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of mature men and woman; then why pervert the child’s nature, and 
put out that spark of light which comes with it into the world? 
Put out I say, and with what? By the barren blackness of an 
Unadorned home. Do not let the hogs run round the house, 
nor big weeds grow near it. Help your wife to make a flower 
garden, and teach your children how to grow and tend flowers; that 
will teach them to be truthful, patient, gentle and kind. It will 
create a pleasure and a love for home. Pleasure is as necessary 
for the young as food and air, and they must and will have it in 
some way. Never forget this, and seek to make the pleasure of 
your child a part of his education, both physical and intellectual. 
Do this, and his home will ever be remembered as* the most 
beautiful spot on earth, and its influence will never be effaced 
from his memory. It will be an active conducer to virtue, a 
preserver from temptation in after life; yes, even in old age. 
Back to the mother and flower garden of childhood—the genial 
influence of that home is never forgotten. Never let your 
children leave their home without the lesson — truthfulness, 
gentleness, patience and kindness— : thus you will teach them, 
while young, “ The way in which they should walk, and when 
they are old they will not depart from it.” 
THE DELATIONS BETWEEN THE VEGETABLE AND 
MINERAL KINGDOMS. 
Read before the State Agricultural Convention, in February, 1873. 
BY PROF. JOHN MURRISH, MAZOMANIE. 
We do not, I presume, recognize, as distinctly as we might, the 
fact that everything in the mineral and vegetable kingdoms is 
made out of the same or very similar material, and that the end¬ 
less variety of form and feature is due only to a slight variation 
in the composition or structure of the object. Indeed, the phy¬ 
sical world is nothing more than matter molded into its various 
