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THE HOME OF THE NOVEL READER. 
BT ELIZABETH BOUTON’. 
"Wife ! wifedo let me have that book !— 
’Tis nearly noon, and only look— 
Ulie breakfast table- standing yet; 
And mire l am a saint, would fret 
To bear that blessed baby rour. 
Atan never needed pstieneo more.” 
“ Now, husband l do for onee be still. 
For read 1 must , aud read 1 will: 
The mischief surely must be in It, 
I never een sit down n minute. 
But there Is such on uproar here— 
Take up the baby—that’s a dear; 
He's yours. I'm sura, as much as mine,— 
(I cannot understand a line!") 
** Please, mother, tell roe where* to go 
With all these breakfast things, you know 
If any visitors should come 
You’d have ta say, ’ I'm not at home.’ ” 
" Go right away, yon tiresome child 
Yon worry me till I am wild. 
The dishes put Just whore you please. 
And let me have a moment's ease 1” 
“ Book, mother, sister, aint that nice?— 
Cat’s in thu cream tip to her eyes, 
And Rover with his two fore feet, 
Upon the table’s stealing meat. 
Hurrah! I’m glad I nm a boy,— 
I'm off to where I can enjoy 
Alore fun than can be found at home. 
Don’t you wish, sister, you might come, 
While father rocks our little pet, 
(He’ll make a charming nursomaid yet) 
And mother reads her book In quiet, 
With no one near to make a riot.” 
MADAME SWETCHINE. 
BY ELIZA WOODWORTH. 
W RTT.F. the annuls of the Roman Catholic 
Church have abounded in lives of supersti¬ 
tion, they have also given t* the world some 
of its fairest examples of saintly excellence. 
That holy woman, St. Elizabeth of Thur¬ 
ingia, who, although (ho daughter of a king, 
“ wandered about in a. humble dress,” re¬ 
lieving the wretched, exhibits oue of the 
most, perfect characters on record. Madame 
SwETCHINe's biography is of the same lofty 
type. In the midst of society she lived ill 
the odor of sanctity; and was zealous with¬ 
out intolerance, liberal to the poor without 
ostentation. 
II«r history is full of interest; for, apart 
frowi her moral and intellectual superiority, 
her life was passed amid the most exciting 
political events. She was a Russian, and 
was born at Moscow in 1783. The father 
and husband were closely connected with 
the Government; aud her position in society 
gave her the best social advantages, both iu 
her own country and in her adopted one — 
Franc#. 8h« removed to Paris with her 
husband, General SwkTChine, in conse- 
ijutnce of political difficulties, and died there 
“ Those persons who never speak till they < 
can make a hit, arc insufferable. They ' 
oblige you to fill up the embroidery ot which 
they will only do the flowers. And again: 
“ The man who is most inferior to us as a 
whole ia our superior in some one particu¬ 
lar.” “M. Thomas said that an «xpressiou- 
lees face is born deaf and dumb. ’ 
Here is a thought from Pascal “ Other 
religions, as the Pagan, are more popular 
than the Christian; they consist wholly in 
externals, hut they are not for people, of 
ability. A purely intellectual religion would 
auswer for the gifted, but it would be useless 
to the mass of men. Christianity alone 
is adapted to all.” The note books also 
contained some venerable remiuisccnces: 
" Plato once gave a sumptuous feast. Di¬ 
ogenes, when he entered the house, had to 
walk over a superb carpet. * 1 am treading 
under foot the pride of Plato,’ said he. 
«Yes,’ replied Plato, ‘ wit h the pride of 
Diogenes.’ ” “ My poor,” said Boeruaave, 
“ are my best patients. Gon pays for them.” 
From Leibnitz we have this remark: 
“ If I have made out a case for science, it 
gives me the right to demand silence when I 
speak of religion.” 
Mine. Swf.tchine was well read in the 
history and doctrines of the Romish Church. 
Baptized and educated iu the Greek Commu¬ 
nion, she became after much reflection, and 
at great personal sacrifice, a devout Catholic. 
Both her temperament and the wideness and 
universality of her intellectual views, saved 
her from falling into any of those mystic er¬ 
rors, dominant in that Church. 
Her life is lik# a golden s®ag of one of the 
ancient fathers—full of rich harmonies, and 
grand in its simplicity. Its recital can but 
do good. “ Her lonely studies and aspira¬ 
tions," eloquently observes Mr. Alger in the 
introductory notice of her biography, “ her 
sublime personal attainments, her philan- 
’ thropic labors, her literary productions, her 
sweet social charm and vast influence, her 
, thricewoyal friendships with kings, ami ge- 
r uluses, and saints, the sober raptures of her 
religious faith and fruition, form an example 
whose exciting and edifying interest and 
L value are scarcely surpassed in the annals of 
her sex.” 
globes ttnb jftUtnntts. 
THE COTTAGE HEARTH. 
BY MAH! K S. LADD. 
The ruddy blase sbtnes clear, 
Making bonus faces bright, 
And happy smites appear 
Beaming ivltUln the light; 
And light of love Illumines t here, 
Grave brows touched soft with seams of care. 
The father’s voice strikes deep 
Upon the listening ear; 
The mother’s accents keep 
A soothing cadence near; 
And clearer, and more sweet than all. 
The tones of childhood softly fall. 
O happy cottage hearth ! 
Pease ts t> b y fairest gi ft. 
Though clouds may shadow earth. 
Here gleams a sunny rift — 
A glow where all pure joys combine 
Seeming half' earth and half divine. 
WEDDING TROUSSEAU. 
BY MINNIE MINTWOOD. 
straight bodice, high-throated (unless you 
have a handsome neck, and can bear it a 
little low, with a round collar) and coat 
sleeves. For a wrap, a close fitting saqun 
of the same, lined with flannel. For greater 
warmth to the shoulders, have a round cape, 
deep enough to come below the waist. This 
dress to be trimmed with satin piping of deep 
lilue satin, and a blue satin necktie, and a 
blue satin rosette at the back of the caught 
up cape, which buttons iu front. 
For a traveling hat, a round one, with 
satin puffed on the rim; the crown with vel¬ 
vet, fulled around and brought together in 
fullness on the top of the crown, and on the 
focus perches a bow of satin ribbon with 
loug ends. The hat to he black. A our 
gloves, brown kid, will) gauntlet tops, and 
your boots black kid. 
Black lace veils, half-moon shaped, with 
scarf-like ends, fastening in a bow at the 
back of chignon, are worn. A square of blue 
grenadine would he suitable for your travel¬ 
ing suit. Of course you will take a water¬ 
proof, a shawl and a Russia leather I ravel¬ 
ing bag, furnished with the et ceteris you will 
need outside Of your trunk. 
For an evening party dress, nothing can 
be prettier than a white one. Irish poplin is 
Margaret— a beautiful name— writes that need outside of your trunk, 
she is to be married next month; that her For an evening party dress, nothing can 
father allows her two hundred and filly dol- be prettier than a white one. Irish poplin is 
lars to purchase materials for her outfit, and preferable, but, quite expensive. Next to 
sho asks for advice in the matter, as to vvliat that, white English or American poplin or 
she shall have, and all about it. 
I t, must be a very pleasant thing to have a 
lot of new clothes, and pleasanter still, to 
have a generous amount of money to spend 
in selecting them. Two hundred and fitly 
dollars go but a little way in procuring some 
Empress cloth. Cut the skirt with a me¬ 
dium train, the body pompadour front, 
(square neck,) and sleeves open to the elbow, 
but caught together at, intervals with a tiny 
bow, like the trimming, which may be of 
rose-color or sea-green silk, put on in a geo- 
ou tpt 8 _pay for a, point lace handkerchief, metrical figure, which we call on obtuse 
perhaps. But with good management and angle, the horizontal line eight inches long, 
taste, it may be made to go a good way in ami tlic one meeting it, diagonally at an angle 
making a fine farmer’s line daughter look of eighty degrees, six inches in length. I hit 
remarkably attractive. Then one must ex- on two rows, one-quarter of a yard ft'om the 
ercise good sense in the selection of material; bottom of the skirt. Trim the waist, sleeves 
DISAGREEABLE WOMEN. 
A disagreeable woman is like a vacuum; 
there is no place for her in nature. She is a 
for what, might be of service to a city girl 
would he. quite useless to one living in u ru¬ 
ral town or the country. So we shall ob¬ 
serve the “ fitness of tilings.” 
For the bridal dress, we select a gros grain 
silk of a roe-buck, pearl gray, or very deli¬ 
cate ash color, TL will require sixteen yards, 
and will cost from two to two and a half 
dollars per yard. If made with a demi-traiu, 
one or two yards less might do. I ho front, 
and side breadths are to be closely gored; 
the back breadths, cut straight, aud gathered 
in full at the back; the skirt lined through¬ 
out, and the bottom faced with hair cloth, to 
parody upon herself. If there is a touch ot ^eap q j n good shape and protect the train, 
beauty about her, she gives these she meets 
the sort of shock one would foe! on taking 
what appears to he wine, and is in reality 
vinegar. Fortunately she very seldom is 
beautiful, in the true sense of the word. 
Nature does not lend itself to shams. It is 
which may he of medium length, or long 
enough to reach half way across the street. 
The waist is cut straight around, with low 
dart-seams. In tnis particular the French 
modistes excel ours. The low seams pre¬ 
serve the natural turves and position ot the 
pitilessly exacting. Sweetness of face must, bosom. At ihc throat, the fronts turn hack, 
at the age of seventy-five, after a residence of result, from sweetness of disposition. The etl TeC ers. like a coat collar, giving room for 
and holt in the same style, proportionately 
reducing the size. A peplum of the same, 
lined with silk, cut in a half circle shape, 
laid in full plaits, attached to the bade of the 
dress and ranching only half way around the 
bodice, may be added. If green is used for 
the trimming, (and it, is very much worn,) the 
chemisettes must be defined in perpendicu¬ 
lar, horizontal or diagonal lines, with narrow 
rosc-colored or scarlet ribbon, with necktie 
of t he same, and same shade of ribbon in the 
hair. A scarlet sotu-f may be used effect¬ 
ively, as well as comfortably, to throw 
about the shoulders. Your gloves should 
be white. You may have a variety In hand¬ 
kerchiefs. Fine grass linen, with delicately 
shaded borders in hemstitch, embroidered iu 
one comer, and your initials, as are to be, 
embossed in linen floss, ot color to correspond 
with the border. 
The bridegroom’s wedding suit must be ot 
fine black broadcloth, of perfect fit, a vest or 
waistcoat of white English leather, (satin 
more than forty years. f 
She was still living in Russia, when Na- e 
foleon Invaded that Empire, and burned i 
Moscow, in Paris, she passed through two s 
revolutions,— those of 1860, and 1848. Born t 
in the latter part of the reign of Catharine 
TT , she watched with deep interest the event¬ 
ful and mighty changes that were wrought s 
in the Norland, during the times of Paul L, i 
Alexander 1 , and Nicholas. Chateau- < 
bri and, Count Dis Maistre, the Abbe La- i 
cordaire, Mine Dk Stakl, and Mute. Keca- * 
jiiek, were her contemporaries, and in iter i 
biography some very inter#Hting correspond- i 
euc# with distinguished men and women ot < 
her time is given. 1 
Many of the most pleasant details of Mme. , 
Swetchtnf.’s private life refer to her habits 
of study She was an Immense reader. Pe¬ 
rusing hooks in which she was interested, 
was a severely luxurious labor. Count De 
Fai.loux, her biographer, says; —•“ Reading 
with her was never a, simple relaxation. She 
had not done with a book until sh# had 
filled it with her notes and comments, and, 
iu some cases copied it entire. The earliest 
of these enormous masses of extracts bear 
date in 1801,— that is, in her nineteenth year, 
and the second of her marriage. These col¬ 
lections are * * common paper note-books, 
covered with fine and close writing, and 
afterwards bound up for the sake of preserv¬ 
ing and keeping them in order. * * There are 
thirty-five of these volumes in existence, be¬ 
sides some that have been lost. The smallest 
are in octavo; thirty are quarto.” 
Cfount De Maistrr, was a voluminous 
commentator—carefully preserving his books 
of extracts and reflections, through all the 
changes of liis stormy life. Many quotations | 
from Mme. Bwetchine’s note books are 
given. She read everything. We meet with 
Pythagoras and Horace ; La ILvrpe, 
Rousseau and Voltaire; Fenelon and 
Pascal, Massillon and Bossuet; with 
“ Zimmerman on Solitude,” Young’s w Night 
Thoughts,” and Saint Pierre’s “ Paul and 
Virginia.” 
| She had this experience with an English 
poet, who is too often accused of gloom, not 
to say moroseness. “ I have rarely been able 
, to read Voltaire without being painfully 
affected, while Young’s ‘ Night Thoughts ’ 
often leave me in an agreeable frame of 
»! mind.” There are several graphic quotations 
f from Mme. Necker —among them these: 
face is not a mask, but a mirror. Tt reveals 
everything with terrible ingenuousness. 
a chemisette. The sleeves are cut small and jean) of tlm best quality, which cam he 
fit tI k* arm, but. not too closely. The trim- 
Amlablllty is not to be simulated to the oh- m j n g 0 f satin, a shade darker than the 
servant eye. You cannot stamp the marks, 
the lines, the flowing curves of the agreea¬ 
ble your face, unless you have the qual¬ 
ity in your breast. For tills reason the dis¬ 
agreeable woman is never really beautiful. 
dress, and put on the top and ends of the 
sleeve in rows of narrow piping or rouleaux. 
The trimming may run up front the wrist to 
the elbow and terminate in a rosette or bow; 
i he revers to he faoed with the satin and the 
Her features, at their best, remind you of # dgo finished with a ruche made of narrow 
etchings; the effects have been “bit In” by 
acids. The forms of the disagreeable In 
woman are infinite, but the effect of all is 
the same. In place of attraction there is 
repulsion; in place of love, pity—if not 
scorn; in place of happiness, sour discontent. 
The disagreeable woman Is irksome to every 
created thing, including herself. There is 
positively only one way to deal with her,— 
turn her into a joke. In that way site may 
he made tolerable, like the Frenchman’s 
slippers — useless, but just available as the 
basis of a ragout. — Selected. 
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GOSSIPY PARAGRAPHS. 
Some wicked wretch has most unkindly said,— 
"Old maids are embers whence the sparks have 
fled!” 
“What is your consolation in life and 
death?” asked a clergyman of a young miss 
iu a Bible class that he was catechising. 
The young lady blushed and hesitated. 
“Will you not tell me?” urged the clergy¬ 
man. “ I don’t want to tell his name,” said 
the ingenuous girl, “ hut. I’ve no objection to 
telling you where lie lives.” 
There were no marriages at Clyne in 
Sutherland, Scotland, during July, August, 
and September, for the very odd reason that 
there was “ a failure in the herring fishery." 
The same thing was true of Ffctlar, in Shet¬ 
land. At Audio, another place, there was 
but one marraige, on the same account. 
Cupid and Neptune ought to came to an 
understanding. 
Two French ladies were looking for the 
little daughter of one of them in a group of 
baby-carriages. “ Do you see him V ” asked 
the friend of the mother. “ Film ? I am 
looking for her nurse.” “Her nurse?” 
“ Yes. All children look alike. I know 
the nurse, and 1 can find the ahild best in 
that way.” “As for myself, I think all 
bonnes look alike.” “How do you find 
yours then ? ” “ Oh, 1 know the soldier who 
is her beau.” 
satin ribbon of the same shade; the belt of 
silk, the same as the dress, bound with satin 
and fastening at the side with a rosette; the 
buttons, Bame shade as the sal in and wrought 
of silk. A yard aud a half of satin will do 
for trimming. 
In the matter of a chemisette and under¬ 
sleeves, you may exercise your own taste. 
One of puffed white silk illusion, with sleeves 
to match, and finished at, throat and wrist 
with one edge of blonde, would be pretty. 
A set of valenciwunes could be had for from 
fifteen to thirty dollars, including a handker¬ 
chief. In getting laces, one saves in the end 
by getting the real, genuine article. Valen¬ 
ciennes is suitable for any dress, always 
fashionable, and wears and washes well. 
Saxony lace is more expensive, heavier, and 
more showy, but not so popular in this coun¬ 
try. At the throat of the chemisette, wear 
a neck-tie oi pale straw-colored satin, and 
■washed and look beautifully. It, should be 
cut double breasted, with onyx buttons, tiny 
onyx besom studs and sleeve buttons; pearl 
-gray kids, aud a necktie of same shade, em¬ 
broidered In white; handkerchief same style 
of yours, only a larger size. For liis travel¬ 
ing suit, a black and Bismarck mixed eassi- 
mere, cut businesslike, and green kid gloves 
Wedding cards are very large. 
Before you arc married, take Into conside¬ 
ration the marriage ceremony, aud promise 
to do nothing you cannot do. Obedience 
may he enforced, but “ love and honor” are 
neither aided or abetted by any amount of 
“ promising” or vowing. Any minister who 
has common sense, knows that if a man and 
wwman are fit. to he married, that the simple 
fact of their taking upon themselves that 
snored relation, Involves within itself all that 
ia necessary to secure the good of both. r l lie 
ordinary lingo mouthed over by ministers, 
and lahially subscribed to by his victims, is 
foolish as unnecessary. 
After you are married, Margaret, remain 
Habbatij Iltahing. 
THE TWO ANGELS. ' 
BY BELL CLINTON. 
’Tissakl that Hope anti Memory — 
Two aiigela — over by ms stand. 
One turns the pages of the Past; 
The other, with * gentle hand, 
Before us makes " rough places plain” — 
I .ends on, whore ilowers and fountains glow; 
And when u cloud o’eispn-uds our imfch, 
Who spans it with her Promise-Bow. 
So,over with us, duy by ilny, 
She points beyond, where for us wait 
The Joys the blessed In Heaven know, 
Then leaves ns ni, its pearly gate. 
But. Memory softly glides within. 
To trend with us through unknown spheres; 
To Unger with our dentil lens souls, 
immortal as those countless years. 
Chenango Co., N. Y. 
-♦♦♦-- 
A BLESSED PROMISE. 
“ They shall see Ilia face.” — Rev., xmi, 4. 
O, blessed promise! O, rapturous hope, of 
beholding with undimmed vision, the Prince 
of Heaven ; the King of Glory ; the Creator 
and Saviour of the World ! Well may the 
Christian, in triumph, exclaim, “ For such a 
moment, death were sweet.” The chapter in 
which this Scripture passage occurs is bright 
and sparkling with gems of rare beauty and 
inestimable value, The Christian's unseen 
and eternal home is here described and pre¬ 
sented to view, by its majestic Maker and 
Builder. 
How does the heart thrill with heaven- 
born emotions of love and desire, when we 
read of the external beauty of Heaven; its 
pearly gat es; its streets of gold ; the heavenly 
radiance and dazzling glory proceeding 
from the Throne of God and the Lamb, 
bathing the Courts of Heaven in seas of 
wondrous splendor. But, powerless to 
awaken joy, or kindle rapturous emotions 
in tlm bosom, would be the vision of jasper 
walls and gates of pearl, and even the music 
of the angels’ harp-swept anthems; could 
not our eyes behold the author of so much 
loveliness, the Saviour, whose melting story 
of matchless Love to guilty and debased 
'earth-worms, has ofttimes broken the heart 
of stone and caused the. penitent, with loving 
Mary, to sit at His dear feet and wash them 
with liis tears. 
Dear reader, are you one of the blest num¬ 
ber of whom it is written, “And they shall 
see His face?" Then, count, nothing too 
near or too dear to sacrifice for His honor 
and glory. The hour is surely coming when 
we shall take ft but lingering look at. the 
dear faces of the loved and true; hut O! 
how the deepening shadows of death’s night 
will disappear, if the eflhlgence of Jesus’ 
glory streams full upon us. Let us spread 
the glad tidings of Ills love and blood- 
bought salvation, and let the blissful thought 
of beholding Him in His glory be an incent¬ 
ive to the performance of every true and 
noble action. Then may we hope to bohold 
the glorious company of wliite-robed angels 
and ransomed men — to kneel with them 
before the Master’s throne and cast, our bright 
crowns at Ills feet, while strains of heavenly 
music quiver on the pure atmosphere of 
Heaven, and angel voices proclaim Him 
Lord of all! M. E. Van Wagner. 
Pleasant V at ley, N. Y. 
TAKING AN INVENTORY. 
Occasional retirement, self-inquiry, medi¬ 
tation and secret communion with God, are 
absolutely essential to spiritual health. The 
man who neglects them is in great danger of 
a fall. To be always preaching, teaching, 
speaking and working public works, is un¬ 
questionably a sign of zeal not according to 
knowledge. It often leads to untoward con¬ 
sequences. We must take time for sitting 
with your husband in your father’s hotis# for down, and calmly looking within and cx- 
a few days and receive your friends, before ambling how matters ata»< between our 
going away on your bridal trip. The quiet souls and Christ. The omission of thus 
and familiarity of your girlhood homo will 
he especially grateful to you. I do not mean 
your gloves of kid must he the same shade, to insinuate that you will not be as well 
of straw cofor. If you wear a veil, let it be cared for, and as tenderly guarded by the 
of the most delicate silk illusion or tulle, fall- man you have chosen, of all others, to give 
mg nearly to the floor, aud fastened on your you happiness, as you are and have been by 
head with a wreath (wax is preferable to your father. 1 mean that no true-hearted, 
silk flowers, if natural ones cannot he had) of , intelligent woman can undergo the unavnid- 
tea roses aud lillies of the valley, the wreath able excitement attendant upon so important 
worn as a coronet. Dress your hair in an event in her life without severe nervous 
the most beaming manner, regardless of tension, which is only aggravated by strange 
“ fashion.” 
Your bonnet is of uncut velvet, the shade 
•f your dress, with a plume and ties a shade 
darker. White may be allowed in the coro¬ 
net in the shape of a bit of white satin or a 
spray ©f white flowers. 
Your wrap is awhile centered Cashmere 
shawl, whtoh costs forty dollars. You will 
wear it in a graceful manner, by putting a 
fold in the back, cross it, over in front, throw 
one end over your shoulder—any way rather 
than draw it tight about your shoulders, and 
pin it up snugly under your throat. To 
wear a shawl worthily, needs the exercise of 
good taste, or a great deal of practice. 
For a traveling dress, get a dead-leaf 
brown Empress cloth or poplin; cut it short, 
and unfamiliar surroundings. After your 
wedding trip—if you must endure one—go 
souls and Christ. Thu omission of thus 
practice is the true account of many aback- 
sliding, which shocks the Church and gives 
occasion to the world to blaspheme. Many 
could say, iu the words ot the Canticles, 
“ They made me a keeper of the vineyards, 
but my own vineyard have I not kept.’ 
Rev. J. 0. Ryle. 
-- ■»»■»-- 
THINGS WORTH KNOWING. 
I know — that my Redeemer liveth. (Job, 
xix: 25.) 
1 knm— in whom I have believed, and 
to housekeeping as soon as possible, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that 
. . -r . _l-lim OfYOinQT. 
above all things, avoid living “ in with the 
old folks,” if you want to preserve the self- 
respect, honor, dignity and happiness of 
yourself and husband. This as a rule. All 
rules are subject to exceptions. 
-- 
New Year’s Eve, Hon. Schuyler Col¬ 
fax was presented with a coffee urn and 
plateau of pure silver, costly and chaste. 
Th# ura is spherical and bears upon its side 
the letters “ W. C.,” and is surmounted with 
a picture of Cupid who is seated with an 
emblem ot Peace and Unity in one hand and 
a vase in the other. 
which I have committed unto Him against 
that day. (2 Tim. i: 12.) 
Ye know — that He was manifested to take 
away our sins. (1 John iii: 5.) 
We know — that all things work together 
for good to them that love God. (Rom. 
viii; 28.) 
We know — that if' our earl lily house of 
this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a 
building of God, a house not made with 
hands, eternal in the heavens. (2 Cor. v: 1.) 
We knmr, — that when He shall appear, wo 
shall be like Him; for we skull see Hiut as 
He is. (1 John iii; 2.)—New York Observer. 
