Litchfield enquirer., 1857-03-19

VI T feeling that 1t is more blessed 10 save than te , destroy F
 "caleRdar of Preside Saints" ST. BGrsy-St. Betsy was welded to $ knight who sailed with Raleigh aud brought home tobacco and the knight smoked. But he thought that St. Betsy Ike other fine ladies of the court, would fain that he shoald smoke out of doors nor taint with 'bacco-snoke the tapestry. Wiercupon the knight would seek his garden, his orchard, and in any Wca.hci smoke sab .1ors Now it chanced as the knigh. smoked, St. B.tsy came to him and said, Ny lord, pray yc, come into the house." And the knight went with St. Betsy, who took him int, a newly cedared room. and said, |" I pray, my lord, henccforth smoke here: for is it hot q shame that you who are the foundation aid prop of your house should have no place tc put your head into and smoke = And St Betsy led him to q chair, and with her owi fingers filled him pipe, ann from that time the knight sat in cedar-chambcr and smoked his weed
 Sr Pn1LLIs--St Phls was v;rs gin of no, bic parentage but wthal as simple as any sheph"rdcss of curds-and-cream. She married E wealthy lorl, and had much pin money. But when other ladies Wore diamonds and pearls, s, PhIs only wore red and white rose ii. her hair. Yet her lin-money bought the best of jewclry in the happy eyes of the poor about ] her St. Philiis was rewarded She lived until fourscore, and still carried the rcd and white rose in her face, and left their fragrance in her memory.
 1 ST. NoRAH.--St. Norah was poor girl and came to Eng land to service Sweet tempered and gentle, she seemed tc love erythiug she spoke to. And she prayed to St. Pntryk that he would give her good gift that would make 1 her not proud, but useful and St. Patrick, out of his own head, taught St. Norah hoae to boi| po.atoe. A sad thing, and to be a- uiented, that the secret has come to so few. 1 ST. PGBE-St Phoebe was married early to d wiIi,.l, bat wthal d good-hearted, husband He was a merchant, and would come home sour and sullcn from Change. Wereupon, after much bordering, St. Phoebe, in her pa tencr, set to work, and praying the while, made of dyed lambs wool door-mat And 1t chanced that from that time, that never did the husband touch that mat that it didn't clean his temper with his shoes and he sat down by his Piece as mild as the lamb whose wool he had trod upon. Thus gcntleucSs may make miraculous door-mats!
 . ST. SAIiy-st. Sally. from her childhood, vas known for inncrmost love of truth. It was said of her that her heart was in crystal shrine, and all the world might see it Now once. when other women denied Or stroye to hid. their age, St Sally sad " om Gcc-and- MiriY" Whereupon, next birthday, St. Sally's huSbana at feast of all their friends, gave her necklace of s:x-and-thr,y opal beads :: and on every birthday added q bead, until the beads amounted to tour-scort-. -ouc And the beads seemed to act as a charm for St. Sally, wearing the sum of her age about Ter neck, age ncvtr appeared in her face. Such, la the o!den time, Was the reward of simplicity aid truth.
 l ST. LnY.--St. Lily was the wife of d poor man, who tried to support his family, and the children were many, by writing books. But i III those days IL was not as easy for a man to ] !;'tl publisher as to say his Patcrnoster Many were the books that were written pv the husband of St. Lily, but to oy,ry book St. : Lily gave at least two labcs. lIowey T., i blitl,e as the cricket w%c the spirit that ruled about the heart of St lily. And how she helped her hepmate! She smiled suubeams into his nkbottle, and turned his goosc-pen to the quill of doye She made the paper he wrote on as white as her namr, and as fragrant as her soul. And when folks wondered how St. Lily managed so lightly with fortuAc's : troubles, she always answered that she never needed them, for-that Troubles iesre Ht JaJies, and cnlp gre,c Ike bigger 5y nursing.
 ST. BECKY A very good man was St. BccEy's husband, but with his heart little too much in his bottle. Port winc,-red port wine was his delight, and his constant cry was bees wing. Now, as lie sat tipsy in his ar bour, wasp drol;t into his glass, and the wasp was swallowed, singing the man inwardIy ! Doctors crowded, and with much ado the man was saved Now, St. Becky nursed her hus- ten'lc'ly to health, and upbraided him not. But she said these words, and they reformed him: 1iy dear, take uine bnt ,eine in mod- crotscn. Else nerer forget Aat Mc 5te's-,e;ng ct tedey becomes Ms aeasp's sting ef to-mor- ro,c. "--Punct's Almanac