1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
165 
ODDS AND ENDS. 
Learning by Experience. —Can it be 
true that we never profit by any one’s 
experience but our own ? So many 
women lay the foundation for numerous 
“ aches and ills” in girlhood when they 
will not heed the counsel of those older 
who have learned the dangers of care¬ 
lessness. Sometimes mothers are much 
to blame that they do not teach their 
daughters the laws of health more thor¬ 
oughly. Wet feet, damp skirts and late 
hours, will bring ills not easily cured. It 
has been my lot to have had under my roof 
and care, at various times, a number of 
young girls. Often when I tried to warn 
them of the dangers of carelessness, they 
would only laugh at me, but more than 
one afterward confessed that they had 
paid dearly for their neglect. It is never 
pleasant to have one say, “ I told you 
so ; ” yet what we learn surest, is what 
we learn, not from some one else, but 
from our own experience, and often¬ 
times it makes us sadder, as well as 
wiser, and we wish that we had heeded 
what was told. mollie wiggins. 
Expressing Affection. —How glad I 
was to see the words of Aunt Rachel in 
a recent R. N.-Y. I well remember the 
starved heart of my childhood in New 
England, that land of repressed affec¬ 
tion—only repressed. That the love is 
all there with, perhaps, greater strength, 
none can deny who has lived long 
enough to understand the nature of the 
Plymouth Rock descendants. But, alas ! 
Little children judge us by our every¬ 
day looks and actions. Every need of 
food and clothing is supplied, and that 
seems to some good, practical souls to be 
enough. 
One of the most vivid of memory’s pic¬ 
tures, is the expression of unshed tears 
in my father’s face when he stood by to 
see me married, and I was to leave for 
a distant western home that day. The 
thought rushed upon me with over¬ 
whelming force, “ He does love me, and 
is sorry to have me go.” I had prev¬ 
iously thought that he would be pleased 
to be relieved of such an expensive por¬ 
tion of his family ! What else can a 
sensible girl think when a man groans 
over the cost of most of her things ? e. 
For the School, Lunch. —Sandwiches 
may be varied as often as there are 
days in the week, says Harper’s Bazar. 
They may be made of finely chopped 
meat, of Swiss cheese, of minced pota¬ 
toes, salted and flavored with parsley, 
of chicken, of plum jam, of crab apple 
jelly, or quince marmalade. When they 
are nice, they are very nice, and a hun¬ 
gry child can dispose of a generous 
supply of them over the merry talk of 
the recess hour. Sugar wafers, spiced 
gingerbread, drop or sponge cakes are 
better for luncheon than richer cakes. 
On a very cold winter’s day, but only 
then, a homemade cruller or one of 
mother’s doughnuts, may be added to 
the luncheon. As a rule, fried cakes are 
not so digestible as baked ones, and, 
school work following swiftly the school 
luncheon, nothing should be included in 
the repast which will cause headache or 
distui'b the stomach. That little organ 
is often to blame when scholars are 
stupid or idle. Ask what they have had 
to eat before they are reproved, and 
often the children will be excused for 
faults they cannot help. Fruit should 
form part of the daily luncheon of the 
growing young person, and it is well 
that a taste for it be cultivated. 
Kitchen Refuse in Winter. —In sum¬ 
mer all sorts of precautions are taken in 
the handling of kitchen waste. This 
seems to have become the custom on 
account of the disagreeable odor that 
emanates from the collection of refuse, 
says the New York Ledger. A few 
shovelfuls of earth may be thrown over 
it, or the ashes may be emptied upon it, 
or almost anything may be done to get 
MOTHERS .—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
it out of the way ; but in winter, when 
the ground is frozen, such care is 
neglected, and an unsightly pile accumu¬ 
lates in some out-of-the-way corner, 
growing to prodigious proportions by 
spring. Then when the first warm days 
come, the air is filled with a sickly and 
unpleasant odor. This is not, perhaps, 
so annoying as to necessitate any active 
measures to remove it, consequently it 
continues, and is added to from day to 
day until warm weather. There are 
physicians who attribute much of what 
is called spring fever to the accumula¬ 
tion of garbage that is found in almost 
every back-yard. It is quite worth while 
to make some provision for the utiliza¬ 
tion of this waste. A few boxes or bar¬ 
rels of earth put in some place where 
they will not freeze, or so dried that 
they can be easily handled at any time, 
would do much to remedy this serious 
evil. All of this has its value as a fer¬ 
tilizer, and it seems a pity that so little 
care is taken to apply it where it will 
do good. 
No New Woman. —The illustrations 
on page 10, brought to mind a laugh a 
baby man caused the same week. Five- 
year-old’s baby doll was to be christ¬ 
ened, and six-year-old was to be the 
minister and had been told what to say. 
When the christening was in progress, 
the elders quietly filing in so flustered 
the minister that he stopped short. Then 
suddenly turning to the wondering doll- 
mother he said emphatically, “Here! 
Take this child, and bring it up right ; 
but not a new woman.” So saying, he 
ran off upstairs. B. b. g. 
CRUMBS FROM DIFFERENT TABLES. 
I like the man who faces what he must 
With step triumphant and a heart of cheer; 
Wtio fights the daily battle without fear; 
Sees his hopes fail, yet keeps unfaltering trust 
That God is God; that somehow true and just 
His plans work out for mortals; not a tear 
Is shed when fortune, which the world holds 
dear, 
Falls from his grasp; better, with love, a crust 
Than living in dishonor; envies not, 
Nor loses faith in man; but does his best 
Nor ever mourns at his humbler lot, 
But with a smile and words of hope, gives zest 
To every toiler; he alone is great, 
Who by a life heroic conquers fate. 
—The Youth's Companion. 
-Phillips Brooks: “now good it is 
that there are years at the beginning of 
every life when it is the most easy thing 
to believe in an absolute right and good¬ 
ness.” 
....Dora Bradcliffk in Ladies’Home 
Journal: “Time past is irrevocably 
gone, let it alone ; time future will in¬ 
evitably come, lose no moments waiting 
for it; time present is irredeemably 
yours, use it.” 
....Harper’s Bazar: “The only real 
question as to eminence ought to- be 
whether or not one is better fitted or 
better able to lead his fellow citizens 
upward, or to afford instruction, amuse¬ 
ment, or enjoyment—especially so in 
this land, where, for the first time in its 
existence on this earth, the human race 
has had its opportunity.” 
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