The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-21

Little Children.

For the joy that ever fingers
w Where their bounding footsteps go;
lis the sunshine of their presence
| Makes the lOwly cottage fair,
And the palace is prison
III no little one is there.
oh! wonder not the Saviour,
He, the beautiful, the meek,
To the precious little children,
Tender, loving words did speak.
| lis pleasant thing to teach them
Unto Him TO bend the knee,
Since He spoke the words of blessing,
"Su1fer them to come to me-"
Yea, of such is heavens kingdom,
And IL we would enter there,
We must seek the sinleSs garment
Which the little child doth wear.
Father, bless the little children,
Bless them every where they dwell
In the palace, in the mansion,
In the hut or in the cell:
May the clouds of sin and sorrow
Never darken DER their way.
And in heart may we be like them,
Rochester Democrat.
Boston correspondent says in that city
a woman with a machine can make with
hard labor three dozen pairs of pantaoons a
week, for which she receives total of one
dollar and eighty cents. Good field for the
evaDgelists.
Women are to be admitted to the Univer-
sity of the City of New York. The faculty
decide that women may study law, medi
cine, science, bellies Lettres or any other branch
of the university curriculum. The same
recitation rooms will be used by both men
and women, but at different hours.
There are many ways in which busy wo
man may save that which is more valuable
TO her than any other commodity. viz her
time. One is, by never leaving room in
confusion at night. The family sitting room
presents an appearance of cheerful disorder
when the circle breaks up for the evening
Take few moments then to lay the books
straight on the table set the chairs in their
places, gather up shreds and patches from
the floor, and put newspapers in the wall
pocket. Every living room should be pro-
vided with waste basket for odds and ends
of paper, scrap bag for bits of thread and
ravellings, and wall pocket, or two of them
for letters and papers. 1t is much pleasanter
in the morning to come down to a neat and
tidy room than to one which reminds us by
ITS disorder that work is never done.
Alice's biographer says: "Some of her
warmest personal friends drank tea at her
table, waxed eloquent in her parlor; they
knew Alice, that she was one of the noblest
and sweetest of women; after that what did
it matter what she thought or felt or did?
They never dreamed that when the lights
were out and the bright parlor closed the
woman sometimes sat down and wept 70
the word of encouragement that was not
spoken, for the little need of appreciation
that was not proffered, which, could it have
come from those whose opinion she valued.
would have been new life and inspiration to
her amid her ceaseless toll.
1t is little thing to give cup of water,
or to speak a word of common comfort; yet
the cool refreshment may give pleasure to
fevered lips and the encouragement may so
stimulate the weak, that the burden shall
seem easier to carry.
"How did that homely woman contrive to
get married?'' is not unfrequently
marked of some good domestic creature,
whom her husband regards as the apple of
his eye, and in whose plain face he sees
something better than beatty. Pretty girls
who are vain of their charms are rather
prone TO make observations of this kind;
and consciousness of the fact that flowers of
lovelness are often left to pine on the stem
while weeds of homeliness go off readilyris
no doubt at the bottom of the
sneering question. The truth is that
most men prefer homeliness and amiability
to beauty and caprice. Handsome women
are sometimes very hard to please. They
are apt to overvalue themselves; and in wait
ing for an immense bid they occasionally
overstep the market. Their plain sisters, on
the contrary, aware of their personal def
ciencies, generally lay them selves out to pro
duce an agreeable impression, and in most
cases succeed. They don't aspire to capture
naragons with princely fortunes. but they
are willing to take anything respectable.
Fashion has established custom, of GER
tain anniversaries of the marriage, these be-
ing named as follows: The celebration at
the expiration of the first year is called the
cotton wedding; at three the leather; at
the close of five years the wooden; at the
seventh anniversary the friends assemble at
| the wooden, and at ten comes the tin. At
| twelve wears the silk and fine linen; at fif-
teen the crystal wedding. At twenty the
| friends gather with their china, and at %
the married couple that have been true to
| their vows for quarter of a century are re-
warded with silver gifts. From this time
| forward the tokens of esteem became rapid
| ly more valuable. When the thirtieth an
| niversary is reached they are presented with
| pearls at the fortieth comes the rubies at
| the fiftieth comes the glorious golden we'd
| ding Beyond that time the aged couple
are allowed to enjoy their many gifts in
peace. If, however, by any possibility they
reach their seventy fifth anniversary, they
are presented with the rarest gifts to be OBJ
tanned at the celebration of their diamond
wedding.
| From their mother, we are told the Yves
| legs inherited, the one his placid temper,
his calm perseverance, and his dauntless
courage, and the other his fluent speech and
| gift of song. From his mother Sir Walter
Scott imbbed his love of poetry and paint
ing; and his writings proved that it was no
common gift Byron's fine gifts were
crippled with miserable temper-a legacy
| from furious and tickle mother. Old La
Mere Bonaparte was never beaten in
any project she undertook. Her
energy was simply indomitable, and this
| last trait has been strikingly illustrated
| throughout the whole of the great Napo-
| Icons life. 1t was from his mother that
Bobby Burns,' as Scotchmen love to call
| him, imbibed his love for songs, for she
used ito give wings to the weary hours of
her checkered life by chanting songs and
ballads she herself had composed" Patrick
Henry had many a lesson in conversational
i mower his mother training the gift in the