414 Praise Your TH/e. [September, 



the action of the drifting current, or whirling eddies mixed with 

 the pulverized mass, now constituting sand, clay, marl, etc : the hills, 

 valleys, plains and prairies direct the mind to the vast changes that 

 have been necessary to render the earth a pleasant abode for man, 

 and furnish a field for discovery. 



There are yet mysteries in it, to be solved, as great as those 

 already accomplished by Hugh Miller, Lyell or Hitchcock. Nor 

 need the artist turn in disgust from the plow ; he may find time to 

 cultivate a taste for the beautiful, and nature has spread all around 

 him specimens for copying, varying from simplest lessons to a pan- 

 orama which Art can never equal. 



The Agriculturist may, and should find time to perform works of 

 science and literature; his occupation should be a means and not 

 the object of life. — Agricultural Press. 



PRAISE YOUR WIFE. 



Praise your wife, man ; for pity's sake give her a little encourage- 

 ment; it won't hurt her. She has made your home comfortable, 

 your hearth bright and shining, your feed agreeable — for pity's sake 

 tell her you thank her, if nothing more. She don't expect it ; it 

 will make her eyes open wider than they have for these ten years, 

 but it will do her good, for all that, and you too. 



There are many women to-day thirsting for the words of praise, 

 the languajxe of encourairement. Throus-h summer's heat, through 

 ■winter's toil, they have drudged uncomplainingly and so accustomed 

 have their fathers, brothers and husbands become to their monoto- 

 nous labors, that they look for and upon them as they do the daily 

 rising of the sun and its daily going down. Homely, every day 

 life may be made beautiful by an appreciation of its very holiness. 

 You know that if the floor is clean, manual labor has been performed 

 to make it so. You know if you take from your drawer a clean 

 shirt whenever you want it, that somebody's fingers have ached in 

 the toil of making it so fresh and agreeable, so smooth and lustrous. 

 Everything that pleases the eye and the sense has been produced by 

 constant work, much thought, great care, and untiring efi"orts, bodily 

 and mentally. 



It is not that many men do not appreciate these things, and a 

 glow of gratitude for the numberless attentions bestowed upon 



