Et
SCENES OF EARLY DAYS RE~
VISITED.
A. ASHMUN KELLY,
Sing on sWoot bird, thy thy careless song,
eh - y heart’ ivi ner
Do thou TiC artless als prolong,
Now none but I may hear.
Tho’ impious ead of mortal rude
Thy dwelling Place invades,
Secure within this leafy woods,
Sing on till daylight fades.
I love te hear thy merry trill,
That wakes the echoes ‘round,
Till forest depth and sloping hill
Send back the starled sound ;
For in thy notes, so sweetly clear,
A thousand memories dwell,
Of by-gone days, to me more dear
Than tongue or pen can tell.
I loved in childhood's careless hours
To list thy roundelay,
‘When roaming thro’ t ese leafy bowers,
I plucked the posies guy ;
‘When grieved 1 deep and cast a sigh
To think I could not be
A blithesome bird, to mount the sky
And sing sweet songs with thee.
Lone dweller of this desert place!
Tho age hath silvered o'er
This bowed head and left its trace,
1 am a child once more;
I hear again thy warblings rare,
As when in childish mood
I wished thy happy lot to share,
Thy song and solitude.
New sweetly come those sounds to me,
Borne on the drowsy gale.
Till scarce my eyes for tears can see,
As memory lifts the vail ;
Fair picture scenes of early bliss
Swiit pass before my mind ;
I feel again my mother's kiss,
And hear her chidings kind.
She sleeps behind yon wooded hill,
Where soft the breezes play —
Close down beside the ruined mill—
I passed it on my way.
Apo had I but one wish to make,
I'd wish when day was through,
That God this weary life might take
And let me sleep there too.
I've traveled long life's pilgrimage—
And long life's not the best, —
I've reached at last life's joyless stage,
I'm weary, wanting rest.
In vain for me the giddy throng
Their pleasures poor display ;
I've known their treachery,
wrong,
Throughout a weary way.
pride and
And now I've come at last to view
These scenes of early years,
My mother's grave with flowers to strew
And water with my tears.
To gaze awhile Upon that mound
Where all 1 loved doth lie;
While every whispering summer sound
Speaks of sweet days gone by.
Then sing, sweet bird. thy careless song,
My heavy heart twill he er ;
Do thou thine artless tale prolong,
Now none but I may hear.
Tho impious tread of mortal rude
Thy dwelling plas a invades,
Secure within this lenfy wood
Sing on till day! ight fades!
[From Bryn Mawr (Pa,) HoMz News.)
AAP ——
The Field of Science,
—A species of spider has been found
on the African coast whose web, long
and firm, resembles yellow silk. An at-
tempt will be made to introduce it into
France,
— Brohme’s experiments seem to show
that in the plant there are two operations
taking place—making sugar from car-
bonie acid and the converse of the same
sugar into sts rch.
-At the Fisheries Exhibition in
London may be seen a lobster, sent from
this country, which weighs about twen-
ty-eight pounds and is three feet long.
One of its claws weighs eight pounds,
—M. Herve Mangon calls attention
to the case with which ice-plant can be
cultivated on a large scale as a source of
potash. According to him the fresh
plant contains about half of 1 per cent.
of potash.
«A writer in the Cosmos Les Mondes,
proposes to dissolve zine in hydrochloric
acid, to sell the hydrogen gas for filling
balloons and to utilize the zinc chloride
as a disinfectant. The article hardly
appears to be a serious one,
—Dr. A. Houzeau points out that the
influence both of light and heat has a
tendency to reduce the amount of am-
monia present in rain water, and attri-
butes this diminution not to volatiliza-
tion but to absorption by'the organic
matter existing in the water,
—Some paper used for covering small
articles of elegance by shopkeekers on
the Continent of Europe, and especially
in the West End of . ondon, closely re-
sembles satin, Ordinary paper, covered
with asbestos powder, dyed to any desir-
able shade and properly fixed on with
weak gum gives the satin effect,
- Dr. A. Mayer says sourness acceler-
ated when milk is heated at 45°, but
retarded, if heated for twenty-four
hours at 55°, In the latter case, how-
ever, the milk assumes a burnt taste,
For the preparation of condensed milk
it is recommended to use partially
creamed milk, as it decomposes less rap
idly.
~The estimated value of the peanut
crop of the country is $3,000,000,
—According to Eggertz, steel made
from an iron containing so small & pro.
portion as 0.5 per cent. of copper is
found to be worthless,
Although Russia has vast beds of
coal she imports nearly half of what she
uses, chiefly through lack of internal
communication,
~A wonderful mineral is found only
in Missouri, It is called Adams cobite,
and it is so hard that it will cut steel
without losing its edge.
—Two tablespoonfuls of Epsom salts
dissolved in a pint of Inger beer, and ap-
plied with a brush will cause glass to
appear frosted or ground.
~It is found by the survey of the
in them. but not of sufficient extent to
be noticeable without special care, the
amount of rise and fall not exceeding
two inches.
~Mr, William H, Payne, of West-
ern, N, Y., has patented a compound
for removing rust spots or stains from
fabrics or clothing, but more particu-
larly from uncolored or light colored
fabrics, by the use of oxalic acid, spirits
oi turpentine and water, of such pro-
portion as to best accomplish the ob-
ject,
—Qil of white birch bark dissolved
in alcohol when applied to fabrics ren-
ders them waterproof and preserves
them from the attacks of insects with-
out in any way seriously impairing the
appearance or the pliability of the ma-
terial. :
~Suppose we have & square tank and
wish to make a rcund one to hold the
same number of gallons, how shall we
get the size ? By this rule : Multiply
ong side of thesquare by 1.128, the prod-
uct is the diameter of a circle of equal
area.
—Perack, in the Malay Peninsula,
now produces about as much tin every
year as Cornwall, Last year Perack
exported not less than 700 tons of that
valuable metal, In the mining works
there are 40,000 Chinese employed at
present,
~The Journal de Pharmacie gives the
following recipe for a mucilage which
will unite wood, porcelain or glass: To
eight and one-half ounces of a strong
solution of gum arabic add twenty
grains of a solution of sulphate of al-
umina dissolved in two-thirds of an
ounce of water,
~—A method of coating the surface of
wood 80 as to render it hard as stone
has come into vogue in Germany. The
composition is a mixture of forty parts
of chalk, fifty of resin and four of lin-
seed oil, melted together, then adding
one part of copper, and finally one of
sulphuric acid. It is applied hot with
a brush. .
— An excellent stain for giving light.
colored wood the appearance of black
walnut may be made and applied as
follows : Take Brunswick black, thin
the right tone and color, and then add
about one-twentieth its bulk of varnish,
This mixture, it is said, will dry hard
and take varnish well,
— Blasting paper has been made by
J. Petry, of Vienna. It consists of
unsized or ordinary blotting paper coated
with a hot mixture of seventeen parts
of yellow prussiate of potash, seventeen
of charcoal, thirty-five of refined salt-
petre, seventy of potassium chlorate,
ten of wheat starch and 1500 of
water. When it is dried it is cut in-
to strips which are rolled into car-
tridges, .
— Professor Huxley maintains that
in fishing districts an acre of sea was
more profuse in food production than
an acre of land, Salmon rivers requir d
protection, But in the case of the great
ent. He believed that the cod, herring,
pilchard, mackerel and similar fisheries
were inexhaustible, and were entirely
beyond the control of man either to
diminish the number of fish or to in-
crease them by cultivation,
—In the English navy only lime juice
is used with the gratifying result that
scurvy is now practically unknown. In
the merchant marine service, however,
lemon juice is chiefly used, owing to
its cheapness, and here cases of scurvy
are frequently occurring, not Mr. Con-
roy thinks, that lemon juice is inferior
to lime juice as an anti-scorbutic but
simply that it soon becomes inert and
useless by fermentation.
-M. Pasteur is strongly inclined to
believe that the plague which has
caused so many deaths in Egypt is pro-
duced by some species of microzyme,
As yet he bases his opinion upon theory,
because no one has discovered the sup-
posed germ of the disease, The prob.
ability is, however, that the theory
will be confirmed bef re very long.
Many very eminent men are aud have
been devoting their attention for some
time to this subject of cholera origin,
and good results may be expected,
~Dr, Starke makes use of the follow-
ing test to ascertain whether his patients
have followed his directions when he
prescribes jodines, It might also be
made wse of by a physician to learn
whether a patient has taken jodines
again-t his wish. He lets the patient
spit on a piece of white paper, and then
spreads some calomel over it, or he
sprinkles calomel on any soves that the
patient may have. The calomel turns
bright yellow if there is any iodine in the
system, — Medical Record,
~1t is reported that a firm in Paris
has patented an invention for the in.
stantaneous formation of steam, so that
it can be used at once in the cylinder
of the engine. A pump sends the re-
quired quantity of water between two
plate surfaces, which are heated, and
between which there is only capillary
space. The liquid spreading into a thin
layer evaporates instantly without going
into the so-called spheroidal state, and
the steam acts in the cylinder as fresh
formed steam, Vi speed of the pump ,
Great Lakes that there is a slight tide
is regulated by the engine,
Agricultural,
The Butter Record of a Famous
Cow.
Eurotas, Bomba and Jersey Belle, of
Scituate, have become famous for their
i butter records; the yields being so large
as to cause many to suppose that the
limit of butter production had been
reached ; but a new competitor has en-
tered the field, and “Mary Anne of Si,
Lamberts,” owned by Mr, V. E, Fuller,
of Hamilton, Ontario, has surpassed all
others in yield.
This wonderful cow, in a butter test
made under the auspicies of the Cana-
dian Jersey Breeders’ Associaton, gave
twenty-four pounds and thirteen ounces
of butter in seven days, and for three
days of that time she gave thirteen
pounds and four ounces, Being further
tested, without resortisg to the forcing
system (the feed being five quarts of
ground oats, with grass), the yield of
butter was 209 pounds and two and a
half ounces in sixty-two days, or at the
rate of three pounds and six ounces
daily. This yield is remarkable on ac-
count of the length of time in which
she was tested, and as the tests of other
cows have been for one week only, the
test in this case was not entirely
petitive trial. The milk from this cow
is 80 rich that four and a half quarts of
it make a pound of butter, or, by weight,
nine pounds of milk to every pound of
butter. As a usual thing, over twenty
pounds of milk from ordinary cows are
required to make a pound of butter,
Such an animal bas proved hersel!
first-class butter producer, and it is
teresting to know what is,
what strain, and through what channels
have descended to her those qualities so
excellent and remarkable,
that she is a Jersey cow is not sufficient,
as there are several families now promi
nent. Itis best to classify
“Rioter” cow, since she traces in a
direct lire to the Jersey bull Rioter.
Like all the celebrated Jersey cows, she
is somewhat in-bred, tracing to Pedlar,
through her sire, Stoke Pogis 3d. is
several Eurotas, another
F & COL
“
ili~
she from
To state
her as a
directions.
excellent butter cow, also traces ba k
in her pedigree to Pedlar, The
Mary Anne of St. Lamberts, though
from a good family and closely in bre
did not possess the Alphea bl
did Europa, dam of Eurotas, but
her sire, Eupper, sired a large number
of noted cows, and her grandsire, I
Langar, was equally
jan
ood,
the
as famous,
animals, though not familiar to many,
Jersey cows,
There is somehing
in relation to this cow
famous records, and that is the
ance of breeding for the
of an animal, instead of for
It is true that the mark
eon, the soft velvety skin and the large
milk veins are always pr
else to be obsery
in addition to!
impor
best qualities
“points.”
of the escutch-
esent In Lhe
were sacrificed in preference to bree
result has been that breeders now know
that they can increase the butter yield
by breeding only for that
selecting the same family, even if it
compels close in-breeding, the improve.
ment being very rapid under such
system,
can be done in the matter of improve.
ment by judicious selections from our
dairy cows,
gained by starting with a good strain,
but it is well for the daigyman to be.
come familiar with all that pertaius to
the breeds, make judicious selections,
observe closely, and although it may
not be an easy matter to derive three
pounds of butter daily from a single
cow, yet the results of intelligent effort
on his part will not only be satisfactory
but profitable in the end. One of the
most important objects in good breed.
ing is to use thoroughbred bulls only,
for the offspring of the best cows may
be worthless when sired by an inferior
animal. Phila, Record,
The Seed Test.
Professor W,
Botanist to the Royal Agricultural So
ciety of England, gives in the Mark
Jane Express, the following plan
for determining the germinating power
of seeds,
“Let 200, or 100, er 50—as may be
thought best, of the seeds be counted
out and placed one deep on the surface
of the plate. This plate should then be
placed in a large plate or in a shallow
pw containing about a quarter of an
inch in depth of water, and over all
there should be inverted another pan
sufficiently large to entirely inclose the
vessel containing the water. The depth
of water should not be sufficient to
allow of ity overflowing into the plate
containing the seeds, The whole ar-
rangement should then be set in a
mbderately warm place, and thus the
seeds will be subjected to all the condi
tions favorable to germination, namely,
air, moisture, darkness and warmth,
The air will circulate freely bemeath
, the edges of the inverted pan ; the at-
‘mosphere inside the pan will be quite
tion will continually go on from the
surface of the inclosed water; light will
excluded by the inverted paz, and the
temperature of a regularly used kitchen
will very well suffics to induce germina-
tion,
‘A little fresh water should be poured
in now and then to replace that which
evaporates, the cover pan being momen-
tarily removed for this puipo e. Even
in one and the same sample some of the
seeds will always germinate before
others, but when the young shoots of
the first germinate have attained a
length of from half an inch to one inch,
it may be fairly concluded that all the
seeds capable of germinating have done
80, and then it is only necessary to
count the number of seeds which have
not germinated, and the
precentage of failures, An exact num-
ber of geeds need not necessarily be
taken, and, it is perhaps fairer
to take a spoonful haphazard out of the
sample, count these,
to estimate
indeed,
and place them all
in the germinating apparatus,
143 seeds have thus been take an, and
that 102 of these are found to germinate,
then out of 143 there are forty-one
failures, so that we should infer that
about 28 per cent of the seeds in the
sample would not germinate when sown,
A more correct result is obtained by
conducting two, or even three, distinct
sets of experiments simultaneously,
and striking a mean between the severa
results, which, by the way, should not
show much variation.
Suppose
“The report states that
samples
in several
lopecurus pra-
tensis, the coromon and useful meadow
foxtail grass, a very small percentage—
sometimes or two—of the
seeds were able te germinate. This
attributed to the fact that the
were gathered unripe, and
the
empty glumes, so that
of seeds of A
only one
seeds
in many
CASES only of
it was like chaff
however,
there are still some traders who adopt
off
is
BeeGS
sample consisted
without any grain ; possibly,
practice of working
stock by mixi
with new ones, just as grocers mix their
ng old
old Barcelona nuts with the new ses-
lost their vitality the sample is of course
If the practice
germinaling power
sOwWinzs
seriously depreciated,
of seeds before Were more gen-
erally followed we should probably hear
of the plowing of
which sown seeds
‘strike,’
lens land on
to
up
had failed
Feeding Turnips.
Feeding turnips to milking
COWS B
1 1 %
i Bavor
4
ana
But it
flavor she
use,
that this ill
ik. It
wior of ti
Necessary
given to the mi is caused by
very volatile « i TOOLS,
wi
absorbed by the stomach, and
blood, and
rge part of it
by
A
per-
the Jastly the milk.
® carried off by Lhe
aspiration thi at the skin and a
by
large
The feason
8 effect of feeding
proportion of water
and that water
lirough the Kidneys,
of the rapidity of th
is
and as
rid of through the skin and
It is precisely the same with
onions, garlic and other strong flavored
weeds, and also impure water. But
this very rapid transpiration of the
water gives a clew to a ready means of
avoiding the objectionable effect re-
quickly got
after milking, night and morning, the
odor passes off and does not affect the
next morning, unless it is done immed-
jately before milking, unless it is done
immediately before it, as water is ab-
sorbed from the stomach into the blood
with great rapidity, and the odor would
vented-—it is said—in somewhat the
ally tried the effect for want of the gar-
lie. But it is so reported by a dairyman
who says be was troubled with the
To obviate this he put the cows
in the stable at about 3 o'clock each af-
ternoon, and fed on hay and gave them
grain as usual. The result was all he
anticipated ; a result of three hours al-
lowed this scent to pass off in the other
secretions, though previously it very
strongly flavored both milk and butter,
The same course, he suggests, would
probably be an advantage when the
milk tastes of other foul weeds in the
pasture, and he is prot ably right.
lp ante
~How digestion is affected by such
condiments as salt and vinegar has
been carefully studied by M. C. Has
son, and the results presented in a paper
read before the Academy of Sciences,
Paris, Taken in
condiments are useful, They promote
the formation of the gastric juice. But
if they are indulged to excess they
irritate the coats of the stomach and
render the food more indigestible, The
proportion of salt should not ex-
ceed five to ten grains to 0,56 kilo-
four per 1000.
The Married Flirt.
mn
No class of the women of the beau-
monde do more harm than do those
married women who amuse themselves
~& designation which is a misnomer,
for no flirtation can be harmless where
one of the parties to it Is a married
woman. There may be nothing essen-
tially wrong in the affair-no harm may
accrue either to her or to the man upon
whow she exersises her powers of att rac-
tion ; but her husband is made unhappy
aud sh ¢ becomes the subject of unpleas-
ant comment, It is frequentiy said
that pretty young married women are
much more attractive to gentlemen than
it is possibie for young ladies te be
The reason assigned for this is that
men can talk to them with less restraint,
can adopt toward them a free-and-easy
tone, which renders them agreeable
companions. The truth of the matter
is that men may with impunity lavish
Upon married women attentions which.
f offered to a single woman, would be
. scidedly and as soclety
men are not often burdened with money,
prepared to set up establish
ments of their own they avoid the socie-
ty of young girls, join the train of some
gay young matron, are contented
with such crumbs of comfort as she sees
fit to bestow upon him. It is almost
incomprenensible that any man of seuse
should be willing to become one of this
retinue, who are permitted to CATTY my
lady's shawl or hold her fan in return
for assiduous devotion : but they are
flattered by such distinction—it
them fashionable,
should be }
commital ;
and are not
and
makes
No unmarried man
amed for carrying on a flir-
tation with a married woman, when she
: but a woman should
be censured who, having voluntarily ex
changed ‘Le freedom of girlhood for the
responsibil
takes the initiative
ities of a wife, disregards
her husband ’s claims upon her time and
attention and fritters them away in a
silly flirtation with some man who while
profess: ng ardent
¢ ndem
at hi
3
unwil Lng
adcration, secretly
18 her, and perhaps ridicules her
is ¢ ub. If a woman feels that
to relinquish the attention
which as a girl was hers by right, ti
devotion of one man cannot compensate
her fo which she gives up in marry
ing him, she should remain unmarried :
but being married,
with th
at the
rihat
let her content herself
¢ admiration of her husband and
other men, I do
not mean to imply that because a woman
is married she should be
cease to desire that of
isolated and in
SH lety be - relegated to the comvanionship
of her ha is a certain kind
of attention to which married wotnen are
entitled to and which they
mind. There
INAY 1eceive
Talented,
draw
without provoking comment
attrac!
them men of
to their he
raz]
of a cult
ive women around |
welcome
AY
intelie 1. them
noes and make themselves the
centre vated circle
; nay show
that they take pleasure in their scciety,
and may accept ther chivalrous atten-
tions
rst Posed
Ous Delt
in a pleasant, frank manner, with-
all fii But when
married women permit men to pay them
ke
speeches to them. toshow them marked
al , they depart from that mutron-
ly dignity which is one of their greatest
charms, It alleged by those who
seek to excuse the flirtations of married
women that it is very hard for a wom-
an who had once been a belle to do with-
admiration ; and another excuse,
that perhaps the husband is lacking in
admiration, is uninteresting, and so she
seeks the companiouship of men who
are interesting. Although a gradual di-
minution of affecticnate attention
IR at rtatious,
fulsome compliments, to make loveli
tention
is
out
LE]
the part of a husband is a great grief to |
a wife, it does not warrant her in engag- |
ing in a flirtation as a cure for ennui. |
There are other more efficacious meth- |
ods of dealing with real ecitrant husbands
and while a loving wife who isneglected
always elicits sympathy, sympathy gives
place to censure if she becomes a flirt in
order to avenge her wrongs, No wom-
an whose love for her husband is true
and deep will care for the attention of
other men ; she way like to look well, |
and ende vor to be bright and attrac-
tive in society, but either by word nor
look will she encourage any approach to
a flirtation. Women who do encourage
such advances have much to answer
for; they not only wreck their own |
happiness but the: exert & pernicious
influence over those with whom they
come in contact, and lower all women
in the opinion of men. If a young man
sees that his friend's wife prefers his
society to that of her husband he reflects
that, were he t0 become nn *'Benediet”
in his turn, very probably his wife
would prefer other men to him, and he
concludes that he is much happier as a
bachelor, spending his evening in the
society of the wives of his friends, since
he is so cordially welcomed, Married
women who are flirts are often unserup-
ulous, and instead of being the advisers
and condjutors of young girls in society,
they become their most dangerous
enemies if they think that their pre-
serves are being trespassed upon. Mar.
ried women should be a power in society,
they should take precedence of young
girls by reason of their knowledge of
—
make their tutelary divinity Palias-
Athene instead of Aphrodite, — San
Francisco Argonaut,
tl A
Anecdote of of Beethoven.
Beethoven passed ¢ one evening by
small house in Vienna, and heard som
one play a passage from his sonata in
F.
a
e
He stood still and listened, and heard
a soft voice say: “What would I not
give to hear this picce played by some
one who could do it justice!” The
great composer opened the door and en.
tered a small room, next to a shoemak-
er’'s store,
“Pardon me,’ eaid Beethoven, afraid
to come near, “but I heard some one
play and was tempted to enter, [ ama
musician myself,” The girl
who stood before him blushed, and the
young man who stood by her looked
rather severely at the intruder.
** 1 also heard some words you said.”
continued Beethoven :
hear —that is,
me play to you.”
**Thank you,” said the young shoe.
maker ; but the piano is bad, and.
sides we have no notes,”
“No notes 7’ replied Jeethoven,
“but how dees the voung lady play ¥v
He stoppod and reddened, for the
young girl bad turned her face to him,
and her sad, darkened eyes told hb
that she was blind.
“1 ask a thousand pardons,’
mered, “‘but I did not see
then you played from memory
“Certainly.”
**And where have you heard this mu-
Os
gic 7?
young
“you wished
wanted —well.
0
you el
bee
on
he stam-
1
Ay —
direct
“In our street, They play the piano
near here, and when the windows
opened’ —
She said no more, and Beethoven
sat down to the piano and began to
play.
He may but seldom have played
with 80 much feeling as he did on that
evening, on the old piano, for the blind
girl and her brother, At last the shoe-
maker got up, approached the com-
poser, and asked him softly:
**Wonderful man, who are you #”’
Beethoven raised his head as if he
had not understood. The composer
smiled, as he alone could smile—with
hi 8 wonied Se serious, melancholy smile,
“Listen,” he sgid, instead of answer-
fog,.and began the sonata in F. which
the girl bad played before, Brother
and sister sprang up and screamed
with delight. They bad recognized the
player ; they called out ** Beethoven!”
He had ended and wanted to go, but
are
more.’
He was led back to the piano ; at that
moment the rays the moon came
through the uncurtained window and
fell upon the gentle face of the blind
girl, beautified by inner excitement.
Beethoven's pitying glance met that of
the brother, who called out, “My
sister |’
**1 will play the ‘Moonshine’ for ber,”
the master said, solemnly; his fingers
were already on the keys, and he began
that sad but sweet melody, whose tones
filled the room like the soft rays of the
moon—that heavenly melody which the
world later admired as the ‘Moonlight
— Exchange.
it only once
§
Gl
Poor
A ————"
No Secrets From Mother.
This should be every girl's motto, It
is not bealthful for any girl to have se-
crets in her possession and the fewer
hat lie in the hearts of women of any
ae, orof men either, the better for
them. But the moment a boy or girl
has a secret that mother must not know,
or a friend that mother must not hear
about, there isdanger. A small amount
of secretiveness has led to a great
amount of trouble in many person’s
lives, Man, however, can better afford
to be reticent than can a woman ; and
a girl who will frankly tll her mother
where she has been, whom she has met,
and what was raid and done, may al-
ways be sure she will have her mother’s
sympathy, and receive the best advice
as to her companions. The mother
knows from her long experience of hu
man nature what isthe proper course
for ber aaugrter and with whom she
should associate ; and it is only when
girls are known to conceal their doings
from their mothers that they become
turgets for scandal’s shafts, Innocent
fwults are quickly condoned by kind
mo hers, who know that they were
prone to makes mistakes when they were
young, and a girl will never do anything
very culpable if she is sure to have no
secrets from her mother.
Many a woman now looks back upon
her past life, and sees if she had
been compelled to tell her mother of all
that occurred to her, she would have
escaped grevious sin and sorrow. It is
said that young girls talk too much
about themselves, bat it is far better to
do that than to tell too little, and to
barbor secrets which may lead to de-
plorable consequences, It is the little
rift in the lute which spoils the music ;
and Is these little defects of character
leads 0 the greatest