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LOVE LIGHTENS LABOR. 
A OOOP wife rose from her lefl one morn, 
And thought with » nervous dread 
Of the pile* of elothos to he washed, and more 
Than a duxed mouths to he fed. 
There's the ntenis to get forthe men in the field, 
And I he children to tlx away 
To school, and the milk to be skimmed and churned ; 
And all to he done this day. 
It had rained in the night,and all the wood 
Was wet us it could he ; 
There were pud.lings aud pies to bake, besides 
A lout of euko for tea. 
And the dav was hot and her aching head 
Throbbed wearily its she said, 
" if maidens hut. knew wlmt good wives know, 
They would not he in haste to wed ! ” 
" Jennie, what do you think I told Ben Brown?” 
Called the tanner from l lie well; 
And a llush crept, up to Ills bronzed brow. 
And Ids eves half buahtnlly fell; 
■ II was this,” he said,and coining near 
lie smiled, nnrt stooping down. 
Kissed her clieek -“'twaa this, that you were the 
best. 
And the dearest, wife in town ! ” 
The farmer went hack to the Held, and the wife 
In a smiling and absent way, 
Sang snatches of tender little songs 
She'd not. sung for many a day. 
And tin" pain in Iut head was gone, and the clothes 
Were wldle as the foam of the r.ea; 
Her bread was light, and her butter was sweet, 
And as golden as it could be. 
"just think," the children all called in a breath, 
“ Tom Wood has run oil to sea 1 
lie wouldn’t, I know, if ho il only had 
As happy a home as we.” 
The night came down, and the good wife smiled 
To herself, an alie softly said . 
" ’Tis so sweet to labor for those we love, 
it's not strange that maids will wed ! ”j 
ALGER’S FRIENDSHIPS OF WOMEN. 
BY MISS ELIZA WOODWORTH. 
*•() not unsearchable is woman's mind. 
Only unhuppier lar la she than man, 
Who, like tin- earth, displays in open bloom 
His deepest, mysteries, lehile the Under heart 
Of wintrtti, / Hit' the fid. blooms inwardly, 
To know, * * * * 
How strong', how rich, Heaven's dowry is in her, 
How noble, virtuous, steadfast, each one is,- 
There is the riddle 1” 
Slnfee'n “ Layman’* Been torn." 
Mr. Alger has written a book for, ami 
about women. It is unique in purpose and 
contents, finished in style, earnest unit re¬ 
spectful. But although the wearisome tlis- 
cants on the proper dimensions of our 
“sphere," are withheld, we can lint con-ider 
the concluding chapter on “The Needs 
and Duties of Women in This Age," as an 
unfortunate supplement, and we deeply re¬ 
gret it* insertion in this otherwise charming 
volume. When we have been delighted 
Beautiful examples from the long past, or < 
the neat' present, are cited. In the chapter ' 
on the “ Friendships of Mothers and Sons, 
Oi.ympias and Alexander, Goethe, John 
Quincy Adams, the Hi mboldts, Guizot, 
and their mothers, are among the illustra¬ 
tions. In the pages devoted to the “ Friend¬ 
ships of Daughters and Fathers,” we have 
short histories of Cicero and Tiilija; ot 
Aaron Burr and the unfovsaking Theo¬ 
dosia; of Mme. Dr. Stake and M. Necker; 
Marly Edgeworth and her father; Wil¬ 
liam Wirt and his daughter A ones, and 
others. The perfect friendship that existed 
between Wordsworth and his sister Doro¬ 
thy, whose lip was like a half-heard under¬ 
tone of music, rut tiling through his more 
perfect utterances, is beautifully described. 
The lofty ami helpful twin lives of Willi am 
iand Caroline Hersuiiki. are briefly 
.sketched ; we are told how, for thousands ot 
nigh Is, side by side, they sat, and watched, 
aud calculated, aud wrote, one sweeping the 
telescopic heavens, the other assisting and 
noting down the results ” W iiittier, and 
the sister to whom lie alludes in “Snow 
Bonnet,” site pf the 
" large, sweet, asking eyes, 
Now hat heil wilhin the fadeless green 
And holy peace of Paradise:" 
and the sisters of Tasso, of Sir Philip 8 id- 
ney, of Robert Boyle, of Byron, ot Men¬ 
delssohn, are among the interesting charac¬ 
ters of ihis chapter, 
In speaking of the attachments ot wives 
and husbands, Mr Ai.oer has this remark: 
“ No affection save friendship has any true 
eternity in it.” Leopold Suiieeek, here 
called “ the serene aud lofty author of the 
‘Layman’s Breviary,’ ” lost his wife in the 
twenty-fifth year of marriage. She was the 
best of earthiy benefits—a. friend. He wrote 
of her:—“Only a single unconquerable sor¬ 
row has smitten me in all my life,—the death 
of the still soul with whom life, for the first, 
time, was to me a life. * * One gets re¬ 
adjusted with the world; but, after all, he 
goes at l et with an open wound into the 
grave.” John Stuart Mill dedicates the 
“Essay on Liberty,’’" to the beloved and 
devoted memory of her \\ ho was the inspire!’ 
and in part the author, of sill that is best in 
iny writings.” Many other examples of 
“royal friendship,” between wives and hus¬ 
bands, are given, but. we.must hasten, 
The filly-eight pages on “ Platonic Love; 
the Marriage of Souls,” are written with 
caution, delicacy and firmness. Illustrations 
of deep interest are cited, reaching buck 
from Mrs. Browning to the luizy days of 
ZkNoiiia. The chapter on “ Pairs of Female 
Friends” contains the romantic history of 
globes, nub Manners. 
V _ 
LATEST STYLES 
Ot Mom-ulus Costumes* uml Customs. 
BY MINT WOOD. 
A great deal is said, both for and against, 
the wearing of black garments, in token of 
grief at. loss of friends. Some people are so 
peculiarly constituted as to feel the utmost 
discomfort and harshness of surroundings, if 
a woman in the same room is dressed in 
mourning. We know a gentleman a poet 
and ft mail of harmony—who, upon receiv¬ 
ing a black-edged card of address from a 
friend, immediately cut oil the obnoxious 
edge and threw it into the tire. “There’s, 
nothing black in nature,” said he, “ only 
where tire and blight have passed over it. 
Blackness and Might belong to tire and de 
struction, and • wish I could send them 
all there. If people must intrude their grief 
upon everybody they meet, let the grid lie 
in their faces, instead ot on their backs. 
Then, on the other side, how many re¬ 
member when the sight ot bright colors, 
even the gladness of the sunshine, seemed 
cruel! A young mother, who declared she 
would »m:r wear black, when her child 
died could not immure herself enough in 
doom. She wanted her house painted 
married one. The same fashion is observed 
in the plumes of the hearse, which is a 
heathenish English custom, transplanted to 
our shores. 
White flowers are always a boautifbl and 
suitable ottering to the dead. They seem to 
soften the unkindness that death has hard¬ 
ened about (.'amelias, carnations, tea and 
tuberoses, are silent hut eloquent prophecies 
of the land beyond. Innuoi'lellws, In white 
and colors, are made into wreaths, crosses, 
crowns, anchors and various designs, for 
grave decorations. They last about a year 
White everlasting*, or “life everlastings," 
might be used where immortelles cannot be | 
procured. 
Hanging baskets, of rustic design, are 
easily made. Make a wooden box, six or 
eight inches across the top and two or three 
inches smaller at. the bottom, aud about Bix 
or eight inches deep. I sc inch hoards, and 
stain the box a dull red. For decorations, 
nail on knots, and gnarls, and odd shaped 
lengths and pieces of wood, stripped of the 
bark. For the hot tom, select a knot with a 
spiral like end- For a handle, use a stout 
vine of some sort., or braided saplings ol a 
small growth. If oiled, the appearance is 
improved. These baskets endure the net ion 
of the weather, and are pretty in any yard. 
li is encouraging to observe that the gen 
oral method in most rural towns oi having 
the anguish of the funeral day augmented by 
useless and cruel customs, is gradually giv 
black. It is a long-time custom, that ot j n g way q, hotter and more enlightened 
wearing garments indicative ot bereavement. modes. Long, tiresome, tedious sermons, 
Some nations (filler in regard to the color. A(e ( . n tjre aim of which is to make death 
With us it is black, ns with most, civilized hoiTihle and haiTo\vni> the lacerated fcelim’ 
the entire aim of which is t,o make death 
horrible and harrow up the lacerated feelings 
||abbatl) ilcaVuuv 
MY CROSS. 
It is not heavy, iiKoni/ln# woe. 
Bearing me down with hopeless, crushing weight—* 
No ruv of comfort In the gHtheriug gloom, 
A heart bereaved, a household desolate; 
tl is not .sideness, with tier withering liiinil, 
Keeping me low upon a couch of pain, 
Longing each morning for the weary night, 
Al night for the weary day to Come again ; 
It is not shunter, with her evil tongue ; 
’Tis uo presumptuous .- in against my Gun , 
Not reputation lost, or friends bet rayed 
That, sueh is not my cross 1 thank my Hoi). 
Mine i* n dally cross of petty cares, 
of little duties pressing on my heart, 
in little troubles hard to reconcile. 
Of Inward struggles, overcome in part. 
My feet are weary m their daily round, 
My heart is weary of Us daily cure, 
My sinful IKitth'o often doth rebel; 
I pray for grace my dally cross to bear. 
It is not heavy, Latin, yet oft I pine ; 
It ia not heavy, hut 'tis everywhere, 
By day and night ouch hour my cross I hear: 
1 dure not lay it down Thou keep'st it there. 
1 dare not lay It. down. 1 only ask, 
Thai, inking up my daily ei mss, 1 may 
Follow my Master humbly, step by slep, 
Through clouds and darkness, into perfect, day. 
Selected. 
HOLY LIVING. 
It is necessary that every man Mould 
consider that since God hath given him an 
excellent nature, wisdom and choice, an un¬ 
derstanding soul, and an immortal spiril ; 
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with lov. ly examples of tiie friendships of t , |(> tidies n( - Llangollen. These friends, 
women, given in the best style of the elo¬ 
quent narrator, we do not. can: to be ad 
deeded into homilies on the elective fran¬ 
chise,equal rights,amt Mr. Alger’s personal 
views of the Interpretation of Scripture. 
But the rest of the hook, as it. appeal’s to 
us, is perfect, so perfect, indeed, that we 
choose to write of it as though the last part 
were like the conception of a lie iu the coun¬ 
try of I ho llonyhnhmns,—“the thing that 
idus not." On the supposition that this chap¬ 
ter does not exist, “ The Friendships of tin¬ 
men” is a most comforting hook—one “like 
the shadow of a groat, rock in aweary land.’ 
doth ladies of wealth and slalion, forsook 
the world for each other, in youth, and 
founded their home in the lovely vale ot 
Llangollen, in Wales. In a beautiful col 
luge, filled with hooks, pictures, and every 
means of solitary culture, they lived together 
more than fifty years. Anna Skwajsd called 
their happy valley the “ Cumbrian Aiden,” 
and published a little volume in praise of its 
scenery, and of the lives that adorned it. 
-♦♦♦- 
THE LIGHT HEARTED PEOPLE. 
There are people who habitually make 
Ten years since, such a work would not have the best of things, not from any shrinking 
been well understood in our country. The 
last upward terrace in social culture, which 
it betokens, had not been attained, or even 
formed. 
Mr. Ai.oer recognizes clearly our misfor¬ 
tunes and our defects. The first largely re- 
1 ‘rom pain on tlieir own account or for 
others, Dili simply from a natural and un¬ 
conquerable lightness of heart. These peo¬ 
ple supply the oxygen of the moral atmos¬ 
phere, atld should he maintained at the public 
expense to keep it sweet and pure. Even if 
people, and, probably, so long as people die, 0 f bereaved ones, is a relic of barbarism that bavb jg made |,|, n lord over the beasts, and 
crape will mark the event. ought to lie entirely done away with. but little lower than the angels, lie hath 
For deep mourning, bombazine, with Little Nelly was buried the other day. a ) rf0 appointed for him a work and a service 
crape trimmings, is mostly used, although She was a year and a half old. ller mother great, enough In employ those abilities ; and 
there is quite a variety of fabrics wholly j d i)n heiress, and as sweet, and lovely a wo- ba f b fl ] so HO designed him to a slate of life 
suitable. Alpaca, pnplin-ftipaca,silk velours, man iW i ( . vor knew. Nelly’s burial case n jj er q> which he can only arrive by 
tampire, bian its and mohair make up nicely. was a „ olflong box of rosewood, with the that service anil obedience. Anil, therefore 
Velvet, with crape trimmings, is worn, hut t >over lilting hack by hinges, and when aH every man is wholly God’s own portion 
should not be considered as a standard taste. locking with a key like a treasure- by the j itle o( - CVPa tion, so all our labors ami 
We noticed a lady in deep mourning a lew box ^ be had on one of the white dresses care> n \\ 0U1 . powers and faculties, must bt 
days ago, whose entire suit was of black vel- gbft had worn many times, but which was wholly employed in the service of God, evei 
vet, and fairly loaded down with crape trim- hidden beneath the abundance of flowers her ab tbe ( ] ays G f oul . life, that this life bein, 
mings. It was expensive enough, without. motber po t all about her. The minister ( mded, wo'may live forever with llim. 
doubt, to gratify her modiste hut for all that, ( . ainP) ma(|( , tt fervent prayer, read about. N „ ithe) . fe it mifll( .fe llt that we think n 
the only redeeming thing about it was Hit - little children,” and spoke some beautiful, flmk . e ol - 0od as a work ( , nh( , 
pret ty woman inside ol it One made ot silk comforting words. Then the carriages came w ^ { or PI „ploy.m nl ; but tha 
velours we liked much belter. 1 wo broad um , Nelly’s father took the precious box m i( , JC witb RTf . at , Pfm iestness and pas 
bunds of English crape were put on the uj , al . m8 !m rt carried it in bis carriage to sion> w j|.h mi \ U1K 1 devotion; that, we reins, 
skirt, tunic style, about fern mclws apart. Greenwood. There he tilled up the little |1(i lo|inr lliat , W e bestow upon it much tiim 
'fhe interval was tilled with flat crape knots, gravo with flowers and evcrgrccHs, gently (halwe U8( , , |u . ,,est guides, and arrive at th 
simulating bows, and placed from four toaix fi | lillg in with the moist earth and turfing t . n( , )lf u b llu , Wllys of , rrflce) pni 
inches apart. On the waist the. bauds run 0V( . V n u . mound with bis Own bands. There ( |,. IK , P ant | rr q; ir j on 
Irom the front of the waist four or five waa nothing harsh, but all done tenderly, And, indeed^if w» consider how mueli < 
inches from the bottom, over the top ol Me ^ nt , y anA lovingly, and just as so ma.i.v om . , B , a| . en , t: , u; deeds of nali.n 
sleeves, ending m the center ot the hack with loving hearts are naturally prompted to do, |jmy are wll0 n y spen t before w 
:l l,oW , , ... 1Wft refrain, because it is believed to be “ not w ^ 1t se of reason,' how many yea, 
One ot black alpaca was made wit h two ( , m u , v » J .’ , . . ' 1 “ .. 
. ... , , ... , , . • ‘usiom.oy. more before that, reason is useful to us It 
three-,nch hms hands Stitched sliaight bn tin. We df , hdieve the true entenui, m all ;i mt how ilU|W ,„. ( , 
skirt, and narrower ones on the skills of he tUin jp,, H houhl he to do that which shall make ro ;—. h b wW ( . vU Hd „. ation, fab 
elose-mimg basque. The elbow *-apn was ourw , v< * and n„r friends the happiest, ond M ^ m < . onipany ,, iul examples an 
nd. short, and looped up on both shou dels n()t bfi diflerred, or restrained one particle ^ h ow many parts of o, 
" M, h 1,1 |1L ; *7° . m,U ;; rwl i. ' by that hugest of all bugbears, “ What mil an( , ar , u . m in entili 
might he more ornate, by looping the hack p( , oplc 8tty U is not what “ they say, but am( ' jn m . ( ,. s , ary fmess and u. 
an, v«V m«H. *'»**«^" 1 * . . .. to waOlv nvili,.,. an 
worn on bonnets. 1 he distinguishing tea- T?Ac;TTTfiM NFW<J , , . . . 
tii re for a ... are face trimmings FASHIONNEWS. Me arts and se,cnees, languages or Had, 
and ties in white. The veil must he of Eng- At the Ball of the Twenty-second Rcgi- lll:lL 111 '' ° ’ " ' s • 
tl, crape :„nl very .™pc,a „r this cily the mc-mhca of U.at g™' 1 "'" ° w. n- ,a,l II 
*... .»gs- “ 
with stripes of narrow gold braid. 
A correspondent in Nice, Italy, writes: 
“There is no end to the money the Amer 
leans spend here. 1 do not. wonder that the 
people think that, gold can be picked up in 
evening uoniiei. ?v uoimei ea srimu 
mourning was made, of a delicate shade ol 
purple silk, nearly covered with black lace 
A oil l’s hat, may he made by covering the 
crown willi crape laid in folds, like rays, and 
the focus covered with a tiny rosette, or 
suiting from foregone circumstances, the last instead of being, hh they generally are, active button, and at the side a large ci ape mw m „. There are. a great many Aiuer 
from our humanness, and also from our I»as- and otherwise estimable members of society, The crown may he covered plain am \ sax i j canfJ b( ,,. P) au ,i [ assure you that no people 
siveness and lack of a true appreciation of they did nothing but enjoy life, they would of crape wound above ihe run, with a large ^ ni0re rf > S p et; ted and more sought alter 
hut little lower than the angels, He hath 
d o appointed lor him a work and a service 
great enough to employ those abilities; and 
hath also so designed him to a state of life 
alter this, to which he can only arrive by 
that service and obedience. And, therefore, 
as every man is wholly God’s own portion 
by Mo title of creation, so all our labors and 
care, all our powers and faculties, must be 
wholly employed in the service of (hid even 
all the days of our life, that, this life being 
ended, we may live forever with Him. 
Neither is it. Huflieiont that we think of 
tin* service of God as a work of the least 
necessity, or of small employment ; tint that 
it, he done with great, earnestness and pas¬ 
sion, with zeal and devotion ; that, we refuse 
no labor, that, we bestow upon it mueli lime, 
that \vc use the best, guides, and arrive al the 
end of glory by all the ways of grace, pru¬ 
dence and religion. 
And, indeed, if w< consider how much of 
our life is taken up by the deeds of nature, 
how many years are wholly spent fie lore we 
come to any use of reason, how many years 
more before that, reason is useful to us for 
any great purposes, how imperfect our dis¬ 
course is made by our evil adoration, false 
principles, ill company, had examples and 
want of experience, how many parts of our 
wisest and best, years are spent in eating 
and sleeping, in necessary business and un¬ 
necessary vanities, in worldly civilities and 
less Useful circumstances, ill the learning of 
the arts and sciences, languages or trades; 
that little portion of hours that is left for the 
practice of piety and religious walking with 
God is so short and trilling that were not Ihe 
goodness of God intinitvly great, it might, 
seem unreasonable or impossible for us to 
expect of Him eternal joys in heaven, even 
after the well spending those few minutes 
which are left for God and God’s service, 
after we have served ourselves and our own 
occasions.— Jeremy Taylor. 
siveness anti lacK oi a irue upprecmimn m 
life, and the measureless value of its middle 
years. But. we are not traduced or slandered; 
wu: tire neither accused of wholesale murders 
nor falsely represented as crowding asylums 
for inebriates. There is not even a syllable 
about our “ reckless extravagance;” and, so 
long as men smoke and chow, at t heir pres¬ 
ent rate of “ reckless extravagance,” none 
need he inserted. We have become so ac¬ 
customed to this contemptible abuse that, it 
seems scarcely possible that a book has been 
written for us by a man who is—a gentle- 
man. 
Yes, it is astonishing; it is like a miracle, 
(in which, however, wo suppose that Mr. 
Alger does not believe;) but notwithstand¬ 
ing its courtesy, decent language, and hu¬ 
mane expressions, the volume m really “ all 
our own;” it is a mosaic Of our Friendships, 
fitted with brilliant, colors and precious 
stones gathered from many times and na¬ 
tions. It is like an Archive of Precedents, 
all going to prove that women are capable of 
true and lotty friendship toward each other, 
and toward Ihe opposite sex ; and also that 
such friendships have existed from days im¬ 
memorial, Idling, adorning, and ennobling 
many lives. The attachments of unrelated 
women for each other, and also of mothers 
and daughters and of sisters; the friendships 
subsisting between daughters and fathers, 
sisters and brothers, wives and husbands; 
and Platonic lovo,—that, sneer of the bad 
man, and of the doubtful woman,—have 
each a section specially written tor them. 
still be worth cultivating for the sake of the 
light and heat which they kindle. The only 
difficulty is how to regulate them. They are 
so irresistibly impelled to sing songs that 
in a world where heavy hearts al'e unfortu¬ 
nately common, it is difficult always to keep 
Ihe vinegar and the niter apart, ll is unrea¬ 
sonable to expect any great consideration for 
Me susceptibilities of melancholy people from 
bow On the left side. 
Black astrakhan is much used for trim¬ 
ming, and is inexpensive, if one does not 
mind about having the real. It is put on in 
plain bands. Cloak and muff of the same 
. are much worn. Blue grenadine veils are 
admissible, and are worn on account ot the 
more pleasing protection they give the face. 
Moreover, the breath freezing on crape in 
tbe constitutionally cheerful, because the very cold weather, spoils it. 
fact of their being so implies a certain degree 
of insensibility which involves a correspond 
ing amount of blindness to other people’s 
sensibility. A genuinely cheerful person 
makes the best of your troubles, because 
they really do not appear to him very dis¬ 
tressing, and it is for you to decide whether 
such a view will act on your mind as a tonic 
or an irritant. 
-- 
Yf.ry Natural. —A gentleman asked a 
little girl, an only child, how many sisters 
she had, and was told “ three or four.” I ter 
mother asked Mary, when they were alone, 
what had induced her to tell such an untruth. 
“Why, mamma,” cried Mary,“ l didn’t want 
him to think you were so poor that you 
had’ut but one child. Wouldn’t he have 
thought we were drefful poor V” 
--- 
The value of time varies with individuals, 
and in the same hour-glass which marks Uie 
flight of time to every eye, it is less than lost 
sand to the idler, but more than gold to the 
studious man. 
A hand of crape on a gentleman’s hat, sat¬ 
isfies the demand of fashion, where men are 
concerned. 
Very tasteful collars and cuffs are formed 
of narrow folds of silk, placed diagonally on 
ft ground of black grenadine, with some 
heavy black fabric for a foundation. Grena¬ 
dine, with silk embroidery, and very narrow 
silk bands put on in design, are very pretty 
for neek and wrist finish. 
Ornaments in steel are allowable in second 
mourning costumes. 
Handkerchiefs are in solid black borders, 
and rows of narrow black hands. Some 
very pretty ones are in ornamentation of 
black and white embroidery. Linen for the 
neck and wrists may be improved by em¬ 
broidering a vine, or some simple design, 
with coarse black sewing silk. In washing 
them, be careful about boiling them. Merely 
dipping them in scalding water is sufiieient. 
A black and a white ribbon at the door, 
signify the death of a child within; crape 
ends, with white tied in the bow, an unmar¬ 
ried person, and the token in full black, a 
iun we, .7 •• -. > * •m?xrr\ r PTATJ 
■e more respected and more sought alter ut, v uiiuin. 
than they. ^ No man can complain that his calling 
At a recent fashionable wedding at Zion (aki , s b - m ofI ' from religion ; his calling itself 
(’lunch, New Aork, the church was tail- an ,i very worldly employment in honest 
liantly illuminated, and over the chancel was and 0 fjj ( .,. s j s a serving of God; and 
suspended a star, having a cross iu the cen- j( . p b(J mo j f . ru | 0 |y pursued, will leave void 
ter, and from which lour bundled gas jet spaces enough for prayers aud retirements ot 
brilliantly shone. A silver arch, surmounted a more spiritual religion. God hath given 
by a cross, was erected midway down the ( , V( . ry m . U) wo| . k ( , noU gh to do, that Mere 
aisle, separating the invited from the unin- sbi jj j )f , UOTOom for idleness; aud yet halli 
vited guests, and under which the bridal ordered Me world Mat Mere shall' he: pace 
eoVterje passed. for devotion. He that hath tho fewest Luwi- 
Flowers are assuming their righttul place nesses of t he world is called upon to spend 
in the ornamentation of homes and public mu re time in the dressing of li is soul; and be 
places. Hundreds of thousands ol dollars tii a (. Uath the most nll'airs, may so order t hem 
worth of them are sold in Ibis city tor this kba | they shall lie a service of God; whilst, 
purpose every winter season; indeed, the ul Cf . r tjfin periods they are blessed with 
figures, it is asserted, may be millions. At prayers and actions of religion, and all day 
a recent sociable here baskets ot violets, bon- long are hallowed by a holy intention.— 
quels, wreaths, &c., garlanded the stairways ft K sl/ytcriun Inilc.i'. 
and apartments, making the place a floral-— -- 
paradise and perfuming it. with the most Grace to live from day to-day an increas- 
intoxicating fragrance. ; n ,,-| v Christian life, without being inordi- 
A new style of flower-pot has lately come nately anxious about, the morrow; faith in 
into use. It consists, in fact, of two flower Christ, as the only and all : iilticient. Saviour 
pots, one wilhin the other, there being a f orua; and more success in imitating the ex- 
space of about three-quarters of an inch be- an ,p| ( . of Him who is Lord and Master, arc, 
tween the two. This form of flower-pots is an( j nilist , be, the great aim of every < Tiris- 
adinirably adapted for growing plants in )ian am | if reached and realized, will pre- 
rooms where the air is too dry for many of j )alx , him equally for death and life.— Dr. <f. 
the more delicate species, as the space be- Wilson. 
tween the two walls of the pot may be tilled 
with water or dump moss, thereby prevent¬ 
ing the rapid drying of the soil by evapora¬ 
tion through the sides of the pots. 
The Cross of Christ is an offence to all 
men who think that a good life will ensure 
them a happy end. 
