Year: 1873

| FARMERS WIVES vs.. CITY WIVES-The
remark is often made, that farmerss wives
work harder than any women living in town.
| This question has never been solved in nv
mind, neither do see it is so, as q matter
Of course, for if an Industrious wife and mo-
ther improves all the time that is given her
except Just enough for sleep and rest, how
can she do more! I have all my life lived
in a town or city, and taking the year past,
during about six months of each year, con-
slant round of duties, outside of my family
circle, demanded my time and thought
tivals, socables, societies of various kinds,
missionary meetings, and host of others,
too numerous to mention. All were good


in their objects, and have, doubt not, been
blessing to some yet | must say, they be-
come burden, and when combined with all
the cares and duties OF the mother, they are
doubly so, for she must often neglect her
family. These cares involve late hours, late
suppers, flor if she is on the committee she
| must be one of the last to retire from the
scene of action) and with the few hours left,
| of restless wakefulneSs, she rises to perform
her duties, with nervous headache, and out
of tune generally. Then if she is her own
- Bridget" who is to come to the rescue, and
| who is to care for the family?


Some may say she need not engage in
| these affairs but if she is woman of any
influence or intelligence, and refuses all calls
of this kind and withholds her aid aud SYM
pathy, she is cast aside as a very singular
woman, to say the least Thus, much time
is taken up which the farmers wife has for
her household duties untrammeled, and can
she not have more hours in the twenty-four
to devote to the culture of her own and her
children's mind, than the city wife and mo-
ther? Can she not devote more time to
music; and who will not say that this helps to
make home attractive, for our boys as well
as our girls /; and do we, as mothers, do all
in this direction we can? Alas, no! Will
not the sins Of many of our youths in town
be found at the doors of fashionable moth
ers? With plenty of good reading matter,
kind words, music and flowers, combined
with neatness and order, may not we as mo
theirs and wives first make our homes such
as we may not be ashamed of, then engage
in all good enterprises, for the benefit of
those around US, and unsel6shly and liberal
y contribute our time to them as far as we
may without over-fatigue, late hours colds
etc, all of which help to bring many an af-
fectionate wife and kind mother to pre-
mature grave?


If this is an overdrawn picture, / leave
your host of readers to Western
Rural


ANTIDoTE FOR PoIsoN-We find the fol-
lowing commended: If a person swallows
any poison whatever, or has fallen into con-
vulsons from having overloaded the stom-
ach, an instantaneous remedy, more efficient
and applicable in a larger number Of cases
than any half dozen medicines we can now
think of is heaplng teaspoon of common
salt, and as much ground mustard, stirred
rapidly in cup of water, warm or cold, and
swallowed instantly. 1t is scarcely down
before it begins to come up bringing with
it the remaining contents of the stomach,
and lest there be any remnant of a poison,
however small, let the white of an egg, or a
teacup of strong coffee, be swallowed as soon
as the stomach is.quiet; because these very
common articles nullify larger number Of
vrulent poisons than any medicines in the
shops.


To REMOVE SPoTs FROM CARPErs.-Mix
well half an ox's gall with one quart of wa
ter wet and rub the spot with this. Then
with clean scrubbing-brush, warm water
and soap, scrub we'll the spot, and wet and
half wiring a clean floor cloth in clean cold
water and rub out well the soap and gall
from the carpet; rub the spot with dry
coarse cloth until it is nearly dry, then pin
piece of thin brown paper over the spot
to prevent dust from settling on it while wet,
and leave it to become perfectly dry. If the
spot occurs near the side or end Of the car
pet, undo few tacks and slip under the
spot thickly-foGed coarse towel, to absorb
the water which runs through and to pre-
vent the vet carpet from lying in the dust !;
after washing the spot, remove the folded
cloth and slip in its place piece of brown
paper, which leave till the carpet is perfectly
dry.-To-day.


APPLE SoUFFLK-Always stew the ap-
pies nicely, then adding little grated lem
on peel and juice, and omitting butter line
| the sides and bottom Of baking dish with
them. Make boiled custard with one pint
Of milk and two eggs, favoring with lemon
and sweetening it to taste. Let it cool and
then pour into the center of the dish. Beat
the whites of two eggs to a stiff froth, (they
can be left out of the custard), spread them
over the top; sprinkle white sugar all over
them, and brown in the oven. The stewed
apples should be apout half an inch thick
on the bottom and sides of the pudding dish.


BUTTER CAKE.-Take half pound but
ter, beaten to a cream half pound coffee
sugar half pound corn starch. Take
one spoonful of sugar and one of the
starch. Stir it into the butter. Do SO
with all, till both starch and sugar are all
stirred into the butter. Take four eggs;
beat one yolk in at time; one-half cup
of milk put whites Of eggs in last. One
cup of -four, half teaspoon Of soda, and
one teaspoon Of cream-oftartar, should be
dissolved in the milk.


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