1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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ping Heavenward,” that a disciplined 
mother makes a disciplined child. It is 
difficult to separate physical, moral and 
spiritual forces at times. They are 
woven together in the secret places of 
life. A self-controlled mother bequeaths 
some power of self-control to her child. 
A nervous woman can do much toward 
giving her child an improved nervous 
condition. If she will conscientiously 
take a daily rest of 15 minutes before 
noon, she will finally learn to sleep that 
time, and if she has regular hours for 
retiring, for rising, and for other daily 
functions, she will find habits of sleep 
and system begotten in her child with 
more equable nerves. How valuable the 
power of such habits can be, she may 
learn in time of sickness. 
The mother who insists kindly, but 
firmly, upon regular hours for the child’s 
sleeping, bathing, eating, etc., secures 
her own with his good. She need not 
mind being thought “fussy” or obsti¬ 
nate. A child may suffer from unwise 
care, but not from too much mothering. 
The physical welfare of the child, espe¬ 
cially during its first years, requires the 
mother’s close thought and much of her 
time. This is part of the training, as 
well as the sight of her loving face, and 
the sound of her sweet voice. Make 
them loving and sweet. 
PATTERNS FOR R. N.-Y. READERS. 
Write the order for patterns separate 
from other matter, give bust measure 
and pattern number, and inclose 10 cents. 
Each pattern is complete with instruc¬ 
tions for cutting the garment and put¬ 
ting together. 
6765. Ladies’ Shirt Waist. 
Persian lawn is chosen for this stylish 
shirt waist, which is one of the most be¬ 
coming of the new styles introduced this 
summer. The collar, cuffs and front 
plait are of fine white lawn. A belt of 
6765—LADIES’ SHIRT WAIST 
white suede, with metal buckle, is worn 
around the waist. Gathers at the neck 
dispose the fullness on each side of the 
box plait, through which buttonholes 
are worked. The back fits smoothly 
across the shoulders, a pointed yoke 
facing being applied to the top. This 
yoke may be cut with or without a center 
seam, the seam being desirable when 
striped material is used, as the yoke can 
then be shaped with bias back edges, as 
shown. Pattern No. 6,765 is cut in sizes 
for 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust 
measure. 
WHEN TO ASK MEDICAL ADVICE. 
HALL we wait till the disease is 
firmly fastened on the system ? 
No, it is a mistake verging on a crime, 
after the first appearance of failing 
health, to delay consulting the best 
medical authority within our reach. 
Parents and those having the young in 
charge, should be on the watch, and 
when they begin to fade and droop, at 
once see that they have a change in their 
manner of living, and a proper course of 
treatment. The middle aged and those 
MOTHERS .—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— A&v. 
advanced in years have a duty to them¬ 
selves and others, on whom in sickness 
they must depend, to keep as well as 
possible so that their lives may go out 
in autumnal beauty rather than in piti¬ 
able decay. “ We do fade as the leaf,” 
may be truly said of some who have 
tried to conform their lives to the laws of 
hygiene that God made. 
In many cases, the intelligent physi¬ 
cian grieves as he pronounces the patient 
incurable, knowing that with medical 
care in an earlier stage, there would 
have been all chances of recovery. How 
much of the present sickness is neces¬ 
sary, is a problem that the deepest minds 
are attempting to solve. Pasteur said, “It 
is within the power of man to cause all 
parasitic maladies to disappear from the 
world,” and each one has the power to 
aid in reaching this condition. 
And, oh ! the limitations and bitter¬ 
ness of the chronic invalid's life, God 
only knows. Shut out from the free 
life that was his birthright, shut in with 
sensitive nerves, aching body and clouded 
intellect. For though, through the quiet 
acceptation of this cross, many lives 
have become a help and blessing to 
others, having been taught by the angel 
of pain, love, charity, humility; yet sick¬ 
ness is a state all should strive to avoid, 
for “ neither shall there be any more 
pain,” is one of the joys of heaven, and 
let us attempt in our lives here to have 
heaven begin on‘earth by being well. 
EVANGEL. 
ODDS AND ENDS. 
Food Value of Water. —Mrs. Ellen 
H. Richards discusses water as a food in 
the American Kitchen Magazine, and 
shows how necessary it is to the system. 
She says: 
It is generally acknowledged by physicians that 
too little fluid is taken rather than too much, and 
the great benefit derived from treatment at min¬ 
eral springs is often quite as much due to the 
amount as to the kind of water; that is, so far as 
the cure is due to water at all, and not to regular 
habits, exercise in the air, better mental condi¬ 
tion, faith in the cure, etc. Many diseases are 
directly due to too great concentration of the 
fluids of the body, and are to be counteracted by 
the imbibition of larger quantities, for a time, at 
least. To have sufficient water present, is the 
rationale of water cures, especially that form 
which prescribes the drinking of a cupful of hot 
or cold water half an hour before meals. This not 
only washes out the stomach, it furnishes the 
medium for the active secretions, ptyalin, gastric 
juice, etc., in quantity. On the other hand, excess 
lies in the path of this as well as other things, 
and what is a rule for one is not a rule for an¬ 
other. However, if one And that the taking of a 
pint of water will relieve that sense of oppression 
and indigestion which sometimes occurs an hour 
or two after a meal, and that only favorable 
effects follow, the inference is that too little was 
taken with the food. There is not much danger of 
taking too much clear water. 
Study Nature. —Have you heard the 
bluebirds singing ? And did you not 
feel the thrill of pleasure pulsate through 
your inmost soul at the thought that 
spring is come ? We have enjoyed the 
winter, certainly, with its long, quiet 
evenings. We have read many a good 
book, and in this way, while quietly at 
home, we have really been “ on the go ” 
during most of the winter. We feel 
that we have grown mentally, for we 
have associated with the first people of 
the land. We have thought their 
thoughts, and seen the sights that they 
have witnessed, and even though every¬ 
thing has come to us in this second-hand 
way, we feel as though it were almost 
as good as new, and our enjoyment has 
been in proportion to our zest and 
earnestness in reading. 
But now that spring has come, let us 
put away books to some extent, and 
study things. Let us, if necessary, do 
the darning, mending, or even make the 
new garment, by lamplight, in order to 
gain time which we may spend in study¬ 
ing something out-of-doors. Nature is 
not an intangible something so far re¬ 
moved from us that we may not strive 
to come near to her. Is not growth one 
of the grandest phenomena in Nature ? 
May we not, then, even in our dooryards, 
study something of the laws of growth? 
The bursting buds, the unfolding flowers, 
look very tempting. How much they 
would tell us if we would but ply them 
with questions ! 
Would we be extravagant if we 
planned to spend a little time, say, but 
an hour each week, in trying to learn 
our A B C’s in Nature ? “ An hour with 
Nature !” How it would rest us ! How 
much we could learn, and then, how 
many more questions we would be able 
to answer, which the little folk will 
never have done asking ! 
MRS. W. A. KELLERMAN. 
Indian Women. —Chief Simon Pokagon 
tells in the Chautauquan of the Indian 
women’s good qualities. He says: “1 
am convinced that our girls do not love 
conquest in a general way along the 
border-land of men's hearts as do the 
white girls. Hence they appear far less 
coquettish in their manner. I am well 
settled in the belief that the attachment 
so sacred and holy which is planted in 
the heart of every true lover, is of divine 
origin, being born of the Great Spirit, 
and that it is purer in the hearts of our 
native girls than in those of the civilized 
races. Our girls make confidants of their 
mothers in their love affairs. They are 
not laughed at, plagued, and tormented 
about the young men as though it were 
a crime to “fall in love” (as white peo¬ 
ple call it), but on the contrary their 
love affairs are seriously considered and 
thoughtfully talked over between mother 
and daughter. As wives, our women 
are queens of the wigwam, and cases are 
rare where they do not have the full 
confidence of their husbands. To their 
care and keeping the men give all their 
money and goods, which the women use 
as they think best to provide for the 
household.” 
PEN POTPOURRI. 
It is not a dream of fancy proud 
With a fool for its dull begetter; 
There’s a voice at the heart which proclaims 
aloud, 
“ We are born for something better ! ” 
And that voice of the heart, oh, ye may believe, 
Will never the hope of the soul deceive ! 
—Schiller. 
-Dr. Parkhurst in Ladies’ Home 
Journal: “Broad-mindedness cannot 
be counted upon to yoke up easily with 
monetary shrewdness.” 
... .Haryot Holt Caiioon : “ The spirit 
of the disagreeable person in the house, 
is a strong and penetrating spirit. It 
permeates everything. It obtrudes itself 
into every nook and corner, and every 
square inch of atmosphere is surcharged 
with it.” 
-Rev. John L. Scudder : “ Riding a 
bicycle is the least objectionable of all 
forms of transportation on Sunday, for 
no one is compelled to work but the 
man in the saddle. The wheel requires 
no conductors, drivers, engineers, fire¬ 
men, or any other individual to work on 
Sunday.” 
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live sometimes when girdled 
nearly around. Nature ever 
labors to repair damage, and 
after a time, the wounded sur¬ 
faces are nicely healed. Some 
persons live and fully recover, 
even after consumption has 
made cavities in the lungs. 
In this struggle we can great¬ 
ly aid nature by giving Scott’s 
Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil 
with Hypophosphites. The 
oil supplies needed fat, and 
the hypophosphites tone up 
the nerves. The decline in 
weight ceases. A positive gain 
begins, and once again there is 
promise of life and health. It 
is never too late to try. 
Scott’s Emulsion has been endorsed by the 
medical profession for twenty years. (Ask your doc¬ 
tor .) This is because it is always palatable—always 
uniform—always contains the purest Norwegian Cod- 
liver Oil and Hypophosphites. 
Put up in f o cent and ft .00 styes. The small sty* 
may be enough to cure your cough or help your baby. 
One of the health-giving ele¬ 
ments of HIRES Rootbeer is 
sarsaparilla. It contains more 
sarsaparilla than many of the 
preparations called by that name. 
HIRES—the best by any test. 
Made only by The Charles E. Hires Co., Philadelphia. 
A 25c. package makes 5 gallons. Sold everywhere. 
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