The Mineral argus., 1884-01-17

Il way where eNLfA me DuuCklC
of grapes are desired, pinch back the
shoots bearing it to about four or five
Leaves above the bunuch. This shonlC
not be done indiscriminately with all the
punches. D much plnchlng and stop
ping Injuries the production ofgood wood
for next season. These hints are fol
amateurs who have a few vines on trell-
Uses; for large vineyard culture, though
the sane principles hold good as far al
they go, they will vary in their appiica-
tion.-Gardener's Monthly.
comfort tor the Ola maids.
From the New York Tribune.
AS "misery is said to love company, ,
it might comfort our friend to know that
"old maids" are not the only individuals
that 60 through life heavy-hearted. If
she will look over the circle of her
friends and acquaintance she will find
very few with whom she would be will
ing to change places. She will find many
wives married but not mated, many
mothers whose children are a source Of
as much pain and anxiety as of pleasure
and widows whose "crown of sorrow is
remembering happier days" This will
not lessen the "chill she must feel who
warns herself at another's fireside,'
bat it may enable her to bear it with
greater fortitude. The best way OF
managing the stigma of being called colo
maid" is to accept the designation
heartily, in accordance with the facts
to make nc secret of ones
age, of ones preference for married life
if it could be properly realized, and of
the reasons which have compelled sin
gle life. These facts need not be obtru-
ded, but when they are suggested their
full recognition is the best policy.
It is true, no doubt, that most of thos,
who live unmarried lose not only the
greatest happiness but the best dist
pline of life in never losing the conscious
ness of self.
Love took up the harp of Life, smote on al
its cords with might,
Smote the chord of Self that, trembling
pass'd in music out of sight.
The blesseduess of perfect marriage
lies largely in the con sciousness that the
centre of self is in the other and dearel
half, and has passed to tins entire sin
music; or, to use a smile which is ex-
actly in point, the two halves, like bin.
airy stars, revolve round a cen ire com.
non to.b0th and common only TO botb
Each knowsal III the heart. all the thought,
all the being of the other; as the soul
and body are one, s. the husband and
wife are one, in an intimacy as sacred
as it is pure and entire, and which 10
the Scriptures IS compared to the rela-
ton between Christ and the Church.
Then in the mother-love there is the
same or greater a~bnegation of self. The
mother delights in giving her life to her /
child ana for her child if need be, an |
this devotion, far from re Iuiring an eff
Tort 1t Is impossible for her to repress.
Can a mother forget her child?'
1t Is the want of this discipline and all
that 1t implies, SO pleasant to take that
1t seems to demand another name that
prevents the majority of ''old malds'
from being lovable and lovely, that
leaves, them narrow and narrowing
ana particular" The loving wife east
~ learns to overlook or make allowance
Tor such faults as she may discover in
her husband, and to cure them if thew
can be cured, not by direct attack, but
by gentle and wisely devised fang
movements. She learns also to nave her
" faults corrected by a loving hand.
II mother submits almost with pleas
ure to pulling of her hair. the disarranp-
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 hoor, and even to the prints of its
myers on the window-pane. 1t could
be wished in some cases that the "di-
VINE phrensy" of ~mother-loye were In
these matters less pronounced thar it is.
Inc single woman has little or none of
TINS special kind of discipline.
Not even n little child depends on
ner Tor happiness. What can she do?
What work will fill the empty bands
and hungry hearth" And vet orphan
asylums are full to overlooking. In
Vulnerable motherless waits are floating
about In society perishing for want OF
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
light to the darkened soul. Wisely in
deed, has the Mother Church" proyid-
ed "vocatiOns" for the women in her
membership, and made it possible for
her whose heart over1ows with charity
and the desire ofdoing good, but whose
hands are empty, to associate hers-lf
with schemes of organized b~enevolence
IN helds that are ALWAYS white to the
harvest" Some of our Protestant com.
munlon have followed this example. and
the Sisters of Mercy" are happy in
work. Lacking association of this
Kind, she who IS really in earnest tn
orlng happiness to herself by creating II
the hearts OF others will find the wa6
open as she advances.
Salt on Potatoes.