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Then, some studious care should be taken as to the general effect pro¬ 
duced by skillfully assorting and placing household objects,—judiciously 
varying at times their position. The esthetic tastes of others in their 
domestic arrangements, may be profitably noted and partly imitated. 
Further, painting, or calcining, or papering, should not be spared, 
when obviously needed. Timely repairs should be made, which will save 
much expense later. Thrift and economy will enable the manager of 
every home to have the interior and exterior of the house present a trim 
appearance—with greensward and flower-bed to adorn the possible sur¬ 
roundings. 
All this will gladden the eye of every one and be an object-lesson to 
children, in their training for an orderly future. 
©Qrderna. 
A genus of plants, some species of which produce beautiful and fra¬ 
grant flowersso called in honor of Dr. Garden. 
Refinement. 
1 HAT is refinement ? It is that shrinking from all that is coarse, 
gross, sensual, or connected with any form of vice or meanness. 
Finery, so often confounded with refinement, is the exaggeration of this 
quality, becoming weak, sentimental, fastidious, and ridiculous. 
As soon as self comes in, refinement becomes finery. In fact, refine¬ 
ment is the outcome of purity of heart, showing itself in all our words and 
deeds, in appropriate actions and in refraining, and becoming a law unto 
itself, as to what the innate spirit of delicacy can accept or reject. 
Self-indulgence and coarseness are disastrously ruinous to Refine¬ 
ment. 
