1856 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
may be made into a delicious stew by 
cooking - until the fibers are ready to fall 
apart, let it take three hours or seven. 
Put the meat on in boiling water, and 
keep the water boiling until the meat is 
cooked. _ A. h. D. 
EASILY UPSET. 
T HE little picture at Fig. 7 tells its 
own story. As a part of the 
Christmas entertainment, the boy and 
the baby have been dressed up to repre¬ 
sent a pair of old-time lovers. All goes 
well up to the last moment, and the 
tableau is expected to “ bring down the 
house ” with applause—especially from 
the newly-mai*ried and the “ engaged.” 
Just as the curtain rises, however, some 
microbe of naughtiness gets into the 
young lady’s brain, and manufactures 
“ a face and a .yell,” so that what the 
audience see is the embarrassing situa¬ 
tion shown at the right of the picture. 
We are sorry for the baby, but we ad¬ 
mire the boy. He is doing his best to 
preserve his dignity under trying cir¬ 
cumstances. A “mood” is the microbe 
that upsets many a day that ought to be 
happy. Children “have it out,” but 
grown up folks often brood over it and 
make themselves sour for life. 
THE COOK THE CORNERSTONE. 
W HAT do you consider the corner¬ 
stone of home ? You who are 
the mother, perhaps, you regard your¬ 
self, with your supervision and care, as 
the essential block upon which the 
superstructure rests; but homes exist 
after the mother is removed. Bachelors 
keep house nowadays, says Haryot Holt 
Cahoon. 
The father—is he the cornerstone ? 
Homes exist where men are not thought 
of. Think of the bachelor girls that exist 
in comfort and independence. 
Is it love ? Love dies, and homes still 
hold up their heads in the community. 
Is it virtue ? Certainly not virtue, for 
the infamous dwell in comfort and lux¬ 
ury. Children ? Maybe they make a 
home. Not at all, for the most finely 
appointed homes are often childless. A 
well-filled larder ? Alas, no ! How deso¬ 
late is a well-filled larder under certain 
circumstances, and how it mocks and 
derides you ! A well-filled purse ? You 
may have the wealth of a gold mine 
stored in your treasure vault, and yet 
the cheerlessness of home may strike a 
chill to your heart. 
What, then—who, then—is this corner¬ 
stone upon which home as a structure 
rests ? Who else, forsooth, could it be 
but the cook ? Whether that office is 
performed by the mother, the father, the 
girl bachelor, or that well-known auto¬ 
cratic sovereign of the culinary depart¬ 
ment, the professional cook, the fact is 
patent—the cook is the cornerstone of 
home. 
Neither love nor virtue, nor any of the 
fruits of the spirit can long adorn, or 
even dwell—let alone thrive—in an at¬ 
mosphere that is not savory with the in¬ 
cense of cookery. The altar fires that 
are fanned by the cook glimmer and glow 
and infuse their warmth into the human 
heart. There is no sentiment about this 
fact. It is as hard as a flint. 
SHALL ALL BE HOUSEKEEPERS? 
S HALL our girls all be trained for 
housekeepers? In theory, I say, 
“Yes”; the fact remains that they are 
choosing their professions and fitting 
themselves for work like their brothers. 
Shall they be trained as housekeepers 
before they begin a business career, on 
the possibility that they may be wooed 
and won later on, or shall they wait to 
learn home-making when the “ Prince” 
does surely appear? While it has been con¬ 
sidered that the sole mission of woman 
is housekeeping, it is painfully evident 
that many were never born to that oecu- 
MOTHERS .—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
pation ; the ranks are crowded with 
women to whom it is always a drudgery, 
who with no “faculty” for making its 
daily toil easier, painstakingly drag 
through its duties. 
Are we not coming to a time when the 
housekeeper will be relieved of much of 
the drudgery of the home ? Though 
some of us look askance at any sort of 
cooperative housekeeping, the increasing 
demands upon our time, difficulty in 
securing help, and the wonderful prom¬ 
ise of our new servant, electricity, may 
force us to cooperate in laundry work, 
baking, and the main part of our 
cooked meals. It is no more of a radical 
change than has already been made 
since the beginning of this century. 
Then the girl who could not prepare the 
wool, spin, weave, make the clothing 
and knit the stockings for her family, 
was not fit to be married. Yet we are 
living just as happily to-day, and we 
have forgotten how to spin, weave or 
knit, along with countless other things 
once deemed necessary. May it not be 
possible in the near future when Jane, 
who has espoused journalism, and John 
with his law briefs, find that life will be 
better and sweeter if they live it to¬ 
gether, to continue their work, and Jane 
be able also to make the true home, even 
though the meals come in cooked, and 
the dishes go out to be washed ? Is not 
the business girl of to-day making this 
a question to be considered ? \V hat is 
your thought ? ELLA c. goodell. 
ODDS AND ENDS. 
A Girl’s -Best Ciiapkron. — “ Good 
principles and pure, noble aspirations, 
thoroughly instilled into the minds of 
girls, are their best chaperons,” so says 
Mrs. Margaret Bottome. “ The girl 
who has been taught from childhood 
to love and revere the pure, the beauti¬ 
ful, the noble and the good, who has 
been thoroughly imbued with the idea 
that she is really a daughter of the King 
of Kings, that she is, therefore, a daugh¬ 
ter of rank more noble and exalted than 
that of the child of any earthly monarch, 
and that she must in every thought, 
word and deed strive with all her heart 
to be worthy of her birthright, has a 
chaperon in her own heart that is ever 
present with her. 
“ Mothers should so rear their daugh¬ 
ters that they can be fully trusted to 
chaperon themselves. If a girl grows 
up under the influence of a true, pure 
woman, nine times out of ten she will 
unconsciously grow up to be like her. It 
is not example alone that influences 
girls, but there are a thousand other 
ways in which they may be taught to 
love the pure, the beautiful, the good. 
If we consecrate our daughters to the 
great King and guard them with our 
prayers, we have done much to protect 
them from those evil influences which 
chaperons are designed to ward off.” 
Adaptable Denim. —Red denim with 
an embroidered pattern done with heavy 
black silk makes a very handsome sofa 
pillow, says Harper’s Bazar. Embroidery 
in steel-blue silk is also effective upon 
red denim. But for summer cottages 
the reliable and original blue of the 
material, that has only lately presented 
new faces to us, has still a claim upon 
our consideration, as it never offends 
good taste and has the valuable quality 
of never seeming out of place, unless, of 
course, the surroundings are palatial. 
As a cover for the dining-table when 
the white cloth is not in use, denim of 
any shade appropriate to the situation is 
an admirable choice. Sage green with 
an embroidered border of thistles in the 
natural color, with their leaves, is to 
be commended. A light Pompeiian red 
denim, with a conventionalized honey¬ 
suckle pattern wandering all over the 
surface in j ink and dull green, is espec¬ 
ially artistic. The border for such a 
cloth may be a three-inch band of the 
wrong side of the material turned up 
like a hem, mitred at the corners and 
stitched down on the right side, with a 
briar-stitch vine done with green silk 
the color of the honeysuckle leaves. 
THE GIFT OF TACT. 
I F there is aDy gift or virtue compar¬ 
able with common-sense, it is tact. 
The man or woman who is welcome in 
every place, and whose company is 
always desirable, is the one who is gifted 
with tact. This virtue may be acquired 
to a certain extent like courtesy ; yet 
those to the manner born have a great 
advantage. Women naturally possess 
this talent in larger proportion than 
men, not because, as some insinuate, they 
are more deceitful, but because, being of 
more sensitive natures, they are more 
cautious about wounding the feelings of 
other people. This virtue being very 
near akin to common sense, women in 
stinctively realize that there is nothing 
to be gained by “ treading on the toes” 
of every one they meet, when it is just 
as easy to step one side, and there is no 
purpose to serve ; and the man or woman 
who recklessly does this, invariably gets 
his own toes trodden upon pretty often, 
and then whines because the world does 
not use him well. 
It is not always necessary to tell people 
unpleasant truths, introduce unpleasant 
subjects, or remind them of their afflic¬ 
tions or infirmities ; and the persons who 
do this are not always pleasant persons 
to visit with, as it is often difficult to 
distinguish whether they are really 
friends or enemies. Such people neither 
add to our happiness nor the good of the 
world, and gain nothing for themselves. 
I once heard a lady denounced as a 
policy woman, because she made an 
effort to be agreeable to every one ; but 
at the time I wondered why that would 
not be a good plan to adopt universally, 
the world would doubtless be much 
pleasanter to live in. I do not mean 
that we should all turn flatterers ; but 
we might have tact enough to avoid 
unpleasant subjects, avoid talking of 
disagreeable subjects at inopportune 
moments, and try at all times to lead 
conversation into pleasant channels. 
Such an endeavor would doubtless add 
to the happiness of the world, and make 
our lives, which might otherwise be use¬ 
less, worth living. Alice e. pinney. 
SENSE AND SENTIMENT. 
’Tis witlx our judgments as our watches, none 
Go just alike, yet each believes his own. 
—Pope. 
... .Florine Thayer McCray : “Give 
us more taffy before death, and less 
epitaphy afterwards.” 
....New York World: “ Anger .gets 
more people into trouble than meanness. 
We do and say things while in a temper 
that we spend the rest of our lives re¬ 
gretting.” 
....Harper’s Weekly: “A man must 
be interested in himself if he is to 
amount to anything, but it is possible 
for the individual interest to dwindle 
while the human interest develops, and 
in the very greatest men that process is 
usually found to have taken place.” 
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This Rural New-Yorker. 
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I I 
A THOUGHT 
THAT KILLED 
A MAN! 
He thought that he could trifle 
with disease. He was run down 
in health, felt tired and worn out, 
complained of dizziness, bilious¬ 
ness, backaches and headaches. 
His liver and kidneys were out of 
order. He thought to get well by 
dosing himself with cheap pills. 
And then came the ending. He 
fell a victim to Bright’s disease! 
The money he ought to have in¬ 
vested in a safe, reliable remedy 
went for a tombstone. The thought 
that killed this man 
HAS KILLED OTHERS. 
Statistics show that 90 per cent 
of the deaths from pneumonia, 
Bright’s disease and similar com¬ 
plaints are caused from derange¬ 
ments of the liver and kidneys. 
These great organs keep the blood 
pure and in healthful motion. 
When they get out of order the 
blood becomes poisoned, the circu¬ 
lation impeded and the whole sys¬ 
tem speedily breaks down. It is 
A DANGEROUS IDEA 
to imagine that pills can strike at 
the root of these diseases. It has 
been thoroughly proved that such 
remedies are worse than useless. 
There is only one remedy which 
can always be depended upon. 
This remedy alone can act on the 
liver and kidneys when they are 
out of order, clear out the system 
and build up the health. The name 
of this remedy is Warner’s Safe 
Cure. It is the only standard 
remedy in the world for kidney 
and liver complaints. It is the 
only remedy which physicians 
universally prescribe. It is the 
only remedy that is backed by the 
testimony of thousands whom it 
has relieved and cured. 
There is nothing else that can 
take its place. 
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CHEAP FARM. 
1,520 acres for $0,500, good land, two dwellings, one 
with 12 rooms and one 4. All necessary outbuildings, 
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free catalogue. K. B. CHAFFIN & CO., Inc., 
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WANTED. 
A young or middle-aged married man, as manager 
on Dairy Farm, at Rome, N. Y., keeping 100 head of 
cattle. Only men thoroughly capable of haudling 
hired help, experienced with soiling and ensilage 
feeding, and capable of managing a farm profitably, 
need apply. Address BURT OLNKY, Rome, N. Y. 
