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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Change of Work. 
It is a popular belief among people who 
are gr at workers that a change of occu¬ 
pation is a rest and recreation. This is 
true to a great extent, but only, I believe, 
under certain conditions. It is not true 
when one is in a state of physical and 
mental exhaustion. Then, rest and relax¬ 
ation are what is needed. In order for a 
change of work to be a rest, I think one 
must be able to dismiss the previous work 
absolutely from one’s thoughts; they must 
not be mixed. For instance, if a woman 
does housework all the forenoon and 
thinks of no other work but housework, 
and then in the afternoon forgets all about 
housework and becomes interested and 
absorbed in sewing, why, when it comes 
time to do housework again at supper 
time she will go to that rested and re¬ 
freshed. But if, on the other hand, she is 
thinking and planning about her sewing 
all the time she is doing her housework, 
and then when she sits down to sew has 
the housework on her mind, when supper 
time comes she will be tired and de¬ 
pressed, having enjoyed neither kind of 
work. To cultivate the habit of being in¬ 
terested and absorbed in what we are do¬ 
ing will tend to a more peaceful state of 
mind and body. susan b. robbins. 
Charity Sweetheart’s Letters. 
The days are short and dark, so one 
looks with longing eyes toward the turn 
of the year in country places, where we 
have to depend on kerosene for light. 
What a care so many lamps are to a busy 
housekeeper, for if not attended to they 
are sure to smoke and fill the room with 
a disagreeable odor. In our large lamp, 
where we sit to read in the evenings, I 
have been trying putting a bit of gum 
camphor in the oil. It was recommended 
for adding clearness to the light. We think 
it is quite an advantage, though not un¬ 
derstanding the chemistry of it. 
The boys have to be got off to school 
as soon as their breakfast is finished a-nd 
lunch packed up. Having good healthy 
appetites it is something of a chore to pre¬ 
pare it for them. We never give them 
pie, but often make good, wholesome 
gingerbread and toothsome sandwiches, 
with a scrap of chopped meat, or lettuce 
or tomatoes. Some of them like hard- 
boiled eggs chopped and seasoned, but 
they are not plentiful at this season of the 
year. Last Summer, when our neighbor 
Mr. Stebbins was spraying his apple trees, 
he had some lime soaking, and his wife 
told me to take a pail full of the water 
from the top, and put in the extra eggs 
when they were cheap, as she always did, 
that, and kept them to use when they 
were dear. So I followed her plan; the 
lime water was settled and clear and a 
few were put in when they could be 
spared. Now they come out quite sound 
and useful, and Minty said the other 
morning when she wanted to make some 
pumpkin pies that we would not be taken 
sh(j^ again when it was so easy to man¬ 
age. So we are able to give the boys 
scrambled eggs for supper sometimes, for 
when children are exercising and study¬ 
ing they need constant building up and 
proper nourishment. Tt often worries me 
that so many country boys and girls do 
not drink milk, and I know so manv 
women who drink their tea “clear and 
very strong,” as one of our neighbors ex¬ 
pressed it. One of the good points of 
these women’s institutes will be to make 
us reflect upon what we eat, and try to 
prepare for our families and ourselves 
what they can best assimilate. The 
longer I live the more I discover that our 
food has more to do with our moods than 
we imagine, though of course we all have 
our life burdens, and think they are hard 
to bear. Lately I heard the story of an 
eastern monarch in ancient times, who got 
so tired of listening to his subjects com¬ 
plaining of the burdens they each had to 
bear that he ordered them to bring the 
said burdens, and make a heap of them 
in front of his royal tent. Then he com¬ 
manded each in turn to go around the 
heap and pick out the one that seemed 
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easiest. I wonder if it was strange that 
after a thorough examination each one 
chose his own again ? 
Just now, with many women, it is 
the Christmas burden that they try to 
carry, and endeavor to make one dollar 
do the work of five. Give it up, dear 
friends, for friendship is not measured by 
the yards of lace you make, or the other 
knick-knacks; it is as loyal and true, with¬ 
out all that effort of hands already too full. 
Last Christmas, or rather after it was 
over, a busy woman, who has five chil¬ 
dren, confessed to me that she was rush¬ 
ing as usual with homemade gifts, sitting 
up nights and neglecting many duties. 
Then the baby took sick, and when it was 
better the third week of December had 
arrived. She had a box of handsome note 
paper, and sat down and wrote a letter 
EDdystonE 
PRINTS 
Simpson - Eddystone 
Black & Whites 
Dresses made from them have the 
appearance of more costly goods—their 
patterns are' so refined. The fadeless 
color and substantial quality make 
them most economical. 
Ask your dealer for 
■ 5 impson-Eddy stone Black Whites. 
Three generations of Simpsons 
have made Simpson Prints. 
The Eddystone Mfg Co (Sole Makers) Philadelphia 
Take an old rubber boot, and cut it to pieces. If it is one of the 
Buckskin Brand 
to each friend she had hoped to remember 
with a gift. She made no mention of her 
disappointment, but sept a loving mes¬ 
sage and good wishes. In every instance 
a letter came back showing an appreciation 
of the thought that prompted the letter. 
We are such creatures of habit, and so 
very mistrustful often of the opinion of 
our friends, that we become bound by 
conventional ideas. Tt is lovely to work 
out a surprise gift for those we hold dear, 
if it does not sap our strength, or take 
the time due to other duties. But the 
dormant feeling too often is that if some 
one gives us a remembrance, we must give 
something in return, or, as the expression 
is, “go them one better.” It is not an 
elevating sentiment, and the question is 
worthy of study. But I am planning to 
send out a few plants, and know two or 
three people who failed to put up any 
blackberry cordial who will be glad to be 
remembered in that way, and there are 
baskets of apples going to some who have 
none. There are cases where fancy work 
is in place and women who make it so 
beautiful as to be a pleasure to look at, 
but busy women on a farm, with sewing 
and mending to do, have little time left. 
Some of my town friends enjoyed last 
year the boxes of ground pine, bittersweet 
and American holly I sent them by mail. 
The last mentioned grows in the garden, 
and the others can be gathered in the 
woods before snowfall. At any rate, let 
us not add Christmas as a burden for our 
already weary shoulders, for that is not 
meant as a part of “good will towards 
men” that it represents. 
CHARITY SWEETHEART. 
BOTH FOOD 
AND MEDICINE. 
We like best to call Scott’s 
Emulsion a food-medicine. It 
is a term that aptly describes 
the character and action of 
our Emulsion. More than a 
medicine—more than a food, 
yet combining the vital prin¬ 
ciples of both. It is for this 
reason that Scott’s Emulsion 
has a distinct and special 
value in all wasting diseases. 
There is nothing better to 
remedy the troubles of im¬ 
perfect growth and delicate 
health in children. The action 
of Scott’s Emulsion is just as 
effective in treating weak¬ 
ness and wasting in adults. 
SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl Street, New York. 
Rubber Boots and Shoes 
You will find an extra thick sole, and extra rein¬ 
forcements where the ordinary boot breaks first. See 
the cut. You will find, too, that the rubber in it has 
elasticity—it stretches. That’s because it is real rub¬ 
ber, and not a cheap substitute such as is used now- 
a-days in ordinary rubber boots and shoes. 
That explains why the Buckskin Brand outwear 
all others of the ordinary kind—and why they are 
the only kind you can afford to buy. Guaranteed and 
sold on Ten Days Trial. Ask your dealer for 
Buckskin Brand. Take no other. If he won’t supply 
you we will. Send to us for book and learn 
the difference between last-long Buckskin 
TOE Rubber wear and the wear-out-quick, ordi¬ 
nary kind. 
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(AWARDED GRAND PRIZE 
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