The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-10-09
MoMAN,s SPHERE.


the Ohio Cultivator, by Mrs. FRAScts D.
GAGE, will interest and encourage our reed.
ers. She says :--"I am now at the house OF
a friend, eight miles from Cleveland, on a
visit wish you could, all of you, see this
beautiful garden. The nicely graveled
walks--the neat plots of grass, without a
weed--the beautiful. varied evergreens, the
fresh blooming roses and fowers--ah you
would, some of you, am thinking, be
hoeing up those big docks and jamestown
weeds, that are spelling your door-yard.
But that was not what was gong 10 talk
about but those chery-trees, loaded till
their boughs bend with fruit then these rasp-
berries, white, yellow, and red, that give
fair promise of luxuriant living by and by;
peach-trees that fthe frost Of May slipped
over and strawberries-such strawberries!
it would do your eyes good TO see them,
and give your nos,rils wider expansion to
smell them, and your mind an enlarged
view of the comfort you might take, if you
would only set yourselves about it, and have
these delicious berries fresh for your own
table in the early spring-time. Ills no ex-
aggeration 10 say that many of them are too
big for bite, and one that was laid upon
my dish yesterday, made four good mouth
fuls, and would have made twenty for those
ladies' who eat peas with fork. 1t meas.
ured five inches in circumference, and was
really the berry that ever blessed my eyes or
my plate-for ate it all at one meal
They say that strawberries .can lie easily
raised, ard that any ground tha: will grow
good beets and lettuce will grow good straw
berries. Leached ashes and rotten wood
make she best natures, so am told here !;
and surely should believe, for the like Of
those berries is not found every day; and,
girls. you can plant them, raise them and
p ick them yourselves; aye, and eat them,
too, if you will, without stepping out of
your line of business, or compromising your
dignity either. Shall tell you whoe yes |
will for who should set your fashions but
the Governors wife and daughters Yes,
girls, the Gorernor's wifs and daughters Now
pll bet big strawberry that you are, some
Of you, fancying three stately ladies, dressed
in rich silks, with gloved hands and naughty
air. Fie ! no such thing Mrs. WooD Q
know them only as farmer folk) has her
checked apron on, now getting breakfast,
and her daughters, I'll warrant you, are busy
the Oldest one, Mrs. GEORGE MERwlN, il was
that raised and presented me with the big
strawberry. ,-e .,---
These ladies work in the garden. train up
the vines, weed the beds, tend the boarders,
and around them fairy land of beauty and
luxury. Why may not you do the sames
Now, dear girls, you whose homes are
situated away from the busile and confusion
of the city-by the bubbling brooks, or
upon the borders of the forest, or even you
who live in more favored places, amid the
comforts of wealth and ease, lei me ask You
TO think sometimes about the wife of your
Governor-think of her as one like unto
yourself-performing all life's holiest duties,
cheerfully. I haze heard some of you some
times say tina, such an one was as proud
and stuck up as if she were ths Governors
wife, Now don't SANDER the Governors
wife any more: so initiate her quiet domes.
tic virtues-be faithful 10 your duties, ere.
ale around you an atmosphere of beauty
and usefulness, live plain, simple, truthful
earnest lives. Think less of The trimming
Of your dress, more of garniture, of your
heads and hearts, and more of your yards
and gardens. For The sake of those you
love, do this. How can your sons or your
brothers grow up coarse and unrefined, if
you throw around them panorama of beau
~ and harmony? Fill Jour gardens and
yards with fruits and shrubbery toll the
birds to your bowers, and let them sing their
merry harmonies at the threshhold, and by
aud by you may have home of your own,
each one of you, that will fill the heart of the
sojoumer within toy gales with hopeful hap.
piness."
Musical CATEcHIsM.-We find the follow.
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