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will come without using lime. If the ashes are made 

 from dirty chips, or burnt upon a clay hearth, lime in 

 the leach at the rate of one quart to the barrel of ashes, 

 may be used to great advantage. If lime cannot be pro- 

 cured, boil down the lye until there are coarse grains of 

 salts in the bottom, then pour off the lye and throw away 

 the salts. It will 'spoil your luck' to attempt to make 

 soap with the salts in the kettle, for it is the salts of 

 earth, not ashes. If your lye is strong, and you put in as 

 much grease as it will dissolve, you will have soap 

 whether it is put in hot or cold. 



Flowers. 

 "Why is it that the love of flowers takes such deep hold 

 of the heart?" Why! Why it is because they are the 

 emblems of love. Show me one who does not feel his own 

 heart expand as he watches the expanding beauties of 

 some delicate flower, and you will show me one who 

 knows nothing of that pure and perfect affection of the 

 heart which binds the human family together. Teach 

 your children to love and cultivate flowers. 



Birds. 

 Next to the love of flowers is the love of birds. — Teach 

 your children in mercy to spare the nests of the harmless 

 little birds, and if you have a heart to be thankful, it 

 will rise up in union with the little songster's carol, to 

 think your lot is cast in such a pleasant vale of flowers 

 and singing birds. These are some of the many things 

 provided to lighten the toil of labor, and it is only a viti- 

 ated taste acquired from a false system of education, that 

 prevents us from deriving a great deal of happiness from 

 such small accompaniments of the journey of life. 



Shade Trees. 

 What a singular and unaccountable strange thing it is, 

 that those who settle in forests wage a war of extermina- 

 tion against every tree, not even leaving a single one for 



