The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-04-27
VARIETIES.

We are all sculptors and painters;
our material is our own flesh and
bones. Any nobleness begins at
once to refine mans features, any
meanness or sensuality 10 imbrute
them.
1t was their first night aboard the
steamer. CAT last" he said tender
Iy, I'VE are all alone, out upon the.
dark waters of the dark blue sea, and
your heart will always beat for me
as it has beat in the past ~ my
hearts all right" she answered Ian
gidly, "but my stomach feels awful"
A good woman knows the power
she has Of shaping the lives of her
children, and she endeavors to use
that power wisely and well. She
teaches her boys and girls that they
must be brave in doing their duty,
truthful in speech and action,
honest and honorable, kind,
cheerful aud unselfsh. BY her own
example she entorces and illustrates
what she teaches.
A very ugly woman of Leaven-
worth obtalne a very handsome
man for husband but her success
was not a source OF happiness. She
repeatedly heard peoples expression
OF wonder that so attractive man
had married so unattractive a woman
and finally become furiously angry
throwing crockery and furniture at
his fine head, and eventually giving
legal grounds tor divorce.
swell, what do you want here ?"
remarked MIR. Smith, as he sat up in
bed and addressed a professional
burglar who stood in front of the
bureau: l want money and bonds,4
Kissed the burglar, through his
clenched teeth, land quick about it
too" my friend" retorted Mr..
Smith, "I've been looking for those
those things for the last twenty years
without success but 60 on with
your burglary, I'm sleepy"
A Galveston German played it old
on his son.inlaw. He had frequently
stated he was going to give his
daughter $4,000, and the conse-
quence was, although she was stone
tfpce-> farfy taat high, -elo. married a
wealthy gentleman. After they had
been married about a month. and the
money was not forthcoming, the
young man called around and received
81 and the following explanation
eyes, I GIBBS her $4,000 but not all
a. vonce. pays 81 on every New
Years day for 10000 years. Don't
be in hurry, der wash blenty time"
Of all the love affairs in the world,
none can surpass the true love of
big boy for his mother. it is love
noble and honorable in the highest
degree to both. / do not mean
dutitul affection. l mean a love
which makes boy gallant and court
eons to bis mother, saying to every>'
body plainly that he is fairly in love
with her, Next to the love of her
husband, nothing 80 crowns a wo.
mans life with honor as this second
love, this devotion of the son to her.
And l never yet knew a boy to turn
out" bad who began by falling in
love with his mother.
Little Fritz was but Two and half
Yeas old when he paid visit to his
grandtather's farm, where all was new
to the little fellow, who lived in a
large city and greatly did he de-
light i'll accompanying his grandpapa
in his daily search for eggs One
day grandpa came into the family
sitting room, saying; "Who has taken
all the eggs from my setting hen
have found twelve little round po-
tatoes in the nest, but no eggs"
With wide open eyes and merry
dimples dancing around the cherry
mouth, 81 did," cried the little fellow,
"But," said grandpa, "don't you know
that We shall have no little chickens,
now ?" "Why, drampa," replied Fritz,
"dat ole hen is SO 'tupid her will
never know tie difference"
A promising youth of only seven
summers, who had been accused OF
not always telling the truth, cross
examined his father: "Father, did
YOU use to lie when you was boy ?"
"No, my SOD, said the paternal, who
evidently did not recall the past with
any distinctEess. "Nor mother.
either ?" persisted the young lawyer
mo, but why ?" 90, because l don't
see now two people who never told
a lie could have boy that tells as
many as do"