MOOSiTS E'flilAL HEW v fOEAEE 
abbs’ |Jort-3Folto. 
FAITHFULNESS! 
1 oavk hnr a cluster of blossoms; 
She wore them all day on her breast; 
I saw them, and thrilled with wild rapture, 
And—you can imagine the rest! 
We lived in a world as delightful 
As any that ever was known. 
And lore was the king that wo worshiped— 
We gnve him our hearts for u throne. 
I remember 1 kissed her at parting, 
And promised to always be true : 
And she whispor'd, through tears, as she left me 
'•I’ll never love any but you 1” 
Last night, at a party, I met her— 
No longer tho delicate girl 
That she was, years ago. when I loved her, 
Kro life tilled our hearts with its whirl. 
And I could not help smiling to see her. 
With tlguro so heavy and round, 
For she used to be slender and airy. 
And dance like u sylph o’er the ground. 
And her face was as red ns wild roses, 
And shone like the silk that she wore ; 
And it used to be fulrasa lily. 
Just tinted with pink, and no more. 
They gave ns a grave introduction : 
1 t hink she'd forgotten me quite— 
But presented to me her first daughter, 
A pretty young lady in white. 
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IGNORE IT. 
BY GRACE GLENN. 
“May I know llie reason you refused an 
introduction to Mr. Hale?” asked a gentle¬ 
man of a young lady friend. . 
“ Because," she replied, “ I learned lliat. ho 
had talked with Air. B-about, my de¬ 
sirability for H wile, and I did not think I 
could feel comfortable or act natural in his 
presence.” 
“ You should ignore it entirely. He is a 
fine fellow, is well educated, and has trav¬ 
eled; is every way fitted to be enjoyable so¬ 
ciety to you.” 
“ Yes, but Mrs. B-told me about it, 
and he knows 1 know the whole conversa¬ 
tion and his reasons for asking the introduc¬ 
tion, and how can I grant the request with¬ 
out seeming to grant its conditions, which I 
am not prepared to do ?” 
“ Ignore them; ignore them altogether. 
Mrs. B-was short-sighted, no doubt, in 
all the faults and follies of everybody in 
general, in a confidential, patronizing way 
that is wonderfully winning to some people. 
If von do not want to get. bitten look out for 
them. Make no replies and come to no con¬ 
clusions ; for, ten to one, when you reach 
the truth you will have had your t rouble for 
your pains, and find that Simply ignoring 
the whole thing at the outset would ha ve 
saved you a vast deal of annoyance and dis¬ 
gust. “ Charity covercth a multitude of sins.” 
Love never willingly brings its object into 
disgrace;and no true love of Got>, and hu¬ 
manity will delight in the debasement, of any 
fellow-creature. 
When temptation in any way attacks you, 
the surest, quickest, and easiest way to re¬ 
sist and conquer is simply to walk away as 
if it did not exist, and after a few “ well di¬ 
rected blows” of indifference, neglect, and 
ignorance, it will soon cease to follow you, 
and you will wonder that ever it was a 
temptation. 
Ionia, Mich., 1870. 
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WHAT RURAL WOMEN WRITE. 
octal 
gopics. 
telling you, and still more so in letting Hale 
know it, and then telling you his knowledge 
of it. One must be exceedingly willing to 
have a choice made for her, l admit, if she 
did not do as you have. But having heard 
nothing of it from any one but you, l can in¬ 
troduce you as a more incident, as l am 
anxious to do, that you may be entertained, 
and that profitably, by his acquaintance. 
He is too much a gentleman to pass respect¬ 
ful limits; and, us 1 said before, rise above 
this conversation, ignore it, and learn a good 
lesson in the exercise, and appear less awk¬ 
ward than to avoid him in Mo, It young 
ladies knew all that men say of them, they 
would be shyer than they are now; but 1 
tell you there are many things they are bet¬ 
ter off without knowing, and many things 
they hear they bad better forget or put aside 
as though they had not hoard.” 
Trim, every word; and others as well as 
young ladies might often apply with profit 
those little words so aptly repealed. When 
your friend speaks a hasty, unkind word, or 
does a like act, remember that behind the 
momentary cloud a great wealth of glowing 
love-light Is hidden, that will shine out 
upon you by-ancl-by. The cloud is a greater 
burden to him Ilian to ymi, for be Carries it 
and you are only under its shadow; just 
pity him and ignore the darkness until it. is 
clear weather again. Then he will strive so 
earnestly to heal the wound made, not by 
him but by the uncouth blackness lie could 
not at the time dispel, and you can help him 
to keep it further away in tlie future. 
When petty trials vex and irritate you, 
and a hundred little mole-hills mingle and 
grow into one great mountain, just as human 
faces grow to huge, distorted and terrifying 
proportions before fever-burning eyes that 
can see nothing aside of or beyond them un 
til the fever breaks,—ignore them, rise above 
them. A year hence you will have forgotten 
them. Kill them now, and kill them quickly. 
There can be many a domestic cloud 
scattered by a bit of nonsense, no matter 
bow silly, so It makes a laugh — a half- 
ashamed, frightened laugh it may be at first, 
but never mind, door say anything that will 
purely and effectually break the fever of 
fretful ness. 
When a whisperer fills your ear with gos¬ 
sip of your neighbor, especially if it be 
something that neighbor lias said of you, 
silence the whisper if you can before you 
get more of the sermon than the text; if 
you cannot do this, ignore it if you would 
he happy. You do not know what yon have 
not yourself seen or heard. Repeat nothing 
for a truth that you could not say under 
oatli; and not then, unless it will do some¬ 
body a good that can be done in no other 
S way. 
This reminds one what an idea some peo- 
„ pie have that it is their duty to benefit (?) 
everybody in particular by exposing to view 
Woman’s Dnlii*s. 
* “All hail to the truly Christian girls of 
Indiana, who have determined not to notice 
young men of doubtful character.” Thus 
says a writer on “ Woman’s Duties” in the 
Rural New-Yorker of July Otli. Is it 
possible for an individual to be truly a 
Christian and pass unnoticed those who are 
easily led into temptation ? Are young men 
or young women more likely to return to 
paths of rectitude, after having taken one, 
two, three, or perhaps a dozen steps in the 
way of dissipation, by receiving what is fre¬ 
quently termed the “ cold shoulder” of their 
friends, or of those they supposed were 
such? Would it be acting the part of the 
good Samaritan ? Did Christ puss by any 
poor unfortunate because lie hud sinned, and 
come short of his various duties? How 
many who arc now treading the thorny way 
that, leads to the drunkard's grave, or are 
living in shame and Infamy, might, say: 
“ If a single friend lmd given me the kind 
hand, the pleasant greeting that others were 
constantly receiving, who were no more per¬ 
fect than 1, I too might have been led up 
beyond the terrible depths toward which 1 
was fast hastening; but no one cared for 
me, and I soon lost, care for myself.” 
Bays one:—“No individual has any moral 
right to do what, he knows will injure him¬ 
self, and all with whom lie has to do.” 
Certainly not; hut you who are so strong 
in morality, must remember that all are not. 
blest with your organization, and that it is 
very easy for poor, weak human nature to 
err. There arc some who must he led all 
the way to the very gates of Heaven, or they 
will certainly fall, and possibly perish by t he 
way. Then, would it not he as well for 
those truly Christian Indiana girls each to 
give those young men of doubtful character 
a little sisterly attention? Perhaps they 
may have brothers who are not quite per¬ 
fect.. Would they like to see t hem scorned 
by their respectable lady friends? 
It is not necessary lor a lady to marry a 
man who is in the habit of using intoxicat¬ 
ing drinks, or who will follow any demoral 
izing inclination; but. it she is truly a Chris¬ 
tian, will she not use her influence in re- 
POWER OF SHORT WORDS. 
[Tin: late Prof. Addison Al.rcx ANnv.a. i>. I)., Is 
t.tio author of tho I'nllowinijromrtrkable composition, 
which appeared originally In the Princeton Miiga- 
seine :) 
Think not that strength lies in the big round word, 
Or that the brief Hint plain must needs he weak. 
To whom cum this he true who onto lias hoard 
The cry for help, the tongue that all men apeak, 
When want or woe or fear Is in the throat, 
So that each word gasped out Is like a shriek 
Pressed from tho sore heart, or.i strange wild note, 
Song by some lay or fiend ! There is a strength 
Which dies it stretched too far or spun too tine, 
Which has more bight than breadth, move depth 
than length. 
Let but this force of thought and speech be mine. 
And he that will may take thu sleek, fat phrase. 
Which glows and burns not. though it gkuani and 
sltlno— 
Light but not heat—a flash, but not a blaze! 
Nor la it mem strength that, the short word boasts. 
It serves of more than tight or storm to tell, • 
The roar of waves that, clash on rock-hound coasts, 
The crash of tall trees when the wild winds swell. 
The roar cf of guns, the groans of men that die 
On blood-stained field*. It has a voice as well 
For them that Car olTon tholr sick hods Ho, 
For them that weep. Tor them that mourn the 
dead: 
For them that laugh and dance and clap the hand ; 
To Joy’# quick step, as well as grief’s slow tread, 
The sweet, plain words we learnt at first keep time, 
And though the theme bo sad, or gay, or grand, 
With each, with all, these may bo made to chime. 
In thought, or speech, or song, in prose or rhyme. 
A MOTHER’S STORY. 
enduring than 
that is 
claiming the outcast, ami will not the in¬ 
fluence of smiles be more 
“ frowns ?” A kind word is a jewel 
never lost, though it may seem to fall amid 
rough and jagged rocks, or among weeds 
and thistles. Flowers will bud and blossom 
often where least expected. And Charity It) 
a flower that never becomes noxious, how 
ever plenteous it may abound.— May Maple. 
One Woninn's Opinion of Women’s IMuht*. 
I maintain that to vote, to take part with 
men in the affairs of our National Govern¬ 
ment, by leaving her home to fill public 
offices, at the town elections, at the State 
Legislature, or in the Senate, is not woman’s 
mission, and if she claims it as her right she 
is an usurper, and seeks what will prove a 
curse to herself and to succeeding genera¬ 
tions. 1 believe this theory to be true, for 
the very reason that it is old—as old as 
God’s first law to man. The ways and laws 
of the great Jehovah are immutable; we 
cannot change or break them with impu¬ 
nity. Borne things that are now are good 
things that tend to the improvement, intel¬ 
lectually and physically, of mankind, and 
add to their happiness without conflicting 
with God’s laws, or seeking to pervert His 
way. And woman, if she would attain to 
her full rights and find her proper sphere, 
let her seek to enlighten her mind, purify 
and elevate her affections and moral charac¬ 
ter so that, she will he fitted to be the spirit¬ 
ual as well as temporal helpmeet to man— 
never at his feet. All, no! nor at his head, 
but bravely and nobly maintaining her place 
at his side, equal, yet endowed with a more 
subtle sympathy, a higher moral sense which 
fits her to do a nobler and more difficult 
work, the adorning of Christian homes, and 
the guiding and training of infant minds; 
and this, though overlooked, and considered 
insignificant by many, is a great work.— A. m. 
One Wav lo Mnlir Home Happy. 
My Dear Friend:—You have asked me 
what was the secret of wlmt you arc pleased 
to call my success in bringing up children 
so united in their love to home. At the time 
1 could not remember any particular course 
that 1 hail adopted, beside making home 
happy, and said so; but I remember the 
earnestness with which you immediately re¬ 
joined : 
“ But how did you make home happy?” 
All the steps of early training, now so 
ong past, had escaped my memory ; but the 
late coming to our home of a little nephew 
has presented anew the old problems and 
recalled my former experience. You will 
remember that when I removed to your 
quiet town, I had little left me beside my 
three children—the oldest seven years of 
age. Too young to attend the public 
schools, a systematic home training began. 
They learned to read with hut little effort 
on my pact, for they lirid Ifeteiml to suitable 
stories from the time they understood the 
meaning of words, the hook being so hold 
that they could follow the words. Then 
came learning to print, which, if l remem¬ 
ber rightly, was taken up for their own 
amusement. This acquirement enabled 
them to read lifilc lists that were made out 
successively for each one, giving them some¬ 
thing to do each day.—These lists were very 
simple at first, just such as now form the 
programme for a little boy eight years old. 
To be explicit, I copy: 
Dress; brush tooth; fold up night-gown; 
throw beil-olnthes over the foot-hoard; set 
chairs around break List, table; Put tho napkins 
on the table: put, back your own chair after 
breakfast; chop kindlings; Fill water pitchers; 
Go for tho mail; read aloud; work out simple 
examples on the slate; wash bands and brush 
hair; put chairs around tho dinner table; put 
on tho table napkins: put away yourown chair; 
amuse yourself quietly till three o'clock; wash 
hands and face and brush hair; pur. chairs 
around tho supper table; put away chairs after 
sup pet;; any your prayers; undress and go to 
bed. 
This list was made out and tacked upon 
the inside of a closet door in the sitting-room 
and a copy, made by the hoy himself, was 
fastened beside his bed. A few words suf¬ 
ficed to excite an interest in it and a pride in 
being useful to the family. The regular 
occupation made play doubly pleasant. The 
written order made constant supervision un¬ 
necessary, and fostered self-reliance and self- 
respect. The rule that no visiting or play 
off the premises, were lobe thought of, until 
the prescribed work was done, was no more 
irksome to the children, than the inevitably 
necessary denial of fancied wants would have 
been, and tbo whole arrangement brought 
them to have a plan of life adapted to their 
capacities. As Lhc children grew, other 
duties were added or substituted. 
The time for reading aloud was chosen 
when I should be at liberty to sit down with 
my sewing in the morning and if it were 
possible to put off any engagement that in¬ 
terfered, it was done. The reading was a 
chapter or two in Abbott’s Rollo Books. 
The interest of the story was sufficient to 
make it welcome every day. The dialogues 
continually interspersed, gave room for a 
moderate degree of inflection, while the style 
was so perfectly adapted to the child’s com 
prehension, the events described so like his 
own daily experience, the moral lessons so 
pleasantly taught, that the whole series, and 
the Jonas Books that follow, were read with¬ 
out weariness and with great profit. 
While the child was learning to read aloud 
well, he learned also how to work, how to 
play, how to be obedient and studious at 
school, bow to enjoy a vacation, how to ob¬ 
serve the wonderful things about him, liow 
to make philosophical toys, bow to love 
natural objects, how to collect and preserve 
them and how to admire and imitate gentle¬ 
ness and docility of character. While they 
taught the child, the mother also learned 
admirable lessons from the example of judi¬ 
cious training that they exemplified. Now 
that I can look back twenty years, I am sur¬ 
prised and grateful to realize how much lam 
indebted to those books. 
The daily readings opened to the little 
questioners so many sources of knowledge, 
suggested so many harmless amusements, 
that from that time there was little need for 
me to invent either useful occupation or play. 
Indeed, they themselves devised so many 
plans that my sympathy and advice were in 
constant demand to aid in their execution. 
The little projects and enterprises constant ly 
on foot, absorbed the money presented to 
them from time to time, as there was always 
something to buy besides candy. If there 
was no immediate use for the whole store of 
funds, the remainder on-luind was deposited 
In the bank, not for the purpose oi hoarding 
or increasing it, but for safe keeping till it 
was needed to carry out some pet plan. 
I remember on one occasion a friend said, 
“ But your ideas cost so much !” Well, they 
did. Not so much, though, as idleness, con¬ 
stant visiting, or mischief would have done. 
To look at it from the lowest point of view, 
the books bought to instruct their tastes have 
enabled them to collect curiosities and other 
property that could be made to cover die 
original cost many times. Besides, yoq can¬ 
not. rear one of the lower animals without 
considerable, outlay. And bow, beyond 
price shall we estimate the moral advantages 
of wise expenditure upon the growth and ac¬ 
quirements of au immortal soul ? 
The interest excited made the children fee 
that well-chosen books were very fascinating 
companions, and the habit of reading for 
pleasure was insensibly formed. I believe 
they have now a hook upon every depart 
meat of knowledge or amusement that has 
interested them, from "The Boy’s Own Toy 
Maker, teaching, in the beginning, how to 
make a paper soldier cap, to works on Sci¬ 
ence and Fine Arts. 
So many objects of interest were discov¬ 
ered, that the child’s peculiar tasles soon be¬ 
came prominent and were encouraged. 
One child devoted himself to gardening, 
fishing, hunting and drawing. Ho studied 
civil engineering, and commenced active 
work on a Northwestern railroad. 
Another dressed dolls, pelted animals and 
birds, and even mice, arranged tableaux, 
projected little dramatic enterlainments, 
manufactured all sorts of beautiful little 
things, designed her own dresses and 
modelled in clay. 
A third studied the flags of different coun¬ 
tries, copied them in miniature, using the 
contents of his mother’s bundle bags; col¬ 
lected coins and books on numismatics, 
studied entomology, and preserved insects; 
ornithology, and stuffed birds; oology, and 
gathered eggs; practised carpentry, making 
rude furniture, picture frames, and cabinets; 
and studied and practised bookkeeping in 
the employ of a railroad company. 
All these things made busy lives Ibr three 
children, and will, 1 hope, for a fourth ; oc¬ 
cupied happily the time out of school hours; 
crowded out bad company and innumer¬ 
able temptations; and have gone far to- 
abbutb 
■<S> 
CONSOLATION. 
nv adki.aidi: a. puoctok. 
•What si-inna »n tlurlt to thy dim sight, 
May he a shadow—Been aright— 
Making Homo brlKhtness doubly bright. 
The Hush that struck thy tree—no more 
To shelter then let Heaven's blue floor 
Shine where it. never shone before. 
The erv wrung from thy spirit’s pain 
May coho on some fur off plain, 
To guide a wanderer home again. 
Fail, yet rejoice because no less 
The failure that makes thy distress 
May teach another full success. 
It may be that in some great need, 
Thy life’s poor fragments are decreed 
To lie I p build up a lolly deed. 
Thy heart should throb in vast content, 
Thus knowing that It was but moult 
As Choral In one great instrument; 
That even tho discord in thy soul 
May make completer music roll 
From out tlie groat, harmonious whole. 
ward makiug dutiful children, industrious 
citizens, ami a grateful, hopeful mother. 
Marquette, Mich. F. M. S. 
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SOCIAL GLEANINGS. 
Popular Pseudonyms. 
Some of our readers who frequently meet 
with assumed names in literature, will he 
glad to know I he real names of those who 
use them. The following list embraces many 
American writers who use fictitious signa¬ 
tures : 
PRAYER 
As a question oi Philosophy. 
In “ Reason and Religion,” we find the fol¬ 
lowing upon a subject that is much thought 
of by serious thinkers:—“I must suspect, 
that philosophy as shallow mid insufficient, 
which runs counter to the native instincts of 
tlie soul, Philosophy objects that prayer is 
founded in low, anthropomorphic views of 
God. What if it should appear that the cur¬ 
rent philosophy itself is guilty, and that in a 
far greater degree, of precisely tho same 
fault? -that the view of God which that 
philosophy assumes is the least adequate, the 
most crude and unphilosophieal.of the two? 
For is it tuff a mechanical view of divine 
methods and operations? It regards God as 
a mechanician; the world as a machine, 
wliieh, once set a going, obeys with automat¬ 
ic. regularity the impulses imparted to it— 
the law in its constitution—and admits of no 
change. It places God afar off, apart from 
the world, which Ho governs by its own 
mechanism, interfering only to repair and 
adjust, when the mechanism is out of gear. 
“ Is it not more philosophical to think of 
God as the immanent, all present Source of 
life, and the universe as the manifestation of 
that life? to think of Him, not as apart 
from His works,, but ns a Spirit pervading 
ind possessing them and us— lie in us and 
we in Him — and prayer as tlie felt contact 
of our spirits with His? If this view is the 
true one, then the question whether God is 
oxorable is already answered. We may 
boldly say that every genuine prayer affects 
the Deity in proportion to the faith that is in 
it. Every genuine prayer is a positive force 
in the universe of things. The eternal Will 
—the axis of creation—hows and dips to 
human entreaty. Tlie world of spirits sub¬ 
sisting and centered in God, is moved by it 
as the sea is moved by whatever stirs within 
its depths. The motion may not reach to 
the outward, visible result which the prayer 
Contemplates. It may want tho requisite 
force for that confirmation. But every 
prayer, in proportion to the force Unit is in 
it, tends to that result. And the force that 
is ill it is the measure of faith which inspires 
it; which works in it, and by it. Faith is 
the hold we have of the Godhead. Faith is 
a power which sways Omnipotence. It is 
no figure of speech, no oriental exaggeration, 
when Jesus says:—‘If ye have faith, nil 
things shall be possible to you.’ it is im¬ 
possible to set any limit to this power. Wo 
may say, without irreverence, that God is 
Constrained hy it; inasmuch as itself is di¬ 
vine. In this sense it was said, ‘ The Spirit 
itself niaketli intercession for us.’ The Spirit 
prays— God acting on God.” 
Josh HilllnKH, 
I’n ul Oroyt.uii, 
Shirley Ouro, 
Grucu Union wood. 
Gull llumillui), 
Marion Uitrlunil, 
Jennie June, 
Orpheus •’. iG-rr, 
Edmund K nice, 
MlntwooU, 
PctrolisUM V. Nusby, 
Oliver optic. 
Miles 0’Reilly, 
Mm. Partington. 
Flortinei* Percy, 
Porto Crayon, 
Timothy TitcolUb, 
Trusta, (iinuK'ram.) 
Murk Twain, 
Henry W. Sliaiv. 
.1. T. Trowbridge. 
Miss Susan c. Dunning. 
Mrs. Sui’A.i. (’. Lippiueott. 
Miss Mary A. Dodge. 
Mrs. M. V. Terhun<». 
Mrs. Jo mile v. uroiy. 
It. H. Newell. 
. 1 . It. Gtlmoru. 
Miss Mury A. 10. Wuger. 
I). R. Locke. 
Win. T. Adams. 
Col. Clots, li. llalpluo. 
B. P. Shi Dither. 
Mrs. Alters Allen. 
Gen. I). I{. Strother. 
Josiuh <!, Holland. 
Kli/.uiieth Stuart Phelps. 
Samuel L.Clemens. 
Throwing lhe Kline. 
Throwing the shoe is a very ancient cus¬ 
tom, and still practiced in many rural dis¬ 
tricts, especially in Yorkshire, where the 
ceremony of throwing the shoe after the 
bride for good luck is called I lashing. 
The shoe, in connection with marriage, may¬ 
be traced to a period anterior to Christiani¬ 
ty. In Dcuteroiioniv, x\v., the ceremony of 
a widow rejecting-li«r husband's_ brother in 
marriage is hy loosing his shoe lr«nit oil his 
foot; and In Ruth we read that it was the 
custom in Israel concerning changing, that 
it man plucked off Ids shoe and deliveren : t 
to his neighbor. Hence Mr. Tiikupp, i 
“N otes and Queries,” suggests that the 
throwing a shoe after a bride was originally 
a symbol of renunciation of all authority 
over her by her father or guardian, and the 
receipt of it by the bridegroom, even if acci¬ 
dental, as an omen that the authority was 
transferred to him. 
THOUGHTS BY THINKERS. 
ClmracterlsticM of Christ’* Life. 
R. H. Howard says :—“ What was the 
characteristic feature of Christ’s earthly life? 
Was it not “ going about doing good ? ” 
Does it not, therefore, necessarily follow that 
we shall be holy in proportion as we yearn 
to be useful, to lie of service to others, to bo 
good for something ? Here, then, we have 
the highest test of holiness. Wlmt? A 
certain ecstatic tumult of soul ? No. For 
all I know a man may have this, and yet it 
may never have occurred to him that he 
was born into the kingdom of God, not in¬ 
deed merely to get happy and go to heaven, 
but to help somebody to make) somebody better .” 
The Ilivliitiy of Individual Service. 
Du. Curry says: — “ If all life is but pre¬ 
paratory and preliminary, and if Infinite 
Wisdom, in answer to prayer, ever directs us 
in tlie best course to secure the highest form 
of holiness for personsof our nature, tempera¬ 
ment and talent s, il becomes a small mutter as 
t<> the comparative earthly dignity or humili¬ 
ty of our allotted tasks, of less moment ihe 
temporal troubles connected with them; 
while every form of service or of endurance, 
if understood to be of divine appointment, 
nd the best adapted to bring us into har¬ 
mony with the divine diameter, becomes 
sublime and greatly to be coveted. We are 
never to forget that this discipline is indi¬ 
vidual.” 
