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of soap. Were you never puzzled as to howto 
make the best use of them ? I have been accus¬ 
tomed to tie mine iu a small piece of flannel, 
using that at one bath as a cake of soap, but 
this was hardly satisfactory. I called on a 
friend the other day, aud was taken into the 
kitchen to see her “ make soap.” As she wore 
a dainty, lace-trimmed, cambric aprou, this 
rather surprised me until I witnessed the oper¬ 
ation. A teacupful of scraps of white soap, 
castile, borax and ivory, which she said she 
had been saving for six months, was put over 
the fire in three cups of boiling water and 
stirred until dissolved. This was divided into 
two portions, into one of which ground oatmeal 
was stirred to make a stiff batter. This was 
poured into greased cans that had held minced 
chicken, and deviled ham, just enough being 
poured into each to make a neat round cake. 
The other half was stirred stiff with oatmeal 
bran, and wheat middlings, and molded iu 
like manner. This produced a rough soap, 
very useful in removing stains of ink, etc. 
With less meal it makes a nice soft soap for 
the baths 
Bits of colored fancy soaps were melted in 
like manner, perfumed slightly, and thickened 
with Indian meal. The pieces of laundry soap, 
that are sometimes used extravagantly in 
boiling clothes, were melted in like manner, 
with one part of soap to two of water, aud 
when partially cooled, as much scouring 
sand as it would take was added. This was 
kept for scrubbing floors and shelves, aud 
scouring tins. 
A SCHOOL FOR HUSBANDS. 
Few mothers reflect that the family is 
merely a school for husbands and wives. 
What sort of men make the best husbauds ? 
Those who as boys had the best mothers. 
The boy who will criticise his mother’s speech, 
or dress,—who will find fault with her coffee, 
or bread, will do the same with the woman 
who may be so uuforunate as to give her 
life’s happiness into his hands. A selfish man 
may be drawn out of his selfishness through 
a few weeks of courtship, but wait until the 
wear and worry of married life come on, and 
he will inevitably settle back into it. Love 
seldom radically changes a nature. Only 
the grace of God can do that, and it takes 
more grace, I often think, than many people 
get hold of. 
“ The best husbands I ever met,” says the 
author of John Halifax, “ came out of a family 
where the mother, a mest heroic and self- 
dtnying woman, laid down the absolute law, 
“Girls First”; not in any authority, but 
first to be thought of in protection and tender¬ 
ness. Consequently the chivalrous care 
which those lads were taught to show to 
their own sisters naturally extended itself to 
all women. They grew up true gentlemen— 
gentlemen, generous, unexacting, courteous 
of speech and kind of heart.” 
It was while reading the above that it oc¬ 
curred tome, how truly the mother molds and 
makes the future husband. It is a feariul re¬ 
sponsibility, I grant you, sisters, but the re¬ 
ward is a glorious one. If you teach your 
sons to yield generously to their sisters, to 
shield and protect them manfully and lovingly, 
not only do they make better husbands, but 
the sisters who have been so cared for, will 
look for the same courtesy, chivalry and 
tenderness iu the man they marry, and will bo 
satisfied with nothing less. 
Right here, I want to give a quotation from 
Shakespeare, which occurs to me. There isn’t 
any special connection, or sequence in it, ex¬ 
cept that mothers would do well to have their 
daughters commit to memory this single 
passage, if no other, from the world’s greatest 
poet. It speaks for itself, and comment is un¬ 
necessary : 
“And while thou livest, dear Kate, take a 
fellow of plain and uncoined constancy, for 
he perforce must do thee right, because he 
hath not the gift to woo in other places: for 
these fellows of infinite tongue, that can 
rhyme themselves into ladies’ favors, they do 
always reason themselves out again. What! 
a speaker is but a prater, a rhyme is but a 
ballad. A good leg will fail; a straight back 
will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a 
curled pate will grow bald: a full eye will 
wax hollow; but a good heart, Kate, is the 
sun and moon, or rather the sun and not the 
moon; for it shines bright and never changes, 
but keeps its course truly.” a. g. 
GOLDEN GRAINS. 
promiscuous days, in which delicious sensa¬ 
tions of pleasure at life in general predomi¬ 
nate. 
The Independent reminds its readers that it 
is always a bad mark for any one if his charac¬ 
ter will not bear the test of familiar acquain¬ 
tance, and always a good mark if it will bear 
this test. It is only by this test that we really 
know what men are in the abiding principles 
which govern them. 
Gen. Garfield said, we hold reunions not 
for the dead, for there is nothing in all the 
earth that you and I can do for the dead. 
They are past our help, and past our praise. 
We can add to them no glory; we can give to 
them no immortality. They do not need us, 
but forever aud forever we need them.--- 
Dayton says that Swedenborg defined po¬ 
etry as “Truth in rythmical motion—seed 
planted by angels, but often choked by the 
cares and selfishness of the world.” Dayton 
would add one more from the pen of Char¬ 
lotte Brontfe, to this effect: “I know that 
poetry is not dead, nor genius lost! Nor has 
Mammon gained power over either to bind or 
slay—they will both assert their existence, 
their presence, their liberty and strength some 
day.”. 
A few thoughts from Emerson’s works:— 
Next to the originator of a good sentence is 
the first quoter of it. Many will read the 
book before one thinks of quoting a passage.. 
We cannot prove our faith by syllogisms. 
The argument refuses to form in the mind. 
You cannot make a written theory or demon¬ 
stration of this. It must be sacredly treated. 
Honor to the house where they are simple 
to the verge of hardship, so that there the 
intellect is awake and reads the laws of the 
universe, the soul worships truth aud love, 
honor and courtesy flow into all deeds. 
Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not 
flag in paltry works. Let us not lie and steal. 
No god will help. We shall find all their 
teams going the other way. Work rather for 
those interests which the divinities honor and 
promote—justice, love, freedom, knowledge, 
utility. 
If scorn be thy portion, if hatred and loss,. 
If stripes or a prison, remember the Cross ! 
God watches above thee, and He will requite: 
Stand firm and be faithful, desert not the right. 
—Norman M’Leod. 
The Christian Union says: “We are all 
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tide over this week, this month, this year, he 
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has laid up; he borrows from his wife, from his 
friends, he exhausts first his capital and then 
his credit; and when at last he goes down, he 
involves wife, family, and friends in his ruin. 
If he had only been wise enough to let go 
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