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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-07-17
THE TOYS.

Ny little son, who looked from thoughtful
eyes
And moved and spoke in quiet, grown up
wise,
Having my law the seventh time disobeyed,
I struck him, and dismissed
With harsh words and unkissed,-
His mother who was patient, being dead.
Then. fearing lest his grief should hinder Sleep
/ visited his bed;
But found him slumbering deep,
With darkened eyelids, and their lashes yet
From his late sobbing wet.
And /, with moan,
kissing away his tears, left others Of my own;
For on table drawn beside his head
He had put, within his reach,
box of counters, and red-veined stone,
piece of glass; abraded by the beach,
And six or seven shells,
A bottle with blue bells,
And two French copper coins, ranged there
with careful art,
To comfort his sad heart.
So when that night 1 prayed
To God, wept and said
All! when at last we lie with tranced breath,
Not vexing thee in death,
And thou rememberest of what toys
We made our joys,
How weakly understood
Thy great commanded good,
Then, fatherly, not less
Than I whom thou hast nodded from the clay.
Thou'lt leave thy wrath, and say:
81 will be sorry for their childishness."
Pail Mall Gazette.
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BORN TO MARRY AND KEEP
HOUSE.


The end of a woman is to marry and
raise up family. She starts out in this
direction when she carries doll in child
hood. Your girl who leaves home and
goes ont for herself does SO because che
has failed to find the man she wants to
marry. BY and by che does find him,
and when she does she drops everything
and goes with him. She stops short in
her music, her acting, her art, her litera-
ture, or whatever it is, because, after all
her instinct tells her to marry, and she
follows her instinct instead of her reas-
on.
A man can marry and go ahead in the
particular pursuit or profession he has
chosen, but the woman stops and SUBJ
jects everything TO the one duty of wife,
hood. That is the reason women do not
succeed as well as men. They fall short.
Grant all this for the sake of argument
Admit that it is the general mission of
woman to marry and raise up a family
But am now writing about the OK J.
lions. There are exceptions to all classes,
all rules, all theories, and all PHILOSOPHERS.
Most women do marry young and that is
right. That is as far as most of them
want to go. They are fitted for this sort
OF life and have no desire or fitness for
another.
But are you going to make one kind OF
a girl do this when it is straight Jacket
and an abomination to her? In other
words is she to marry simply for the sake
of marrying and "settle down" simply for
the sake of settling down? Why not al
low her to follow her natural bent as well
as the young man? True, she may, as my
objecsor says, find some man, while her
self following successful career, whom
she will love and whom she will marry,
thus cutting short a work that might
otherwise have been rounded and made
complete. True, women are not as COM
pletely successful as men in the more in
dependent pursuits of life But the
pOlub ulCH l. WlSu W links clear anu en-
phatic is that society, and the woman her
self, and the man she marries, and all d.
rectly or remotely concerned, are the bet
ter for her having done even something
for herself, however little.
repeat that the self-reliant woman is
civilizer. The busy world is improved
by her having been a participation Her
words are gentle and kind, and her pres
ence is restraint to the headlong impet-
uosity of man. Even though she may
not remain long with us single, let us be
thankful that she has come at all. If she
falls in love and marries, even at the sac
rifice of an independent career, her life
after all is not in vain. Her own views
have been broadened, her sympathies
have been deepened, her capacity for en-
joyment made greater aud her scope for
usefulness widened. [ say again and
again, let the ambitious girl see what
she can do for herself Woman's Jour-
nal
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-07-17

Brazilian woman; she has no taste what
ever for reading; her education is of the
most meagre description, it not being
considered worth while to educate girls,
The necessity for educating boys is I'M
derstood by parents and those who are
able do SO, but girl, what need has
she for an education? They would laugh
at such high flown ideas, should any one
suggest that their daughters be given the
benefits OF an education as resource at
hand for their own enjoyment, or that
they might be intelligent companions,
capable of stimulating the intellects of
their children, and husbands, too, for that
matter.
A very large majority of the Brazilian
girls could not tell who is the Emperor
OF Germany, or that President Garfield
and the Gar Of Russia were assassinated;
the Soudan of General Gordon are rid
dies to their minds. They are even igno-
torical facts relating to their own land,
and OF the thousand and one other topics
that the women of America and other
countries are generally conyersant with.
They embroider, crochet, and study mu-
sic, but usually lack the patience and
application necessary to excel in the lat
ter. If they want drink of water, or
their shoes changed, they call slave to
do it. Many can sew and do their own
dress making, being very convenient
with the needle, their natural antipathy
to work being overcome by their love of
dress. Their conversation is utterly friv-
olous, and when with familiars they talk
very loud, and in the most animated man.
ner, gesticulating, and beating the air with
their hands and arms, all talking at once,
with seldom anything worth saying.
If the Brazilian girl does not marry
at the age when she ought to be playing
with her dolls, she frequently continues
to play with her dolls until she does
marry. The writer remem bers seeing a
young woman apparently about eighteen
years of age, in street car, in the city of
Bahia, with doll in her lap, which she
cared for and handled the same as little
girl would do, and it is no unusual thing
for young married women to own and
play with these and similar fixtures of
the nursery. One young woman, named
Marie, had five or six dolls, upon whose
garments she spent much of her time.
When she married, she insisted upon
taking them to her new home, but when
this home became invaded by less tracta-
BILE babies, she was finally obliged to bury
her inanimate, quondam friends, with all
their finery, in trunk, probably to be
resurrected by other lit tie Maries, when
they will again be nursed and made con-
fidants Of Brooklyn Magazine.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-07-17
ENCHANTED BY MUSIC.

Whether the bee hears the drumming
of tin pans, or can appreciate the deli
cate sounds of music, might be matter
of doubt at least, never heard of bee
that was spellbound at the sound Of mu-
sic. 1t is said that Sir John Lubbock,
after playing his violin before his bees,
was not able to induce them to waltz,
beat time or ,ry the key of Zone sharp"
on him. Whether Sir John ever tried
anything of this kind am not prepared
to say; at any rate, an Indifferent behav-
ior on the part of the bees is not to be
wondered at. In books of natural histo-
ry, we read that spiders, however, seem
to exhibit signs of keen enjoyment at the
sound of the guitar or other instruments.
When first saw this statement it was too
much for me to believe; but CHANGING one
evening to play my accordion some years
ago in the factory, one of my friends who
was with me calculated all at once: "Oh,
look at that monstrous spider!". As I con-
tinued to play the insect advanced toward
me, for reasons that did not then sus-
pect, and before 1 was aware it was
perched upon my knee, whereon rested
my accordion. Feeling cold chill creep
down my back as discovered this init
mate friendship, shook the ugly "baste'
upon the floor, stamping my feet as did
SO. The spider made. good his retreat
and disappeared under pile of boards.
When qniet prevailed and had resumed
my playing, 10 and behold! our good
friend crept cautiously out as before. I
will not say that he waltzed, but he did
act as though he were spellbound. I
then recollected what I had read, and
naturally concluded that it was the mu-
sic that delighted his worship. If I
ceased playing, the spider crept away,
and whenever / resumed he would reap
pear. I made repeated trials, with the
same results, and on sepa ate evenings,
too. On one or two occasions l called
him out in this way to show him to my
friends, who we're little incredulous.
It seems hardly possible that the vibra-
tons caused by the music produced an
agreeable sensation upon the antenn@ of
the spider, and that it was onlya delicate
sense of touch, and not of hearing. On the
contrary, it is reasonable for me to sup
pose that the spider not only heard, but
enjoyed the music. Whether a bee can
appreciate musical sounds or not, we can
not decide, but if spider can enjoy them
1 believe bee can hear at least the ''zeep,
zeep' of the queen The Indicator.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-07-17
THE BRAZILIAN GIRL

Girls are sometimes married so young
in Brazil, that they become mothers at
twelve or thirteen years OF age. A certain
count was married to his cousin when
neither had yet reached their teens, the
little bride being only seven years of age
when the ceremony was performed. This
was done by the parents, to insure their
fortunes remaining in the family.
A girl is never permitted to go out, not
even to church, unless chaperoned by one
of the family, or some other lady, gener-
ally of mature age. Nothing could be
more colorless than the life of young
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-07-17
ROGER WILLIAMS = HIS HOUSE
AND PLACE OF BURIAL.

AND PLACE OF OhIAEs
Tt seems that Roger Williams, when he
and his companions settled Providence,
built bis house just off the present How
land street. He is supposed to have
been buried near Benefit street, sin the
rear of the house of the late Sullivan
Dorr, few feet from the stable door,"
which spot is now covered by the finish
ed cap of heavy stone pillar. The
grave was opened March %, 1860 OF
what was found there, r. A. G. says, in
a recent issue OF the Providence Journal:
A singular incident was disco Yered on
uncovering the bottom of Roger Will
Jams grave. The root Of an apple tree
had turned out of it's way to enter in at
the head. Following the position of the
body to the thighs it divided and follow
ed each leg to the feet, tender fibres
shooting out in various directions. By
natures promptings it had sought and
taken up the chemical deposits of the
body and turned them into blossoms and
fruit. These roots now form part of
collection in the Museum of Brown Uni
versity. An account of the grave and its
opening was given by Mr.. Allen in a
paper read before the Rhode Island His
torical Society, May is, 1860.
This root has occasioned much discus
sion. As the apples which grew on this tree
were doubtless eaten by people in adjoin-
ing houses, and by maurading boys as is
their custom, it follows naturally that
the essences of Roger Williams must
have been absorbed by multitude of
people. The conundrum has been pro-
pounded in the past therefore by various
local philosophers: "Who ate Roger Will
iams?' Perhaps it would be a good
idea for some of our enterprising mer-
chants to offer prize for solution to
this "guess."
Maybe, however, the Williams family
at their reunion will settle the matter,
and perhaps some of them are members
of the family not by descent but by alb
sorption. 1t that is the case it ought to
be known Immediately, as there may be
great many people all over the country
who are entitled on these grounds to
take part in the reunion. But consid-
Grafton of the subject from this stand
point opens up such vast questions of in
ter-relationship, that before we get out of
our depth we will stop right here.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-07-17
RICE THROWING AT WEDDINGS


Opinions differ among the learned as
to why rice, of all things, is thrown at
"two young lovers lately we'd" Some
regard it as feigned hostile attack, in
which light they also regard the throw
ing of old shoes. But there is evidence
to show that old shoes are thrown on
other occasions, merely for "luck," and
where there is no survival of an attack.
Thus it is recorded in "Great Expecta-
tions" that Joe and Biddy threw an old
shoe after Pip when he left them to seek
his fortune. AS to rice throwing, again,
the custom cannot be earlier than the use
of rice in this country. Now the author
of French work on "The Kingdom Of
Macassar," published at the end OF The
seventeenth century, found that rice was
thrown out of the back windows of the
house all day during a marriage in Ma
CAESAR. The bride and bridegroom were
not pelted; the object was to distract the
attention Of the envious evil spirits. Left
to their own devices, the evil spirits
might have played all sorts of practical
jokes, might have carried the bridegroom
off bodily to the chamber of the Princess
of Persia, or conveyed the bride to the
arms of the Prince of Bagdad or of a
humpbacked groom. How the rice at
fected the demons is not very obvious.
An acute observer has divided the prac-
tees Of savage religion into "spirit-scar-
ing" and spirit -squaring." We're the
Macassar bogies scared or squared, fright
ened or bribed, by the showers of rice?
That is question for Mr.. Herbert Spen-
Ger; but either hypothesis is more plausi-
BILE than the common idea that rice is an
emblem of fruitfulness and secures an
abundant crop of olive branches.
Symbols and ceremonies are apt to
glide into realities, and realities into
symbols. The symbolic rice in Bethnal
Green was lately thrown with such hearty
good will that it nearly put out the eve
of one of the bridegrooms. "He was led
to surgery adjacent, and will now have
to pass in the ward of the hospital what
would have otherwise been his honey
moon" Perhaps this well-directed and
CALLING fire of rice was kept up by an I'M
successful rival, who may be congratu-
lated on the ingenuity of device which
has hitherto escaped even the villain of
fiction. 1t must become plain, however,
even in the parish of st. James the Less,
that friendly congratulation may be bet
ter expressed than by shower of dan
gerous missiles. We are sorry to harass
any trade: bu: surely the local grocers
may ask themselves whether it is well to
"keep parcels Of rice ready packed for
the OCCASION" as they do at present.
Distress is already prevalent enough at
the East End; it cannot be mitigated by
encouraging weddings among amorists
who are unable or unwilling even to pay
the entrance fees. Possibly the rice
throwing has local explanation. 1t may
be intended to counterfeit the well-meant
kindness of the vicar and to discourage
those whom bis expansive generosity al
lures into marriages of improvidence.-
London Saturday Reuielo.
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The An1tae Circle.
FINAL MEETING.

Where no shadow shall bewilderl
Where life's sorrows all are DER;
Where the sleep of sin is broken,
And the dreamer dreams no more.
Where the bond no more is severed,
Paintings, claspiugs. sobs. and moan,
Midnight waking, twilight weeping,
Heavy noontide- all are done.
Where the child has found its mother,
Where the mother finds the child;
Where the families are gathered,
That were scattered on the wild.
Meet we all then, meet and rest,
In the home Gods love has blessed.
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Among the many schools in Boston
is one for instruction in carpentry con-
Quoted by young lady. She has had
twenty-five pupils during the past winter
composed of boys belonging to some Of
the leading families, and she goes out of
town twice week to instruct class of
seven.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-07-17

unsteady always, the heart Of things be-
ing everywhere harmony, if you can
only reach it."-ReU. Robert West, in the
AdUance.
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Yankee Doodle came to town,
For to buy a fire-.ock,
We will tar and feather him,
VIII tttK uIU KCutHC1 fIfHi
And SO we will John Hancock.

We will tar and feather him,
And SO we will John Hancock.
Watson, in his "Annals of Philadel-
phia," says that John Carr, who opened
the first music store in Baltimore, in
1897, had book of tunes, one called an
"Air from Ulysses" an English opera,
written for Lincoln Inn Fields Theater,
London, about 1871, by John Christian
Smith, which was identical with the air
of Yankee Doodle" Watson gives us
the first version of the original American
song:
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
Do it neat and handy;
The boy to fog the British troops
Is Yankee Doodle Dandy.
Clearly all patriotic Americans should
feel proud of Yankee Doodle" Written
originally to satirize the dead Protector
Oliver Cromwell. by some friend of the
newly returned Stuart, Charles III, nearly
century later it was still popular
enough to be used in the greatest dra-
lAaelO 9uCCcS5 VI thC dSo, a ooooAu uii1o ~
appeared in opera, and then crossed the
Atlantic, where it at once became a
favorite. Although used by the British
as means of poking fun at the recruits
in the army, in less than fifty years the
song was used by the descendants of
those recruits as a battle cry when
chasing the British out of tho United
States. The song of Yankee Doodle +"
truthfully represents the spirit of the
nation, and long may
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
And do it neat and handy,
whatever he undertakes.-WiHM Glenn
ems, IN the Current.
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ssarm, ftornc and Oarden.
SUGGESTIVE HINTS.

Use diligence, integrity, and proper i'm
provement in time to make farming pay.
A good COW is valuable machine; the
more food she properly digeste, the more
profit.
We have trotting horses to perfection.
Why should We hot pay more attention
to walking horses?
More and more attention is being paid
to drainage by the farmers and the profits
thereof are appreciated accordingly.
Official figures, that cannot lie, show
that the eggs laid last year by the hens of
the Unltea States, were worth as much
as all the silver produced in the same
period.
Water the horses frequently. We can't
possibly urge this matter too often upon
our readers. 1t will pay. If there is no
water near the field haul out a barrel on
drag, so that the horses can get drink
between times.
DO not keep more live stock on your
farm than you can keep we'll Sell when
you can get fair price and do not store
for rats and spectators. The more COM
Portable you can keep your animals, the
more they will thrive.
In Wyoming territory the settlers grow
their fuel by the acre. Sunhowers are
used instead of coal. The stalks when
dry are as hard as maple wood and make
d hot fire, and tie seed heads with Inc
seeds In are aid to burn better than the
best hard coal. An acre of sunhowers
Will furnish fuel for one stove for year.
There are many waste corners about
the farm and door-yard where there is
room for fruit tree of some kind, or for
row of currant, gooseberry, raspberry
or blackberry bushes. There is no bet
ter place for these than along the fence
In the back yard. Tie the raspberries
and blackberries to the fence to keep
them in place, and have nice fruit and
easy picking.
Distressing and the Hdnds.-A writer
for the Household, who ought to know,
claims that with little care, dish-wash-
ing will add to the looks of the hand
rather than detract from it's beauty. "My
hands were swollen and red, but also pill
able, soft and warm; rubbing them with
cream or vaseline keeps them SO. Dora
Smith always wishes to practice on the
piano after washing dishes, because then
her hand is in the best condition for the
keyboard. The best work for any one
troubled with cold hands is dish-wash-
ing"
Industry gersus IdleRess.-No man
who has home OF his own need ever be
idle. There is always something to be
done to promote the convenience or the
comfort of the home, and, in the absence
OF work giving money remuneration,
making the home more pleasant and
comfortable is the best paying job man
can undertake. 1t is sign of shiftless-
ness, If not worse, to see man idle when
days work might be we'll expended in
battening doors and windows against
winters rude blasts, or in providing some
simple conveniences long needed by the
good housewife to tighten her work. In
dustry always finds work to do.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-07-17

Things Housekeeper should Knoac.-
That salt should be eaten with nuts to
aid digestion. That milk which stands
too long makes bitter butter. That rusty
fiat irons should be rubbed over with
beeswax and lard. That it rests you in
sewing to change your position frequent
ly. That hot, strong lemonade taken
at bed time will break up a bad cold
That tough beef is made tender by lying
few minutes in vinegar water. That a
little soda will relieve sick headache
caused by indigestion. That cup of
strong coffee will remove the odor of
onions from the breath. That cup of :
hot water drank before meals will pre-
vent nausea and dyspepsia. That we'll
ventilated bedrooms will prevent morn
ing headaches and lassitude. That one
in faint should be laid on the fiat of his
back; then loosen his clothes and lot him
alone. That consumptive night sweats
may be arrested by sponging the body
nightly in salt water. That fever pa
tent can be made cool and comfortable
by frequent sponging off with soda water.
That to beat eggs quickly, add pinch
OF salt. Salt cools, and cold eggs froth
rapidly. That the hair may be kept from
falling out after illness by frequent ap-
plication to the scalp of sage tea. That
you can take out spots from wash goods
by rubbing them with the yolk of eggs
before washing. That white spots upon
vanished furniture will disappear if you
hold hot plate over them.-Faneibv
Doctor.
Bee-keeping.-Writing of Bookkeeping
and gardening in the Country Gentleman,
Mr.. George A. Stockwell says: son a
small farm, Bookkeeping, if honey, and
not trade in bees and queens, be the
object. will be profitable and satisfactory.
The outlay in labor will be very little.
BY this is not meant that bees will take
care OF the mselves, although they will do
80 very nearly; at least, they will take
themselves off, often without any help.
AAS 6~ANOhCA "AShCo W cCOuOullL6 space
and time, and buys, say five colonies of
bees, and places them on the south side
of some wall or fence, where, as he works
he can see them and attend to them in a
moment, if any service be needed. The
space required need be only the width of
the hive, and fifteen feet in length, and a
number of such places may be found on
any farm, that cannot be utilized in any
other way. A southern exposure is best,
but bees may be placed anywhere, high
or low-on the top of the house, over
porch-on board shelf attached to the
side OF barn, in the attic of the house.
In the loft i'll the corn barn, in any place
whatsoever. They may do better in some
places than in others, but it is sufficiently
we'll established that the place of the
hive is of little importance provided it is
for the bee-keeper. Bees have
stored large quantities of honey in hives
on the roofs Of high buildings in the CEN
ire of cities, and in other out-of-t he-way
places"
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