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plainly manifest that some great calamity has befallen thenr. 

 Often those that return from the fields, instead of entering 

 the hive with that dispatchful haste so characteristic of a bee 

 returning well stored to a prosperous home, linger about the 

 entrance with an idle and very dissatisfied appearance, and 

 the colony is restless, late in the day, and long after the 

 other stocks are quiet. Their home, like that of the man- 

 who is cursed rather than blessed in his domestic relations, 

 is a melancholy place r and they only enter it with reluctant 

 and slow-moving steps I 



And here, if permitted to address a friendly word of ad- 

 vice to every married woman, I would say, " Do all that you 

 can to make your husband's home a place of attraction. 

 When absent from it, let his heart glow at the very thought 

 of returning to its dear enjoyments ; and let his countenance 

 involuntarily assume a more cheerful expression, and his 

 joy-quickened steps proclaim, as he is approaching, that he 

 feels in his " heart of hearts," that " there is no place like 

 home." Let her whom he has chosen as a wife and com- 

 panion, be the happy and honored Queen in his cheerful 

 habitation : let her be the center and soul about which his 

 best affections ever revolve. I know that there are brutes 

 in the guise of men, upon whom all the winning attractions 

 of a prudent, virtuous and loving wife, make little or no- 

 impression. Alas that it should be so ? but who can tell, 

 how many, even of the most hopeless cases, have been 

 saved for two worlds, by a union with a virtuous woman, in 

 whose " tongue was the law of kindness," and of whonv 

 vt could be said, "the heart of her husband doth safely trust 

 in her," for " she will do him good and not evil, all the days 

 of her life." 



Said a man of large experience, " I scarcely know a wo- 

 man who has an intemperate husband, who did not either 



