready to use it fittingly aud not 
be made a fool by its possession, A very cul¬ 
tivated young woman here said to me one 
day when we were talking of the reckless ex¬ 
penditure of some rich Californians—one had 
built a $.\000 playhouse for his children, he 
afterwards failed —“ The very best people iu 
California are not rich, somo even havn’t 
enough for comfort. And rich Californians 
are chiefly hospitable to other rich people. It 
isn’t their way to give dinners and receptions 
to genius and merit,” Her strictures I thought 
a little harsh, although it is true, undoubtedly, 
that social lines are more closely drawn iu 
California than in any other Western State. 
I have just room enough left to mention that 
at a reception we attended, nasturtium vines 
iu flower were much used for decoration in 
t he house. In the center of the large refresh¬ 
ment table, was laid a parallelogram of dark 
red velvet or plush, around the edge of which 
was laid a border of flowers, with an arrange¬ 
ment of the same for a center-piece. It was 
somewhat novel, but I did not think it very 
effective. One of the ice creams was pistachio 
—a bright green. The napkins were all Jap¬ 
anese, (paper) white, with small designs in 
colors, and very pretty. 
A FARMER’S DAUGHTER’S DOMESTIC 
REVERIES. 
CHARITY SWEETHEART. 
“Go not fur from me, O my Strength! 
Whom all my times obey; 
Take front roe anything Thou wilt, 
Hut go not Thou away, 
And let the storm that docs Thy work. 
Heal with me as It may." 
I repeated these words to myself the other day 
when 1 felt tired and beaten, altera little bat¬ 
tle with Hurt, who had been talking of girls as 
if they were all to be measured from his stand¬ 
point. I told him he was judging only from 
the newspapers and books that wrote against 
the sex as a hobby, and that he would find as 
serious, thoughtful and earnest workers, iu 
whatever they took up, among girls, as among 
young men. But iu my secret heart, I know 
that we lack the philosophy of the boy, the 
ability to whistle instead of scream, and the 
equanimity that can work out a problem with¬ 
out haste, or ill-done work; as a rule, girls are 
more patient, more enduring than men. and I 
told Burt that 1 suffered more every day from 
some ache or pain than he did iu a year, and 
that a finger ache was enough to lead him 
to “make a fuss, want a nurse” and think him. 
self a martyr. Then he said girls were always 
ailing; that if they took exercise they would be 
better—as if I did not get exercise enough. 
Why, I am on my feet from morning until 
night. People tal k about saving their strength, 
but. with a family of men and hoys with only 
one pair of hands, it is impossible. But lately 
the boys have become more mindful of me, 
and careful not to dirty the house as fast as I 
clean it, which they ouee did. Burt is a think¬ 
ing boy—when he was ever so little h Q used to 
stop suddenly in whatever ho was doing, aud 
say, “It’s queer, isn’t it!” and it was generally 
something that his puzzled brain could not 
understand. 
Father has had a gentleman visiting him 
lately, the son of an old friend. He is a far¬ 
mer. but of quiet, gentle manners, aud quite 
unassuming. But be has been a student, and has 
not given his mind to stories of love and adven¬ 
ture iuhis youth, so hasa natural desire for good 
reading. After hearing him talk awhile, so 
differently from the young men iu our village, 
Burt came to me and said,—“Queer, isn’t it!— 
he’s a farmer, and a practical one, not a 
gentleman farmer, but a gentleman and a 
farmer.” I was glad t hat he saw the difference, 
—the fact that a farmer need not be a clown. 
And if this could be better understood by our 
young men—that their manners need not be 
boorish because they arc farmers—they would 
be less likely to sneer at girls who prefer re¬ 
fined manners to vulgarity. Country boys 
often pride themselves on their uncouthness 
as differing from foppishness; but it is a good 
thing when the happy medium can be reached. 
Spring has come and the work must be ouce 
more begun of cleaning up. and preparing for 
Summer. My garden plots trouble me most. 
They are small and 1 cannot get them to look 
pretty all the year or rather all the flowering 
season. As soon as I get one bit blooming, the 
early flowers begin to look ragged and brown. 
Those who write on this subject generally do 
so for the people who have large gardens— 
and plenty of plants. When 1 cut up my 
geraniums, and sot them round the bed, they 
all wither off and are just getting nice when 
Fall comes, I should like to have nice pick- 
able flowers, but cannot afford to spend auy 
more than will purchase a few seeds at the 
grocery stores with some of the egg money. 
A WEEK’S WORK AT MRS. HOME¬ 
SPUNS. 
THURSDAY. 
This was usually considered a resting day; 
visits were more apt to he planned for th is time 
of the week, or auy extra work that needed to 
be done was usually brought forward then. In 
the morning, after her daily round of house¬ 
hold duties, such as comes to every working 
mistress fftw days iu the year, was over, Mrs, 
H. announced that she intended to go to the 
church social iu the afternoon, but she wished 
to make the forenoon count too, m some 
effective way, and she accordingly hail her 
quilt ing frames brought iu, aud put on a quilt, 
or, speaking in modern style, a comforter. 
The material was of red cheese cloth, the lop 
and bottom alike, and it was tied, or rather 
tufted, with white tying yarn. The tufts 
were strands of the yarn an inch or so long, 
five or six in a tuft. They were tied through 
the middle with white thread used double, 
ami if they were uneven they were afterwards 
trimmed off a little. 
It was tied sufficiently close to hold the 
thin layer of wadding securely iu place. It 
was to be finished by working tbe edges (in¬ 
stead of binding or hemming) iu button-hole 
stitch, the same material being used as for the 
tufts. The nimble fingers got it off the frame 
before dinner time, aud the work was viewed 
with much satisfaction, being very ornament¬ 
al for the amount of time spent on it. 
In the afternoon Mrs. H. attended the so¬ 
cial, where she took an active part iu the 
proceeding, and found the change of scene 
very beneficial to her spirits. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
NICE WAYS OF COOKING VEAL. 
Take a fillet of veal, have it. boned, then 
stuff it with a dressing made of bread crumbs 
moistened with boiling water. Add a gener¬ 
ous supply of but ter, season with salt, pepper, 
the grated rind of a lemon, and the juice of 
the same. Put your meat in the dnp- 
piug-pan, sprinkle with salt aud pepper, 
squeeze over it a little leniou juice, roast well, 
allowing fully 20 minutes to a pound. Make 
a rich gravy, and serve with sliced lemou, 
VEAL STEW. 
Take cold roast veal, cut into mouthfuls, 
add any gravy you may have left, season well, 
adding a dash of curry powder and some mace 
aud a very little boiling water, stew for half 
an hour, then add a good half pint of milk, 
stevva while 'longer and serve. Jellied veal 
may lie made the same as jellied chicken, ami 
is most delicious. aunt em. 
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Debility 
Languor, and Loss of Appetite, arc cured 
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Three years ago I suffered from Debility 
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William E. Way, East Lempster, N. H, 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, 
Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., I.owell, Mass. 
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