The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-10-02

PATIENT CONTINUANCE.

martyrs ID pdSSeus GfcTy ttSc hao ITO MOI
tyrs who offer up their lives upon the
altar of duty and self-sacrifice as truly as
did the venerable Polycarp when he was
burned at the stake. No flourish of trum
pets announces their auto da .fs, no visible
throng witnesses the holocaust they make
no jeers of scoffers stimulate them to re.
sstance unto death, or cheers of faithful
friends strengthen their suffering souls
but in obscurity, in silence and patience,
they earn their crown. Let us draw from
life. We know a man of thirty five,
healthful, temperate, just. He has fam
lily of little children and wife in feeble
health. Early and late and hard he works
to keeps them comfortably fed and clothed,
and to lay aside little for rainy day.
With all the industry and economy that
can be practiced, that worthy man
sees the years of middle life slip
ping by, and yet he has not one
cent ahead. Doctors bills, servants hire,
delicacies for the invalid wife consume all
the surplus earnings. Some men could
break up and 60 west, or into different
business, but he is not of the kind that
will bear transplanting. He must stay
where he is and work out his destiny as
we'll as he can. He hopes that bv-and-by
some fortunate turn may enable him to do
better than he can do now; meantime,
though often discouraged and toil.worn,
he labors on cheerfully, hopefully as he
can, and always patiently, giving his life to
the doing of whatever will benefit those
dependent on him, and aiding by example
and precept the cause of virtue and
intelligence. Many who read these lines
can call to mind numbers ofmen who have
passed long years. and perhaps a life
time, in similar well-doing.
We know woman of forty, the mother
of many children, her husband an invalid,
and upon her comes all the care Of the
farm, the management of large house
hold, and the direction of all the varied in
dustries of the place. One cannot look at
her without seeing that she works toohard,
that she needs rest. In the day she is con-
sumed with labors; at night her sleep is
broken by the calls young children so
frequently make. She cannot delegate
her duties to another she can do nothing
but meet them to the best.of her ability,
getting all the aid she may from her older
children. and patiently waiting till some
change for the better may come to her.
There are ten thousand men and women
who with slight changes may sit for the
same pictures. The majority of us have
our places allotted to us and our bounda-
Iies marked out within which we are to
accomplish the work required atour hands.
Seeing that we cannot help ourselves, that
willing or unwilling, we must = fight it out
on this line," Ito quote from the man we
would not vote for if we could what are
we going to do about it? If we rebel and
lie down in the furrow the car of labor will
roll Oh, leaving us to forgetfulness and
ignominy. If we work grudgingly, under
protest, with complaints and repinings
and filings at courageous fortune, -
what pleasure or profit shall we have of our
toll? If we accept the burden and bear it
cheerfully, if we bow our necks to the yoke
and wear it patiently, if we ''kiss the rod''
and count it the staff to guide our steps,
the burden, the yoke, the rod shall finally
be metamorphosed into a crown of glory.
To patient continuance in well-doing the
crown of life is promised. One of the
last offices of the evening is the winding
of the clock. Those weights must be
raised or the well-fitted machinery will
come to q stand-still. These burdens we
bear are like the weights of clock /; re-
move them, and how soon do we relapse
into inactivity; keep them wound up, our
days are filled with industries, our years with
records of useful deeds, and our lives with
volumes of noble toll. Yet who among us
does not dream of the time when those
weights may rest at the bottom Of the clock
and the machinery still move on? To us il
has always seemed that the ancient crown o.
martyrdom was won with comparative
ease. 10 die is one act-to "die is
gain !" but to live on and on and on,
g bearing all things, enduring all things,
hoping all things" is quite another thing
This is what we of the nineteenth
century are called upon to do pa
tiently."
PERFUMES.
Such of our lady readers as delight in
perfumes may be glad to receive precise
directions for preserving the sweet odors
of geranium, heliotrope, honeysuckle,
tuberose, verbena, violet, lilac, lavender
lily, mignonnette, rose, and pink.
First procure pure, fresh olive oil. /
this cannot be easily obtained, take puri
| fed lard or mutton tallow. Place pount
of this, more or less, in vessel of tin, ant
this vessel in larger one of hot water
add pinch of salt and one of alum, ant
keep it over the fire till the scum stop
rising and the fat is perfectly clear. Ihel
set it away, and when cool spread it on
marble slab or ealthen plate, and let
stream of water pour over it.; work
continually until every particle of tn
grease has been washed by the water an
all traces of the salt and alum removed
Repeat this process until your mutton tai
low or lard is perfectly inodorous an
snowy. Then melt in the water bath agai
and heat till all the water used in waShIn
is driven away.
| Now place portion of this pure greas
in vessel, melt it and put into it as man
flowers of the kind you wish to presery
the odor of as it will cover; let them rt
main two or three days subjected to ger
tie heat, strain out the flowers and ad
fresh ones, repeating the process four {
five times, until your pomade is as high
! perfumed as you desire.
. To prepare an extract from this for Il
handkerchief, cool it, chop it up fine, POI
, over it the best rectfed spirits and let
, stand for a week. Then strain off Il
: spirits, and then you have an extract sup
iior to nine-tenths of those sold at hig
rates in the drug stores.
Several of these peIfumed pomades ms
be made and mixed till compound is o
tanned to suit the fancy.