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A FRAGMENT.
If when we left a loved or loving one.
We knew that surely one of us would die
Before another dawn or set of sun,
We would not lightly say good-by
And yet we know
Sometime it must be so !
MRS. J. S. R. THOMSON. SPARTANBURG, S. C.
WORK FOR DECEMBER.
In every month of the year, here in the
South, work can be done in both the fields,
fruit, flower and vegetable gardens. In the
directions for November work—they can be
carried over into December, and even in
January—such as pruning grape vines,
thinning out weak canes of raspberry and
blackberry bushes, cutting out and shorten
ing in branches of fruit trees. Strawber
ries planted in September and November
will require working to kill out the chick
weed (Stet I aria) which abounds in all rich
and long cultivated gardens, and only ger
minates in the cold fall months. Now is time
to mulch the ground heavily, with pine nee
dles or leaves, taking care not to cover up the
crowns of the plants. I', is presumed that
before planting, the soil was heavily en
riched. if not. it is easy to spread a layer
broad east before hoeing and mulch after
ward. Full crops ol large berries must be
looked for only under generous treatment;
“As ye sow, so sh di you reap,” will bear
repeating here. Take cuttings now of the
grapes that you desire additional plants,
cuttings to three eyes—slanting cut from
the eye. Bury two eyes and leaving the
third so close to the surface, that the rains
may wash soil over and cover the eye.
They stand a far bettor chance of rooting
than if planted one or two inches out of
soil, for ihe alternate freezing and thawing
our variable climate subjects them to In
the United States experimental grounds,
Washington, D. C., Prof. Scribull has at
last found a remed v for the rot so destruct
ive to this crop all over the world, and
which has in a measure really ruined, finan
cially. many vinevards, in the old world;
particularly in France. Next season I
will in time (about May) give the treat
ment for readers of Woman’s Work. To
those who have not the “ Niagara ” let me
advise them to procure plants. It is a
lovely appearing variety, prolific, hardy
and freer from rot than any I have seen in
recent years. I am planting 200 cuttings,
which fact fully attests my faith in its
merits. Where frost has not already des
troyed your tomatoe crop, you can secure
ripe fruit yet another month by two meth
ods—pulling up plants entire and hanging
up in a sheltered outhouse, or by plucking
unripe, but full grown fruit and laying on
shelves—none touching the other. I have
now full six bushels collected which ripen
far faster than I can consume, although we
are quite fond of them served as salad ;
these will ripen until several hard freezes
oc< ur, which of course destroys and causes
them to decay. Gather and string your
crop of pepper, both ripe and unripe—last
will ripen if strung and hung up in an
airy piazza. Feed the hardening beet
roots to your cows.
Many pull up both beets and tur
nips and make into pyramids, and cover
first with okra or corn stalks, and then
earth full one foot thick, which enable you
to gather them for table use unfrozen.
And now in this last series of articles on
gardening for the readers of Woman's
Work for 1888. 1 trust it is not out of
place for me to express the hope, that I
have been a help to many beginners in the
not easy art of gardening. When 1 began
(now twenty-five years ago.) my first gar
den, such directions tor each month was an
unheard of thing, nt least here in the South;
and books on gardening were almost as rare.
Fortunately for me I seemed one of the
best known, both then and now. in ••Whites’
Gardening for the South,” (and strange, it
strikes me now, he was a citizen of Athens.
Ga., where -W. W.,’ is issued). In it 1
learned much which has made my garden
ing operations mostly successful. To be
a good gardener is not child’s play—altho’
a child can help in many of its operations,
but it is an art easily learned by those de
siring it—and if failure attends one, two
or more attempts, the child’s couplet, “ Il
at first you don t succeed, try. try again ”
will apply, and you will erelong leel much
elation at your increased success, and more
than that, the added comfort and enjoy
ment of your family in the many varieties
it is possible to raise in a very small plat
of ground. Mrs. J. S. R. Thomson.
Spartanburg. 8. C.
To remove paint from windows, take
strong bicarbonate of soda and dissolve it
in hot water. Wash the glass, and in
twenty minutes or half an hour rub thor
oughly with a dry cloth.
| For Woman’s Work.
AN ORDINARY MEN’S CLUB.
In The Writer, published in Boston, a
subscriber asked what constituted eligibility
to membership in the Boston Press Asso
ciation. The editor stated the requisites
and added “women are not eligible to
membership.” Another subscriber, a wo
man, and an interested reader asked why.
] To her. as well aS to the rest of us, it was
i a little singular that women should be
. debarred from association with the bright
I minds of their profession in just this way.
and only because of her inferior sex. She
I may do any of the work required of men,
l before they are considered members of the
, press as a profession. She may be con
i tributor. editor, manager or reporter, but
! is incapacitated on account of her sex to be
a member of the Boston Press Association
When the reader asked why—the editor’s
answer was—"because women were thought
out of place in an ordinary men’s club”
A light began to dawn in the mind of
this misguided woman. What an errone
; ous impression she had had of this famed
i Boston Press Association ! She had really
felt it a deprivation to be debaired from
| member.-hip; but.you see, she was mistaken
in its object when she supposed she was
missing a great help in her literary carreer.
It is only • an ordinary men’s club,” sister
workers—a very ordinary one too, no
doubt, where a “woman '«ovld be out of
place." You know the smoty atmosphere,
hazy with choice (?) language and doubt
ful stories would not be pern issable in a
woman’s presence. Probably, too, the
women would insist on maintaining the
supremacy of head over heels, and the
poor suffering men would be compelled to
i keep their feet where the Lord intended
them to be. We havn’t lost anything by
being denied admittance to this *• ordinary
men’s club,” but why can’t we have one of
our own, and on a very different basis—
one that will help and strengthen us in
j our wrok ?
Maude S. Peaslee.
For Woman’s Work.
A GENTLE PEOPLE.
It is pleasant to believe the legends of the
I old idyllic days, and think that all creatures
I in the animal kingdom were intended by
nature to be on good terms with each other.
It is for man to reflect how far he is
answerable for the fierceness and wildness
of so many of his inferior fellow beings.
| The following picture of Japanese lite by
Professor Morse, shows how it might be
I between the human and the brute creation:
| “Birds build their nests in the city
| houses, wild fowls, geese and ducks,
alight in the public parks, wild deer trot
about the street and he had actually been
followed by wild deer in the streets nib
bling melon rind out of his hand, as tame
as calves and lambs, on our Michigan
farms. A dog goes to sleep in the busiest
streets, men turn aside so ait not to disturb
him. One day a beautiful heron alighted
on the limb of a tree, and the busy, jostling
throng stopped. Every man’s hand went
into his pocket, just as they would with
us, but. instead of bringing out a “popper”
out came pencil and sketch paper.”
The Japanese are a nation of artists,
lovers of nature. These busy men were
each and all sketching the picture of their
favorite bird. It is enough for us to know
kind human beings infuse gentleness into
animals, and elevate and beautify them
by treating them well.
For Woman’s Work.
RUSTIC FIRE SCREEN.
A fire screen is now needed. Have
the plumber make a zinc tray of the
desired length and width, and around this
make a frame to fit the tray. On the out
side edge and bottom, nail a piece of rustic
work in the saw teeth fashion. The frame
should be set in the centre of the box and,
braced firmly. The centre of the screen
is made by taking two large sheets of mica
and placing between them a fancy picture
first, oiling the picture to make it trans
parent. Then bind the edge with a brass
frame and hang it in the centre by brass
wire pulled tight. Fill the zinc tray with
earth and plant a hot-house vine in it, and
train it up and around the rustic frame.
This makes a lovely screen as well as a
novel one.
Everybody has a cure for sore throat, but
simple remedies appear to be most effect
ual. Salt and water is used by many as a
I gargle, but a little alum and honey dis
solved in sage tea is better. An applica
tion to the neck of cloths wrung out of hot
water, changing as often as they begin to
cool, has the most potency for removing
inflamation of anything we ever tried. It
should be kept up for a number of hours.
During the evening is usually the most
convenient time for applying this remedy.
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Pekin Bantams, per 13, 2.00
Eggs in Season, 1889.
This stock was bought of Breeders, taking high
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