Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-01-17

ises; for large vineyard culture. though
the SO ne principles hold good as Tar as
they 10, they will vary in their appalcar
tion.-Gardener's Monthly.
COmFOrtI tor the Olu Maids.
From the New York Tribune.
AS misery is said to love company
it might co Mort our friend to know that
s'oId maids" are not the only individuals
that go through life heavy-hearted. II
sha win look over the circle of her
friends and acquaintances she VIII find
very few with whom she would be will
ing to change places. She will find many
wives married Dut not mated, iadily
mothers whose children are a source Of
as much pain and anxiety as of pleasure
and widows whose "crowH OF sorrow IL
remembering happier days" This viii
not lessen the chill she rnust feel who
warns herself at another's fireside,
bat i may enable her to bear it with
greater fortitu le. The besl way OF
MANAGING the stigma of being called "olt
Esaidp is To acc pit the ~designstioE
heartily, in accor lance with the facts
20 make no secret of ones
age, of mes preference for married life
If ii could be property realized. and OF
the reasons which have compelled sim
gle life. these facts need not be obtru-
ded, but when they are suggested their
full recognition is the best policy.
Ii is true, no doubt, that most of thoss
who live unmarried lose not only the
greatest happiness but the best dist
pine OF life in never losing the conscious
ness of self.
Love took up the harp Of Life, smose on al
its cords with might,
Smote the chord OF Self, that, trembling
paSsd In niasc oatof sight.
The blessedness of perfect marriage
lies largely in the cons i~ousness that the
centre Of sell is in the other and dearei
half, and has passed to this centre Sin
music; or, to use a smile which il ex-
actly~iu point, tha two halves, like bin
AIRY stars, revolve round a cen ire com.
mon to both ard on,m0n OILY 10 both
Each knows all the heart. ELL the thought,
all the being of the other; rs the soul
and body are one, 90 the husband and
wife are one, in an intimacy as sacred
as it Is pure and entire, and which Id
the Scriptures is compared to the rela-
ton between Christ AMI the Church.
Then In the m0ther-l0ve there is the
same or greater Hbnega'i0n of SELF. The
mother delights In giving her life TO her
child ana for her child If aeed be, an |
this devotion, lar from re ,uiring an eff
tort IT is impossible for her 10 represa.
Can q mother forget her child?'
II Is the want OF this discipline and all
that 1t inlpl es. SO pleasant to take that
1t seems TO demand another name that
prevents the maj ,rity Of sold maids"
from being lovable and lovely. that
leaves, them narrow and narrowing
aud particular" The loving vile easi-
ly learns to overlook or make allowance
Tor such faults as she may discover in
her husband, and to eure them ifthey
can be cured, not by direct attack. but
by gentle aud wisely devised flank
movements. She learns alsO 10 have her
own faults corrected by Il loving hand.
The mother submits almost WITH pleas
IRE 10 pulling OF her hair. the ~disarrang-
ing of her dress, by the dear little hands
of her baby, 10 its getting into things
and the strewing OF its playthings along
the Huor, and sven To the prints of It's
fingers on the window-pane. 1t coukl
be wished in some cases thai the s'di-
vine phrensy" of mottier-iove were m
these matters less pronounced than it is.
The single woman has little or none OF
this special kind " discipline.
Not even one little child depends on
her for happiness. What can she dn?
What work will fill the empty bands
and hungry hearth" Aud vet orphan
asyiums are full to ove.a owing. In
numerable motiieriess waits ara f~i,atino
about In society perishing for want of
loving care. In such a world as this
there is surely enough to do for all who
would relieve sorrow and pain and
Drlng Joy to the anguished heart and
gllt in The darkenei s,ul. Wisely in
deed, has the Mother Church" proyid-
ed "vocations' for the N IN her
membership, AMI made it possib q for
her whose heart oyerliows with chayity
ana Inc desire Of doing gooi, but whose
hands are empty, 10 associate hers n
Will Schemes OF organized benevolence
IN helds that are always "whita to the
harvest Some OF ear Protestant eom
mnnlon have followed this example. and
the Sisters OF Mercy are happv in
,nelr work. Lacking assoclttion OF this
KIND, 3 who is really in earnest to
prlng happiness 10 herself bv creating ID
IN TIE hearts Of others will aud the wav
open as she advances.
Salt on i'oiatocs.
Nh Garles J.Edic, oi Marcy. Oneida