Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-09
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young girls were seated on Q mossy
bank by the borders of q ripping
stream which flowed in silver beauty
at their feet. 1t was q beautiful pic
ture. The sun was gliding all things
with q golden brightness and lighting
up the features of the young and mirtt.
| full damsels who were merrily engaged
in wreai hing garlands of wild flowers,
and decking each other with the gar
lands twined by their own fairy fingers.
By-and-by they began to compare the
size and beauty of their hands, and
each disputed with the other that bel
we're the lOveliest of all. One washeh
her hands in the limpid stream; ano-
ther plucked the wild straw berries and
stained her finger-tips ruddy pink
the third gathered sweet violets until
her hands were rednlent with their fra
GRANGE. An aged and haRYard woman.
clad in the garb of meanest poverty,
drew near, saying, "Give me your Cha
rity; am very poor" All three de-
MED her, but fourth girl who sat
close by, unwashed in the brook. un-
unstained with fruit, unadorned with
| flowers gave the poor woman little
gift and received her grateful thanks
The daughter of p'veriy asked them
the subject of their dispute, and they
told her, lifting the wnile their beau-
tiful hands; Beautiful indeed!" said
she. But when thev ask-d her which
was the most beautiful. she said, 1t Is
not the hand that was washed In the
stream, it is not the hand that is tipped
with red, it is not the hand with the
fragrant flowers. but it Is the hand
that aires 10 the poor which Is the most
beautiful" As she said these words
her wrink les fled, her staff was thrown
away. aud q beautiful angel stood be.
fore them. "The loving heart and
the kindly hand, said she, 'are always
BEAUTIFUL, and where these are not,
there is no beauty lefr," and straight
way she vanished out OF their sight.
Right said Uncle Charlie, "Oeauty
ia but skin deep, and | would rather
have the rough brown fist and iron
hook of kind-hearted Sailor Jack, than
the fairest hand that ever wOie dia-
monds, with proud unfeeling heart
behind it. The GOod Book tells
us of One whose hands were pierced
with nails and whose 'visage was more
marred than any man's;' and yet he
was the 'fairest among ten thousand
and altogether lovely and the more
we are like Him, however plain in fea-
ture, rude in form. or coarse In raj.
ment, the more truly beautiful we are"
London Christian Globe.
Mental Food.-GOOd bread is the
staff of life, and if we lean on that we
grow strong and healthy. If we bring |
up our children on plain, wholesome |
diet, they grow tall, erect. strong, and
healthy. But if we feed them on rich
cake and fancy pastry. and till their
stOmachs with all sorts of trash, spiced
up to tempt the appetite beyond what
nature requires, their appetites become
depraved, and they loathe the food
best calculated to make them grow |
healthy and strong and !, in consequence.
they grow pale, poor, puny, and weak.
just so with the mind. Our minds
ought to become clear and strong, en-
lightened and elevated. There is food
that is healthy and nutritious for the |
mind. But the literary cooks have |
served the public with so much highly |
seasoned food that the tastes of their
readers, especially of the young, have
become vitiated, and they turn with
disgust, from good, solid, Instructive
reading, which would improve their !
mental powers. and make them intel |
lectually strong, aud help them to be- |
come useful members of society. But
they eagerly devOur literary pastry, IT
uCy CidNC oCucdtiobat
reading; romance and fiction pathe- !
tic. comic, and tragic. And this excit- |
ing reading, SO stimulating to the |
brain. is tempting, and they read too
much. The consequence is, their minds
become dwarfed and sickly. They |
gain no real knowledge, but the brain /
is weakened, the memory ruined. and
intellectual vigOr destroyed; and these |
mental dyspeptics are about as unfit to /
grapple with the stern realities of life |
as worn out, haggard. physical dys-
peptic is to endure the hardships of |
soldiers life in campaign against the
MOdOcs.
A Pet Bird.-Speaking of the oriOle,
its habits, songs aud tractableness, the
0ydensburg Journal says: IAN old
bird which should happen TO be trapped
would probably quit singing on being
deprived of liberty, but one caught
young and fed from the human hand
will make most delightful and trac-
table pet. and, happiest when closely
surrounded by people, will sing mar
vellously sweet notes and trills. We
know of one of this sort that, when Ii
berared from Its cage. will go on To the
hand nf ifs assIsf in threading