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THE HIVE AND IIONICY-BKE. 
calamity has befallen them. Those that come from the 
fields, instead of entering the hive with that dispatchful 
haste so characteristic of a bee returning, well loaded, to 
a prosperous home, usually linger about the entrance with 
an idle and dissatisfied a])pcarancc, 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 hnshand’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 ho 
feels that there is no place like the cheerful home where 
liis chosen wife and companion ])resides 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 ox- 
lianst the utmost jiossible efficacy of love, and faith, and 
prayer, before those words of fearful agony, 
" Anywhere, nnywhero 
Out of the world I” 
arc 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 and last apccloB of woTiion woro iimdo out of a boo; and happy li 
the man who gets ii>uch a one for bin wife. 8ho la full of virtue and iirurlenco, and 
Ia the best wife thjit Jupiter eau bestow.”/— Si*kctatou. No. '201>. 
