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along with his simple blanket as though h 
were wearing the purple. Ills common talk 
is a series of piercing screams, and cries more 
painful to the ear than the most excruciating 
free music that I ever endured." 
The true Bedouin has an aquiline nose, a 
receding mouth and chin, a deep-set, bright 
dark eye, large and ardent. He is thin and 
spare, with little muscle; but active and 
vigorous,—his limbs small, and hands some- 
MUSIO- LEARN TO SING. 
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A FEW WORDS FOR BOTH OLD AND YOUNG FOLKS. 
I TtnNK farmers and their wives are too 
apt to neglect their children’s happiness. 
They find enjoyment in a hard day’s work, 
well done; but children and young folks 
must have their play spell. There is no re¬ 
creation more pleasant, more enjoyable, and 
so much within the reach of every one, as 
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HOW NOT TO BE BEAUTIFUL, 
A vacant ntiml takes all the mean¬ 
ing from the fairest face. A sensual dis¬ 
position deforms the handsomest, feat¬ 
ures. A cold, selfish heart shrivels and 
distorts the best looks. A mean, grov¬ 
eling spirit takes all the dignity out of 
the figure and the character out of the 
countenance. A cherished hatred trans¬ 
forms the most beautiful lineaments 
|J into an image of repulsive ugliness. 
It is as impossible to preserve good 
looks, with a brood of had passions 
A feeding on the blood, a set of low loves 
tramping through the heart, and a sel¬ 
fish, disdainful spirit enthroned in the 
will, as to preserve the beauty of an 
elegant, mansion with a litter of swine 
in the basement, a tribe of gypsies in 
tbc parlor, and owls and vultures in 
the upper part. Badness and beauty 
% will no more keep company a great 
| while than poison will consort with 
health, or an elegant carving survive 
| the furnace fire. The experiment of 
putting them together has been tried 
for Thousands of years, hut with one 
unvarying result. 
Stand on one of the crowded streets, 
v. * 
and note the passers-by, and any one 
can see how a vacant mind has made 
a vacant eye; how a thoughtless, aim¬ 
less mind lias robbed the features ; 
how vanity lias made everything about 
its Victim petty ; how frivolity lias 
faded the luster of tlie countenance; 
how baby thoughts have made baby 
% faces; how pride has cut disdain into 
g the features, and made the face a 
chronic sneer; how selfishness lias 
1 shriveled and wrinkled and withered 
lip the personality ; how hatred has 
^1 deformed and demoralized those who 
■“* yielded to its powers; how every bad 
passion has turned tell-tale, and pub¬ 
lished its disgraceful story in the lines 
of the face and the look of the eye; how 
the old man who has given himself up to 
every sort of wickedness is branded all over 
with deformity and repulsivencss; and lie 
will get a new idea of wlmt retribution is. 
This may not be all, but it is terrible—this 
transforming of a face once full of hope and 
loveliness into deformity and repulsiveness ; 
then the rose blushing on its stalk, now 
ashes and a band. 
Colors. Mr. IIaag has given us a very noble 
head in his picture of Tlte Sheikh. The 
celebrated Baron Larry gave it as his opin¬ 
ion that Arabia was the cradle of the human 
race, and pronounced the Arab skull to be 
the most perfect type of the human head. 
He also affirms that their intellectual perfec¬ 
tibility is equal to their finely developed 
physical organization. Their external senses 
are exquisitely acute and remarkably perfect; 
their sight is extensive in its range; they 
hear at very great distances; and they are 
capable of distinguishing the most subtle 
odors. But the Baron does not decide wheth¬ 
er the perfect organization of the Arab arises 
from the desert climate, or from the early 
cultivation of the higher faculties. “ Sharp 
features, lean, active figures, and keen, ani¬ 
mated, and restless features,” says that great 
ethnologist, Dr. Pritchard, “mark the 
Arab.” Men not unlike Mor/mmed are 
often met with among the Sheikhs. 
llow often you sec Bedouins with long, 
thin, almost flushless faces, and large and 
finely formed features, which, half covered 
by the folds of their white head-dresses, look 
somewhat sad and ghastly. “ The Bedouin’s 
large dark orbs,” says Mr. Kin glare, “roll 
slowly and solemnly over the white of Ids 
deep-set eyes. Ilis countenance shows pain¬ 
ful thought and long-suffering,—the suffer¬ 
ing of one fallen from a high estate. Ilis 
gait is strangely majestic, and he marches 
times of almost feminine delicacy. Their 
hair is almost always of a deep black and 
very bushy; the expression of their physiog¬ 
nomy is stern and severe. The Arabs high 
up the Nile beyond Dougda are black as 
negroes, while in the mountains on the west 
of Gomer, Bruce reports them as often hav¬ 
ing red hair and blue eyes. 
Niebuhr describes the mountain women 
as very pretty, hut Eothen found the No- 
made women plain, haggard, and clumsy, 
without religion, and addicted to tobacco. 
Hospitable the Arabs arc, and when they 
have it, they will share with all who come 
beneath, their tent-roof their camel’s milk, 
curds and bread. After all, the noniade life 
is a hot and dismal one. A well-known 
English traveler once met a Sheikh aiul his 
family who for nine months in the year never 
tasted any food hut camel’s milk. This man 
had never even heard of the division Of time 
into hours. After all he was only a thou¬ 
sand years or so behind Ills fellows, 
The Arabs in Egypt arc said to he easily 
trained to imitate, with astonishing facility, 
the work of European artists and artisans, 
and they also acquire languages with equal 
ease. Perhaps some day a new Mohammed 
may arise and lead forth these changeless 
and unconquerable hordes to reconquer Asia. 
From them some new civilization may 
spring, like Mohammed, to repress Pagan¬ 
ism and smooth the way for Christianity. 
music—especially singing. Music in a house¬ 
hold, should he an essential —mould be if 
every one knew its worth. It “drives dull 
care away," and ill-temper, too. And thrice 
happy is the home where music lias a place. 
Now, old folks, give your young ones the 
time and opportunities , if it does cost a little 
money, to learn to sing. Get them hooks 
and a competent teacher, if one Is to he 
found, and don’t grudge a few dollars. It 
will be paid back in cheerfulness and happi¬ 
ness—in sunshine in your homes. “ All 
work and no play, makes Jack a dull hoy.” 
Don’t let your children grow old too young. 
Let them have a happy childhood to look 
back upon. 
And now, young folks, if father and 
mother will not help you learn to sing, help 
yourselves. Learn to read notes. Ts there 
not some one of you, in a neighborhood, who 
understands this and will leach the rest? If 
there is, meet at yonr different homes and 
learn; or get the teacher in your neighbor¬ 
ing village to commence a singing school. 
If you are in earnest, you can obtain money 
in some way to attend If this cannot he 
done, get an old singing book and study it fragrance lo others, and life to all! It would 
out yourself. Any one can learn if lie tries, he no unworthy tiling to live for, to make 
Don't be discouraged. If certain ones do the power which we have within us the 
DIFFUSEES OF HAPPINESS. 
