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LIPS THAT KISSED ME LONG AGO. 
BY HOWARD THURSTON. 
LTPS t hat KIswJ me Inns afro. 
Ye Were lair, anil yo were invest! 
Tender llpn, X loved yn so ! 
Mine ye often used to meet. 
Then Love sans its eladdest *ong; 
Then Hope wore It* hllthost smile; 
For your Msses ripe nntt lung 
Thrilled my heing all the while! 
Then the days were young and fair, 
Goldon with u glory bright; 
Life wus like an answered prayer. 
Holding in it rare delight. 
Never came a cloud above, 
Never waned the golden glow, 
Never erased the song of Love,— 
Lips tha t kissed mo long ago! 
Never came ?- ray, I forgot. 
Every glad thing pertahath ; 
Cheeks that smile u ill soon be wet, 
Blossom* sweetest fade in death. 
AJ1 the goldon glory lied; 
Iaivo a sad song chanted low; 
Andn long adieu wc said,— 
Lips that, kissed me long ago' 
Ah, ye lender loving lips! 
What is day without its sun / 
When unending its oellpsn, 
Hus not then the night begun? 
In the darkness still I wait, 
Looking backward to the light; 
Through the years all desolate 
Seeing where l entered night. 
Could I feel your kisses sweet 
Once again upon my own, 
Lovu its glad song would repeat. 
Only gladder, sweeter grown; 
Hope again Its smile would wear; 
All the brightness 1 should know; 
Life would he my answered prayer,— 
Lip.s thut kissed mo long ago! 
-♦♦♦-- 
THE GIRL OF THE COUNTRY. 
BY COf.Y. 
This gill is all and morn than slip claims 
to be. Pen and ink cannot, do her justice. 
All those rich colors and soft shades that 
make her what she is cannot he painted. 
Biie is a luminous body — she feds it; she 
knows it. She knows she is what she is, and 
she looks only to herself io make her what 
she will be. She hopes and wishes, and 
wishes and hopes; bother hopes are noble, 
and her wishes are womanly. She ever 
looks upward and the darkness cannot 
smother her trust.. She is the strength of 
her sex; notwithstanding front-door people 
generally consider her the mere ballast in 
woman’s ship, the lowest representative of 
Eden’s fair, false queen. If she is the least 
noticed, she also does the most good for the 
least praise. She labors and expects a 
reward. 
She cuts, fashions and busies, — her paler 
city sister trims. She speaks and you know 
her; you know her and wonder. She may 
not. be beautiful; she cannot be homely. If 
her words are net long, they are sweet and 
full of meaning. She is good as she is kind 
and forgiving. If her category of exelaima- 
tion is short, she can show you a long one of 
blinding replies. If she is timid, or you 
think so, insult her! Her recollection of 
wrong is short as her memory oflove is long. 
Can she sing and play, she can also wash 
dishes and chop hash. If her neatness 
(golden virtue) brings you fond remem¬ 
brances and happy anticipations, her break¬ 
fast will brhjg fonder and happier ones. 
Would the history of her bonnet strings 
make a volume, a brother’s gratitude and a 
sister’s love would make two. She repays 
tl>e few pangs she gives by being, poorly 
appreciated, humanity’s soothing sirup. Her 
courage is manly and her will never despair¬ 
ing, leading her through difficulties and pre¬ 
judices up to and over the very walls of Fort 
Ignorance, which stronghold little-footed, 
smaller-handed young men deemed impreg¬ 
nable. Her curious thoughts and phll 
osophical unraveliugs make you take a 
shy glance at your own littleness; while her 
fearlessness to differ with you walls forth 
your strongest defending powers. If you 
think, in her calico, she is not quite an angel, 
her intuitive glance reminds you that “ the 
angels fell.” A little money rarely makes her 
mistake herself for a goddess. She may be 
sometimes girlish, but she shrinks from 
being a moonlight heroine. 
Her decided language and her natural 
manner cause many a jest and smile on lips 
that will yet be honored in speaking her 
name. And, whether you think it or not, 
the decision of the American country girl 
will be the destiny of the Coming Woman. 
Fascination, rich paters, beautiful daughters, 
brilliant troumam —yea, and Grecian Bend, 
— have not raised woman one step nearer 
the platform she is struggling to reach, and 
they never will. Woe to the gen end who 
commands an army of fops, and pity for the 
woman who puts her trust in “ lily white ” 
and eau tie rose ! 
This Girl will he the governor of woman’s 
influence, usefulness and elevation, because 
she is a Ann believer in that consistent doc¬ 
trine that the Creator, in his wisdom, fash¬ 
ioned man and woman for mm rind woman's 
mission. He saw, as wise men now see, that 
what is every one's work is no one’s. She 
looks upon Home as a place for improve¬ 
ment; and she secs that as she makes 
and blesses home, will that and the world 
bless her. And years from now happy lips 
will proudly tell of her deeds, as wo remem¬ 
ber the Pilgrim Mother's. Then let us sing 
one song for“ Anna Laurie,” while all around 
swells the chorus “Long live the Country 
Girl ! ” 
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FEMALE FRIENDSHIP. 
Women are the priestesses of predestina¬ 
tion, and it is a wonderful advantage to a 
man in any pursuit or avocation to secure 
an adviser in a sensible woman. Disraeli 
says, — “The society of charming women re¬ 
fines the taste, quickens 1 lie perception, and 
givesa grace and flexibility to the intellect, 
although a woman who likes ambitious men 
must be no ordinary character.” In women 
there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, a 
plain soundness of judgment which are rare¬ 
ly combined to an equal degree iu man. A 
woman, if Sl#' be really a fiiend, will have a 
sensitive regard for her admirer’s character, 
honor and repute. Better and safer, of course, 
are such friend.ships where disparities of eir 
cumslances put the idea of love out of the 
question. Middle life has rarely this advan¬ 
tage; youth and old age hav«. We may 
have female friendships with those much 
older and these much younger than our¬ 
selves. Moliore’s old housekeeper was a. 
great help to his genius, and Montague’s 
philosophy takes both a, gentler and loftier 
character of wisdom from the date in which 
lie finds in Marie de (Journey an adopted 
daughter, “ certainly beloved by me,” says 
the Horace of essayists, “ with more than 
parental love, and involved in my solitude of 
retirement as one of the best parts of my 
being.” Female friendship, indeed, is to 
man the bulwark, swoetcucr, ornament of his 
existence. To his mental culture it is inval 
liable ; without it all his knowledge of books 
will never give him knowledge of the world. 
■— Exchange. 
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JAPANESE LADIES AS PAINTERS. 
Painting is another art in which Japanese 
women excel. It is particularly in depicting 
animals, birds and dowel’s that their talents 
are displayed. I n harmony of color they are 
not surpassed by any other artists, ami their 
delineation of birds in every variety of atti¬ 
tude, either during flight or on the ground, 
is most, true to nature. Sometimes it is the 
wild goose, just rising from a cover of reedy, 
or the stork preparing to rest on the ground, 
or with outstretched neck taking its distant 
flight, that is drawn with u fidelity and life¬ 
like truthfulness that seems the effect of 
genius, and not of mere imitation. The 
stork, which endears itself to the inhabitants 
of every country it visits, is it very favorite 
subject for l,hi! decoration of boxes ami cab¬ 
inets, and is drawn as frequently as the do¬ 
mestic fowl and the pretty little sparrows. 
Books, fans, boxes, and screens serve as 
vehicles for the display of this talent; the 
perspective is somewhat out of rule, though 
much superior to that of Chinese pictures, 
and the coloring is so harmonized and tem¬ 
pered that the eye at once recognizes its 
beauty. Water-color painting is the only 
branch of the art known in Japan; and so 
much freedom lias been attained in the use 
of the brush, that with a few touches of 
broken tints, defined, perhaps, with India 
ink, the design stands clearly on paper. The 
art of printing in colors has been practiced 
for centuries in the Land of the Rising Sun, 
whilst with us it is still quite a recent dis¬ 
covery. 
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Well Said.—I t would he no privilege to 
be the wife of the larger proportion of the 
men one meets on the street; and 1 not un¬ 
frequent ly find myself analyzing masculine 
faces, and guessing at the relationship exist¬ 
ing between such a one and his wife. It is 
but rarely, I confess It, that l meet a face 
which tempts me to say, “ Happy is the wo¬ 
man that calls thee lord 1” And yet I repeat 
my honest conviction that, the relationship of 
wife and mother is the purest, the noblest, 
the most sacred, and the most elevating in 
the entire range of the humanities.— Anon. 
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Improve Opportunities. — Our Lore's 
life was a life of opportunities, because he 
was ready to take up the thread of life 
where be found it. it rebukes the life of 
many a disciple of liis, whose door is never 
darkened, year after year, with a soul craving 
from him a knowledge of the bread of life. 
It rebukes many another, who so hedges 
himself within himself, by a passion for sin¬ 
gularity, or by a cool indifference to the 
world's needs, that while the world may stand 
in awe of him, or even hate him, it wishes 
most of all to bury him out of sight, 
-♦♦♦-. 
A UADTiyUL MAXIM. 
“ I live for who love me. 
For those v ho know me true. 
For the Heavi n that shines above mo 
And waits myeomlnu too; 
For the cause that needs assistance, 
For the wrongs that lack resistance, 
For the future in the distance, 
And the good that I can do.” 
fflotres atrtr Manners. 
FOREIGN FASHIONS: 
A Humorous Sketch iu Verse. 
BY GEO ROM W. BUNGAY. 
Pray is It false,or is It true. 
The tale of Monsieur IHt Oiiatllu? 
1 will not swear to it; will you? 
Of Equatorial Africa, 
I heard him in a lecture say 
The dandles boar the palm away. 
An ebon king as black as soot 
Wore little save an overcoat. 
Snatched from a slaking ship or boat. 
And that be wore when summer stars 
Molt down telltale thermometers. 
Our fops would add on nos and cigars. 
Ilia Minister of State, a, fat. 
Tall negro, worn it stove-pipe hat, 
Minus a crown, but what of that? 
Ho may have boon like men In Sown, 
Opposed to monarchies, and "down” 
On everything that had a < roam. 
His representative of law, 
A man who often found a flaw 
la his own face,—Indeed Ills Jaw 
Was overworked, but not bis head— 
Wore a wide noolctlo, blue and red. 
And little Oise, the speaker said. 
His Scribe of the Interior wore 
A shirt the. waves had washed ashore, 
But not washed since; ten years and more 
Hud seen that garment darker grow, 
And lose lu dust its shining snow, 
But all things there grow black, you know. 
The Indies there appear in black, 
And they wear waterfalls- n stuck, 
Of crisped curls, from crown to hack. 
But. since they cannot use the comb 
In curl i hi eosr u\ some tilings will eoroo 
Which tidy r, .Ilia don’t welcome home. 
The Sandwich Island beauties dress 
\\ ith such economy, that less 
Apparel would, l must confess. 
Outstrip the stylo of summer where 
We sou too much that's passing lair, 
And with that woman’s charms were rare. 
In China, women " short anti sweet” 
Walk In raw silk the busy street, 
And with their Blessed little font 
They trample on the heart of man. 
Whose only shield, n palm-loaf fun, 
Can never save him; pray what can? 
From foreign lands, oh, let us look 
At our “White Fawn” and " Sable Crook,” 
And styles In the sensation book. 
Old men timl youn>; lu tailless coats. 
Borne smooth ..f tuee and some like goals, 
And some whoso calf Is not In boots. 
Here loose young men, who late at night 
Come to their lonely lodgings tight, 
Rise,—when the morning si riltea a light,— 
To init on padded tights and hose, 
And eorsoHkwith their undurclo'os, 
And boots with little turn-up toes. 
Here old men, who should never dye, 
Lose then soli sllve. looks, and why. 
Do they turn lilttnl. to charm the eye? 
Does second childhood bless t he sight, 
And darken hah that ouuu was whileV 
No, fashion Is till' changing sprite. 
Here lovely wumiiii, man’s best friend, 
lines stooping -v 1 ... Grecian Bend; 
Who stoops 11 , o r (mins lint end, 
Ami sweep* with satin skirls the street, 
ScowIfl (it the awkward men she’ll timet, 
Who tear her mess with clumsy feet. 
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CARDS, LETTER PAPER, MONO¬ 
GRAMS, ETC. 
BY MINNIE MINT WOOD. 
Ladies’ cards are large Loutlon size, with 
name printed iu the centeriu English nr Ger¬ 
man text. Cards for gentlemen are of ordi¬ 
nary size, with name in same style. Mate¬ 
rial, Bristol board. 
Note paper for gentlemen, is the heavy, 
unruled English quality; tor ladies, the fight, 
fanciful French paper. The long envelopes 
are obsolete, in a fashion sense. 
Monograms are fashioned in tt thousand 
ways. A late novelty is placing the mono¬ 
gram ou a circular background, formed of 
transverse bars in colors; or in bank note 
devices. The most elegant monograms are 
in white rustic relief. Color in monograms 
or initiais has a cheap, tawdry look. Gentle¬ 
men who have excellent memory, or a habit 
of tracing their ancestry back through a 
“ long line of ancestral nobility,” have their 
note paper stamped with their family crest. 
Ladies of the same proclivities vise their coat 
of arms. 
Some three-cornered bits of envelopes are 
in yogue, which might be called “ Special” 
dr “ I 1 . S,” as they are intended to receive 
those precious secrets young ladies would'nt 
have told of “for the world,” and which 
heretofore have been written on the margin 
and corners of well tilled sheets. 
Invitations for weddings and dinner par¬ 
ties, are printed on heavy English paper, 
with Monogram at the top and large envelope 
to match. 
We give a plan for a silver wedding invi¬ 
tation, after placing at the top the monogram 
in silver: 
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Terry, 
At Home, 
Thursday Evening, Jan. 28. 
Hit vor Wedding:. 
1847—Julia S. Kura-1869. 
North Hampton. 
Fora golden wedding, have the monogram 
in gilt; and for a “ wooden wedding,” which 
is the fifth anniversary of marriage, a rustic 
monogram in wood color would be appro- 
piate. The prevailing fashion, however, is 
to print the invitations »>n an oblong piece 
of wood of fine texture and glossy surface. 
In the Case of a golden wedding, where the 
host and hostess must necessarily be quite 
aged, the length of the reception is better 
given. If in the evening, from eight to ten, 
as it sometimes happens people forget to be 
considerate iu the point, ot leaving. 
For a tin wedding, which is the tenth an- 
versary of the wedding, the imitation is 
printed on a large tin card. 
A wedding invitation may be worded in 
this manner: 
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nasix will receive their 
friends on the occasion of Hto 
Marriage 
of their Djuijrhtor, 
on Monday Evening Jan. 8, 
at half past 8 o'clock, 
20 Chestnut St. 
Cards lor dancing parties, or specia l enter¬ 
tainments, are very long anil narrow, and 
folded together in the center, like a book. 
Through the covers so formed, at the back, 
a silk cord, with tasselcd ends, is drawn. 
On the outside is printed the names of the 
managers, and the inside contains the pro¬ 
gramme of the entertainment. They arc in 
color with gilt lettering. 
So much fortlie interest or benefit of peo¬ 
ple who stand on the very unpleasant, thing 
called ceremony, but which under some cir¬ 
cumstances is u most valuable ami necessary 
help. 
“ Let me tell you how to make “ Ear 
Muffs.’’ They are patented affairs, but that 
does not prevent my telling you about them. 
Cut from a piece of velvet, or flannel,an ear 
shaped piece, for one side of the muff. Cut 
the other side like it, only cut an oar-sluiped 
hole in the center of it, large enough to put 
the lobe of your car through easily. Lino 
Ihe pieces with flannel; sew the outside 
together separately ; the inside ditto, to pre¬ 
vent making a. heavy seam. Around the 
hole in which the car goes, sew a small wire. 
Attach the muffs for each ear, to the other, 
by a rubber cord passing under the chin. 
They are very simple, very comfortable, and 
prevent one from freezing his or her ears. 
They are sold in hat stores in New York for 
fifty cents. 
Felt petticoats in color, with .stamped 
borders in various devices, are light, warm 
and fashionable, and sold for five dollars. 
1 meant to tell Margaret, last week, when 
getting iter trousseau, to lie sure and have 
her crinoline very small. Make a cover for 
the bottom of your hoop-skirt of striped ma¬ 
terial, black and white, or blank with red, or 
blue, OV orange. Gore it to fit the shape of 
Ihe skirt bottom. Bind the two top edges. 
Work in the binding eyelet: holes, through 
which run a corset laccr to fasten it on the 
skirl. The bottom ma\ lie made ornamental 
with a rutile or scalloped edge. 
Ladies’ neck tics are still quite immense 
in size, the ribbon being nearly u quarter of 
a yard wide, t he cuds arc finished with 
netted fringe of the same or contrasting color, 
and some have the addition of lace medal¬ 
lions applied. At Stewart’s are some ele¬ 
gant ones, in blank, with ilm ends richly am 
bossed in colors, and finished with gold 
fringe. White muslin, ornamented with lace, 
is worked up with ribbon into pretty neckties. 
To Josephine. — Make a costume of your 
two old silks. list! the blue one for an un¬ 
derskirt or pett icoat. Gut the bottom in deep 
scallops, hind with black velvet—velvet cut 
on the bias; that with cotton back will do. 
Make a plain body of the same with coat 
sleeves scalloped at wilst. Use the b^ack 
silk for the outside. Gut the skirt ten inches 
shorter than the petticoat. Finish the bottom 
in the same manner, Scallop to the waist 
the four edges of the from side seams and 
tack the scallop points together. Make a 
Spanish er peasant body of black, or a sleeve¬ 
less jacket with scalloped edge. 
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A CLASSIC TOILET. 
According to testimony which is scarcely 
to be disputed, the sun could never have 
shone upon a leas lovc-ly object than a Roman 
lady in the days of the C.ksaus, when site 
opened her eyes in the morning — or, rather, 
let. ns say, as she appeared in the morning, 
for before she opened her eyes a great deal 
had to be done. When she retired to rest, 
her thee had to be covered with a plaster 
composed of bread and ass’s milk, which 
had dried during the, night, and, conse¬ 
quently, presented in the morning an appear¬ 
ance of cracked chalk. The purpose of the 
ass’s milk was not only to preserve the deli¬ 
cacy of the skin, but. to renovate the lungs; 
and so strong was the belief in the efficacy 
of the specific, that some energetic ladies 
bathed themselves in it seventy times In the 
course of a single day. As for For ilea, the 
favorite wife of Nero, she never set. out. on a 
journey without taking in her train whole 
herds of slie-asscs, thut she might bathe 
whenever she pleased so to do. The plaster 
of Paris bust having wakened in the morn¬ 
ing in a cracked condition, it was the office 
of a host of female slaves to mature it into 
perfect beauty. To clear the field for fur¬ 
ther operations, the fix-si of these gently 
washed away with lukewarm ass’s milk the 
already crumbling mask, and left a smooth 
taco, to be colored by more recondite artists. 
The slave, whose vocation it was to paint 
the cheeks, delicately laid ou the red and 
white, having moistened the pigment with 
her own saliva .—All the Tear Round. 
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WAVES NOT. 
“TTow tons halt ye between two opinions? If tbo 
Lord boGon follow Tilm.”— Titbit. 
Cease, wavering lxoarfc, this troubled strife, 
Cast out Hie tempter now 
Ere ho shall gain possession there; 
And to Jehovah bmv. 
Cease questioning the sacred truths, 
Goo t o IBs people wa ve; 
Cease doublin'* Tils almighty power 
To cleanse from slit, uml save, 
If Ha ho God, then yield to Him 
Obedience and love; 
Ami let thy daily wullc and word 
Thy deep convictions prove. 
Then follow Him; no longer pause, 
But take the narrow road ; 
And to thy latest day on earth, 
Love, serve, and worship God, 
F.lkhorn, Dec.. 18li8, B. c. D. 
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PSALMS IN THE NIGHT. 
Tux: singing hearts arc. ever a blessing 
unto themselves. A song is joy-giving. He 
who can sing sweetly in the undertone of his 
inner nature, Carries a rare pleasure with him 
always. Hard things appear to him easy; 
heavy burdens seem light; sorrow knocks 
often, it. may bo, but often goes away, sel¬ 
dom enters. 
And when it does enter—when live clouds 
come over and the sunlight is hidden -when 
the soul walks down into the night mid sees 
never a star; what,then? Ah! then trebly 
blest is the singing heart. If it can sing 
psalms at such a time, the, stars will shine. 
Dawn will quicker come, the sunlight sdoncr 
re-nppear. 
Sweetest of all songs arc the psalms in Hie 
night. Davtd sang with the most touching 
tenderness whan in Ihe gloom of deepest af- 
I fiction. Tim heart may wail & miserere over 
its dead or its dying, but even that will be 
sadly sweet, anil will have a hope in it. The 
saddest song is hfel ter than none, because it 
is a song. 
Every song soothes and uplifts. It is just 
possible that at times a song is as good ns a 
prayer. Indeed, a song o! the pure kind re¬ 
cognized in Scripture, is akin to a petition, 
while it is also in Urn spirit of thanksgiving. 
The “sweet singer of Israel” wadded his 
sincorcst prayers to melody, and wafted them 
upward on the night, air from his throbbing 
heart. 
Through God’s grace wo can nil sing 
psalms in the night, Whatever brings the 
shadows, we need not De wholly surrounded 
by thorn, We can sing under the slurs; or, 
if they be hid, until they come otit and smile 
down upon us, and cheer us to n gladder 
strain There are dark nights for us all; we 
arc in them now, or have just found the 
dawn, or perchance are just entering the 
twilight. But there is a psalm for every 
over-creeping gloom; and if the heart but 
take it up ami chant it, the dreariness will 
surely vanish, and there will come in its 
stead, hope and light and cheering warmth, 
and we shall grow glad again with the 
morning. 
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TRUST IN GOD. 
On, for the blessedness of that man wiio 
has been enabled to realize the most entire 
conviction — and that not as a theory, but, as 
practical truth — that God dooth all things 
well, and that His work is perfect. 
The grinding and low cares of this life 
have no place with, Him. lie knows that 
all Ilia affairs are guided by One who cannot 
<rr—that he is watched over for good by 
One who is never weary. Human friends 
may weary of him and shake him off, if ho 
becomes troublesome by bis wants, but Uo 
heeds it little —ilia God invites, solicits, is 
gratified by the entirencss of his dependence 
and by the full and undivided burden of his 
cares. 
Strange it, is that we arc so slow to claim 
the rights thus given us and which wc ought, 
to regard as inestimable privileges. Y r et how 
few are known to any of us who do truly 
realize the many promises and gracious invi¬ 
tations to do that which can alone make this 
life tolerable. — Selected. 
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Some one who has “music in his soul,” 
says the most cheerful and soothing of all 
fireside melodies are the blended tones of a 
cricket, a tea-kottic, a loving wife and a crow¬ 
ing baby. 
—-- 
“ Employment so certainly produces 
cheerfulness," says Bishop Hall, “ that I have 
known a man come borne bl high, spirits 
from a funeral, because he had the manage¬ 
ment of it.” 
—-- «♦>- 
The greatest, and most amiable privilege 
which the rich enjoy over the poor is that 
which they exercise the least—the privilege 
of making them happy. 
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Scholastic wisdom culminates only in 
knowledge, not in reformation, and gives no 
satisfaction on the chief point—Religion.— 
Heubner. 
