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Tho Progressiva Parmor, February 1 , 1902. A L ' The Home Circle. THE VILLAGE PREACHER AND THE SCHOOLMASTER Near yonder cope, "where onoe the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrnbs the plaoe disclose, The village preaober's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn or seek for power By doctrines fashion d to the varying hour ; For other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretohed than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain ; The long remembered beggar was his guest, Whcss beard descending swept his aged breast; The ruin'd spendthrift now no longer proud, Claim'd kindred there and had his claims allow'd ; The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sat by his fire, and talk'd the night away ; Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch and show'd how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere oharity Vegan. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; Brit in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, be pray'd and felt for all. And, as a bird each fond endearment trie?, To tempt its new fledged off-pring to tho kies ; He tried each art, reprov'd each dnli delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led tho ay. Beside the bed where paTting life was 1m id.. And sorrow, guilt, and vain, by turns dismay 'd The rnverend champion stood. At bis control Despair and angnih fled the strngg intr s ul, Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise And his laet faltering accents wbijper"d praise, At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn the venerable place ; Truth from his lips previlM with double sway, And fools, who came to ncoff, remained to pray. The service past, around tho piou man, "V ith ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; E'en children followed with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown to share the good man's smile ; Hi ready smile a parent's warmth exprest, Tbeir welfare pleaded him, ar?d their cares ditrest ; To them, his heart, his love, his griefs were given, Bat all his serious thoughts hd rest in Heaven: As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells through the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his ncisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew : Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes for many a joke had he ; Full well the busy whisper ciroling round Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned, Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he. bore to learning was in fault ; The village all deolared how muoh he knew : 'Twas certain he could write and oipher, too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And even the story ran that he could gauge ; In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still ; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around ; And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew. Oliver Goldsmith. THE RESTLESS WOMAN. SY MIS EHRCNCC, J. CARDINAL GIBBONS Copyrighted, 19J1, by the Curtis Publishing Co., and reprinted by courtesy of The Ladies' llome Journal. That woman was created to fill certain well-defined places in this world no one familiar with her physical, moral and mental make up can doubt. That many women of to day show a tendency to think fllghtingly of those privileges and responsibilities which have come down as the best inheritance of their c ex is a fact whioh faces us on every .tide in this country of ours. It is aore the case here than in any other nation, I regret to say. It has spread in the la.-t few years like some epi--demio, until it has, to a distressing -extent, affected the whole system of society and home government. Modesty and gentleness, these two sweet handmaids of womankind, teem to have been laid aide by many, and masoulinity and aggres iveness have been given their places. The spirit of unrest has f c und easy victims in thousands of American homes, until the social condition which presents itself to day, even among the best and most cultured classes, differs essentially from the standards heretofore held as invio lable. It is a sad and a dangerous change that confronts us. Its shib boleth would seem to be : masculinity is greater than motherhood. I wish I could impress on American women the dangers that attaoh to such innovations. I wish I could how them, as they appear to me, the ultimate results of participating in public life. It has but one end the abandonment, or at least the neg lect, of home. And where the influ This is Ho. 23 of our series of the World's Best Poems, arrDged especially for The Pro gressive Farmer by the ertitor. In this series selections from the following authors have already appeared: Barns. February, 1901; Bryant, October, 1901; the Brown In jjs, Novem ber, 1901; Iord Byron and Phillips Brooks, December, 1901; Thomas Campbell and Kueene Field, January, 1902. ence of the home is removed life loses one of its most valuable guides, and government its strongest ally indeed, its cornesstone. You remember, perhaps, what a great general of ancient times said : "Greece rules the world, Athens rules Greece, I rule Athens, and my wife rules me, and, therefore, my wife rules the world " Nor is the illustration overdrawn. The woman who rules the domestic kingdom is in reality the rule of all earthly king, doms. As I have said before, I regard woman's rights women and the lead ers in the new sohool of female prog ress as the worst enemies of the fe male sex, Vhey teach that which robs woman of all that is amiable and gentle, tender and attractive, and which gives her nothing in re turn but masculine boldness and brazen effrontery. They are habitu ally preaching about woman's rights and prerogatives, but have not a word to pay about her duties and responsibilities. They withdraw her from thoe sacred obligations which properly belong to her sex, and fill her with ambition to usurp a posi sion for which neither God nor Na ture ever intended her. Whi!e professing to emancipate her from domestic servitude, they are making her the slave of her own caprices and passions Under the influence of such teachers we find women, especially in high circles, neglecting her household duties, gad ding about, at rest only when in per petual motion, and never, at ease un less in a state of morbid excite ment. Bhe never feels at home except when abroad. When she is at home, home is irksome to her She chafes and frets under the restraint and responsibility of domestic life. Her oome when in this land all women will be allowed to register their votes, save, pehaps, in municipal elections which come near to the home, and might, therefore, properly be influ enced by those who should be re sponsible for the home. Who enters the political arena is sure to be soiled by its mud. As soon as woman thrusts herself into politics and mingles with the orowd to deposit her vote, she must expect to be handled roughly, and to surren der, perhaps wholly, at least in part, that reverence now justly paid her. The more woman gains in the poli tical arena the more she loses in the domestio kingnom. The cannot rule in both spheres. The model woman is not she who takes up all the "ologies" and scien tific studies. She is not the woman who is constantly seen and heard in public places, the woman who insists upon entering all branches of trade ana commerce, and pursuing all lines of thought, who wanders restlessly through the world. The model woman, thanks to Christianity, is she who is thus sung of in Holy Writ: "Who shall find a valiant woman V far and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her. She hath looked well to the paths of her house, and hath not eaten her bread idle. Her children rc S3 up, and called her blessed : her Beauty is vain : iho woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised." Proverbs xxxi. American women, your husbands are the sovereigns of America, and if you be the sovereigns of your hus bands, then, indeed, you would rule the nation. That should be glory enough for you. We are more gov erned by ideals than by ideas. We are influenced more by living, breathing models than by abstraot principles of virtue. The model that should be held up to American women of to day is not the Amazon, glorying in her martial deeds and powers ; not the Spartan, who made female perfection to con sist in the development of physical strength at the expense of female decorum and modesty ; not the god dess of impure love lixe Venus, whose votaries regarded beauty of form and personal oharms as the highest types of womanly excellence. No, the model that should be held up before you and all women is Mary, the mother of Christ. She is the great pattern of virtue, and all that goes to make the perfeot woman alike to maiden, wife and mother. HIS SPELLING SYSTEM. Dobbs met his friend Turner in the traia. They were both going to Birmingham and stoppsd at the same hotel. Turner registered his name "E. K. Phtholognyrrh." Dobbs, notioing it, exclaimed, Here, what are you using such a foreign, outlandish name for?" "I am not assuming any foreign name," replied Turner. 'What i ind of a name is it, then?" "That is my identioal old name, and it is English too pronounoed Turner.' " "I can't see how you make Tur ner' out of those 13 letters ; besides, what is your object in spelling that way?" asked Dobbs. Well, you see, nobody ever no tioed my name on the register when I wrote it 'Turner,' " the latter ex plained, "but sinoe I oommenced writing it Phtholognyrrh,' .1 set them all guessing. It is, as I said be fore, English spelling. Phth' is the sound of t' in phthisis,' olo' is the sound of 'ur in colonel,' gn' there is the 'n' in gnat,' yrrh is the sound of 'er' in myrrh." Now, if that doesn't spell 'Turner' what does it spell?" London Standard. Do you wish to make a study of languages? Then take one at a time Provide yourself with a good dic tionary and grammar, and some stories written by a matter, devoting an hour or two every evening, ac cording to the time at your disposal, to study. Keep this up faithfully for a single winter, and you will be surprised and encouraged at the progress made. "But how can I study without a teacher?" one asks. For the sake of acquiring a correct pronunciation, it would be better for one to have a teaoher, if possi ble ; but, if Elihu Burritt, the poor blacksmith boy, acquired a thor ough knowledge of almost every known tongue without a teacher, surely bright young people can mas ter one or two at least. "Power is given to him who exerts power." Success. heart is abroad: It is exulting imagination, in some some social triumph, or revealing in some scene of eavetv and dissipation, .tier nus to his home to find it empty, or occupied by one whose heart is void of affeotion for him Then arise disputes, quarrels, re niirrtinft.tinnp. estrangements, and the last act in the drama is often di vorce. I speak the sober truth when affirm that, for the wrecks of fami lies in our country, woman has i a large share of the responsibility In so many instances she seems to have entirely forgotten, or purposely avoided, the place she is oalled upon to fill. She looks to material great ness in a man as her guiding star She wisbes to do what men have done, and are doing. She enters this field, foreign to all her faoulties and her strength, and seems to think she is living up to a higher stand ard than was ever before permitted to her kind. But if she stopped moment to consider, could she find mission more exalted, more noble or more influential than Christian wife hood and motherhood? That makes lier the helpmate of her huaband and the guide and teacher of her sons and daughters, rather than a stumbling-block in the way of all. If woman would only remember that her influence over a child the first few years of its lite can have greater effect, and produce wider and more lasting results, than her whole life given up to walking in the ways of men I Where are the men that have achieved triumphs and have not owned the debt was largely due their mothers? What know we of the mothers of the world's greatest men, save that most of them were faith ful to their holy station and true to the high privilege of motherhood the most divinely sanctioned and the noblest of all earthly positions? Christianity set its endearing seal on this queendom in Bethlehem cen turies ago, and the woman who seeks a higher sphere will not find it among men, or even in earth. But the tendency of the times is altogether apart from such things. Women must be independent, and masouline. They must even indulge in all the sports formerly classed as masouline. They take to these not as occasional pleasures, but as oonstant pursuits. I see no harm in a woman's taking part onoe in a while in a game of golf, or any other outdoor exercise that befits her station. She is not to be housed like a plant, and never allowed the benefits derived from fresh air and moderate exer cise. Any proper outdoor pursuit should be encouraged as an occasional recreation, but as a regular avoca tion it must be condemned. For pleasures that become habitual are no longer mere recreations, but se rious occupations. Then there is the woman who must join a club, or perhaps two or three clubs. These will require her pres enoe or attention several hours of the day. How can she do all this and at tho same time fulfill the duties of domestio life? After the labors of the day the husband rightly expects to find a comfortable home, where peaoe, good order and tranquility reign. But his heart is filled with sadness and despair if he finds the partner of his bosom attending a olub, or neglecting her household duties for those of some semi-politi cal or sooial organization. There is another phase of this great question whioh presents a most dangerous aspeot. When the home is abandoned, what follows? The substitution of flats and hotels as residences, where, instead of having a home in any sense of the word, women are merely esoaping the re sponsibilities and the cares of do mestio life. But if domestic life has its cares and responsibilities and what life has not? it also has its sweets and its consolations, its joys and its bene fits, that are infinitely superior to anything that can possibly be ob tained in hotels or flats. It is man ifest that hotels do not furnish the same privaoy and the same safe guard against questionable assooia tions that are supplied by the home. I am glad for their own sake that American women generally do not exercise the privilege of political suffrage. I regret that there are those among our Amerioan women who have left their homes and fami lies to urge on their kind the need of suffrage. I hope the day will never Our Social Chat. KDITEI BY ADNT JENNIE, RALEIGH, N. C. AH mNTKIBUTOKH to this department of The Progressive Fanner, we have some of the H?a.aoraira and rtmerresRive vonncr ladles and young men and some of the most entertain- we writers among iue uiun k'j-" mm ouu other States, tne ages oi vav iuciuucib rouging YOU ARB REQUESTED to Join by sending us a letter on some subject of general Interest, and writing i nereRiier as uixatu m pwoiuio. office address for Aunt Jennie's Information. If you do not wish your real name to appear in print, give name uy wmcu yuu. w rrrr ir vwst nn AfriRTC mnst. as a rule. elapse between the time a letter is written and the date or its puoncauon. ADDRESS all letters to Aunt Jennie, care The Progressive Farmer. Raleigh. N. C. of AUNT JENNIE'S LETTEB. In the management of the graded sohoola of our towns, one grievous fault is everywhere notioeable. It is the persistent push of the teaohers, the jealous striving to have ohil dren do more than any other chil dren have ever done before. There seems no limit to their ambition to have the children excel, oftentimes at the expense of health. We live in an age of push or be pushed Hurry rules, and I sometimes thinks that this one oeaseless hurry causes a great proportion of the sudden deaths of which we hear. A child should be taught delibera tion. Especially is this true of chil dren that are of a nervous nature Nervous children are usually bright children, but the teachers seem never to consider the physical well being of the children ; and if they discover that a child's mind is re ceptive, they decide that that child must lead at all hazards, let the cost be what it may. I am sorry for the children whose parents take little or no interest in their studies and permit them to be driven by these ambitious but un reasonable teaohers. Enough is enough, but some teachers are un reasonable in their demands on the little brains. We parents are anx ions that they learn by advancing. but we are also anxious that the work be done gradually and perma nently, and not like the flash of a meteor or rocket whose brillianoy astonishes all that behold it, but a moment later disappears. Why, some teaohers are so anx ions that the ohild study ail the available wakeful hours that they actually give extra long lessons on Friday, so that in order to know them perf eotly on Monday the ohild must study all day Saturday ! This is not right. It is unjust and die couraging to an ambitious ohild; besides is tyrranioal, and little minds that are so receptive are not slow to perceive and grasp the situation. A ohild should not be required to know more than he or she can readily learn in sohool. I do not believe in night study for little children, and if our teaohers oould be persuaded to go slow and be thorough (instead of skimming, as a child necessarily does under the present condition of things) it would indeed be more sat isfactory to all conoerned. No fish erman ever caught a fish worth car rying home if he simply allowed his hook to float over the surface of the water. Teaohers must learn pa tience and perseveranoe and that knowledge is not gained by skim ming. What I have said, of course, applies chiefly to our city graded schools. Our readers who depend exclusively on the short terms of the oonntry sohool, perhaps need no lesson of this kind. Mrs. Z, B. P., writes us a good let ter this week. We are glad to have her with us. Did you notioe in our last paper that the editor proposed to give a nice book for the best letter to this department before the first of April? Let us hear from you with a letter for the competition. Aunt Jennie SOME HOUSEKEEPING MATTERS. Dear Aunt Jennie : I shall have to ask you to give my many thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Retlaw for the nice book I received last week. It was worth writing a number of letters for, and I shall always write as often as I can for our corner. I am al ways disappointed when The Pro gressive Farmer comes and there is no Social Chat. Let us all try to write often enough so that our ool umn will always be full. I have found it a good idea in hou&ekeeping to have a place for everything and keep everything in its place, as muoh as possible. It helps to make our home happy, and saves us a great deal of trouble and worry. It helps greatly when we know where anything is and can get it in the dark, without loss of time, or can tell our "better half exactly where to find what he wants withont his having to search all over the house for it and then not find it. If the wife is always able to tell her husband where to find what he wants, or to find it for him in a few minutes, he thinks her an unusually good housekeeper whether she is or not. You know there is a way of keep ing things neat and put away, but we do not know exactly where to find them, because we don't have a place for them and keep them in it. I have some experiences in house keeping, gardening, and with poul try, which I shall give you later on, if you wish to hear them. I would like to hear from some of the Chat terers on poultry ; I am very much interested in that jut now. I see Harry Farmer gives U9 a splendid recipe for making liver pudding. I wish to give the Chat terers two of my recipes : Rice Pudding. Take the livers, hearts and lights (as many as you wish to make up in this way) and boil them thoroughly ; run through a sausage mill to make fine. At the same time boil a large porcelain ket tletul of rice, or as much as you need to make the liver stiff enough to stuff in a sausage staffer. Boil rice until thoroughly done and dry. Season liver according to taste with salt, pepper, sage, thyme or onions, and stuff in small cases thoroughly soraped until they look like tissue paper and you can see through them ; then put in a dry place to dry on nice clean boards. When ready to use them place in a baking pan in the stove and bake until a rich brown. Serve while hot. Pan-Hose Take the water that the liver was boiled in, and season to taste with salt, pepper, sage, thyme, and onions if desired. Sift a large panful of meal, and have the water boiling hot as if you were going to make mush ; then take a large spoon and stir in the meal as fast as you can to keep from lumping. When the consistency of stiff mush, stir well and put up in large pan or mould of any kind and put away to cool. When ready to use out out in thin slices and fry to rioh brown. Serve while hot. Mrs. Z B. R. MoDowell Co , N. C. . . t LOVE OF HOME. Dear Aunt Jennie : I will write a few lines on love of home. It is a subject that should have our attention. We should love our homes. One of the surest ways to acquire hap piness is to devote our time at home to making it attraotive, loving it, and creating sympathy and happiness thereby. But we often see the boys and girls of farmers become restless, discon tented and unhappy. They go forth, some with bright anticipations and some with a look of discontent. They leave beautiful and good homes, kind mothers and fathers, some to ead a professional life and some the life of the "Prodigal Son." And not unoommon it is that after a few years the boy becomes poor and would be glad to aooept the 50 aores of land that his father offered him. But now, perhaps, it is sold to a Dutchman. Sarah no longer milks the old brindle cow, Tom no longer rides the spirited nag. The old father and mother have crossed the dark river. The farm home, with its flowers and green meadows, if not sold, is abandoned. Around the cot tage on the hillside all is silent and still. They have gone forth to gain riohes and honors, but are they happy? To be happy and do good should be our aim. It is sad to see, in this section, so many old homesteads abandoned. The boys and girls have moved off, but not half of them are doing bet ter than their fathers did. Surely it s not well for all to stay, neither is it well for all to go, so many times. In the number of happy homes, lie the real strength of a nation. See statistics as to real oondition of young men. Let us cultivate a love for home, et our chief interest be there. Let us read a few good books, and take one or more good weekly papers, and thus remove the necessity, and may be the desire of travelling, for it is sure we cannot all travel muoh. Re member this maxim, "There is no place like home." "Home, Sweet Home," was written by a homeless man. "I love the plaoe, the dear old place, The plaoe where I was born. The plaoe where first my enraptured eyes Beheld the glories of the morn I" Let such as should study these points. Free Thinker. Pamlico Co., N. C. 9 I N fj
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