Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-13
VIOLET PoT-POURRI.

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 Violet, as a color, may be considered passe, but as for the dear little blossom it. self, it's charm is enduring. It could no more go out of fashion, than spring time, and bird songs, and sunshine, can go out of fashion. In the realm of design it furnish es the daintiest of models; the qu;et-hued, delightfully."- odorous, breastknot or boquet, fig always in good taste, and its fragrance, in essence or sachet powder, is the one perfume that is grateful to everyone alike. So steady is the demand for roses and violets that they are we'll called "the flor ist's bread and butter" Who that enters large violet house, with it's long green banks of low-growing leaf clusters, does not think at once of ''hidden treasuresa" The air is permested with a most delicious odor, penetrating but never oppressive, and it is delight to breathe in the spirit of the flowers, the shy dsrlings themselves being almost con- cealed under the sheltering leaves. ''Timid violets Jade the amb ent air With their hearts richest fragrance, unaware The fragrance whispers that the flower is there" " There is fancy just now for violet pot pourri, and the rose jar may possibly be superseded for a time by the violet jar. Violet jars are smaller than rose jars, and the violet mixture is not so lasting as the rose pot-pourri, it may, however, be re- newed by occasionally adding little ex- tract of violets. The following is said to be a reliable method of preparing the mix ture:
 Put pint of the dark fragrant violets in large open bowl, adding salt in the proportion of one handful to three hands f,lo oP T at fha vi tr, this bowl five days, turning them two or three times each day. At the end of this time add half an ounce of sllspice and quarter ounce of stick cinnamon, and let the violets stand week longer, turning them daily. Then add quarter ounce of ground allspice, two ounces of dried lavender flowers, a quarter ounce of bruised cloves, another quarter ounce of stick cinnamon, little grated nutmeg, a tablespoonful of ginger-root in very thin slices, an ounce of orris root, granulated, and half an ounce of triple extract of violet. Mix these ingredients thoroughly, and pack in closely covered jar, then, when the room is swept and garnished, lift the cover for while, and let the sub tily suggestive aroma cape.
 WE LOVE BUT FEW. Oh yes, we mean all kind words that we say
 To old friends and to new. Yet doth this truCh grow clearer day by day,
 We love but few.
 We love! we love! What easy words to say,
 And sweet to hear,
 When sunrise spleudor brightens all the way,
 And, far and near.
 Are breath of flowers and caroling of birds,
 And bells that chime; Our hearts are light; we do not weigh our words
 At m rning time.
 But when the matin music all is hushed.
 And life's great load Doth weigh us down, and thick with dust
 Doth grow the road, Then do we say less often that we love-
 The words have grownl With pleading eyes we look to Christ above,
 And clasp our own.
 Their lives are bound to ours by mighty bands
 No mortal strait,
 Nor death itse5 with it's prevailing hands,
 Can separate.
 The world is wide, and many names are dear,
 And friendships true; Yet do these words read plainer, year by year,
 We love but few.
 Atlantic Monthly.
 GHARADIAN ANGELS.
 At Gharadia, an African oasis on the northern border of the Great Desert, in- habited by natives who can neither read nor write, and have not even heard of uni versity extension, Woman seems to be in her rightful sphere as the guardian, law giver and commander-in chief of Man. We are not told that the women of Ghardaia have suffrage clubs, or a junior Sorosis, or even the w. c. T. U. or Y. w. c. A; they do not graduate from medical schools and law schools, they do not ride bi- cycles, nor even discuss the matter of dress reform; they do not yearn, or agitate, or take to the pen or the platform.
 But we cannot think of them as heather in their blindness, for when woman marries, she makes her own contract, and if the man does not abide by it she is free from her worser half, honorably, and without legal formalities. Their form of religion allows a man to have four wives, but the women generally object to such plurality and polygamy is almost unknown. A man, too, would probably shrink from being dominated by four wives. The wo- men object also to smoking and drinking, and if it it is so nominated in the bond the husband must forego these darling vices. Consequently, prohibition and high license are unknown terms; there are no cases of nicotine poisoning; no Keeley institutes; no saloon keepers exalted to city offices by the votes of inebriates, and peace reigns in Ghardaia.
 And they do not call these women emancipation shtiekers," either.
 HILARY.