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THE HIVE AND HONEY-BEE. 
calamity has befallen them. Those that come from the 
fields, instead of entering the hive with that dispatchfnl 
haste so characteristic of a bee returning, well loaded, to 
a prosperous home, usually linger about the entrance with 
an idle and dissatisfied appearance, and the colony is rest- 
less, late in the day, when other stocks are quiet Their 
home, like that of a man who is cursed in his domestic 
relations, is a melancholy place, and they enter it only 
. with reluctant and slow-moving steps. 
And here, if permitted to address a word of friendly 
advice, I would say to every wife— Do all that you can 
♦o make your husband’s home a place of attraction. 
When absent from it, let his heart glow at the thought of 
returning to its dear enjoyments ; as he approaches it, let 
his countenance involuntarily assume a more cheerful ex- 
pression, while his joy-quickened steps proclaim that he 
feels that there is no place like the cheerful home where 
his chosen wife and companion presides as its happy and 
honored Queen* If your home is not full of dear de- 
lights, try all the virtue of winning words and smiles, 
and the cheerful discharge of household duties, and ex- 
haust the utmost possible efficacy of love, and faith, and 
prayer, before those words of fearful agony, 
“Anywhere, anywhere 
Out of the world t” 
are extorted from your despairing lips, as you realize that 
there is no home for you, until you have passed into that 
habitation not fashioned by human hands, or inhabited by 
human hearts. 
Although when bees commence their work in the Spring, 
* “The tenth am! Inst spocle9 of women were made out of n bee; nncl happy Is 
the man who gets such a one for hla wife. She Is full of virtue and prudence, -and 
Is the best wife that Jupiter can bestow.’V-SrECTATon, No. 209. 
