1809 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER.' 
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nutriment as a strong adult requires 
during one day. Many persons prefer 
the skim-milk koumiss—or koumys, as 
it is sometimes spelled. During the 
warm weather, when every one is in¬ 
clined to drink freely, the use of kou¬ 
miss adds a wholesome and nutritious 
food to the dietary, which may be pro¬ 
vided cheaply wherever milk is pro¬ 
duced. 
The Well-Organized Home. 
In its July issue, the Cosmopolitan 
Magazine continues its papers on the 
proper arrangement of the home, dis¬ 
cussing the household management of a 
family with an income of $2.50 a day. 
In this essay, the writer observes that 
our educational system seems to absorb 
so much of our girls’ time that mothers 
give them but little working knowledge 
of homemaking. Mothers defend them¬ 
selves 'in this practice with the plea that 
the girls have no time for housework, 
and this is, no doubt, true to some ex¬ 
tent. But there is another reason quite 
as potent, if not so readily confessed. 
The working mother reasons to herself: 
“This girl may not be married. If not, 
she must be self-supporting. In order 
to be self-supporting, she must be edu¬ 
cated. If she should marry, she could 
learn the art of homemaking by herself. 
But if not married, she could not edu¬ 
cate herself to do other things. I will 
bend everything to her education, and 
let the homemaking take care of itself.” 
To a certain extent, she is right, for it 
takes much less knowledge to keep 
house now than it did 50 years ago—al¬ 
though more, perhaps, to make a home, 
as the outside influences are more pro¬ 
nounced. The two are by no means 
analogous, as the one is a department of 
the other, and the education is neglected 
only in the housekeeping. The more 
general education a girl has, the more 
competent she will be in the administra¬ 
tion of conflicting interests. 
It is, also, an Impressive fact that the 
less the income the greater the need for 
these very abilities. It is easier in a 
house of 12 rooms, with a girl aiding in 
the hoqsework and a seamstress taking 
the burden of the family sewing, to have 
everything restful and pleasant, and all 
the influences from the mother’s temper 
to the good in music and art in their 
proper condition, than it is to do it in a 
house of six rooms with one pair of 
hands. It may be this increasing ability 
to manage, which education has given 
to women, that leads the modern hus¬ 
band and father to transfer so much of 
home authority and responsibility to 
her. Or it may be the sharp lines that 
are being drawn in the division of labor 
that make all the departments of the 
home dtvolve more particularly upon 
her. 
A woman who does not know just 
what amount she may have to expend 
on a given department, is handicapped. 
The relation of one department to an¬ 
other is a matter of taste in individual 
families, and the home, as a whole, is 
not the success that it might be if a di¬ 
vision of expenditures is noi definitely 
made in the beginning. Some families 
expend on the table an amount far be¬ 
yond the proper percentage. Other fam¬ 
ilies deny themselves all indulgence of 
the appetite, and use every extra dollar 
for clothing. Still others economize in 
every account, and save enough to send 
the children for a year or two to college. 
It is a question whether the money 
saved by years of sacrifice of every home 
comfort is ever compensated to the chil¬ 
dren by a few years at college. Prob¬ 
ably, the family who make a reason¬ 
able division of their income, and pro¬ 
vide a home of comfort and all possible 
refinement for themselves and their 
growing children, get the most out of 
life. If some division of money is made 
and strictly adhered to, it can be easily 
detected, when a shortage occurs, in 
which department the clipping must be 
done. Otherwise the parents groan un¬ 
der a constant strain, and the mother 
piles more work upon her already over¬ 
burdened shoulders, when quite possi¬ 
bly the leak comes in the tobacco and 
beer bill in the general expense fund, or 
the father begins to look for a cheaper 
house to rent, while the extra money is 
being thrown in the garbage-box or paid 
to the milliner. Neither one alone can 
adjust these matters. It must be a part¬ 
nership business. Yet for its real suc¬ 
cess, if the husband is reasonable, the 
wife is responsible. 
With the Procession. 
Is thy cruse of comfort wasting? Rise and 
share it with another, 
And through all the years of famine it shall 
serve thee and thy brother. 
Love divine will fill thy storehouse, or tby 
handful shall renew; 
Scanty fare for one will often make a royal 
feast for two. 
— Mrs. Charles. 
-It is not enough to be clever in life— 
we must also be right. There is nothing 
more contemptible than cleverness when 
it is dissociated from integrity. 
_He who helps a child helps human¬ 
ity with a distinctness, with an imme¬ 
diateness, which no other help, given to 
human creatures in any other stage of 
their human life, can possibly give 
again.—Phillips Brooks. 
_Gratitude, in whatever way ex¬ 
pressed, is of itself no mean or trifling 
gift. The sincere word of thanks, the 
honest smile of pleasure, the real appre¬ 
ciation of a kindness, bring a (low of joy 
into the heart of the giver which is 
worth many a material benefit. 
....Of a dozen different kinds of deer, 
abundant in North America as well as in 
Asia and Europe, not a single species 
has found its way to the West Indies. 
The fine mountain meadows of Hayti 
have originated no antelopes, no wild 
sheep or wild goats.—Popular Science 
Monthly. 
....Whenever a farming community 
realizes that in themselves lie the means 
of educating their sons and daughters to 
love the farm and the farm home, and 
that because one does not have the privi¬ 
leges of the town or large city there is 
no reason why he should stagnate either 
mentally or socially, they will have 
solved the problem of how to live hap¬ 
pily and contentedly on a farm.—Ladies’ 
Home Journal. 
_“The farmers really use more bells 
than any other class of people, or any 
trade or industry,” says Victor Smith in 
the New York Press. “A single foundry 
in New Jersey casts annually 28,000 bells 
for the farmers and about 4,000 for 
schools, churches, engine houses, etc. It 
is estimated by a foundryman that at 
least 50,000 are sold every year in the 
country to tillers of the soil and breed¬ 
ers.” 
_The increase in the numoer of self- 
supporting women, especially noticeable 
in our large middle class, is creating a 
new problem, the economic as well as 
moral significance of which is interest¬ 
ing. If women become men’s intellectual 
equals while retaining their moral su¬ 
periority, a serious competition must be 
established, in which the non-smoking, 
non-drinking, and generally more order¬ 
ly employee must survive as the fittest 
in the struggle for existence.—Lippin- 
cott’s Magazine. 
... .There is one country in the world, 
and probably only one, which gets along 
with a single policeman; that is Iceland. 
Iceland is peopled with the descendants 
of Vikings, including many famous 
warriors and heroes, but they are so 
MOTHERS— Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best. — Adv. 
law-abiding that they have no need of 
policemen. The solitary officer, in spite 
of his great responsibility, has a very 
easy time. He is maintained more tor 
ornament and dignity than for use. The 
Icelanders think it would not do to have 
a capital without a policeman, and so 
they keep one. This police force is large 
in one sense; Its member is six feet tall, 
broad shouldered, and handsomely uni¬ 
formed.—Green Bag. 
_The oldest doll in existence is, prob¬ 
ably, a roughly-cut figure of wood in the 
possession of the British Museum. It 
was found In the sarcophagus of an 
Egyptian princess, who had died in her 
childhood three centuries before the 
Christian era. When the coverings of 
the dead were removed, the little fingers 
of the child still held the doll. 
-The white powdery coating seen on 
some fruits and the leaves of many 
plants is known to botanists as “bloom. ’ 
It is of a waxy nature, and, according to 
experiments recently made, its chief 
purpose is to prevent water from pass¬ 
ing too rapidly out of the leaves. When 
the bloom was removed, the transpiration 
of water was greatly increased, the loss 
in some cases being in a given time, 2 y 2 
times as much as before the removal. 
-There are many Individuals in our 
so-called leisure class who devote their 
lives to intelligent anii useful occupa¬ 
tion, but there is every reason for as¬ 
serting that the point of view of the 
child of fortune in his country is sig¬ 
nificantly that of the idler—and a more 
deplorable Idler than he of the aristoc¬ 
racies of Europe, whom he models him¬ 
self on, for the reason that the foreigner 
is less indifferent than he to intellectual 
interests.—Scribner’s Monthly. 
-Those who believe that feeding-bot¬ 
tles for babies are the result of modern 
civilization, are out of date. The Greek 
nurses used to carry with them a sponge 
full of honey in a small pot to stop the 
children from crying, and in the British 
Museum are two Greek vases, dating 
from 700 B. C., which are much like 
feeding-bottles used by the Romans sub¬ 
sequently. 
-We are in need of the faith of 
Thomas when a revived maniacism, 
blasphemously calling itself Christian 
science, would have us deny the reality 
of our Lord’s holy body, and of our own, 
would teach us that He never suffered, 
because suffering is all hallucination, 
and would bid us count all matter as in 
itself evil. When Satan leads men into 
necromancy, and deludes them with the 
dying words of spiritualism and Chris¬ 
tian science, it is to St. John we must 
turn for consolation and faith.—Rev. W. 
Van Allen. 
_In the Cuban Sierras, towering to a 
height of 8,300 feet, there are no hill 
foxes. There are caverns—subterranean 
labyrinths with countless ramifications, 
some of them—but no cave bears or 
badgers, no marmots or weasels even, or 
one of the numerous weasel-like crea¬ 
tures clambering about the rock clefts 
of Mexico. The magnificent coast forests 
of the Antilles produce wild-growing 
nuts enough to freight a thousand 
schooners every year, but—almost in¬ 
credible to say—the explorers of sixteen 
generations have failed to discover a 
single species of squirrels.—Popular 
Science Monthly. 
-Franklin, Webster and Emerson 
are the three great New Englanders. 
Each of them was a great public teacher, 
if Webster did not lack, at least he did 
not manifest, Franklin's wonderful com¬ 
mon sense, as applied to common things 
and common life. He had not Emer¬ 
son’s profound spiritual discernment or 
wonderful poetic instinct. But his intel¬ 
lect seems like a vast quarry. When 
you have excavated the great rocks at 
the surface, you know there is an inex¬ 
haustible supply left. When he died, the 
people felt as if the corner-stone of the 
Capitol had been removed; as if the ele¬ 
phant had died that bore the universe 
on his back.—Senator Hoar. 
B.&B. 
shelf-emptying sale 
going on. Clearing out the summer 
goods to make room for the new goods 
of the new season. 
Always do that—believe in active 
merchandising 
But never before was it done so 
thoroughly, earnestly—nor such large 
surplus lots of choice seasonable goods 
involved—nor such sweeping price re¬ 
ductions as this shelf-emptying 1809, 
Every one of the 64 departments in¬ 
cluded—silks, to suits, skirts and shirt 
waists. So that this sale is of interest, 
no matter what kind of dry goods you 
have in mind—and of immense interest 
considering the throw-away prices that 
have full swing. 
Rural New-Yorker readers know 
this store — know it never does any¬ 
thing by halves, and this sale is goiDg 
on with a vigor that should enlist your 
prompt, hearty appreciation. 
Splendid dress goods at half and les 9 
than half—pay to buy them now for 
girls’ school wear in the Fall—and for 
Bkirts now. 
Wonderful sacrifice in wash goods— 
large variety—and lots of money to be 
saved Kinds at 5, 6 X, 10, 12>£c. you’ll 
be astonished at. 
We could fill a page—and then not 
near get every item of this sale men¬ 
tioned. Important thing for you to do— 
important in your own interest—is to 
write us about whatever goods you 
want. People here to do nothing but 
give your letters experienced attention. 
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Department C, 
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