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NOTHING WON 18 LOST.”, 
IIV 6KA0K Or.KNN 
Yes, 1 know my rost«jn wither, 
But 1 held them first in bloom,— 
Kept them long enough to nather 
All the sweet of their perfume. 
Aye, I see the light l» fading 
And the shadows grow apaott— 
And the twilight clouds are shading 
Many an erst time glorious place. 
But my soul has learned a gladness. 
And my pulse has felt a thrill 
Tliat the night, time with its sudness 
And Its silence may not kill. 
HOMES AND HOME MAKING. 
Tho’ I hear the thunders mutter 
In the blackness of the sky, 
Richest words of comfort utter 
Tender voices nearer by. 
And J own I hare been dreaming 
What I wept to find untrue ; 
Now I know that sleep had cost me 
Blessings waking brings me through 
And I scarce may count my losses — 
But (lit spirit has a store 
Where the world's unhealthy drosses, 
Rusting, euter nevermore 
Where of gold that horo refining, 
Wasted In no single mill; 
And my Jewels, In their shining 
Testify the workman’s skill. 
Tho',—for sacrifice,-nn altar 
Stand through life by every shrine— 
If my purpose shall not falter. 
Worth once gained is always mine. 
Saginaw City, Mich., June, 1871. 
DOLLY J S POBTPwAIT. 
[FOR POETICAL DESCRIPTION, $IfiE YOUNG PEOPLE’S DEPARTMENT, 
TACT vs. WILL: 
OR, HOW ONE HUSBAND WAS MANAGED 
CONCERNING KISSING. 
Rut why, in the midst of our blissed. 
Do you usk me how manu I crave? 
I’m not to be stinted in pleasure. 
So, prithee, my charmer, be kind ; 
For since I love thou beyond measure. 
To numbers I'll ne'er be confined ! 
Count the herds that o'er Tempo are straying, 
The flowers that enamel its fields ; 
Cmint tho bees t hut o'er llybln are playing ; 
The grain that rich Sicily yields; 
Go, number the stars in the heaven. 
Go, count all tho sands on the shores 
When so many kisses you've given, 
I still shall be craving for more’ ” 
Among British bards, Burns and Moore, 
like .ill the amatory poets, made frequent 
allusion to kissing; blit neither they, nor 
any of the modern lights of lovc-literattire 
(with t w o notable exceptions), have devoted 
special poems to ihe subject. Browning 
lias given ns a remarkably dainty hit of 
verse, telling in how many ways he would 
choose to be kissed ; and his more gifted 
wife in her charming sonnet, commencing 
“First Time lie KissiSf'^Je” lias shown 
how capable a theme it is>, for beauty and 
tenderness, in the hands of genius. 
Of American poems about kissing, Saxe’s 
“ Ode to Lesbia” is the only one we remem¬ 
ber, with Hie exception of an epigram enti¬ 
tled “Lip-Service,” with a copy of which 
we will.conclude, this article: 
".fulla once and once again, 
la coqncttlah fashion, 
Heedless of her lover's pain, 
Mocked hts burning passion :— 
• Words of worship lightly fall 
From a courtier, surely ; 
Mere “ lip-service ’’—that is alt t * 
Said the maid demurely. 
Then his kisses relinks dew, 
.lust where Love would choose 'em. 
On her mouth—and through and through 
Thrilled her glowing bosom, 
Till she felt—nor uttered she 
Whisper of negation— 
* Mere lip-service ' still may be 
Perfect adoration J" 
those who yielded to its power; how every 
bad passion lias turned tell-tale and pub¬ 
lished its disgraceful story in the lines of 
the face ami tlie look of tho eye; how the 
old man who lias given himself up to every 
sort of wicki.'ilnesa is branded all over with 
deformity and icffulsiveness, and lie wilt get 
a new idea of What retribution is. Tin's may 
not be all, but it is terrible—this transform¬ 
ing of a face once full of hope and loveli¬ 
ness into deformity and impulsiveness; then 
t he rose blushing on its stalk, now ashes and 
a brand.” 
BY ETHEL OKA If A ME, 
Latin and French; and a thousand epigrams 
(more or less), these are about all llial. have 
been written on one of the most, piquant, if 
not llie profoundcHl, of topics. In Hebrew 
literature the “ Song of Solomon” conlaius, 
it is said, the most and the best to bo found 
on the subject of kissing. The Greek poets, 
with one op two exceptions, mated little men¬ 
tion of it, save as an net of reverence. Sap¬ 
pho, who may be supposed to have known 
something of the matter, docs not appear— 
judging by the fragments of iter writings 
which remain—to have thought the topic 
worthy of her muse. Thcoeiitns clearly 
knew Hie value of a kiss, as a demonstration 
of affection. Very prettily, blit with singu¬ 
lar moderation of feeling and diction, he 
says to a beautiful lady friend, 
“I would have been contented 
With a kltts of your sweet mouth.” 
Plato, philosopher as lie was, seems to have 
been vastly more enthusiastic. In bis elegant 
vcrsicle entitled “ The Kiss," he declares that 
on a certain occasion his soul quite deserted 
his body, being literally lost in a smack,— 
like a shipwrecked fisherman! With com¬ 
mendable reticence, lie does not mention the 
lady’s name, after the manner of later poets, 
who “kiss and tell” with shameful freedom 
of speech,—provided, indeed, their Lydian 
and Lulagea are not mere pseudonyms. 
Of the Roman bards it is notable that 
Horace makes little of kissing in his litera¬ 
ture, whatever ho may have done in his life. 
Perhaps he was warned off the premises by 
the wonderful success of Catullus in Ids fa¬ 
mous ode to Lesbia, —a poem altogether un¬ 
rivalled in its way, and leaving to later poets 
nothing but to vie with each other in at¬ 
tempting to imitate or translate it, “ Do you 
ask, Lesbia” sings Catullus, “ how many 
kissings of thine can be enough?_ As 
many as are the sands of the African desert; 
or as many as arc the stars that, behold the 
secret loves of mortals when night is still,” 
By the by, one of the finest of American 
scholars, commenting on lids passage, calls 
attention to the poet’s felicitous use of the 
word “ kissings” (basationet\ which he em¬ 
ploys instead of “ Kisses” (beuia), with ft tine 
effect of multiplication. A French poet, 
however, has improved on Hie mode of com¬ 
putation which Catullus gives in his “ basia 
mille, t&c.” by a single ingenious phrase 
which extends the luxury ad infinitum! 
In a poem by Victor Hugo it is said of two 
lovers— 
" On s'embrnsso a chaque Instant, 
Pul* encore! ” 
Kissing “ every moment and then again!” 
is an expression which reminds one of 
“Three cheers and a tiger!” onlv it is a 
is the true one. Don t. wait till your eye has 
lost its accuracy and your judgment its edge. 
Subject, the thing at once to the general 
rule, and bow to the decision. 
3d. What suits one person docs not suit 
another. Know thyself. 
3d. Dress should supplement good points 
and correct bad ones. Thick and thin, long 
and short, are not all to be subjected to one 
Procrustean style. 
4th. Colors should be harmonious, should 
be massed, should be becoming. Id est, 
many iiiLlc points or blotches of color sprink¬ 
led over a costume produces a pied and 
speckled effect, as of a monstrous robin’s 
egg or a plum pudding. One tint should 
prevail, relieved by a contrasting tint. No 
amount of fashionable prestige can enable 
an unbecoming color to be becoming. “ Nile 
Green" will turn some people into oranges, 
though twenty empresses ordain its adoption. 
5th, Lines should be continuous, graceful 
and feminine. It is hotter to look like a 
woman (if you happen to be one) than any¬ 
thing else, even a fashion plate. 
6 th. Ornament uniat be subordinate. Na¬ 
ture, with all her profusion, never forgets 
this fundamental Jaw. 
7th. Above all things, be neat. Dainty 
precision and freshness is as essential to a 
woman as to a flower. 
8 th. Individuality is the rarest and the 
cheapest thing in the world. 
Oth, and lastly, “ Stylish” is of all the 
words in the English language the most 
deadly. If has slain its thousands. 
HOW NOT TO BE BEAUTIFUL, 
A writer in the Annual of Phrenology 
and Physiognomy says“ A vacant mind 
takes all the meaning out of the fairest face. 
A sensual disposition deforms the handsom¬ 
est. features. A cold, selfish heart .shrivels 
and distorts the best looks. A mean, grovel¬ 
ing spirit takes all the dignity out of the 
figure and all the character out of the counte¬ 
nance. A cherished hatred transforms the 
most beautiful lineaments into an image of 
ugliness. 
“ It is as impossible to preserve good looks 
with a brood of bad passions feeding on tho 
blood, a set of low loveH tramping through 
the heart, and a selfish, disdainful spirit en¬ 
throned in the will, as to preserve the beauty 
of an elegant mansion with a litter of swine 
in the basement, a tribe of gipsies in the 
parlor, and owls and vultures in the upper 
part. Badness and beauty will no move 
keep company a great while than poison 
Mill consort with health, or an elegant carv¬ 
ing survive the furnace fire. The experi¬ 
mentof putting them together has been tried 
for thousands of years, but witli one unvary¬ 
ing result. 
“ Stand on one of (lie crowded streets and 
note the passers by, and any one can see bow 
a vacant mind has made a vacant eye, how 
a thoughtless, aimless mind has robbed the 
features of expression; how vanity lias 
made everything about Ids victim petty; 
how frivolity has faded the luster of tiie 
countenance; how baby thoughts have made 
baby faces; how pride hiw cut disdain into 
the features and made the face a chronic 
sneer; how selfishness has shriveled and 
wrinkled, and withered up the personality; 
how hatred lias deformed and demonized 
ihe 1 rue Newspaper— that which 
would represent the true mission of the press 
ol this wonderful age of progress—must have 
a great heart in it, and a never-sleeping con¬ 
science. Tt must be magnanimous and god¬ 
ly—“ with charity toward ail, and malice 
toward none." It must speak the truth bold¬ 
ly tor the truth s sake, and cherish justice as 
Hie apple of its eye. It must seek by the 
prosperity of right principles and right 
thoughts, to be useful as well as popular, 
to build up the truth and tear down error_ 
in short, to improve and ennoble, as well as 
to enlighten mankind'—/flu. 
Sense shines with a double luster when 
it is set in humility. An able and yet. hum¬ 
ble man, is a jewel worth a kingdom.— Penn. 
Inviolable fidelity, good humor and 
complacency of temper, outlive all the 
charms of a fine face, and make the decays 
of it invisible.— Tatter. 
A friend should lie one in whose under¬ 
standing and virtue we can equally confide 
and whose opinion we can value at once for 
its justness and its sincerity. 
