Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-08-05
COMFORT IN GARDENS.
Health and Strength Regalned Amid
Plants and Flowers.

PlantS and Flowers
/ have at least three personal &C
quaintances who owe much to old
Dame Nature for renewed youth and
new beauty OF face and form gained
by work in the garden. One is a
woman of ample fortune, who loves
her lawn, with its trees and vines and
flowers Us things of beauty. I doubt
if the thought of health occurs to her,
but the effect is patent to all her
friends. Another is lovely little
woman who has been in ill-health for
years This season. moving to q new
home where friends and acquaint-
ances were scarce. sheer loneliness
drove her to her garden. There the
needs of the growing things appeared
to her. and day by day her visits were
repeated. until at last all her morn
ing hours were spent among them,
planting. training, wedding, thinning
and digging. The result is renewal
of health and strength unknown be-
fore for years, and new happiness and
greater contentment.
The third is good woman whose
sorrows seemed piled mountains high
through the loss by death within a
few months of her husband and child
and of property as well. Trained to
no work as 4 girl, she seemed help
loss. But he little garden demanded
attention. and her very losses COM
PEELED her to work with her hands.
Here, too, the soothing balm of pure
air, exercise and occupation worked
its marvels. -Vick's Magazine.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
Tho Religious Herald thinks thai
"Tho conscience which knowingly
opposes the clear majority of praying
church needs watching"
~. "A Cedar Rapids, Ia. Clergyman
recently took this for text: Can n
man with u family work for thirty
dollars u month and be Christianp"
Tho King OF Siam has recently
donated to tho Baptist mission ut
Bangkok the lago slim of $24O.0
nearly quarter of u million, for q
hospital and school.
Tho Lutheran church is growing
rapidly in the United States. In 1870
tho number of communicates in that
denomination was less than 4OO,O OO
Now there arc over 1,00).0OO
The rule roga ding commence
ment orators at Wesleyan University
has been changed. Hereafter the
commencement orators will be tho ten
students having the highest marks in
n rh M ,,in -, II.
and senior years.
The Female Mission Homo ut Sgd
ney, Australia, has been in operation
fifteen years, and Is managed wholly
by women. Its object Is to receive
young women who have fallen, or who
are in danger of falling, from virtu-
GUS life, and to help them to retrieve
their position in society.
When Mr.. Moody was in London
q number OF young mon were commits
stoned TO follow up tho converts and
see that they remained true to their
profession. Two of the committee
wero ut tho Bible school, und said that
they got tho names Of $1,000 converts
mado in London.
In tho interest OF both parents and
children, we protest against tho cram
ming system in our pubic schools. If
matters were rightly managed, nll the
study might be confined to school
hours, md our boys and girls might
have tho balance Of the day for rest or
play, or other employment, which
would change II it did not entirely re-
lieve the strain.-Chrlstian Standard.
An interesting Controversy.
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