The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-01-21

not be worse, and we are told that there
is bright side to everything. Be sure
our poor feet do grow weary, and our
souls crave something which earth can
not afford, and this causes, in many
women, a mental discomfort. While
they honestly and conscientiously walk
their daily round of duties with pa
thence and good cheer, they have secret
aspirations for something better and
nobler than anything they have ever
known. But true woman will not al
low these unsatisfied yearnings to make
her fault-finding and peevish; rather
she will have a wide, sweet charity, a
chaste spirit, and an abiding conviction
of the perfect bliss of heaven where the
Father reigns.
No practice tends more to produce an
irritable temper than that of building
air-castles. To most persons life is very
real, and these flights of fancy are apt
to make one fret over the prosy details
with which head and hands must be
busted in this work-a-day world of ours.
! OF course the imagination requires cul-
ture and exercise, and this may be
found in reading good fiction and poe
try, or by giving its beautiful creations
| to others through the medium of tongue
or pen. But to sit with folded hands
and dream out a destiny for yourself
that is neither probable nor possible, is
to abuse a noble faculty.
We should endeavOr to be content.
| We should cultivate the habit of esti-
mating things at their true value, and
not worry about trifies that a year
hence will have entirely escaped our
memories. Think how little such
things will appear when you come to lie
down and die, or after you have dwelt
in eternity a century. We all find the
need of self-cOntrol-the essential ele-
ment in cheerful disposition.
A man or woman with self-control
can snap their fingers in the face of the
world-they hold key that unlocks a
more important jewel-casket than
queens possess.
Marguerite is the only girl of my ten
who will persist in the use of cosmetics.
l persuaded the other three to quit it.
told them it was dishonest and dis
graceful, and that no girls face looked
any handsomer for the. dusting of pearl
powder or the tinting of carmine. II
shows a weakness that any honest, sim
cere woman must look upon as very
silly. How much better to endeavor to
make the mind attractive, to store il
with real good sense, and that knowl,
edge that makes an intelligent woman
sought after because of her intellectual
attainments. This latter attraction has
the strength of a cable, while the former
the face made up and put on with the
skillful touch of tricky fingers before q
mirror, is evanescent as the morning
dew, a charm that fades as quickly, too
Margie baked some pies for dinner
yesterday, and when she aud Josie were
setting the table, heard Josie say:
"What ails your pies, Margie? The
under crust is kind of dOughey. Die
you forget to flour the tins ?"
az always rub them with butter,
said Margie.
"Ah, that's the trick, is it? Well
don't do it any more; it makes the un'
der crust soft and hard to take off the
tins, while if you flour them you car
slip the warm pies off on folded paper
or a cloth, and the juice won't run Ou
at all, nor the crust be broken"
Margie raised her eyebrows, and said
81 never knew that before, and Pvt
always wished my pies weren't so sof
in the lower crust.n
So, the girl who could demonstrate s
problem in geometry could teach the
dear, good girl who wrote Odes to tht
moon.-HOme Magazine.