Happiness at Home. 
Domestic happiness depends in a very 
great degree on the enjoyment that is de¬ 
rived from simple pleasures. If a mother 
devote herself entirely to work, she cannot 
make an attractive home for her husband 
and children, any farther than the wants 
of the body are concerned. A boy will like 
to come home at meal-times, and to sleep, 
if his mother supplies him with good bed 
and board; but if that is all she prepares 
for him, he will seek entertainment in the 
streets at other hours, and each year of his 
life will find him less able to enjoy the in¬ 
nocent pleasures that belong to a happy 
home. A girl who sees her mother so de¬ 
voted to household care that she allows 
herself no time for anything else, learns to 
look upon domestic duty as mere drudgery, 
and avoids it as far as she possibly can. 
There is nothing children wish for so 
much as sympathy, and this can be given 
without interfering with any domestic 
avocation. There is nothing in sewing, or 
cooking, or washing, or ironing that need 
absorb the thoughts so that a mother can¬ 
not talk to a child or listen to its story 
book, while she is engaged in them. I have 
observed that women who thus keep their 
sympathies open to their children do not 
grow nervous, and prematurely old, like 
those who fix their minds entirely upon 
the work that engages their hands, and 
who have only impatient words to give 
their children when they talk with them 
while they are at work. 
There is nothing in the recollections of 
my own childhood that I look back upon 
with so much pleasure as the reading aloud 
my books to my mother. She was then a 
woman of many cares, and in the habit of 
engaging in every variety of household 
work. Whatever she might be doing in 
the kitchen, or dairy, or parlor, she was 
always ready to listen to me, and to ex¬ 
plain whatever I did not understand. There 
was always with her an under-currant of 
thought about other things, mingling with 
all her domestic duties, lightening and 
modifying them, but never leading her to 
neglect them or to perform them imperfect¬ 
ly. I believe it is to this trait of her char¬ 
acter that she owes the elasticity and ready 
social sympathy that still animates her 
under the weight of almost four score years. 
How much I owe to the care and sympathy 
she gave to my childish years, I cannot 
measure. 
I am indu'ced to speak of my own per¬ 
sonal experience on this point, because 
mothers not unfrequently deny that they 
can talk and work at the same time; and 
find in their various needful occupations a 
ready excuse for giving their children short 
answers, and keeping them away from 
their presence as much as possible. My 
purpose is to recommend as a duty that I 
have not seen practiced with success, and 
which I am not sure is entirely within the 
power of every parent who is willing to 
perform the duties belonging to that holy 
office.— Mrs. Mary O. Ware. 
Beet Sugar Production in Cali¬ 
fornia. 
The beet sugar industry has proved a 
great success in California. During a sea¬ 
son of the lowest prices ever know n it has 
yielded a profit. There is a great field for 
it in the future. The following commu¬ 
nication gives the operation of the last sea¬ 
son: 
Our sixth campaign ended March 28th. 
We worked up 16.354 tons of beets, which 
produced 2,167,273 pounds of refined sugar, 
being about 7 per cent. We obtained over 
10 per cent, of refined sugar during the first 
four months of the campaign. In conse¬ 
quence of our unusally warm winter the 
sugar in the beets inverted very rapidly 
during the last part of the compaign, which 
reduced the percentage. By a new process 
discovered by us, we obtain over 10 per 
cent, first product, during the time that 
the beets remain fresh, which in ordinary 
seasons, is about 120 days. A United States 
patent has just been granted us to cover the 
process. This large percentage is not attain¬ 
ed in one operation by any other manufact¬ 
urer of beet root sugar in the world. By 
this discovery we were enabled to make- 
and deliver in barrels in the San Francisco 
maiket pure, white, dry, granulated sugar* 
during the first of the campaign at a cost 
