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an art or n science,—it was, so to speak, a relig¬ 
ion. Sophie’s mother, aunts, and grandmothers 
for nameless generations back, were known and 
celebrated house-keepers. They might have 
been genuine descendants of the inhabitants of 
that llollandie town of Broeck, celebrated by 
Washington Irving, where the cows’ tails are 
kept tied up with unsullied blue ribbons, and 
the ends of the firewood arc painted white. He 
relates how a celebrated preacher, visiting this 
town, found it impossible to draw these house¬ 
wives from their earthly views and employ¬ 
ments, until he took to preaching on the neat¬ 
ness of the celestial city, the unsullied crystal of 
its walls and the polish of its golden pavement, 
when the faces of all the housewives were set 
Zionward at once, 
Now This solemn and earnest view of house¬ 
keeping is onerous enough when a poor girl first 
enters on the care of a moderately furnished 
bouse, where the articles are not too expensive 
to be reasonably renewed as time and use wear 
them; but it is infinitely worse when a cataract 
of splendid furniture is heaped upon her cure,— 
when splendid crystals cut into her conscience, 
and mirrors reflect her duties, and moth and rust 
stand over ready to devour and sully in every 
room and passage-way. 
Sophie was solemnly warned and instructed 
by all the mothers and aunts,— she was warned 
of moths, warned of cockroaches, warned of 
| dies, warned of dust; all the articles of furniture 
had their covers, made of cold Holland linen, in 
which they looked like bodies laid out,—even 
the curtain-tassels had each it» little shroud.— 
and bundles of recipes and of rites and ceremo¬ 
nies necessary for the preservation and purifica¬ 
tion and care of these articles were stuffed into 
the poor girl’s head, before guiltless of cares as 
the leathers that floated above it. 
Poor Bill found very soon that his house and 
furniture were to he kept at such an ideal point 
of perfection that he needed another house to 
live in,—for, poor fellow, he found the difference 
between having a house and a home. It was 
only a year or two after that my wife and I 
stearted our menage on veryj’different principles, 
and Bill would often drop in upon us, wistfully 
lingering in the cozy arm-chair between my 
writing-table and my wife’s sofa, and saying 
with a sigh how confoundedly pleasant things 
looked there,—so pleasant to have a bright, open 
most frequently were all of this sort:—Naughty 
children were those who went up the front- 
stairs, or sat on the best sofa, or fingered any of 
the books in the library, or got out. one of the 
best teacups, or drank out of a cut-glass goblet 
Why did they ever want to do it? If there 
ever is a forbidden fruit in an Eden, will notour 
young Adams and Eves risk soul and body to 
find out how it tastes? Little Tom, the oldest 
boy, had the courage and enterprise and perse¬ 
verance of a Captain Parry or Dr. Kane, and he 
used them all iu voyages of discovery to forbid¬ 
den grounds. TTe stole Aunt Zeruah ’3 keys, 
unlocked her cupboards and closets, saw', 
handled, and Listed everything for himself, and 
gloried in his sins. 
“Don’t you know, Tom,” said the nurse to 
him once, “if you are so noisy and rude, you’ll 
disturb your dear mamma? She’s sick, aud she 
may die, if you’re not earelul.” 
“ Will she die?” said Tom, gravely. 
“ Why, she nu if/.” 
“Then," says Toro, turning on his heel,— 
QORE THROAT, 
D COUGH, 
GOTO, 
And similar trembles, if suffered to progress, result in 
serious Pulmonary, Eroncliial and Asthmatic affections, 
oftentimes incurable. 
BROWN’S BRONCHIAL TROCHES. 
are compounded go as lo reach directly the seat of the 
disease and give almost instant relief. 7HS-4t 
We must forget all feelings save the one; 
We must resign all passion save our purpose; 
We must behold no object, save our country, 
And only look oti death as bcantifu) 
Bo that the sacrifice ascend to heaven 
And draw down freedom on her evermore. 
They never fail who die 
In a great cause; the block may soak their gore; 
Their heads may sodden iD the son, their limbs 
Be strung to city gates and castle walls; 
But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years 
Elapse and others share as dark a doom, 
They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts 
Which overpower all others, and conduct 
The world at last to freedom. ,,, [Byron. 
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m 8| jtjU Id] medical preparations. It is as well 
known iu the trading ports of bulla aud 
Chluaasiu New York and Cincinnati; 
and its continually Increasing demand, 
where It has been longest known, is one of Its strongest 
recommendations and best advertisements. It began to 
be favorably known in A. 1). 1K39, and lias ever since 
been gradually growing Into public favor, till, in thou¬ 
sands of families. H lias come to be considered an article 
of such necessity that they are never without a supply 
of It to resort to la case of accident or sudden illness. It 
Is not unfrequentty said of It—*' We would as soon think 
of being without dour In the house ns w liliout I'ain Kil¬ 
ler." It gives immediate. rclkfln easeof scald or Irani 
as well as In the sudden attack of Diarrhea, Dysentery’ 
or otiler similar affection of the bowels; and, being en¬ 
tirely a vegetable preparation, It is as safe as It. is reli¬ 
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its name-PAIN KJLLKU—a name easily understood, 
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K3P*Prices,36 cents, 70 cents, and $1,50 per bottle. 
“ That’s it," said Bill, bitterly. “ Carpets fad¬ 
ing!—that's Amu Zeruah’s mouomamn. These 
women think that the great object of houses is 
to keep out sunshine. What a fool I was when 
I gloated over the prospect of our suuny south 
windows! Why, man, there are three distinct 
sets of fortifications against the sunshine in those 
windows: first, outside blinds; then, solid, fold¬ 
ing, inside shutters; and, lastly, heavy 1 , thick, 
liued damask curtains, which loop quite down to 
the lloor. What’s the use of my pictures, I de¬ 
sire to know ? They are hung in that room, aud 
it’s a regular campaign to get light enough to 
see what they are.” 
“ But, at all events, you can light them up 
with gas in the evening.” 
“In the evening! Why, do you know my 
wife never wants to sit there in the evening? 
She says she lias so much sewing to do that she 
and Aunt Zeruah must sit up in the bed-room, 
because it wouldn’t do to bring work into the 
? Don’t you 
know there mustn’t he such a thin, 
real work ever seen in a parlor? 
HOME-KEEPING vs. HOUSE-KEEPING. 
[We promised, in a recent notice of the At¬ 
lantic Monthly, to give our readers a taste of 
some of its paragraphs. Here is something we 
commend to our lady readers, young and old. 
And we hope they will thoroughly digest it; for 
it contains a most important lesson.] 
There are many women who know how to 
k eep a house, but there are but few that know 
how to keep a home. To keep a house may 
seem a complicated affair, but.it is a thing that 
may he learned; it lies in the region of Weight, 
measure, color, and the positive forces of hfe. 
To keep a home lies not merely in the sphere of 
all these, hut it takes in the intellectual, the 
social, the spiritual, the immortal. 
I remember in my bachelor days going with 
my boon companion, Bill Carberry, to look at 
Die house to which ho was iu a few weeks to 
introduce bis bride. Bill was a gallant, free¬ 
hearted, open-handed fellow, the life of our 
whole set, and we felt that natural aversion to 
losing him that bachelor friends would. How 
could we tell under what strange aspects he 
might look forth upon us when once he had 
passed into “that undiscovered country” of 
matrimony? But Bill laughed to scorn our 
apprehensions. 
” “I’ll tell you what, Chris,” he said, as he 
sprang cheerily up the steps and unlocked the 
door of his future dwelling, “do you know what 
I chose this house for? Because it’s asocial- 
looking house. Look there, now,” he said, as 
be ushered me into a pair of parlors,—“ look at 
those long south windows, the tun lies there 
nearly all day long: see what a capital comer 
there is for a lounging-ebair; fancy us, Chris, 
with our books or our paper, spread out loose 
and easy, and Sophie gliding in and out like a 
sunbeam. I’m getting poetical, you see. Then, 
did you ever see abetter, wider, airier dining¬ 
room? What capital suppers aud things we’ll 
have there! the nicest times,—everything free 
and easy, you know,—just what I’ve always 
wanted a house for. J tell you, Chris, vou and 
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What if some 
threads should drop on the carpet ? Aunt Ze¬ 
ruah would have to open all the fortifications 
next day, and search Jerusalem with candles to 
find them. No; in the evening the gas is light¬ 
ed at half-cock, you know; and if 1 turn it up, 
and bring in my newspapers and spread about 
me, and pull down some books to read, 1 can fee! 
the nervousness through the chamber lloor. 
Aunt Zeruah looks iu at eight, and at a quarter 
past, and at half-past, and at nine, and at ten. to 
see if I am done, so that she may fold up the pa¬ 
pers and put a book on them, and to lock up the 
hooks in their cases. Nobody ever comes in to 
spend an evening. They used to try it w hen 
we were first married, but I believe the unin¬ 
habited appearance of our parlors discouraged 
them. Everybody has stopped coming now, and 
Aunt Zeruah says ‘ it is such a comfort, for now 
the rooms are always in order. How poor Mi s. 
Crowfield lives, with her house such a thorough¬ 
fare, she is sure she can’t see. Fophie never 
would have strength for it; hut then, to he sure, 
some folks a’n’t as particular as others. Sophie 
was brought up in a family of very particular 
house-keepers.’ ” 
My wife smiled, with that calm, easy, amused 
smile that has brightened up her sofa for so 
many years. 
Bill added, bitterly,— 
“ Of course, I couldn’t say that I wished the 
whole set and system of house-keeping women 
at the—what’s-his-name? because Sophie would 
have cried for a week, and been utterly forlorn 
and disconsolate. I know it’s not tbo poor girl’s 
fault; I try sometimes to reason with her, but 
you can’t reason with the whole of your wife’s 
family, to the third and fourth generation back¬ 
wards; but I’m sure it’s hurting her health,— 
wearing her out. Wby, you know Sophie used 
to be the life of our set: and now she really 
seems eaten up with care from morning to night, 
there are so many things in the house that some¬ 
thing dreadful is happening to all the while, and 
the servants we get are so clumsy. Why, when 
I sit with Sophie and Aunt Zeruah, it’s nothing 
but a constant string of complaints about the 
girls in the kitchen. We ko#p changing our 
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going. Oh, Sophie ’ll make a house of this, you 
may depend I” 
A day or two after, Bill dragged me stumbling 
over boxes and through straw and wrappings to 
show me the glories of the parlor-furniture,— 
with which he seemed pleased as a child with 
a new toy. 
“ Look here,” he said; “ see these chairs, gar¬ 
net-colored satin, with a pattern on each; well, 
the sofa’s just like them, and the curtains to 
match, and the carpets made for the floor with 
center-pieces and borders. I never saw any¬ 
thing more magnificent in my life. Sophie’s 
governor furnishes the house, and everything is 
to he A No. 1, and all that, you see. Messrs. 
Curtain and Collamore are coming to make the 
rooms up, and her mother is busy as a bee get¬ 
ting us in order.” 
“■\Vhy, Bill,” said I, “you are going to he 
lodged like a prince. I hope you’ll he able to 
keep it up; but law-business comes in rather 
slowly at first, old fellow.” 
“Well, you know it isn’t the way I should 
furnish, if my capital was the one to cash the 
bills; but then, you see, Sophie’s people do it, 
and let them,—a girl doesn’t want to come down 
out of the style she has always lived in.” 
QI said nothing, hut had an oppressive presenti¬ 
ment. that social freedom would expire in that 
house, crushed under a weight of upholstery. 
But there came in due time the wedding and 
the- wedding-reception, and we all went to see 
Bill in his new house, splendidly lighted up and 
complete from top to toe, and everybody said 
what a lucky fellow he was; but that was about 
the end of it, so far as our visiting was con¬ 
cerned. The running in, and dropping in, and 
keeping Jatcli-keys, and making Informal calls, 
that had been forespoken, secrned about as likely 
as if Bill had lodged in the Tuileries. 
' Sophie, who hail a! ways been one of your snap¬ 
ping, sparkling, busy sort of girls,T>egau at once 
to develop her womanhood, and show her prin¬ 
ciples, and was as different from her former self 
as your careworn, mousing old cat is from your 
rollicking frisky kitten. Not hut that Sophie 
was a good girl. She had a capital heart, a 
good, true womanly one, and was loving and 
obliging; hut still she'was one of the desperate¬ 
ly painstaking, conscientious sort of women 
whose veiy blood, as they grow older, is de¬ 
voured with anxiety, and she came of a race of 
women iu whom house-keeping was more tkau 
Remember. 
Finis. 
701-26teo] 
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Direct to Itoelicstcr, N. Y 
for half an hour before I can gjt ftt anything; 
and I know Aunt. Zeruah is standing tip-toe at 
the door, ready to whip everything back and 
lock up again. A fellow can’t be social, or Hike 
any comfort in showing lire books and pictures 
that way. Then there’s our great, light dining¬ 
room, with its sunny south windows,—Aunt 
Zeruah got us out of that early in April, be¬ 
cause she said the flics would speck the frescoes, 
and get into the china-closet, and we have been 
eating in a little dingy den, with a window look¬ 
ing out on a back-alley, over since; and Aunt. 
Zeruah says that i>ow the dining-room is always 
in perfect order, and that it is feuch a care oft' 
Sophie’s mind that I ought to be willing to eat 
down-cellar to the end of the chapter. Now, 
if I want to ask a few of our set hi sociably to 
dinner, I can’t have them where we eat down- 
cellar,—oh, that would never do! Aunt Zeruah 
and Sophie's mother and the whole family would 
think the family-honor was forever ruined and 
undone. We mustn’t ask them, unless we open 
the dining-room, and have out all the best china, 
and get the silver home from the bunk; and if 
we do that. Aunt Zeruah doesn’t sleep for a 
week beforehand, getting ready for it, and lor a 
week after, getting things put away; and then 
she tells me, that, in Sophie’s delicate state, it 
really is abominable for me to Increase her cares, 
and so 1 invite fellows to dine with me at Dol- 
monico’s, and then Sophie cries, and Sophie’s 
mother says it, doesn’t look respectable lbr a 
omUy-inan to be dining at public places; but, 
hang it, a fellow wants a home somewhere!” 
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MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM. 
Thebe is a park in a New England village, in the 
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of land. Inscribed within this triangular luclosure is 
a circular walk 0 feet wide, in the center of which 
-lands a pole, which was broken off in n gale of wind, 
one third of the way up; the top end striking the inside 
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Columbus, Midi., 18G4. 
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Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma:—Procrastination 
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