littsintt Gaittts. OW TO 41JA!.!T# SY HENRY'WARDI3 CflEii. ' • It is thetaan's own mind,that makes sty - • thing'beautiful. ' If one be rich in the affec- . eons and in taste, he will soon make every. `thing about hini • seem beautiful. It is true that therkdi natural adaptation in forma; colors, and harmonious combinations to excite:pleasure and . admiration. But even :the grape and choicest beauty are Without effect upon one who is deficient in . taste.: Aid on the other hand, things Plain and even homely, become beautiful in the, presence of a soul that htis the. power to' cover all external things with associations which are derived from , the affections or the fanc.i. lam fond of thinking that ;Morning 'Merles are a natural symbol of - this truth.. No because they are both graceful and beautiful, perhaps beyond all - the vines of • the Temperate Zone, but, because they have the art of making other things . beautiful. • In' the spring I set a simple stake lin - the ground,. and at the top nail on one or - two' cross preeerVa.yikni• long. At the foot are planted morning , glories. All the spring and early summer that Stake is in Offbnce to me. :It 'Stands, 'morning and evening ' tee; • 'putt, ; and hard ; bnt by the, last of • July;• the 1•• convolvulns ,-,has . clasped - ,it; twined. about- it,. spread over. each cress-piece, returned upon itself, and heaped up •an airy miss• o: leaires, every morning all over with exquisite blot. Bowl There, all the rest Of'the season, stands, that pillar of beatify, sustained by a dry and homely, cedar stake * but, glorified by the c profuse and generous vine • which COVES Iti [l' have.; seen just such things done; by the way, in the househohL Some pragmatical fellow, py God's special and Wonderful favor, has married tr ;woman of rare goodness and taste..." He is hard, dry, 'literal; stiff arid t hanioveable; She . twines 'about him and out tendrUS, leaves andhlossanur, aperpetualwealth of 'beauty, _ that.ilides.hia ugliness. : , ."Ah," says the man,. -this burden-of leaves may be - • well; but what would you do if it were not •formy Strength on which yeu •It is thatgie your-beauty ail the advantage!" Foolish and -conceited 'prig•-=you - might stand ' all eternity, if alone, without a ' change in your _ugliness; while this sweet vine, even if it had nothing to lean upon; would havetovered the ground, and wreath ing around itself, would have:lifted a dome, of beauty so high above the ground that the. soil, rain-sPittered, - should not touch it With' defilement ] ' ' me see—where was I before that parenthesis'?:•Ah T 'see. My morning. glories do not ask anything to be made beautiful for them. It is their business to make beauty for themselvet and for others. I had a heap of stones on one side ot my boundry_fence, heaped for convenience till I should wish to use them. I took a hand ' ful of e,onvulvalus seed and threw them' along the edge, and said pray help me? Now not a stone can be seen ! Instead of a gray and yellow heap, there stands a green altar, some twenty leet fang and eight feet high,- beautiful all day, but exquisite every orienting, past all Words, with hundreds of floral bells, moistened with dew. And not content with' this, these sweet vines have wreathed their arms together, and reached up to the branches of some Bernath. bushes, and now are; Climbing all . over • them, and wreathing their green around the cones of brilliant crimson sumach-berries, and still going.on, -I found thgin reaching into the - - lower branches of a stately tulip tree, - as if -Ithey meant neat to take this rugged'giant` 'captive by the wiles of their beauty. "Here is nos -house so poor that; a blossom ing ,twining - tature cannot bring,beauty. to it The plairiesretudis, this scantiest carpet; tha,rridest_ fatniture, become endeared to those wlio 4ve lived', leVed and - rejoiced IA their presen c e.: „There rs yonder a cradle. shaped of 'Coarse Plank, rudely fastened, ill proportioned and clumsy. But a mother basin ;that cradle rocked all 'her children:" In her eyes it has tibia something of beauty from every child. Itglows with memories richer - than - all the colors which wealth can wrap around Crib'or cradle. Its very rude.- . neas and• its , noisy rockers have become' pleasant to her fancy. • , . A'contented disposition, an affectionate heart, a fruitful fancy,' a- _pare = and gentle taste, will make swildernese•bud 'Ma blos; sem as`therbae. , • • If one istooor fn plialiet, there is the more need that he be rich in heart. lf one cannot UM' the iirchitect nor fee the riphol /stet, let hini all the more use. his „own thoughts as builders, and from.- the leom, within draw out patterns rarer and daintier • than are ever woven in _foreign factories; His :dwelling cannot be - tininrrilabed.. or , - homely. who is himself well furnished and • beautiful Y Ledger. On. Mustaches and Beards. From Abrahain an&lsasa to Louis Napo. leon the male dwellers ..on' this mundane sphere hive taken iscertain sort of pride in -.cultivating that : hairy mppendage *hielilhas been anglicized from the Viench 'into what .• we'esit E.llitusdtchor: < • • • From *hat wee once supposed to , proper respect Am that nature which first in,, duced hair to sprout upon a Man's-upper lip, the piactice oflitearing, mustaches now. ayrs • has grown to be scarcely anything more,thau a mero'reatter of taste. • ' There is, in fact, a certain model, or standard t, /W.; style,„ , and wen chraish this growth in sympathy with such sikle, and not frornany recognition of the natural laws, , which prescribes. mustaChes _as conductive TfitilimPlicitY of the ' patriarchal days,would sit awkwardly upon a fop of the nineteenth century: F'at hion has swallowed up antiquity.. FatheriCemp's widow would 'die in a poor house, if she should , atteMpt to sell bonnets to ()Wham. !The world moves; women motreonert moVe, , mastaches inoVei; - and it would move a man to madnesa to ask him to slortea•or lengthen f its growth ' con-, • t i,i r y' co s . . That Nature intended man to weans heard and mustache la evident from thaffact that she made - them grow on his face,' but in , accordance with the laws of that powerful • mistress,7"Ftishiott;" they hre noiv, oat and worn in all conceivable she*. ' , That. beards are great protectors of health cannot detlied,:yetinany frwholreitly need them are those who wear them least. Why a • minister. should not let! the, hirsute: appen ! ' doge Onhislacti groitgasi well , 'se:snottier , Jaeh is Aphszle.,be..ls ll .l• 44o4 ' thatiptiftiari rtokfaah-t ;-, , lonab,lujn•that p.rpleion,,,possihly from the; reison - given by an old" liatliodfit-midlateK "It makes religions ;titisii lo6k oddly."` This may do well for these' the time of the Patriarchs .this doctrine Yttrald bat, bean - heresj: Al n eV"( hili6 then;lhisolue dotintrfescPdrigh, in lar, no man was allowed to sit iM cOtinell who had not aflowing beard. Hence the deilicihiGiCyang - ;=-JMin's heart ; grow that emblem of wisdom as rapidly as possible. Beards, among Eastern ifons,biiiiiiilidaybbeiiiiiinitgdifid respec ted, and the greatest toilet-care; a Tjirk be ; stows,.is nponhia.heard, and that ife'reki,-; peas it is undoubted . "By the beardi of my ancestors" is his clinching oath. Due - , , pid reason why some very Young men do not let their beards grow is that some young ladies do not admire then p f eta plc thereis a .roblem,, , that a face *AOut 'ttrtts , 'corer: . .ar: = ?One of rescind longings of