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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-19
ELSIE'S IDEA.
How She Found Little Girl Who Could Be
spared.

How She Found u Little Girl Who Could lie
spared.
Elsie is delightful little girl only
eight years old. For some months
Elsic's mamma has not been well, and
she has felt the need Of performing the
social duties of the home circle. In
carrying out this idea she recently
made call ON neighbor who, before
she left, said: 'Elsie, do you know
any dear little girl like yourself who
could come and live with meo | should
be delighted to have such little girl.
Do you think your mamma could spare
your
''Oh. am quite sure she couldn't"
was Elsie's quick response, land do
not know any little girl who could be
spared. My cousin Dorothy's mamma
couldn't spare her, and know my cou-
sin Mildred couldn't be spared. and
really don't know any little girl who
could come and live with YOU
well" said the lady, '.thinlS about
it, and if you do happen to think of any
little girl, be sure and let me know
The next morning Elsie was very
IuLSt dI tHS DIedhldSL luDlG. Out SIZE
finally announced that she wished to
call that morning at the house of the
| lady where she had called the after
noon before. Elsie lives in a very wise
| family. and no questions were asked as
to why she wished to repeat her call SC
| soon. She was merely advised to want
| for an hour or two after breakfast be
| fore she made her call; and this is what
| Elsie said when her hostess appeared:
Mrs. Brown, l have come to tell yor
| of a little girl who l am sure could
| come and live with you. She lives now
at the Home for Consumptives, and she
came from the Home of the Destitute
but she is all well now. Her mother is
| in prison, and her father is drunlsard.
| and think you would be doing n very
kind act il you would take that little
girl into your home. know she could
come"
Elsie, you see, lived in family where
the little waits and the big waits i'm this
| world, the homeless children and the
homeless men and women, were often
the subjects of conversation, and Elsie
had listened, and listened to purpose
for just as soon as she heard of home
that needed child. she remembered
there was a child waiting for home
christian Union.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-19
| looks of their bag and basket. Chest.

looks of their bag and basket. Chest.
nuts are very plenty this year"
Near noon Henry and Lucy were seen
returning home, with bag and basket
| full of nuts. They had had good luck.
| grandma said.
| After dinner Mamie thought she
would go a-nutting. She asked her
| grandma for something to bring nuts
home in. Grandma gave her pretty
| Indian basket.
"Arc you sure you know where M
goo" she asked.
'Oh. yes" answered Mamie, for the
| man showed me as we rode from the
station"
The chestnut grove was in sight OF
the house. But instead of going out by
the back way and through the orchard,
Mamie went out at the front gate and
down the road. The row of naples led
her to the brown cottage.
IF ,yon please, Mrs. Nutting. ] have
come for some, like the other children"
said Mamie, showing her basket.
"Some what, my dear:" the woman
inquired.
''Chestnuts, ma'am; grandma let me
come a-nutting."
In short time grandma, sitting by
an opcp window. saw the child return
ing. her basket filed with shining
| brown nuts
"See. have had good luck" called
Mamie.
But you can not have picked mp from
| the ground all those SO soon'' said
grandma.
mo grandma. went a-nutting to
| Mr.. Nutting's, of course. Mrs. Nutting
was SO pleased she laughed all the
| while she was filling my basket. Bu.
why are You laughing. grandma
Grandma explained that people c,m-
monty went nutting to the nut II ees,
and gathered for themselves.
''Oh!" said Mamie. II made AZ odd
| mistake. "-Lavinia s. Goodwin, ia Our
| Little Ones.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-19
AMONG THE POULTRY.

HENS require green food in winter.
KEEP enough fowls to buy the gro
ceries.
CORN and corn meal are the best fat
tening foods.
A GOOD hen will lay twice her weight
in eggs in year.
WHEN grain is fed throw on litter
and partly cover it up.
On the farm, at least, the medium
sized breeds are the best.
ONE fowl with scnrvy legs is apt to
impart the disease to others.
A COOKED mixture OF the table scraps
makes a good morning ration.
CLOSE to large cities broilers bring in
more money than anything else.
DUCKS and geese are the best fowls
to raise on wet, low-lying lands
BARLEY and wheat fed alternately
make good egg producing ration.
4 SUDDEN change from one kind of
grain to another will often stop hens
from laying.
GEESE are not only valuable as meat
producers but should annually produce
pound of feathers each.
ONE advantage with ducks is that
| they are less liable to disease than al
most any other kind of poultry.
POULTRY manure is the richest that
can be secured on the farm and 1t
should be carefully stored away.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-19
About the Human House.

A teacher was giving lesson on the
human body to "A bright class of six
year dds. She began by asking about
the school-houses, then let them tell
something about the houses they lived
in. Then she told them that God had
made little house for each of us alone
They quickly understood, and eyes were
shining and hands raised. "Oh, Miss
NJ, that house wears Clothes" cried
one. And it's shingled with hair!"
cried another 1.-The windows are the
eyes," said dear little Lenore. Mamma
says she can look right into my heart
through my eyes" 1.-The door is the
mouth" cried q round little fellow, put
ting his fingers between his rosy lips.
Little Willie jumped quite out of his
seat with the suddenness of his idea:
"And the nose is the porch over the
door, and the buttons on my coat are
the steps up to my front door!'-Youth's
Companion.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-19
GIRLS IN JAPAN.
Two Things That Are Always Taught
Them.

Two Things That Are Always Taught
Them.
In Japan there are two things which
are taught to all the little girls: one is
how to place flower or IA branch of
play on the guitar
Ii you 60 into japanese house you
hear tinlxle from almost every room
You get used to this soft, light beat of
music as you do to the gurgle of a
brook or the drip of a fountain.
There seems to be no Japanese house
without its flower vase, its picture on
the wall and its guitar.
The japanese have tour kinds of
guitar or harp. The samasin is the
common kind: it has a long neck, its
square body is covered with tight eat
skin, and it has three strings or wires:
the player strikes these wires with a
curious little piece Of ivory or she picks
them with her fingers. Then there is
the big koto with its thirteen strings,
and there is tiny lutte with four strings,
and there is a very fine sort of harp
brought from China and called a ''gils-
ken"
This gik,sen has three sets of wires.
and if Miss Chrysanthemum is an ac-
complished musician she makes very
gay music on her Chinese harp. With
the rosy finger-tips of her small brown
hands she can bring forth from the
wires all the sounds of the great Japa-
nese hunt which takes place each year
on the third Of November.
On one set Of the wires she can call
like a hunter to his hounds. and from
another set at the same time, you hear
the hounds bark and bay She will give
you from that little harp the most en-
chanting notes.-the cries of the Japa-
ncse wild animals and the notes of the
swamp and water birds.
The Japanese are SO fond of music
that they scarcely take a meal without
the harp or guitar. This table music
is furnished either by daughter of the
family or by singing girl" hired from
outside, of whom there is large class
in Japan.
This singing girl will come in ON
her little wooden clogs. bringing her
guitar; and with the jeweled hairpins
stuck in her glossy black hair. and her
gay sash tied in big bows at the back,
she looks exactly as You see her on
Japanese fans While the family eat
ice and beans and raw fish she will
ing them u song of a Towering cherry
tree or red peony, or chant them a
ballad of the Golden Dragon, sounding
the guitar all the while. ! am sorry to
say she sings through her nose" and in
very high key.
Sometimes small drum is used, and
now and then the singer accents her
song with u dull. soft boom, boom,
boom
The Japanese girls have very beauti
full names.
Our names, like Harriet" Frances,
Jenny" Susan" do not mean 'any'
thing they are simply names by which
we distinguish one CIR! from another
girl.
But japanese girls have names which
mean Little Purple" Little Butter.
fy," Silver" Bird" "White Bright
ness brightness of the Flowers,
pearl Harp" and many other lovely
things.-sophie Scissors, in Our Little
/ Men and Women.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-19
WELL MADE ROADS.
They Increase the Value OF Property One
Hundred Per Cent.


They Increase the Value OF Property One
Hundred Per Cent.
Land spectators, realizing the i'm
portance Of good road facilities, seldom
place tract upon the market until
they have improved the approaches and
driveways. This is one Of the reasons
why the boom in California was SO sue
cessful. Especial attention was paid to
the streets in all towns laid out They
were made attractive. and in nearly
every instance sidewalks of cement
were put in place before the first pur-
chaser was invited to inspect the
premises.
There is another reason, however,
why the roads should be improved.
Mr.. Isaac Is. Potter, in an article to an
engineering magazine, holds that one.
half the 10000, 900 horses and mules on
the farms of the United States could
do the hauling of tie farm produce il
even the present country roads were
placed in good repair. With a reduc.
ton Of only an eighth of the number
of draught animals, the saving each
day would amount to about $4,000
tons of hay and $1,000 bushels OF
grain, which, regarded as to money
value, would amount to $500, 900 day,
or S:l4, 00o, 900 year. II the value OF
the saving in animals is added, total
of Sa54, 600, 900 results.
| Considered from this standpoint, il
may readily be shown that in the
course of a few years the roads can be
paid for in the saving they would
] make. In localities where roads have
been macadamized the value of proper
ty has increased about 100 per cent
Add this increase to the saving effect
ed and there results handsome ne,
profit. How localities can continue t
exist with few and badly kept roads,
when the advantages of the reverse are
SO plainly evident, is more than can be
intelligently answered.-St. Louis Re
public
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-19
FOR GIRLS AND BOYS.
THE LIFE I'D CHOOSE.

II to choose the life that
Would like to lead were free,
I'll tell You what. my girls and boys,
My choice would surely be;
Not that of lady rich and proud.
Who but for pleasure cares,
VINO dweils In stately mansion and
The rartst wells wears.
with many servants at her call
And all that gold can buy
That's not tile life I'D choose, my girls,
Oh. no. my boys, not
Nor that OF one by genins set
Above the work day crowd,
of whose great gift. whate'sr it be.
The whole wide world Is proud:
Aronnd whose brow IA wreath is twined,
The laurel wreath of fame.
And who, wherever she may go.
Il met " it'll loud acti aim.
ME with each other eager thronss
To do her honor vie
That's not tile life I'd choose. my girls.
Oh! no. my boys, not 1.
For. to my mind, n dreary thing
Is Idle. costly mir.h.
And splendid dress and jewels seem
To me of little worth.
And laurel crown. fear me much,
MAY be most bravely worn,
And yet hide, mid it, shining leaves,
To wound the brow. "A thorn.
And then both we 18th and fame must bear
The public ever nigh.
So neither would ] have. my girls,
Oh. no, my boys. not l.
country life for me, my girls.
Tn some Old farm. my boys.
Where many trees MAKE pleasant shade
Far from lie citys noise;
Where might watch the sewers SOW.
While birds sang loud and sweet
In early spring the fresh plowed fields
With oats and corn ami wheat,
And soon thereafter leaflets green
Above he mold dcscry-
Oh that's the life I'll choose. my girls,
Indeed. my boys, would !.
Where might hear the low of kline.
The hum If busy bees.
The " iirr II insect wings. the sweet
Faint whispers of the breeze,
And see the fruit on tree and vine
Grow ripper day by day.
And smell the honcyea clover tufts
And fragrant new .mown hay.
Beneath my feet the grass green earth,
Oerhead the vast blue sky
Oh! that's the life I'D choose, my girls,
Indeed. my boys, would.
Margaret Eytiuge, in Detroit Free Press.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-19

of bench. The rest is as solid as rock.
and the benches will be just as solid 25
years hence as at present The rails
cost III cents foot, and while the
first cost is very considerable, even
after having been in use for many
years, good share of the amount can
be gotten out of them by disposing of
them for the price of old iron. For the
center benches the same system is fol-
lowed. the rails being placed ut
proper distance apart to suit the size
of the slate, etc, used. The second
illustration shows the style of bench in
some of the houses at Minneapolis,
Mimi. Two pieces of large angle-iron,
about 3x3 inches. run lengthwise Of
the house on brick piers set down about
s feet apart, and for the bottom sort
boards are placed crosswisc The illus
tration makes the matter quite plain. -
American Florist.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-19
FINE CREAM CHEESE.
4 Deiicacy Which ANY Intelligent Woman
Tan Make.

4 Deiicacy Which Any Intelligent Woman
Can Make.
The finest kind of q table luxury and
one that dairymen can make more
money on, really money at any season
OF the year is sweet cream cheese,
made in the following manner: 10
the milk be set four inches deep in
shallow open pans. When the cream
is about one-half on the surface the
pans should be set on the stove until
the cream '.crinkles." The stove must
not be too hot no: the process too
rapid. Thick, tough sheets of cream
are the requisite Setting the pans Of
milk away again to cool will make
fine sheets of the best that can be
rolled off entire. Such cream must bs
placed in tin molds withou. bottoms
and standing on folded cloth to absorb
the moisture. Some prefer to place 4
thin stra W mat between the cream and
cloth. After II hours the molds may be
turned over and IL hours later the
cream will stand without support and
be ready to sell or use. Only the small.
est possible amount of salt is applied
to the cheese ends as they are invert-
ed. 4 little practice will produce a
fancy product Of ready and high sale
and the work is as nothing compared
to the manufacture OF cheese or
butter Desirable sizes are 2x3 inches
and = inches thick, and SKA inches Of
the same thickness. The latter con.
tains just twice the amount OF cheese
than the formerd does and should sell for
a little less than twice the price. These
delicious little cream cheeses should be
eaten fresh, but, properly handled, will
keep week Some advantages of this
form Of dairying are the following:
The dairyman will soon realize an in.
centive to the most careful breeding tc
obtain the best stock for cream pro.
duction. The cost of the utensils re.
quired for this work is next to nothing.
The product can lie marketed twice a
week in the neatcst kind of light car.
riage to well-to-do townspeople after il
is introduced and a trade built up
Farm and Home.
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DEnhiES.
give you at the donation party. And
if you would accept the blackberries,
] should be SO thankful. because father
feels that he has enjoyed your SER
mons, and he would like to give some
thing, be it ever SO little"
1.-THE gift is most welcome, Miss
Patty" said Mr.. Corbin. And so Patty
Gregory went away, leaving him in a
sort of brown study.
Father" said Patty, when the good
farmer came to supper, I've thought
of something"
You always was master one for
thinking" said Mr.. Gregory, looking
admiringly at the olive face with its
sparkling eyes.
THAT old engraving that GRANDPA
Their Mullet left us in his will" ex-
planned Patty, with the bronze frame,
that hangs over the restroom mantel;
Martha and Mary at Bethany don't
you remember? The one that Mr. Cor
bin admired SO much when he was
here. I'm told that the scholars
and gentlefolks admire those old en-
cravings. And why don't you give it
to Mr.. Corbin for the donation?"
I'm ashamed to take an old pictur
like that" said Mr.. Gregory, dubious
ly. Before Widow Starke, with her
barrel o -four, and Squire Hodges
quarter O. lamb, and Mr.. Johnson's fir
Kin O. June butter. and all them things
rs is really worth something"
ASK him if he would like ii" sug-
gested Patty. And take 1t quietly
around before anyone else comes
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-19
A SILLY BOY.

Thinking to Make Himself Manly He II
Doing Himself a Terrible Injury.
Nellie came running TO me the other
day, her eyes big with surprise, and ex.
claimed:
"Oh, auntie. what do You think? You
know Eurtic, who lives down the street
that little bit of boy--well he
smokes cigarettes, and he is awful lit.
tle'
Then he will make little man very
likely if he has begun SD early" re-
piled.
Yes, that is what Gertie says He
steals off by himself behind the back
fence and then smokes"
"Then he must know he is doing
wrong, and is ashamed to be seen. What
DO you suppose he does it for?'
Il guess he thinks it will make him
look big. He wants to be man, and
he is always telling us girls what he'll
do when he gets big" said Nellie.
He has begun the wrong way if he
wants to grow. Tobacco will hurt his
heart and his nerves. If he lives to be
a man he will be nervous, his heart
will be weak. and he will not be the
strong man that he might be If he had
not begun this bad habit.
A schoolboy died in Brooklyn only a
little while ago, because he had smoked
50 many cigarettes. His whole body
was sick: the poison in the tobacco had
gone all through him. His skin was
yellow, his nerves were weak, and he
was so sick he had to go to the hospi-
tai. But the doctors could not help him.
He said just before he died:
"Oh, il all the boys could see me now,
and see how suffer, they would never
SIN olte."
If you would not be a smoker, don't
begin. Water Lily.
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THE FARMING WORLD.
HANDY HARNESS BOX.
Ono Like 1t Would lie Found Useful on
Every Farm.

Ono Like 1t Would lie Found Useful on
Every Farm.
"Say, Pierce. you have got bay
window to your stable" was the re-
mark Of friend. Yes" / replied
excepting the window" It came
about in this way: In February the
barn was overru n with rats. and after
putting everything eatable out of their
reach they attacked the harness, which
hung on pegs in the usual way near
the stable. The first kne W about it
a breast collar. single harness. was
about half eaten up, and the collars Of
pair of work harness seriously in
jured. It ut once became apparent
that the harnesses must have closet
But where? As doors and stable were
arranged there seemed no convenient
place. For three weeks 'toted" the
harnesses to the house, to the disgust
of the women and to my own discom-
fort and annoyance. l was awaiting a
bit Of leisure time to decide where to
build that closet, and how.
Finally hit upon the plan illustrated
in the engravings and designated by my
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-19
AN ODD MISTAKE.
How Mamie Went a-Sutting, ana tn
Good Luck She Had.

Good Luck She Had.
Little Mamie rode thirty miles into
the country, in the cars, and no friend
with her. The conductor took charge
of her, and when the train stopped at
the station she was led out to the plat
form.
Instead of her grandpa stranger
spoke to her: Il guess you are the Wis
itor that Grandpa and Grandma Reed
expect" he said. Il am their neighbor
Nutting and will take you to their
house,
They rode in an open buggy. 1t was
a lovely October afternoon. Mamie
had been here only once, at Christmas
Then the days were scold and snow lay
on the ground.
IL mean to play out-of-doors great
DEAL" she said, smiling to see the scarlet
leaves fall from the trees by the road
side. Wouldn't you, Mr.. Nutting?"
YES, indeed. This air will do u city
child good" replied the man. ''iou
must come and call on me and Mrs.
Nutting. We live in that brown cot
tage at the end Of the row of naples,
it's but little way now to your grand
pas"
The next morning as Mamie looked
| out at q window she saw a boy and girl
20 by. at is Henry and Lucy Lee,
said gAndma, going a-nutting' BY the
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FIG. 1.

friend rs bay window. had thick
1.-foot pine board. 20 inches wide.
This marked and sawed as shown in
Fig. I. the lines and b being inches
out of perpendicular and the middle
line c, being sawed on diagonal 60
as to give q half-pitch roof. l
then went into the horse
stable directly behind the stalls
in daily use. and sawed out
that part of the nail L, Fig 2, where it