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And scarlet dress, with all her brown 
Bright curia in disarray. 
Our grave *'Give you good morrow” said, 
I joined her wall: among 
The tangled paths, where overhead 
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Tbe cardinal flower she folded up 
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" What mischief have you done ! 
Who are you that destroying go 
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Grow strangely wan and old ; 
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The innocents. Forgive I” 
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Enough that I must live ?" 
A faint sob shivered down the air; 
‘‘Hush -hear," she, startled,said, 
” ’Tis Rachel, weeping everywhere. 
Mourning her children dead,” 
She wenther way; and while I stood, 
All through that fair, fall land, 
The lovely lights in field and wood 
Died, smothered by her hand. 
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bright, sensible article In Rubai,, Sppt. 20 I 
1 wonder that Free Lance didn’t flncl It,a “ settler”- 
p however, a* he has, - with a valor worthy of ii 
better cause " renewed tho " attack.” I w lli take 
the ilbi-rty to offer a few friendly criticisms on his 
pugnacious letter of Aug. 13. Now, in reading 
that, article, and reflecting upon tho Inconsis¬ 
tency which characterizes It throughout. I am Ir- 
re si stably forced to one or two conclusions— 
either that Free Lance Is very young, or that he 
Is very unfortunate In ills female acquaintances. 
He confidently asserts that womens’ superiority 
to man In moral qualities Is entirely owing to 
their different training! 
Now, I might differ with him there, for 1 think 
that mothers, as a general rule, bestow as much 
care upon tho mental and moral well-being or 
their sons, as upon their d iughters; none but 
the mother cf growing boys can ever know the 
load of anxiety and earn that lies upou her heart 
with almost crushing weight, as she realizes t.liat 
her Innocent little ones must soon go forth to 
meet, the temptations which await them; the 
most terrible of all of which, ls allowed by the 
laws men make, to flourish, and drag down to 
ruin our dearest and noblest? 
Again, my opponent ridicules the Idea of intem¬ 
perance being voted down at the polls ; is that so 
utterly Impossible, oh ! faithless Free Lance? 
If the public mlnil could be sufficiently Aroused 
to a sense of the evil which Ls destroying us as a 
nation, how could it find a more appropriate or 
more effective mode of expression than by 
nominating and electing true, honest, temperance 
men to make our laws ? Now, 1 am no politician, 
and make no pretentions to being “strong- 
minded '; on the contrary, I am a very “woman¬ 
ish ” woman, confessing to a very womanish fear 
of snakes and spiders, but really, I cannot see 
that there was anything so very absurd in that 
Idea; now, teas there. Rural Sisters? 
And, furthermore. Free Lance accuses us of 
being the cause of all the physical and moral 
ugliness In the world! That almost took away 
my breath 1 Why, my dear young ft lend, (ror 
you must bo young), don’t you know that nearly 
all that any man knows ot duty and honesty, and 
purity of life, was taught him at Ids mother’s 
knee? And it is said of so many or tho men 
whose names live on tho pages of history, and in 
the hearts of Hie people, that all that they were, 
they owed to the early teaching and the life-long 
prayers of noble, Christian mothers! And they 
were not ashamed to own It, bless their hearts! 
They gloried in It. And we have enough such 
mothers yet to save tho natlou 1 
ir you men tried honestly to better things a 
llLlle, women would probably be content to 
occupy the inferior position accorded to them in 1 
the past, but you will not and wc cannot be satis- 1 
fled and happy under such circumstances, to be 
tucked safely buck out of the way into the quiet 1 
corner wc have occupied hliherto. And as to 
physical ugliness, how can you consider us £ 
blameworthy in that respect? My friend you 
at e either very bigoted or very obtuse. 
Why not, be honest and unprejudiced, and lay 
the blame where It Justly belongs —on the 
father:; ? For example, nine-tenths of them, are 
constantly poisoning their systems with tobacco • 
they either smoke until their nerves are com¬ 
pletely unstrung, or chew, until they are nui¬ 
sances (0 themselves and their mends; and noL 
a few of them do both; add to this the lager and 
other popular swill,so extensively used by our 
male citizens, and you have the true cause of 
most of tho “physical and moral ugliness” 
which Is "overburdening the world.” Cun a 
corrupt tree bring forth good fruit ? As tu physi¬ 
ology vs. fashion plates, 1 agree with you per¬ 
fectly , there; I consider physiology a very useful 
and important branch of education, for either 
sex. Concerning fashion plutes, nobody can hold 
them in greater contempt than Kkmengakde. 
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THE CHEMISE! LET US ABOLISH IT. 
There is no Occasion, my good Sisters, for you 
to strike drilant altitudes and lo tragically ex¬ 
claim, Never I 1 don’t intend to bend a emsado 
and deprive you of this article nr femlitlao attire 
whether j on will or not. Let Us reat-on calmly 
about the matter. Perhaps, though, 1 was rather 
abrupt, it la p. q, ijammkiitun, 1 betlevo who 
advocates broaching reforms—gently, For exam- 
p*e, it you want women to adopt pantaloons, 
don't spring UWscra on them, but quietly lnll- 
mato that, a curtailment! ot their voluminous 
skirts will bo an Improvement, then follow this 
up by suggesting pull-backs, and so judiciously 
UP ( or down) to pan's. In this way conserva.il .mq 
is inveigled Into the ranks of reform. T am sorry I 
didn't think of Ha.mmekton before, 1 shouldn't 
then have used such a startling hcad-llLO, but. it 
hs too late lo alter It now, All I can do Is to make 
the DtsL of the situation. But to return lo the 
garment. Moat women wear flannel or merino un¬ 
der-el ot fling, nil HcaHits ol the year, and such 
being tho caff, what 's tfle use of a greal niftisof 
puckered u 11 si In around one's shoulders and 
waist. The 11 , 100 , tfle sill it of 1 ho chwulco, is no 
sort of a gubstllutc for a regularly made under 
petticoat. The former Is so narrow that It con¬ 
tracts (unintentional pun) bad habits; all the 
fullness gets In one :,pol and leaves dm rest of us 
Inan awful state ot pull-back. 
Tho tei (lency of the new dress movement is to 
reform the chemise into a waist, now I'd reform It 
out or existence. No woman or refined tastes and 
cleanly habits would allow the lining of uuy but 
a wafcfling dress 10 touch her bare neck, and hero 
the merino under-vest has decidedly the advan¬ 
tage; for It, covers the neck, absorbs perspiration, 
(thus saving the dross Irum spoilage,) besides ll la 
warm, light, and easily latinrJrlcd. 1 must admit 
though, It lias one disadvantage : It offers no op¬ 
portunities for the elaboration of those fantastic 
d- slgns In the way ot embroidery, with which 
most women feel It incumbent on them to orna¬ 
ment y okrs (and yoke* t-tot y arc well named, lot- 
no galley .-.lave ever tolled more unceasingly than 
docs inuny a girl, “fixing things" for her approach¬ 
ing nuptials, and the tlinos are mostly y okes.) 
Hut 1 digress, in ep to of the great drawback 
mentioned, I'm disposed to favor the substitution 
of the merino under-vebt. The heavy ones tiro 
warmer, and those designed for summer woar are 
cooler than codon cloths. 
I once wore a muslin Ulgh-npcked dresa reform 
garment (chc-tulloon, I believe ls the classic 
name) in summer as an experiment, once was 
more than sufficient to satisfy n*y curiosity. The 
muslin became saturated with perspiration; It 
was cold, clammy, and horribly sticky: in fact, 1 
felt, as though 1 was ta l,log a treatment at a water 
cure. Being a woman, and therefore burdened, 
as wo .ill a re; with over-much clothing, I've pon¬ 
dered lo:.g on what I could dispense with, and 
decided that the chemise was one of the superflu¬ 
ous garments, and J accordingly discarded It. 
My SUtcrs, behold in me a woman In easy 
clrcumstnni : s who does not own a “chemise, (or 
aclH-mlloon) to her back,” and to this Some estate 
Of utter destitution would I bring you all, if the ; 
chemise lias any friends among Rural readers, 
I wish they’d si- p to the Dent, and offer a 
defence lor the Institution. I'd be pleased to meet 
them on the Portfolto-neld, and there do battle 
for my “abolition” principles. I should like to have 1 
characterized this garment as a vryhuj etifi, < 
whoso existence imperiled the lire of our wives, 1 
and the happiness of our Children, and which < 
threatened “ the honor and safety of the Const!- 1 
tutlou of our country,” after the manner or reform- 1 
fit's generally, but by no tffort of Imagination, 
could I make the chemise assume the proportions 
or an enemy to our national and social life. I -was 1 
constrained, there!ore, (much against my luclxu- c 
u tlous) lo suppreaa the dramatic outburst and to J 
wind up this pica lor my small reform. In quite a (i 
common-place manner; for having exhausted my- 1 
seir, there Is nothing left for me to do but to_ 1 
stop. r j, 6 
question, and so, grow sluggish. The keen shame 
of self-deception, the grief and mortification of 
disappointment, are wonderful educators. 
Is there any sadder regret than to feel you had 
a chance to be noble anil—lost It ? 
Tntc most, exquisite sympat hy comes from thoso 
who have sinned just enough to make them char¬ 
itable. 
Why mourn over lost lovo? it maybe that it 
passed away just In tltno to save us the shock of 
discovering its worthlessness. Who cares to 
team tha t her cherished diamond ls only a bit of 
glass. 
A man’s foes are those of his own household, 
meaning his own nature. 
1 ue 1 tch nature pours Into other lives without 
not icing what, It gives. The ocean does not grudge 
Its spray. 0 
The test of a ft lond ?—to bear contradiction. 
F. A. Wood. 
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l he cardinal mistake which Irrational oppo¬ 
nents of women's rights have made, is In Uhflllrig 
their actual Intention by an apparent pretense 
that woman In the professions ls to bo something 
less of a woman and a little more of a man. The 
women who have successfully entered the pro¬ 
fessions of law, medicine and Journalism, and 
those who, like Mrs. Livermore, carry a litter 
cull uro than many men into the pulpit, a to the 
best answer to the charges so flippantly m«do 
that a woman ceapes to bo a feminine when she 
turns her brain lo account in a practical, honor¬ 
able, and capable way. 
Tho vulgar (ibaurtJJty that fhe Is " womanly" 
who darns ttocklnga, scrubs floors, and catties 
garbage; and elm la “ womanly" who devotee hr r- 
self to gossip, fashion, dissipation and vice; while 
she Is not “ womanly" who becomes apbj Heflin, 
a l(Wer,a journalist, n rulnl&ti,, larks only m 
heads too stupid to understand their own better 
Instincts, or too base to value In woman that 
which Is dearest, lo be r In man and most eMeotncd 
In her own * yes- the power to win and to keep 
mnii’u love through Ills respect, fee her and her 
respect tor herseir. There is no 1 listing lovo with¬ 
out respect; and, looking over lltafnce of society 
who are the happiest mates? Whoso are the at- 
tractive homes ? Whftt clasy of women make, by 
universal consent, tho tendered and most faithful 
wives, the most devoted and efficient mothers? 
Tflo women between whom and their busbauds 
there.is tho closest bond or intellectual gym pa- 
thy .—Margaret nucha nan, in Woman's Words. 
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Wannonj and Hubs, rum have their meed of praise, 
Ami what they do ol- suffer men record ; 
But tho long sacrifice of woman'*days 
PussoH without 11 thought—without a word. 
Ami many 11 holy etnigiHe ror lb- *al:o 
Of duties sternly, faithfully fulfilled— 
l-’or Which the Anxious heart Tousl watch and wake, 
And the Hirootr l>cliuy« of tho heart bo stifled- 
Goch by unheeded an the summer wind. 
Which leaven no memory and no trace behind. 
it may he, more lofty couriwo dwelt* 
in one weak hrart flint bears au adverse fate, 
Thau his whose ardent f oul indignant swells’. 
Wanned by the light and cheered through high d«. 
hiltc ' Mrs. Norton. 
Mrs. smith, of Maplewood, Mass., presided over 
tho convention of the Women’s Christian Tem¬ 
perance Union of Middlesex county, opened at, the 
John-street Congregational church, Lowell, last 
week, with a large and enthusiastic audience. 
Reports of the various unions In thu county 
showed that tho heartse( the women are in tho 
right direction. Every union has moron Bed won¬ 
derfully during the year, and all are doing a good 
work, especially among children. Resolutions 
deprecating tho prevalent and increasing use of 
beer were discussed and adopted. District Attor¬ 
ney steveusnuub: lon.lhle remarks, and Mrs. Fitz¬ 
gerald, a former rumaeller, spoke of her conver¬ 
sion 1 n tho House ot Correction. Mrs. Livermore 
delivered an interesting address In the evening. 
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WOULD that, Instead of educating our young 
glils wli.lt the notion thn.t they are to Lie wives or 
nothing—matrons, with an acknowledged posi¬ 
tion and Its duties — wo could instill into 
them the principle that above and before all, 
they are to bn women—women, whose character 
Is of their own making and whoso lot lies in their 
own hands. Every girl ought to be taught that 
a hasty, loveless union, stamps upon her as foul 
dishonor, as one or those connections which omit 
the legal ceremony altogether. — uianah .Unlock 
Craik, 
SCRAPS FROM A NOTE BOOK. 
It is not bestt-o part with too much of personal 
experience. Half our luterest In another ls owing 
to the slight; mystery enveloping his thought and 
action. Is any lrtend good enough to hear all 
we think, and hope, and feel ? The egotism of 
description and explanation, dissipates a great 
many beautiful Ideals. 
Sensitiveness Is the excuse of a weak nature 
to hide Its faults. 
Happiness brings pleasant reveries, but no 
sound truths. Where we are content, we do not 
The literary ladles of Great Britain appear to 
have been astonishingly long lived ; hero ls a list 
ot them, with tile ages at which they died : Miss 
Jane Austen, 42; Mrs. Radellffe, 50; Miss Milford, 
at); Mrs. Trimmer. c,9; Miss June Porter, T4; Mrs. 
Elizabeth Montagu, 8u; Mrs. PlozzfJ SI; Mrs. 
Barbauld, 82 ; Miss Edgeworth, S3; Lady Morgan, 
65; Mine. d'Arblay, 88; Miss Hannah Moore, 86; 
Mrs. Marcet, * 9 ; Mrs. Joanna Bulllla, 89 ; Mias 
Berry, 00 ; Mrs. Somerville, 95 ; Mias Harriet Lee, 
95; Miss Caroline Herschel, 93; Lady Smith, 103, 
"Religious Equality in Marriage” was the 
subject of an emphatic demand by the Wesleyan 
Conference of England at Its late meeting in 
Bristol. It looks as if this would be the next point 
to be extorted from the Established Church, as 
soon as Equal Rights of all ministers In the 
churchyards have been secured. 
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They who marry for traits of mind and heart 
will seldom fall of perennial sprlDga of domestic 
enjoyment. 
