The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-29
NUMBER 3.
MOTHERS AND CHILDREN.
diminished SIN.

Odd things, you say, and no doubt you're right
Round seaman's neck this stormy NIGHT
Up in the yards aloft.
Most ike it's folly; but, mate, look here
! When first went to sea,
woman stood on the fsr-off strand,
With wedding ring on the small, soft hand
/ Winch chung so close to me.
Ny wife, God bless her! The day before,
| she sat beside my foot;
And the sunlight kissed her yellow hair,
And the dainty fingers, deft and fair,
Knitted baby's boot.
The voyage over I came ashore;
What think you found I there?
grave the daisies had sprinkled white
cottage empty and dark as night,
And this beside the chair.
The little boot, twas unfinished still;
The tangled skein lay near;
But the knItter had gone away to rest,
With the babe aslesp p on heI quiet breasE,
Down IL the church-yard drear.
CasseIFs Magazine5
THERE is no girl on earth, whether
the daughter of prince or pauper, who,
if made perfect mistress of all house
hold duties, and were thrown into a
community wholly unknown, would not
rise from one station to another, and
eventually become the mistress of her
own mansion, while multitudes of
young women placed in positions of
ease, elegance and affiuence, but being
untitled to fill them, will as certainly
descend from one round of the ladder
to another, until at the close of life
they are found where the really compe-
tent started from. Mothers of Ameri-
ca, if you wish to rid your own and
your children's households of the de-
stroying locusts which infests your
house and eat up your substance, take
pride in educating your daughters to
be perfect mistress of every home
duty then if you leave them without a
dollar, be assured they will never lack
warm garment, a bounteous meal, or
cozy roof, nor fail of the respect Of
any one who knows them.-Er.
INFLUENCE OF A HAPPY CHILDHoOD.-
The recollections of thoroughly happy
childhood Cother advantages not want
ng) are the best preparation, moral and
intellectual, with which to encounter
the duties and cares of real life. A
sunshinny childhood is an auspicious
inheritance, with which, as a fund, to
commence trading in practical wisdom
and active goodness. 1t is a great thing
only to have known by experience, that
tranquil, temperate felicity is actually
attainable on earth and we should
think so, if we knew how many have
pursued a reckless course, because, or
chiefly because, they early learned to
think of happiness as a chimera, and be-
ieved mOmentary qualifications to be
the only substitute placed within the
reach of man. Practical happiness is
much Oftener wantonly thrown away,
than really snatched from us but it is
the most likely to be pursued, over
taken and husbanded, by those who
already and during some considerable
period of their lives have been happy.
To have known nothing but misery is
the most portentous condition under
which human nature can start on its.
Isaac Taylor.
LADIES whose hands perspire freely
consult comfort and economy by wear
ing during the warm months lisle-thread
gloves. These are now made like kid
gloves, with long wrists, fastened by
two or three buttons, and are stitched
on the back in lines of self-colOred silk.
Pale gray, pearl, drab and brownish
buff are the best cOlors for summer
wear. White thread gloves are not so
popular as they formerly were. Eng
lish thread gloves are fashioned with
four seams in the fingers, preciselFo.
kid gloves are, and cost eighty ce- ots
those with three buttons, seve y with
for two-button gloves, whiJ,Ime hutton
an elastic thread and orsTFrancb lisIe-
are bought for sixty Girably. and have
thread gloves fit zen in each finger
but one seamo in dark coIors, black
Ihey are 3stened by three buttons,
ana llJ1lar and ten cents, with two
lor oiBS Oh for one dollar and with one
ID'JLtton for ninety cents. These black
bread gloves are suitable for mourn
ng, and a grateful relief from the |
Warmth of black kid. The NeapOlitan |
doves, of mixed silk and linen, are IN /
risaille colors, appropriate for half
They are cool, and so soft !
hat they do not have the disagreeable |
effect produced by more wiry-
fabric gloves. With double buttons at |
the wrist, they cost seventy cents.
THE GRIEFs OF CHLDHooD.-These
bitter sorrows of childhood when sor-
row is all new and strange, when hope |
has not vet got wings to fly beyond the |
davs and weeks, and the space from |
SIMMER to summer seems measureless. !
ss All. nv child, you will have real trou-
bIes to fret about by and by IS the
we have almost all off rs
had administered to us in our child
hood. and have repeated to other chill
dren. since we have been grown up.
We have all Of US sobbed so piteously,
with tiny bare legs, above our
little socks, when we lost sight of our
mother or nurse in some strange place
but we can no longer recall the piog-
nancy Of that moment and weep over 1t,
as we do over the remembered sufferings
of five or ten years ago. Every one Of
those keen moments has left its trace,
and lives IN as still, but such traces have
blent themselves irreeoverably with the
firmer texture of our youth and man
hood; and 50 it comes that we can look
on at the troubles of our children with
a smiling disbelief in the reality of
their pain. Is there any one who can
recover the experience of his childhood,
not merely of what he did and what
happened to him, of what he liked and
disIiked when he was In frock and trOu-