1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Fears of Childhood. 
The manner in which childish fears 
are encouraged is discussed in Trained 
Motherhood for July. 
To the infant, night and day mean ab¬ 
solutely nothing, but through thought¬ 
lessness, he is early educated to glory in 
the light, and to dislike the dark. He 
is rocked to sleep and is allowed to rest 
in a lighted room, or if he has been laid 
down in a darkened apartment, and 
wakens from his sleep, some one rushes 
to him and snatches him from his bed to 
exclaim, “Was he afraid all alone in the 
dark?” Of course, the baby does not at 
first understand the words employed; 
but the tone and touch of his nurse are 
suggestive, and indicate to him the pro¬ 
priety of anxiety on the occasion of his 
next similar experience, and he soon 
learns to be dependent upon the light 
and the family voices for a sense of 
comfort and security. 
Hater the child screams out at first 
sight of a cat or dog. Instead of calling 
the animal to her and caressing it, per¬ 
suading the little one to do likewise, 
the' mother exclaims, “Go away, bad 
doggie; mustn’t hurt the baby!” This 
is not only unfair to the dog (which, 
probably, had no unfriendly intentions), 
but is injurious to the child, who there¬ 
after screams at sight of the animal, 
feeling the need of his mother’s protec¬ 
tion. Children who show signs of fear 
in a storm are not aided to overcome 
their timidity, but are allowed to nest’.e 
in the mother’s arms until the day is 
clear again, perhaps with covered head. 
Bugs, worms, even house-flies are allow¬ 
ed to inspire anxiety in many overpetted 
darlings, while cold water is the terror 
of not a few, and shadows are regarded 
as mysterious and terrible apparitions, 
which may do the one who sees them 
some dreadful mischief. 
Recollecting our own childish agonies 
of fear, we are inclined to be very ten¬ 
der of our little ones in their anticipa¬ 
tions of evil. A true mother’s work, 
however, is not to nourish the child’s 
morbid or erroneous fancies. Rather 
having built up for him a strong mind 
and body by giving due consideration to 
his food, sleep, exercise and personal 
habits, she must, in a measure, enter 
into the spirit of the Spartan mother, 
and leave him to stand alone. If she be¬ 
gins this training in self-reliance early 
enough, it will prove no such great hard¬ 
ship, either to herself or the child, and 
she will discover that two-thirds of the 
fears of babyhood may be prevented, 
and the remaining fraction largely over¬ 
come. 
Coreati Women Divers. 
We recently described the achieve¬ 
ments of a woman diver who, equipped 
with the most improved apparatus, does 
the work of a submarine engineer. She 
has rivals in Corea, among the pearl 
fishers; on the Island of Quelpaert, south 
of Corea, it is said that women monopo¬ 
lize this work. Concerning them, a 
writer in the New York Sun says: 
A Brooklyn man received last week a 
letter from a friend in Seoul, the capital 
of Corea, describing a visit the writer 
had recently paid to the large Island of 
Quelpaert, just south of Corea and a 
part of that country. It appears that 
one of the main lines of business is div¬ 
ing for the pearl oyster, and that the 
diving operations are wholly monopo¬ 
lized by women. Here is an extract 
from the letter; 
“I think the most unique sight I ever 
saw was the women divers at Quelpaert. 
Perhaps you may have heard that only 
women divers are engaged in the pearl 
oyster fisheries there. Every day I was 
there, I saw a lot of them going out to 
their work or returning with the fruits 
of their quest under the sea. They are 
not a very handsome crowd, but they 
have fine, supple figures, and can swim 
as well as any fish of the deep. Each 
wears a very scanty bathing dress, that 
looks as though it might be made of 
gunny sack. Tied to a string around 
their waists, is a gourd with a stopper 
in the neck of it to keep the water out. 
Tied to the gourd is a little bag. The 
third and last article of the equipment 
is a sickle, which is also fastened to the 
waist and rests on the back till the wo¬ 
men get out to the fishing grounds. 
“You might think that boats would be 
kept to carry these women out to their 
toil, but no, they work their passage, 
and it is a lesson in the art of swimming 
to see them. They wade out a few 
yards, and then breast the waves, mov¬ 
ing seaward with long, quick strokes, 
and cutting the water like a racing 
shell. They swim out about half a mile. 
My favorite amusement was watching as 
much as I could see of their subsequent 
operations through a glass. They would 
take off the gourd and little bag, and 
leave them floating around on the sur¬ 
face. Then, sickle in hand, down they 
would go, head first, and I was to’d that 
tney had to sina forty or fifty feet to the 
bottom. 
“About the time I made up my mind 
they would never be seen again alive, up 
they would come, sometimes right near 
where the gourd was floating, and some¬ 
times several rods away. They would 
put their oyster or two or three of them 
in the little bag, take a few long breaths, 
and down they would go again, repeat¬ 
ing the process until the bag was filled. 
It is said they will stay out for hours 
rather than return before they have all 
the oysters that can be crowded into the 
bag. Any stranger must admire them 
both for their splendid endurance and 
for their swimming. It’s worth more 
than all the tank performances you ever 
saw. 
“The sickles are used to cut away the 
seaweed at the bottom so that the divers 
may get at the stones and earth to which 
the oysters fasten themselves. A pearl 
is very rarely found, but when a diver 
captures the prize, she thinks her for¬ 
tune is made. The shell is used as 
mother of pearl, and the oysters are 
eaten in large quantities, both on the 
island and on the mainland.” 
With the Procession. 
At the punch-bowl’s brink. 
Let the thirsty think 
What they say in Japan: 
“First the man takes a drink. 
Then the drink takes a drink, 
Then the drink takes the man.” 
—Edward Rowland Sill. 
....I have had many tnings in my 
hands, and I have lost them all; but 
whatever I have been able to place in 
God’s hands, I still possess.—Martin 
Luther. 
_Reasoning at every step he treads, 
Man yet mistakes his way; 
While meaner things whom instinct 
leads, 
Are rarely known to stray. 
—Cowper. 
_“By two wings,” says Thomas a 
Kempis, “a man is lifted above things” 
contaminating, “namely, by simplicity 
and purity.” These two upholding 
wings we should try to fold over the 
hearts of our children. 
_Trust him little who praises all, 
him less who censures all, and him least 
who is indifferent about all.—Lavater. 
....The home where peace and order 
reign, and sweet influences of industry 
and education, of courtesy and religion 
prevail, is not made by chance. The wo¬ 
man’s thought, and study, and ability 
have entered into it and determined its 
character. The home is her creation, 
springing from her own ideal of what is 
good and fair, and speaks to mankind 
as truly as if her thought had expressed 
itself in writing. It is a work of the 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
535 
highest art. If a woman thus regarded 
her work at home, she would settle her 
mind to it without that restlessness and 
discontent she will always feel if in her 
heart of hearts she regard history or art, 
or higher mathematics as b jing more 
worthy her attention.—Ladies’ Home 
Journal. 
....A horse has just dieJ in London, 
which had the rare distinction of having 
medals conferred upon him by Queen 
Victoria. He was Lord Roberts’s gray 
Arab charger Vonolel, 29 years old. The 
Queen’s medals were worn on his mar¬ 
tingale during Her Majesty's Jubilee 
procession. 
-Dr. Goodhart, speaking of the 
dread of death, says: “I am never tired 
of saying, because I am sure it is as true 
as it is comforting, although in oppo¬ 
sition to the general belief, that death 
has no terrors for the sick man. To the 
living and healthy man, it is quite other¬ 
wise; but the sick man upon whom 
death lays his hand, pales gently and 
imperceptibly out of life.” 
....Cease from this antedating of your 
experience. Sufficient to to-day are the 
duties of to-day. Do not waste life in 
doubts and fears; spend yourself on the 
work before you; well assured that the 
right performance of this hour’s duties 
will be the best preparation for the 
hours or ages that follow it. . . ’Tis 
the measure of a man—his apprehension 
of a day.—R. W. Emerson. 
... .If the thumb be lightly pressed upon 
a surface smeared with printing-ink, 
and then pressed upon clean paper, an 
impression is obtained which is distinc¬ 
tive for the particular individual who 
owns the member. No two thumbs or 
fingers are alike in the arrangement of 
their multitudinous lines; each, there¬ 
fore, is a seal which is unique, and a 
seal which cannot readily be mislaid or 
lost. The French police use this test to 
assure themselves of the identity of a 
prisoner.—Chambers’ Journal. 
-In 1840, the foreign mail from Eng¬ 
land for the United States, carried on 
the Great Western, consisted of two 
sacks of mail. As late as 1873, a steamer 
from Europe with 20,000 letters on board 
was considered a record breaker. To¬ 
day the Cunard steamers and other 
transatlantic ships, carrying what is 
called a “full European mail,” usually 
bring about 200,000 letters, and an aver¬ 
age of 300 sacks of newspapers and 
printed matter for New York City, not to 
mention the 500 and odd sacks for Can¬ 
ada, Mexico, and transatlantic countries, 
and a few United States exchange of¬ 
fices, which are now taken direct to the 
trains and not handled at the New York 
office.—Scribner’s Monthly. 
_A rat was caught alive on board a 
British naval vessel in a trap, and the 
beast was thrown from the trap into the 
water without being killed. A large gull 
that was following in the wake of the 
ship to pick up scraps of food thrown 
overboard by the steward, swooped sev¬ 
eral times, endeavoring to pick the rat 
up. Once the bird got too close to the 
rat’s jaws, and the beast grabbed it by 
the neck. After a short fight the rat 
succeeded in killing the bird. When the 
gull was dead, the rat scrambled upon 
the bird’s body, and, hoisting one wing 
as a sail and using the other as a rud¬ 
der, succeeded in steering for the shore. 
Whether the rat reached shore or not is 
the question, since the ship soon got out 
of sight of the skipper and its craft.— 
London Field. 
_Within view were the peaceful river 
and the ferryboat, to moralize all the in¬ 
mates, saying: Young and old, passion¬ 
ate and tranquil, chafing and content, 
thus runs the current always. Let the 
heart sail into what discord it will, thus 
plays the rippling water on the prow of 
the ferryboat, ever the same tune. Year 
after year, so much allowance for the 
drifting of the boat, so many miles an 
hour the floating of the stream, here 
the rushes, there the lilies, nothing un¬ 
certain or unquiet, upon this road that 
steadily runs away; while you, upon 
your floating road of time, are so ca¬ 
pricious and distracted.—Little Dorrit. 
_A good motto—We must remember 
that anything that ever happened to 
anybody, may happen to anybody, so let 
us mind our ways toward everybody.— 
Miss Willard. 
B.& B. 
silks also being 
shelf-emptied 
No dry gcods stoie anywhere makes 
such a determined feature of choice 
silks. 
Did an unprecedented business this 
season—hence larger surplus lines to be 
cleared out to make room- for the new 
silks of the new season—and more vig¬ 
orous prices to do the work. 
Foularos, Indias, plain black and col¬ 
ored and rich fancy silks. 
Silks at 50c. and 35c. you’ll be 
astonished at, half and tnird what they 
were at regular small profit prices. 
Dollar to dollar-fifty Dress Goods and 
Suitings 50c. 
75c. to dollar Dress Goods 35c. 
Good, useful Double-width Da ss 
goods, 10c. 
Wash goods have had the most vig¬ 
orous price treatment such desirable 
styles ever were subjected to. 
Wash goods 5, H, lOc. 
Fine wash goods and novelties 12K 
15, 20c.—making a memorable sacrifice. 
Send for samples, giving an idea ol 
what sort of goods, styles for what pur¬ 
pose, you want, so we’ll send the right 
samples. You’ll see, to your profit, this 
is a shelf-emptying of choice goods at 
unheard-of prices. 
BOCGS & BUHL, 
Department C, 
ALLEGHENY. PA. 
TELL YOUR NEIGHBORS ABOUT IT. 
We have nearly 2,000 pieces of lJ4-inch Mesh No. 19 
Wire. Galvanized Ne ting, 5 feet x 34 ins., suitable for 
WINDOW AND DOOR SCREENS, 
For Poultry Houses and Barns. Put up in bundles 
Of lOO for #8.00, 
Of 50 for #4.50, 
Of lO for #1.00, 
10c. Each 
Send forouriis-. 
of bargains in 
Poultry Netting 
and Supplies. 
.JAMES S. CASE, Box 214, Colchester, Conn. 
SI3.25BUYS A $25.00 BICYCLE 
Don’t buy a bicycle bofore you write for our 1899 
iflsvtiilncriiA ‘2nd hand wheels from $5.00 up. no money 
OOK-KEEPING 
Stenography, 
Penmanship, etc., 
taught by mail or 
in person at Eastman, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
We always secure positions for graduates of 
complete business course Catalogue free. 
C. C. GAINES, Box 416. Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
DIETZ SEARCH LlQHT^e. 
For either indoor or outdoor illumina¬ 
tion-gives a brilliant, powerful and 
penetrating light, will not blow out, 
and has a simple and effective device for 
raising globe to light or trim. The 
unusually large and bright Reflector 
renders this light remarkably search¬ 
ing. We manufacture hundreds of 
different styles of Lanterns, and if, 
when you buy such goods, you insist 
upon having “IHetz’,” you will cer¬ 
tainly get the best of its class. 
R. E. DIETZ COMPANY, 
£ stab. 1840 . 87 Lalght St., New York. 
