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Miss Black or Miss Gray, the convenience 
of having a nib on which to hang her 
personality being the main thing to her 
friends. In a coterie which has its only 
local habitation on the printed page, 
even greater becomes the necessity for 
the symbol which can appeal to the eye, 
become familiar with continued meet¬ 
ings and grow dear with acquaintance. 
If the scribbling habit become fixed, 
it probably often happens that an as¬ 
sumed name taken at the start, is al¬ 
ways kept to and may be regretted as 
the years go by. An editor of a woman’s 
paper who used to devote some of his 
“ valuable time” (by the way what makes 
an editor’s time more valuable than 
other people’s ?) to criticising and advis¬ 
ing his contributors, used to urge them, 
by all means, to sign their real names ; 
if not those, their pseudonyms having 
the ring of reality. No valid objection 
can be made against the use of a nom de 
plume, and in writing of matters of per¬ 
sonal experience or observation, as one 
is likely to do in a woman’s department 
like ours, the use seems to some of us to 
have very decided advantages. Probably 
the reserved or sensitive are likely to 
overestimate the discomforts of writing 
over their own names, however; cer¬ 
tainly the best known and most familiar 
names appearing in these columns are 
bona fide signatures ; yet their owners, 
probably, suffer no inconvenience from 
the fact. 
Not the choice of a name, but the hav¬ 
ing one of some sort, is the point. It 
would take a better memory and more 
imagination than most of us possess, to 
build about the X, Y, Z’s and W, X, Y’s 
anything like the approach to person¬ 
ality called up by the names, Mary 
Wager-Fisher, Mrs. Kellerman, Mollie 
Wiggins, Mrs. L. II. Niles, Aunt Susan, 
Emily Steedman. Then, too, what a 
pleasant sense of kinship with all the 
length and breadth of our wide agricul¬ 
tural domain, is induced by recollecting 
that we have L. Robbins in Massachu¬ 
setts, Alice Pinney in Connecticut, S. A. 
Little in western New York, Myra V. 
Norys in New Jersey, Annie L. Jack in 
Canada, Dorothy Dean in Illinois, Rose 
Seelye-Miller in South Dakota, May 
Maple in Michigan and Mrs. Mabel II. 
Monsey in far-off Washington. 
How pleasant, too, to happen upon 
members of The Rural family in other 
columns ! How full of unspoken con¬ 
gratulations we are at seeing household 
friends hobnobbing with fame and gen¬ 
ius in some aristocratic table of contents. 
Do you ever on a rainy day, go away 
to the attic, or to that store room to 
which is consigned everything there is 
room for nowhere else, and sitting down 
with a pile of old Rukals, go over the 
time-stained pages ? Would the domestic 
department have all the charm of old 
letters if non-committal and monotonous 
extracts from the alphabet appeared in 
place of Aunt Em, Judy Jones, Charity 
Sweetheart, Aunt Rachel and many an¬ 
other name endeared by time and mem¬ 
ories of past pleasures ? Not that we 
always used to be favored with honest- 
sounding two and three jointed signa¬ 
tures, but it is for the recognizable ones 
we look and are thankful. 
What texts for wide thoughts there 
are on the pages, “ As We Go to Press” ! 
Added to the mailing list are how many 
new names from New York State, how 
many from Delaware, from Massachu¬ 
setts, Georgia, Texas, Canada ? We may 
multiply these by three, at least, to esti¬ 
mate the average number of readers 
added for “Woman and Home.” What 
an array of fi'iends the new and the old 
together make! And all are armed 
with something the rest want to hear, 
some thought, some experience, some 
ideal. Good friends, you who are recent 
comers, and you who masquerade under 
initials, be pleased to give us with your 
ideas a rememberable signature. 
PRUDENCE T. PRIMROSE. 
MOTHERS .—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best. — Adv. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
FOR MIND AND HEART. 
Every one who loves yon 
Loves to see you smile; 
Loves to see you cheerful 
And happy all the while. 
Smiling comes so easy ! 
Do not wear a frown; 
If you feel one rising, 
Always smile it down. 
—The Household. 
....Golden Rule: “In the school of 
experience, there are no graduates.” 
....Atchison Globe: “ Talking about 
troubles decreases them for the time 
being, and increases them afterwards.” 
....The Housekeeper: “The home 
that does not recognize pleasure in its 
economy, is a preparation for a ceme¬ 
tery, not for a heaven where fulnesss of 
joy is promised, and ‘ pleasures forever 
more.’ ” 
_Rev. D. Hudson: “ Sin is its own 
worst punishment, for it involves the 
death of all that is noblest and of great¬ 
est worth in life. The choice of sin is 
the soul’s judgment against itself—the 
deliberate choosing of the darkness 
rather than the light.” 
A Gentle Hint. —Priscilla would never 
have said, “ Why don’t you speak for 
yourself, John?” [Courtship of Miles 
Standish] if she had not known that John 
longed to speak most ardently. Perhaps, 
then, a gentle hint does no harm ; but I 
hope the time will never come when the 
girls have to ask the men to marry them. 
Where would the romance be ? No mat¬ 
ter how commonplace we grow with 
years and cares, there is a time when we 
dearly love romance. Remember, girls, 
that it is the man who really and truly 
makes the wife happy, not his houses or 
lands. Of course, broad acres and fine 
houses aie all very well, if one may have 
them without sacrificing love. It has 
been said, “All the world loves a lover.” 
And, dear me ! if the girls proposed, 
where would the lover go to ? Out of the 
door, I am afraid, never to return. 
COUSIN B. 
IttisccUansousi 
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Ffir Coin - Splendid Farm, 105 acres. Eight-room 
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D. L. KISLEY, 211 S. 10th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
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One grand, good farm. 325 acres, on Harlem Uiver 
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A complete copy of the “ Natural 
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n good order. The work Is now out of print. 
JOHN U. DANIELS, Evanston. Cook County, Ill. 
Daily Record Operations 
The only book of the kind published. Sample page 
free. Sample Book, 25 cents. Address 
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time too, as his farm joins a railroad with 
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