1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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From Day to Day. 
JUST AS MOTHER USED TO DO. 
He criticised her puddings, and he didn’t like her 
cake; 
He wished she’d make the biscuit that his mother 
used to make ; 
She didn’t wash the dishes, and she didn’t make 
a stew, 
And she didn’t mend his stockings as his mother 
used to do. 
Ah, well! She wasn’t perfect, though she tried 
to do her best, 
Until at length she thought her time had come to 
have a rest; 
So, when one day he went the same old rigma¬ 
role all through, 
She turned and boxed his ears, just as his mother 
used to do. —Credit Lost. 
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A Kentucky paper gives an account of 
an Allen County patriarch who is the 
father of 29 children, 21 of whom are 
now living. These 21 have presented 
the patriarch with 105 grandchildren and 
35 great-grandchildren. This numerous 
grand-parent is 75 years old, his wife 
being 78, and both are hale and hearty. 
What a rousing family gathering that 
circle could hold! 
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The daily papers recently reported the 
death of a Denver clergyman who, dur¬ 
ing his illness, was treated by regular 
physicians of two schools, hypnotic heal¬ 
ers and Christian scientists. Nobody 
knew exactly who was treating him at 
the time of his death, but it would ap¬ 
pear to an outsider that the assorted 
healers ought to have formed^themselves 
into a syndicate. 
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Bakers’ delivery wagons are extreme¬ 
ly diverse in appearance even in the 
United States, but they become very 
commonplace when compared with the 
baker at Punta Arenas, Chile. Horses 
are commoner than vehicles there, and 
the baker rides, with a great box, look¬ 
ing like an overgrown bandbox, on 
either Bide. These boxes are filled with 
the bread, and the baker must present a 
very odd figure with his load. 
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one of these islanders, Thomas Christian, 
a descendant of the ringleader of the 
original mutineers, recently came to this 
country, with the intention of becoming 
an American citizen. We have always 
considered the story of Pitcairn Island a 
very instructive one. The original muti¬ 
neers, seamen of limited education, se¬ 
lected brown-skinned wives from the 
women of Tahiti, and looked for a life 
free from the cares of civilization on 
their smiling southern island. They soon 
discovered, however, that even this iso¬ 
lated community must fall into a state 
of anarchy without the restraints of re¬ 
ligious obligation and moral law. They 
held to the best part of civilization be¬ 
fore they came in contact with it, and 
offer an example to many a community 
in closer touch with the rest of the world. 
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Wk can scarcely wonder that the mis¬ 
sionaries try to alleviate the lot of the 
Hindu widows, when we read of the 
treatment accorded them. The Indian 
widow must shave her head; she is de¬ 
prived of all jewelry and ornaments; 
she wears the coarsest of clothes, and 
must eat the coarsest food, receiving 
fewer meals during the day than the 
rest of the family. Many such widows 
are mere children, wedded in babyhood, 
who have never even seen the husbands 
they are supposed to mourn Perhaps 
this accounts for the willingness of the 
widow to immolate herself on her hus¬ 
band’s funeral pyre. The British gov¬ 
ernment in India met with strenuous 
opposition in its efforts to abolish this 
last custom, and even within the past 
year, cases have been noted where a 
widow and her relatives connived to de¬ 
ceive government officials that the wo¬ 
man might perform a suttee An exam¬ 
ple of an Oriental husband’s grief is 
related by the Perak Pioneer, a member 
of the state council of Perak, Malayan 
Peninsula, grieving so deeply over the 
death of his first wife that he erected a 
temporary house over her grave, and 
will live there for three months and 10 
days, giving a feast once a week to all 
the Malays in the district. 
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During the Summer, the public-school 
pupils in New South Wales receive 
weekly swimming lessons. They are 
taught to swim, dive, float and rescue 
the drowning Where there are local 
baths, the children are taken to these 
places for instruction, while near the 
seaside the pupils are taken to the 
beach. Such instruction would Beem 
very wise, though, in most coast locali¬ 
ties, the boys, at least, seem to learn 
swimming instinctively, without regular 
instruction. 
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Another of the numerous “ easy work 
at home” frauds was exposed in New 
York recently. The persons concerned, 
two women and one man, have been held 
under $2,000 bail each, indictments be¬ 
ing found against them for conspiracy 
to defraud. It is charged that the ac¬ 
cused caused advertisements to be print¬ 
ed in newspapers offering “ easy and 
remunerative work at home ” in making 
artificial flowers for the “ Fairfield 
Floral Company,” and that they also 
caused fraudulent testimonials to be 
printed and sent through the mails. 
Persons who answered the advertise¬ 
ments were told to send a two-cent stamp 
for further information. If they did so, 
they rece.ved another letter directing 
them to send $2.10 for a “ beginner’s out¬ 
fit.” If they sent that sum, they received 
an imitation Bengal rose and three buds, 
with instructions how to enlarge the 
buds into roses. When the “ beginner ” 
forwarded the completed work to the 
advertisers, he was told that the Floral 
Company’s business had so increased 
that it could not bother with small or¬ 
ders, and the “beginner” was told to 
forward $110.50, for which he would re¬ 
ceive 50 dozen buds to be converted into 
roses. When he had completed these he 
would receive $25 for the work, and the 
$110.50 would be returned to him. Few of 
the company’s correspondents ever got 
beyond the $2.10 remittance, and it is al¬ 
leged that thousands lost that much. 
One of the company’s employees told 
Post-Office Inspector King that over 250,- 
000 answers to the advertisements had 
been received. It is stated by the in¬ 
spectors that no instance of the com¬ 
pany’s having carried out the promises 
of its advertisements has been discovered 
Heroic treatment for pneumonia was 
recently reported by the daily papers. 
A patient who had reached the crisis of 
the disease and become insensible, his 
temperature reaching 107 degrees, was 
packed in a bed of snow, his entire body 
being covered with it. After 45 minutes 
in cold storage, the patient opened his 
eyes, and showed consciousness of his 
surroundings. It is said that he will 
now recover. We wouldn’t advise such 
treatment as a regular form of curative 
methods, however. 
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Many among us will remember the 
account of the mutiny of the Bounty, in 
old school readers and other books of 
collected information. This was an 
English ship, sailing the South Seas, 
which was seized by mutineers in 1789, 
the captain and others who did not 
agree with them being set adrift in a 
small boat. The mutineers sailed to 
Tahiti, where they induced some of the 
natives to join them, and then sailed 
away, nothing being heard of them until 
1808, when an American vessel approach¬ 
ed Pitcairn Island—a mere speck in the 
South Pacific, previously regarded as 
uninhabited—to discover that it was 
populated by descendants of the muti¬ 
neers. The islanders were simple in 
habits, devout and virtuous, their little 
community being governed by laws for¬ 
mulated by John Adams, one of the 
original mutineers. About 40 years ago, 
a number of the islanders were removed 
by British authority to Norfolk Island, 
on the coast of Chile, because Pitcairn 
Island was too small to sustain them all. 
There they are engaged in farming and 
whale fisheries, but they have kept to 
their simple religious life, and permit no 
intoxicants to be sold in any of their set¬ 
tlements. It is interesting to note that 
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