APRIL SO 
white bread and rolls that she made yester¬ 
day during his absence, how sweet and crisp 
to his taste! He goes away to bis daily avo¬ 
cations with a sunbeam in his heart, the re¬ 
membrance of his morning goddess haunt¬ 
ing him until the day's decline, when a 
coming vision of an evening fairy begins to 
present itself to his mind. And when lie 
reaches his home she stands ready to re¬ 
ceive him. bright and charming, in her soft, 
lustrous silk and a flower in her hair. She 
presides at his dinner table as gracefully as 
at the morning meal, just as if she had not 
haunted the kitchen the beat part of the fore¬ 
noon* and then is ready to amuse hei 
“dearly beloved" in singing to or playing 
upon her piano or guitar, if he chooses music, 
or to talk to him quietly for an hour or two 
if he should prefer a little social chat. Oh, 
yes! there are some happy homes yet left 
in married life. Would that there were 
many, many more, 
“ Where two hearts beat in unison, 
And two souls seem as one.” 
C. II. c. 
Sycamore Villa, L, L, April, 1872. 
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THE LADY’S REPMfrASMlE. 
On our way from Worn to Hawkcstono, 
wo passed a house, of which Mr. Lee told 
me the following occurrenceA young 
lady, the daughter of the owner of the 
house, was addressed byn man who, though 
agreeable to her, was disliked by her father. 
Of course, he would not consent to their 
union, and she determined to elope. The 
night was fixed, the hour came, he placed 
the ladder to the window, and in a few 
minutes she was in his arms. They mount¬ 
ed a double horse, and were soon at some 
SING PRAISE 
REPINING, 
Brans sing praise 
As they fly 
And iilad notes ralso 
To God on high. 
Thus, children, raise 
Front hearts of love, 
Your song of praise 
To god above. 
WnY do we weep for pleasures posh tor 
gone forever ? . , ^ ^ 4 . .. 
We knew the while they could not last, that death 
all ties must sever; 
Why do we pine at Heaven’s decree, and mourn tho 
friends who love us ? 
Knowing they are forever free, in brighter realms 
abovo us. 
Why do we wish our joys were more, and cares and 
trials fewer. 
When all the griefs that, gather o’er but teach us to 
be truer ? 
Why do we roam for happiness, when it is ever near 
us. 
Is ready even now to bless, and only wants to cheer 
us? 
Why do we idly sit and grieve for the sin of those 
around us ? 
Remaining as the moments leave no better than they 
A Rig Wax Doll.— Minnie S., Niles, 
Mich., says:—I road “Cousin Johnnie’s” 
letter ami liked It very much. 1 have ho 
big brother aud sister to “ tix up my let¬ 
ters, for I am the oldest of four girls. My 
little sister 1 £ttie has a big wax doll; its 
name is Mabel. Last fall, at the Fair, l 
found a money purse with one dollar and 
seventy-live cents in it. Wo tried to find 
tho ownef* but could not, aud so L bought 
Kttir her Mabel. We are going to make a 
large book of our Rurals. We made one 
once ami it wiW so nice we are going to try 
again. _ 
A Fortunate Girl.— Anna 1?. Me., elev¬ 
en years old, writes:—My father follows 
WISHES 
BY KOBE OKU AXIOM. 
I WOULD he like the birdie that, soars in the air 
Dropping lightly my fragments of song hero and 
there, 
I would flit o’er the flowers ou the earliest breezo 
And eiitch the first sunbeam that brightens the 
seas. 
1 would he like tho snow-flakes, as puro and as 
white. 
And my spirit, unfettered by sin should bo light, 
And some day 1 would follow llie mist as it flics, 
Aud And me a homo in tho far-away skies. 
TRY DON’T GIVE UP. 
A gentleman traveling In the northern 
part of Ireland heard the voices of children, 
and paused to listen. 
Finding the sounds proceeded from a small 
building used as a school house, lie drew 
near; and, ns the door was open, he entered, 
and listened to tho words the boys were 
spelling. 
One little fellow stood apart, looking sad 
and dispirited. 
“ Why does that boy stand there?” asked 
the gentleman. 
“Oh, ho is good for nothing!” replied tho 
teacher. “There’s nothing in him. lean 
make nothing of him. lie is the most stu¬ 
pid boy in t he school.” 
The gentleman was surprised at this an¬ 
swer. He saw that the teacher was so stern 
androugb, that the younger and more timid 
boys Were nearly crushed. He said a few 
kind words to them; then, placing his hands 
upon the noble brow of the little follow who 
six moutns; so i nui i««~, 
was no other scholar so fortunate. 1 have 
no pets My father raises plenty of berries, 
and it is nico to help gather them for mar¬ 
ket. __ 
Inez, of Rookpovt, Tml., writes:—I am 
a girl only fifteen years old. I like to read 
the nice letters that the boys and girls write 
very much. 1 have been wanting to write 
vou one, but feared you would not think it 
worthy or publication. I shall be very much 
pleased if you publish this, and, if you do, 
you shall hoar from mo again. We have a 
nice town, on the Ohio River ; we will soon 
have a railroad. We have a tine Methodist 
church, a Presbyterian church, nod several 
others,_ , 
Martha J. P. of Knox Co., Ohio, 
writes:—" I have live little canary birds m 
one cage, a nice doll, a Maltese eat, and 
several little Bantam chickens which coma 
round tho door every morning to pick up 
the crumbs that fall from the table; they 
are so nice aud white.” 
Leroy H., of Olutzy, Clinton Co., N. T,, 
Bays:— ‘‘ We live away off here, most to the 
Canada linn. My father is a farmer, and l 
go to school and help do tile chores. I have 
one pet; It is a little mippy, three months 
old. * I have learned him to shut the door. 
FASHION AND FOLLY 
“A perfect woman I noiuv pianncci— 
To warn, to comfort, to command.” 
So said the poet—but I would omit tho 
“ command,” if it related to the husband, 
for I consider that his business. Woman as 
I am, I believe that man should always 
command, and woman obey. Yes, that was 
what (lie Almighty intended should be the 
case from the beginning, else Adam would 
not liavo been created, or made his appear¬ 
ance, first and foremost, 
Nuw-a-days nous 
avous elm n<je. tout ccla (all that is changed), 
and woman trundles along first and fore¬ 
most, sometimes making herself very ridi¬ 
culous in so doing. Ho not think I wish to 
abuse my own sex; far from it! I love and 
admire a noble-minded, sensible woman al¬ 
most as much as I do the same sort of a man; 
but such a woman, I regret to say, as far as 
my observation extends, is not met with as 
often as she might be, in these degenerate 
days. 
I do not wonder at men ridiculing tho 
fashions and follies of women; but 1 regret 
that, many of the sterner sex should so sel¬ 
dom discriminate between “tho wise and 
the foolish virgins.” Men seem to think 
that all women are alike in their vanities 
and frivolities. Let me toll you, Sirs and 
Gentlemen, that a sensible woman despises 
the weak and silly ones of her own sex as 
some- 
COUNTRY LIFE PREFERABLE. 
Oh, this constant, never-ceasing twirl in 
the current of city life! Will it always be 
so? Will the whirl, and bustle, and confu¬ 
sion always have such an attraction? As 
long as moths flutter around a candle, hu¬ 
man moths will doubtless flutter around tho 
light that the city extends. And yet how 
much sweeter and more attractive life in 
the country is! Especially is it to a woman. 
In the country, whatever her circumstances 
of fortune, woman finds that which is an 
Imperative want of her nature—a refined 
home. In a city, if poor, she cannot escape, 
or shield her children from the noisy, vulgar 
life swarming around her; the tenement- 
lodging or tho second-rate lodging-house 
only remain to her. But under a pure sky, 
in a balmy atmosphere, the humblest cot¬ 
tage nestling at the foot of the mountain, 
or under the shadow of one of our majestic 
elms, can bo the fitted home, we will not 
say of a lady—the word is associated with 
vulgar pretensions—but of a gen tie-woman. 
success is wortli Know 
but try, my Imy; try. 
ILLUSTRATED REBUS—No. 16 
THE SILVER RULE 
You all know the golden rule, “ Do unto 
others as you would wish them to do unto 
you." Hero is a rule which is almost a part 
<,f the golden rule, but which we will put by 
itself, and because of its value call it the 
Silver Rule. “Think and say all you can of 
the good qualities of others; forget and 
keep silent concerning their bad qualities.” 
You cannot conceive how much such a 
course will lighten your own happiness and 
much, nay, more, than you do; for, 
times, you must acknowledge, you are so 
taken by a bright eye, or a rosy lip, that 
you overlook tho folly and frivolity for tho 
6ako of a nea t little llirtitLion. 
Tho foolishness of fashion, as a matter of 
course, always attains its hight, in the oity; 
aud yet we often find the ultra-fashionables 
residing in country towns. Still, as a gen¬ 
eral thiug (i must defend my country cous¬ 
ins), taste and moderation in dress is a 
characteristic of farmers’ wives and daugh¬ 
ters. Their good sense and iiuiato appreci¬ 
ation of the beautiful combine to effect in 
their toilets a graceful and pleasing tout-en¬ 
semble, peculiar to well-bred women. 
My ideal of a well-bred lady is one who is I 
richly yet plainly dressed, without all that 
ornamentation which now characterizes our 
sex, and who wears but little jewelry—a 
watch, perhaps, aud a brooob; and wa will 
also allow her bracelets, but no ear-rings— 
barbarous inventions!—let us leave them to 
savages, who are in the habit of cutting 
their flesh for the purpose of inserting or¬ 
naments. A modest woman, modestly and 
becomingly attired in rich fabrics—silk, 
satin or velvet, as the case may be—is, in 
the eyes of men, a noble and charming vis¬ 
ion. She may also, if she be of a domestic 
turn—which fact, I regret to say, is becom¬ 
ing rarer every day—dress herself neatly 
aud becomingly even in calico. What pret- 
E. R. A., Decatur, III 
Answer in two weeks. 
PUZZLE. No. 3 
1 have six letters. My first is a rail road iron; 
my second you know as well as I do; my third 
is a word of three letters; my fourth will make 
me a Mahometan; iny last three arc a house¬ 
keeper’s badge. My whole was first imported 
from America, but is now at home in Europo 
and Asia. What mn I ? 
Answer in two weeks, when we will pub¬ 
lish the names of those who shall have sent us 
correct answers. 
Dress Your Daughters Well.— Every 
woman has such a strong repugnance to be¬ 
ing ill dressed, that a mother should never 
gratuitously wouud this natural feeling, 
associated, as it is, with a fear of ridicule, 
which is, in some degree, connected with 
modesty. Take care, therefore, that your 
daughter be well dressed; and allow her to 
follow the fashion, when this is neither im¬ 
proper nor extravagant. The more she feels 
she is dressed like others, the less will she 
think about the matter. 
The Daughter of a Light-House 
Keeper.—(B. May C.) writes: I am a girl 
twelve years old. My father is the keeper 
of the 'Tibbitt’s Point Light-houso, Cape 
Vincent, and has been for six years. It is 
a very pleasant, place in the summer tune. 
We have a great many visitors to see tho 
T.ight-house. They say it is a very pleasant 
place and they should like to live here in 
the Summer, but not. in the Winter. We 
have a large yard and a nice swing, there 
are nico places to go in bathing too. We have 
a horse aud father takes me to school in 
the Summer, it is three miles to the school 
house. I am a great lover of flowers, and 
so is mv mother and we have a great many. 
We do' not keep a boat, I wish we did, for 
there is nothing I like better than a boat 
ride by moonlight. 
PROBLEM.—No. 6 
Tiie standards of beauty in woman vary 
with those of taste. Socrates called beauty 
a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of 
nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; The¬ 
ocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, 
a solitary kingdom; and Aristotle affirmed 
that it was better than all the letters of rec¬ 
ommendation in the world. 
PUZZLER ANSWERS—March 30. 
Illustrated Rebus No. 14.—Be always at leisure 
to do good. 
Biblical Square-Word No, 3 — 
ROSE 
OBEI4 
S E L A 
E D AH, 
Problem No. 5.—Mark D. Sprout. 
Port Chester. N. Y., sends us the following:-]! And 
the lengths of the three rones required to be as fol¬ 
lows: 12.4-tx 
The “ Dolly Varden ” bonnet3 are said 
to be the prettiest and most becoming head- 
gear that has been worn by women for cen¬ 
turies. 
A Buckeye Girl's Figures.— Lillie 
B. F., writing from Fremont, Ohio, says: 
Now what do yon think of this city of six 
or seven thousand people, who let their 
