Habits’ |lort-3lrolto. 
REBUKE. 
Thr world ia oil! ami the world is cold. 
And nevOr u ituy la fair, t said; • 
Out of tho heaven* the sunlight rolled, 
The green leaves rustled above my head, 
And the sea was a sea of gold. 
The. world is cruel, I said again. 
Her voice ia harsh to my shrinking ear. 
And the nights are dreary aud full of pain. 
Out of the darkness sweet and clear. 
There rippled a tender strain; 
Rippled the song of a bird asleep, 
. That sang In a dream of tho budding i/ood ; 
Of shining fluids where the reapers reap, 
Of a wee brown unite uml nestling brood. 
And the grass whore tho berries peep. 
The world is false, though the world he fair. 
And never a heart ia pure, 1 mild; 
Andio! tho clinging ul' white arms boro. 
The innocent gold of my baby’s head. 
And tho lisp of a childish prayer. 
[Overland Monthly. 
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MAURICE DE GUERIN'S JOURNAL. 
Maurice de Guerin, the dreamer, was 
born in 1810, in the beautiful land of the 
South, whose changing expressions of sun¬ 
light and c loud, leaf and stream, frost, and 
storm, were to be sung for immortality by 
the voice of her peerless son. One of the 
first characteristics observed is the melan¬ 
choly inwoven with the entire fabric of Ids 
being. For this all-pervading sadness sev¬ 
eral causes may be assigned. The long 
course of reverses and sorrows that had be¬ 
fallen the family may have given a heredi¬ 
tary stamp to this trait, which was doubt¬ 
less augmented by the loneliness of his 
childhood’s surroundings, and the loss of a 
mother at the age of five. Perhaps the 
sensit iveness of his own highly-strung organ¬ 
ization, which hungered wearily for unat- 
tained perfection,—tho ideal that, to him, 
was reality,—would alone account for its 
deep hold upon his nature. 
With a mind almost frenzied by the 
wealth and beauty of its conceptions, and the 
intensity of its feeling, yet, through self-de¬ 
precation and timidity, shrinking from dis¬ 
closures of its inspiration, caused the glad 
springing waters of thought, thus sent back 
to their fountain, to turn to bitterness and 
grief. Ilis own words best give the effect 
of this unjust, repression: 
“Craving’, unquiet, Boeing only t>y glimpsed, 
dies; the gradual fading under the shadow 
of that cloud which arose with the sun of his 
infancy, and the final severing of tho pre¬ 
cious life from earth—these are all. Pur¬ 
suit of infinite perfection lured him onward KAcmmi pttttptt A m 
to death. Ho languished for tho land of iJAbUION LHiiCUAA. 
Love and Beauty whose fragrance fanned him j, y MINTW ood. 
in every breeze that swept his exile shore. __ 
As a test of his literary ability there is but About Bonnots, lints, Flowers, Feathers 
one completed work—a dream of a few ,, Fu9 ®* 
pages, powerful and artistic, entitled “ Tho * ,,K exhibition at Madame Fer- 
Centaur." lie meditated other similar works, u^nos, of unporled bonnetrie put the seal 
but was destined to tall at the outset of his ot :iuth( *' i| y u P on UlL ' sty* 08 ot ‘ head orna- 
career with the costly results just within the mont an<l covering. A few bonnets were 
grasp of bis exquisite genius ungathered; 111:1 '^ed below twenty-live dollars, but most 
and we are left with a few footprints upon of lll6m mn S ed from thirty to fifty dol- 
the highway of thought—a pebble or two ,ars which little sum would once 
from the far-reaching shore—a drop from ,l!iVf! himished a house for a well contented 
the unsounded sea. t. couple. 
-_ It has been generally reported that the 
A HEROINE nGW si - vl<is bonnets are such that home 
fingers cannot do their own millinery as suc- 
Our exchanges do well to make much of ccssfully as during the last lew years. We 
obes anb manners. 
the gallant conduct of Mrs. Maguire, who, 
her husband being sick, brought the ship 
Chieftain safely to New York from Calcutta. 
She took command at the request of her hus¬ 
band, whom, for twenty years, she had ac¬ 
companied on his voyages. The account 
says: 
“ She knew every spar and rope and sail 
on the vessel. She knew every word ot 
command. She made all the observations 
herself. She kept a log book. She was on 
deck at all hours of the day and night. She 
watched tho barometer. She noted the 
shifting clouds and varying breezes. She 
was de facto the captain. But, in the midst 
of her manifold duties she never failed in 
attentions to her sick husband. Here the 
womanly tenderness of a devoted wife 
showed itself in soft and soothing words of 
comfort and in giving him his medicines, 
under whose beneficent working she was 
pleased to note a gradual mastering of the 
disease that kept him, through thirteen long 
weeks, completely prostrate and helpless. 
“ Un deck she was stern, unyielding, per¬ 
emptory. Happily the. crew had been well 
disciplined, and there was very little trouble 
with them. Most loved their captain us 
much as they respected and obeyed her. 
And it is a beautiful incident in connection 
with thin, (lie tribute of devotion these stem 
servitors of Old Neptune, these rude, coarse- 
mannered men of the sea—with hands hard 
my Spirit stricken by nil l huso ills which am tlio as iron, but hearts us soft, as children’s_naid 
o.iw. .. .____ a .. _• ... ... . . _ 
sure fruit of u youth doomed never to ripen 
info manhood, 1 grow old ami wear myself out 
In the most, futile mental strainings, and make 
tie progress. My head seems dying-, and when 
the wind blows, I fancy I feel it as if I were a 
tree, blowing through withered branches in my 
top.’’ 
His poetic constitution and intensity of 
spiritual power are not more shown in these 
delineations of mental suffering than by bis 
skill in interpreting the. magical language of 
the natural world. Nature lends him the 
glow and thrill of her created, things to gleam 
and quiver through his verse. Ho draws 
forth her secrets aud feeds upon the life 
which swells tho veins of the universe, as if 
it were formed but to minister to his will. 
List how he imprisons her voices: 
“The winds, those fearful blasts from an un¬ 
known mouth that, bow tho stern uprightness of 
the forest sires till they bond and wave llko tho 
billows of the sou; the waters, whoso goals of 
tope* ranges over so infinite neumisi t, front the 
80f twlpphng of a fountain over moss to the grand 
swell or ocean anthems; tho 111 under, the boat¬ 
ing’s of that deep which heitvos aboveeur heads; 
the fitful shrieks and sinister wails of the storm 
at midnight, which seem the very bloats of hu¬ 
manity ehunting their mournful prophecies un¬ 
der our windows,—all give mo a strange delight. 
My soul gathers repose mid peace, or conflict 
ami anguish, from the caprices of the air.” 
The beauty which ho called from material 
things was moulded by a spiritual touch into 
the fairest ideal forms. Here is a morning 
among the hills: 
“ When tho sun had risen a little above the 
horizon, I saw trails of fog, like the lust fugitives 
of a routed army, sweeping along the distant 
crests, rising into theaky, unhooding tho moun¬ 
tains amt forming a scene of infinite grandeur. 
One might almost believe tie saw the primitive 
shadows fleeing away, Got> like a sculptor lit’t- 
ftig tho drapery which veiled His work, ami the 
eai’Ui exposed In all the purity of Ita earliest 
forms u> the rays of the primal sun.” 
An evening in Brittany is thus described: 
“ All the sky is covered with gray clouds, 
just silvered at tho edges. The sun has loft 
behind him just enough light to temper the 
black shadows mid soften the approach of 
liighl. The winds are hushed, and the trau- 
quil ocean sends up to me a melodious mur¬ 
mur, which dies away like u beautiful wave on 
the beach. The birds, the first to obey tho noc¬ 
turnal intluoiK’c, make their way to the woods, 
aud you hear the rustle of their wings in the 
clouds, The noise of mail, always the last, to be 
silent, dies gradually away over the fields, and 
nothing is heard but the barking of dogs from 
distant hamlet s. .Silence wraps me round, every- 
tlfifu' reposes except this pen of mine, which 
majors its light scratching as it puts down these 
idle thoughts. Let It stop then, fur all I have 
written will never be worth weighing aguiust 
the aleon of un utrun " 
to their sick and loved captain. ‘ They 
walked down on tiptoe,’ said Mrs. Maguire, 
‘and spoke only in soft whispers.’ What 
better encomium could be pronounced than 
this?” 
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COMPLIMENTARY. 
Tiie celebrated French critic, Ar8enr 
Houssayk, in his recent work on “Female 
Beauty,’’ speaks in very complimentary 
terms ot the prepossessing appearance of 
American ladies:—“ We have very beauti¬ 
ful women in France, and so lias every other 
nation, but of one thing I am quite sure, that 
no people can boast of more beauties among 
its women than tlm North Americans. Go 
to one of their evening parlies, and unless 
every corner of your heart is already occu¬ 
pied, you are certain to fall in love. You 
will hardly meet there tv young girl but that 
is attractive in tho highest, degree. The 
charms of the women of all other countries 
seem to bo blended in the American. She 
stunds peerless among her sisters.” 
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GOSSIPY PARAGRAPHS. 
White not one letter more than you can 
help. The person who keeps up a large cor¬ 
respondence is a martyr, tied, not to the 
stake but to the post. 
D’Orhay, in remarking on the beauty- 
speck on the cheek of Lady Southamton, 
compared it to a gem on the rose-leaf. “ 'file 
compliment is far-fetched," observed her 
lady-ship. “ How can that lie,” rejoined the 
count, “ when it is made on the spot?” 
A oi.KUGVM.vN, being much pressed by a 
lady acquaintance to preach a sermon on the 
first Sunday after her marriage, complied, 
and chose the following passage in the 
l’salms as his text:—“And there shall be 
abundance of peace—while the moon en¬ 
dure t.h.” 
In Pennsylvania, India rubber shoes are 
sometimes called “gums.” A gentleman 
It’om Philadelphia with his wife, was.on a 
visit to New York, and on returning to the 
house ot then host one evening*, the gentle¬ 
man entered the parlor alone. “Why, where 
is Emily?” He answered, “Oh, Emily is 
outside, cleaning her gums upon the mat.” 
|run Ui 1111111% WHICH! m tr „ _ 11 - 
aki-s its light scratching as n puts <lnwii these rL 0t ,( ’ r eV(!mi) g a couple of young men 
le thoughts. Let It Mop then, for nil i have wero exhibiting u patent churn in Canton, 
■itton will never be worth weighing aguinst Illinois, when a liumorsomc old lady averred 
o sleep of anatom." *». ., ■ . . j ,U1U| 
. ti , , that the machine was a humbug. To disprove 
r which markod hhi the assertion, they offered to make butter 
b, *i ‘ , u enty-eight years are lew. Leav- within ten minutes. The old lady filled the 
r r vu! " Cayia> at lll,i u - e of ' Len > churn, the patent-right heroes set to work, 
t 1 0 sclamai Y °* Toulouse; after- and spent two hours in perspiring and re- 
p • ® at Stanislaus College, lleving each other to no purpose, before the 
ids Tosrriu, Jt a 6U . ulent !lt Lamennaw; jocular matron informed them that they 
Ins marriage to a beautiful Eve from the In- were churning buttermilk. 
SCO no reason why, if they only have the 
materials. But very lew bonnets are made 
without straw entering into the composition, 
if not forming the body of the bonnet, as in 
most cases. 
The distinguishing characteristics are cor¬ 
onets, or raised fronts, great profusion of 
flowers, top trimming, and ornamentation of 
the ends of the ties, streamers and veils. 
The coronet, or raised front, is from the out¬ 
side, the frame of the bonnet fitting Lite head 
closely, and as near Lite Fanchon shape as 
anything else. 
One forty dollar bonnet was of white 
strand, with dewy mosses, heaps of white 
French lilacs, and moss rose buds grouped 
on the top, the wreath of rose buds trailing 
down the length of the tulle veil at the back. 
The tics were nearly a yard long, an inch 
and a half broad,of tins heaviest ribbon, like 
belting, and the ends finished with three 
frills of blonde, each headed by satin piping. 
A, rubber cord passes from one ear of the 
bonnet round under the chignon, looping 
over a button on the other, one of tliu ties 
carelessly looped through the other at one 
side. Another of like ilk was trimmed with 
white plumes, Pansies, Marguerites and trails 
of frosted ivy, lengths of ivy heading tho 
blonde frills on tin: lies. One of pearl gray 
leghorn, with a loose twist of the sumo shade 
of grenadine forming tho coronet, and the 
broad ends falling on one side, edged with 
netted fringe, was enlivened with sprays of 
green leaves and clusters of scarlet berries. 
A black luce was edged in front and back 
and around the bridle with short green wheat 
heads an inch apart. The top was heightened 
with a small garden of scarlet poppies, yel¬ 
low violets ancl ox-eye daisies. 
As beautiful and wonderfully made as 
were the bonnets, the maximum of invention 
and variety was displayed in the hats. 
Eight or ten different shapes are fashionable, 
which is always a laudable feature, as what 
may lie very becoming for one face may 
quite deform another of a different type of 
beauty. 
it is with a great deal of pleasure that we 
hail the return of the flat, tho low-crowned, 
broad rimmed, straw flat, that does the 
double service of hat and sun-shade. One 
called live “ Eugenic*,” “ precisely like what 
the Empress wears,” is of leghorn, with a 
wreath of full-blown pink rosea wound with 
a veil of white tulle about tho crown, the 
veil brought about the front, and caught up 
Oil the broad brim at the left. This was 
thirty dollars. Another of the same price 
iit leghorn had n sash about the crown, and 
falling behind in ends of open, netted straw 
plaiting six inches broad, with wreath of 
elder blossoms, ripe cherries and incipient 
rose buds. Some are held on tlm head with 
a rubber cord ; others with ribbon lies. 
The “ Italian” is of white chip, such as 
the peasants wear, is less in circumference 
than the flat, and has no more crown than a 
sheet of flat paper. One trimmed with nar¬ 
row, blue, satin ribbon, a fringed veil of 
white dotted lace, and a bunch of marguer¬ 
ites, was thirty dollars. Another of the game 
price was trimmed with pink satin, a puffing 
of satin under the edge of the rim, inch wide 
ties, full of white lace, with a wreath of lilies 
of the valley, rose buds and leaves reaching 
to the bottom of the veil. “ La Perichole” 
is characterized by the trimming mostly, 
which puts a border of gorgeous, parti¬ 
colored, perpendicular stripes at the cud of 
the broad sash of ribbon falling from the back. 
Turbans, or round bats, bird-nest shape, 
with close fitting, turn up brims, or with¬ 
out, arc much trimmed. They arc conven¬ 
ient for the cars or carriage. One, a pretty 
thing for a brunette, was formed of tiers of 
pale yellow straw ruffles, looped at inch in¬ 
tervals with narrow black velvet ribbon, 
with a sort of coronet formed of poppies, 
cowslips and long, 1 railing grasses. Anoth¬ 
er, lit. for a fairy, or tlm fairest flaxen-haired 
beauty in the town, was bound with a puff¬ 
ing of sea-green velvet, and every bit of the 
surface Covered with delicate mosses, ferns, 
green bugs, butterflies, and tics of ribbon 
grass. That was marked twenty-five dollars. 
The “ Shepherdess," a cross between the 
“ Eugenie ” uml the “ Italian,” will undoubt¬ 
edly be very popular. A white straw 
trimmed with blue ribbon, with the ends be¬ 
hind, tied in fiat bows half way down, 
and a wreath of forget-me-nots, is pretty 
enough for any fair young woman. Cherry, 
black, straw color, salmon and bright green 
will he largely worn by brunettes. Grena¬ 
dine, ceresso and tulle will be largely used 
for trimming. Wheat, barley, bugs, butter¬ 
flies, long trails of grasses, mosses and vines, 
will form the ornamentations. Barley heads 
cost, from forty to sixty cents; wheat from 
ton to forty; bugs'and beetles from fifty 
cents to two dollars, and butterflies from a 
dollar to ad libitum. 
Because bonnets tower skyward with 
stacks of bloom, docs not, signify that slen¬ 
der, long-faced women need wear such for 
further elongation, any more than a round, 
apple-faced woman should wear side ampli¬ 
tudes to broaden her thee. Black straws 
being much hi vogue, gives opportunity for 
the dyeing of old straws. Blender - faced 
women should not wear “bridles” to their 
bonnets. 
An instance of taste and economy:—A 
beautiful friend of ours, who lives Lu a thriv¬ 
ing town in Western New York, who has 
position, money and independence, always 
does her own millinery because she loves to. 
I Vo or three summers ago she paid seventy- 
five cents for while illusion and a wire frame 
and made her bonnet. On Him day, when 
tho hells began to ring, she slipped out in 
the garden, and clipping off a trail of sweet 
pea vines with their delicate blossoms, 
would wind it about on her hat, fasten it 
with a few pins and go to church. Her 
flowers varied with the season. Clover 
blossoms and daisies look well together, and 
the ferns, mosses, cereals, ivy and scarlet 
berries that nature makes arc more beautithl 
than those of artificial design. And ns for 
bugs and butterflies, live ones in all their 
beauty can lie made to lie still by introduc¬ 
ing a little chloroform into their mouths. 
We saw- one lovely hat, covered with mosses 
and leaves and lichens, on the top of which 
nestled a bird’s nest with three eggs in it, 
while the humming bird was perched in a 
scared way on the rim. If fashion goes on 
in this way, we shall by next year be wear¬ 
ing a stocked farm in miniature on our 
heads, hay slacks, chickens and lion’s nests 
included. 
Sedan, Chain have made their appearance 
in Paris. Ladies ride to church in them. 
The mantle worn with them is a flowing 
black faille with loose folds from the neck 
behind and trimmed with black cluny (gui¬ 
pure) lace. 
D/thhch, if folded nicely when put away, 
will retain their shape and freshness much 
better than if hung up. 
A Walking Bern of Scotch merino in 
cigar shades, with full skirts or equal length, 
the upper looped behind, the front, breadth 
being cut on the bias, is said to be a favorite 
w'itli Eugenie at present. 
Pearl and Straw, and delicate grays, arc 
the favorite colors for dress-gloves. 
In Buying Brest lAnivg drilling or silicia, 
there is much saved in buying lour or five 
yards at a time, instead of yard lengths. 
Sweet Oil and black ink will renew the 
appearance of kid boots. 
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HOW A CUBAN BELLE DRESSES. 
A Cuban belle— beautiful and an heiress 
— lias arrived in New Orleans, bringing two 
hundred dresses, to say nothing of shawls, 
bonnets, diamonds, etc. The reporter of the 
Picayune, who saw her disembark, breaks 
iuto the following description:—“ Her trav¬ 
eling costume was of dark material, fluted in 
the last. rScherche style of fashion — a walk¬ 
ing suit, indeed. Tho skirt of rich heavy 
satin, is bordered at the extremity by a wide 
fluting, from the folds of which peeps out. a 
rich lace, intricately blended with the grace¬ 
ful puffs, disclosing tho beautiful foot and 
exquisitely turned ankle. A shorter over¬ 
skirt of the same material, but of a lighter 
shade, scalloped into half-diamonds at the 
end, from whieli are pendant satin tassels, 
gleaming with diamond dust, reached the 
upper edge of the fluting. The waist is of 
the same material, with a faintly-defined 
vein of red running through tho center of 
the streamers attached to it, and which, too, 
are fringed at the sides and jenda with the 
diamond-dusted tassels —a diamond-shaped 
cape rests upon cither shoulder, and the 
points meeting at the waist are secured by 
an opal pin. Pearls gleam in the rich braids 
of her black hair, which is worn in tho 
fashion of Mary Stuart; the beautiful head 
is not disfigured with unshapely chignon and 
theTiirkish horse tail floating like a streamer 
behind. A small velvet cap set jauntily on 
the silken hair, adorned with a, small white 
leather, secured with a large solitaire dia- 
moud; diamonds in the small ears and on 
Ihc breast; while the fingers of the right 
hand blaze in a diamond sheath.” 
-- 
Hair-dressers find it so difficult to ob¬ 
tain gray hair that they beg of their cus¬ 
tomers to save single gray hairs from the 
comb, paying therefor one cent apiece. 
Hjabbatl) ileabtitg. 
i. 
RIPE WHEAT. 
BV ALIQUA. 
w* bont to-tlay o’er a coffined form. 
And our tears fell softly down; 
Wo looked our last on tlm usod race, 
With it* took of peace, Its patient trace, 
Aud hair tike a silver Grown. 
We touched our own to the clay-cold hands, 
1> rout life’s tons labor at. rest, 
And mining the lilomum,*, white and sweet, 
Wo nofed it hunch or golden wheat, 
Clasped close to the mleut breast. 
The bUssnnm whispered of fmiolcss bloom, 
Of it hind whore fall no tours; 
Tho ripe wheat told 01 ' the toll and care, 
The patient waiting, the trusting prayer, 
Tho garnered good of the years. 
Wo knew hot what work her hands had found, 
Wlnit rugged places her foot; 
Whut cross was hors, what blackness or ulght; 
Wo saw but the patten, the blossoms white, 
And tho bunch of ripouud wheat. 
As each goes up front the Bolds or earth, 
Hearing tho treasure* of life; 
Gon looks for some authored grain of good, 
From the ripe harvest that shining stood, 
But waiting tho rcupor’s knife. 
Then labor well, that In death you go 
Not only with blossoms sweet,— 
Not bent with doubt, and burdened with fears, 
. And dealt, dry husks of tho wasted years,— 
But laden with golden wheat, 
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SELF-STUDY. 
The proper study of each man is —some 
other man. Thus do the majority of those 
around us paraphrase Pope’s old declaration, 
in their actions, at, least. To study into the 
workings of some other person’s heart,— to 
divine another's motives,—to find out ail the 
virtues and defects of some companion,— 
seems to he tho chief delight, of all. 
Now, acquiring a knowledge of human 
nature is not objectionable, in itself. But 
them are grave objections to acquiring it 
solely through our study of others. To put 
ourselves beyond the pale of humanity while 
trying to learn what tho human really is, 
is certainly unfair anil wrong. Ami we are 
virtually doing this when wo exclude our¬ 
selves front the critical scrutiny which we 
bestow upon others. 
It is pretty sale to presume that about all 
the glaring defects or pet!.y weaknesses which 
we arc looking for in others may be found in 
Ourselves, with a lit lie careful investigation 
Though the presumption is scarcely compli¬ 
mentary to our pride and vain-glnrying, we 
should not scorn it. Though for the moment 
it somewhat belittles ourselves hi our own 
opinion, we slrauld not thrust it front us. 
Each man or woman of us is so very human 
that, we attend an cxMcllent school for learn¬ 
ing human nature when we stay quietly at, 
home and study our own hearts. This is a 
humiliating fact, perhaps, but a little humilia¬ 
tion worketh a very good work, sometimes. 
As all the motives aud inner promptings of 
other people are necessarily hidden from us, 
our mental measurements of character and 
heart must he very imperfect, at best,. We 
can measure ourselves with less of blindness. 
If we will hut bo honest with our own 
hearts, we can estimate deadly all the good 
or evil of personal doing, and can define, 
without going far, the reason of very many 
crooked ways. Why not be honest, then ? 
Why attempt to cheat ourselves by pro- 
tending an honest purpose in the study of 
others, and passing by self utterly ? Hell- 
study will teach charity, and of all lira beau¬ 
tiful truths which humanity needs to learn, 
we arc told, that is the greatest.— h. 
—-——-— 
MORAL POWER. 
Men had no adequate conception of Truth 
as seen in the twilight of the old dispensa¬ 
tion. Light came into the world with 
Christ, and men hardly recognized the 
things of which they had before seen only 
the dim outline. 
And to-day, with all our light, how diffi¬ 
cult for us to realize that the greatest power 
is moral power. The Temptation has some 
force and meaning to us, when we think 
how Impatient we arc of evil, and how we 
would overcome it, not nH light overcomes 
darkness l.y displacing it, but by mere supe¬ 
rior power. We do not realize that a bad 
man is conquered cfleetually only by making 
him good. 
Whut shall we say, then, to legislation on 
temperance, Sunday laws, and the like ? We 
must defend these certainly—not for their 
reformative tendencies, but as safeguards to 
prevent the ruin of the still uncorrupted. 
But is this Christ’s way? Perhaps so, till 
society is better. We must work with the 
tools we have; but if every Christian wero 
a live Christian, workiug for his Master, 
doing his whole duty to his fellows individu¬ 
ally, ami lo society as a whole, how soon the 
world would be converted. And yet we arc 
silent, anil shrink from speaking to men 
uboul their soul's wclfafc. Wliat arrant 
cowards we arc! l. a. o. 
Northvillo, Mich., J809. 
Children have more need of models than 
of critics. 
