The National tribune., 1896-04-23

BE We IN .IpSE WITH
BE ye in love with Aptitude?
| l. faith. in love am II
For now Ills sun, and now Ills shower,
And now Ills frost. and now tits flower.
NAnd now tits Laura, laughing-eyed,
And now tits Laura shy.
We doubtful days. o. slower glide
Still smile and frown. o. sky;
Some beauty unforeseen trace
| In every change of Laura's face
! Be yc in love with Aptitude?
l. faith. in love am l.
Clinton seollard.
Wien daisies pied aud vioets blue,
And lndy-smocks all silver-white,
| And cuckoo buds of yellow hue,
! Do paint the meadows with delight.
-Lore's Labor Lost.
| Throw hither all your quaint enamcled eyes.
That the green turf suck the honeyed showers,
| And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
| Bring the rattle primrose. that forsaiSc en- dies,
| The tufted crowtoe and pale jessamnc,
| The white pink, and the pansy freaked With jet.
| The glowing violet,
| The IN usk-rose and tho well-attired woodbine.
| With cowsips wan that hang the pcnsive head,
And every flower TINT sad embroidery wears.
--Milton
Anemones, wind1owers, rue anemones vio-
lets, aarbutus, hepatica, dandelious tulips, hya-
cintbs, the bridal vail. japanese ounce, peach
blossoms, pear blossoms, cinquefoil, ground ivy
and maple flowers are all poisoning in this
part of the country.
The darkies here have great love for flowers,
aud their gardens are OVERLOOKING with bios
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Spring to the last gay chrysanthemum in the
Autumn. Que darby who has the sorriest-
looking old cart-horse that ever was-a dirty,
gray white, thin. unkempt creature with
mournful eyes aud detected tai-decorates
the steed with pear-blossoms in the Spring, and
it's the most whimsical effect TO see the fresh
white blossoms trucking out the old horse.
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The market men, too, have a fancy for using
flowers, but their efforts have not tie touch of
patbos that The other has. The butchers deco.
rate the beef and lamb and other meats with
nosegays OF blossoms-little stiff pink -and-wh ite
bouquets. generally. The butter and cheese
stalls look dainty with blossoms among the
wares, but somehow the flowers and the beef
are a horrible combination, and yet it is
mendabc in the butcher to like flowers and to
decorate his stall, and one likes him to do it
while bewailing the effect.
Recently there has been considerable discus.
sion in the papers as TO what constitutes an
ideal wife-it is an old question, aud one that
always excitcs interest. 1t seems little odd
TO limit her idcality in that fashion-to her
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wife. mother, sister, friend, cousin, auntie-
the ideal woman--is all the same. AS she has
TO sustain these other connections as we'll as
tho matrimonial one, she probably can End
the same qualities that make her desirable in
one capacity viii serve TO make her SO in the
others. Notwithstanding to define entirely
what this ideality may be-for every woman has
apparently different kind-yet there are GER
tain characteristics that endear woman to her
friends, aud these according to my lights, may
be summed up in-well, to make it as short as
possible, cleanliness and simplicity. Cleanli-
ness in speech and thought neither speaking,
reading hearing scandal, nor given to
long discussions of diseases and surgical opera
tions. On the other hand, her philosophy must
lie simple enough that she can chat and gossip
pleasantly about the little events of the world
touching them lightly, and remembering
that they. have part in the sweet philosophy
OF lfe but that their interest is short-lived.
The date OF JohnBy's vaccination, or that AIa.
tilda had dress dyed be dropped after a
few days. from the conversational topics. She
will do well TO have an interest in books china,
art, botany, history, music, or something i'm
personal to give her opportunity to work of
her .tempers" or blues" There is moth
ing like an outside interest TO dispel personal
grievances. 1t is well for her TO learn TO DO
able 10 see beauties aud graces in the people
around her, even in those whom she does not
like. OF We are bound TO like some
folks more than others, but dslik cs are usually
quite as much whimsical as they are deeply
founded. Very few out-and-out villains aud
very sew saints are placed in our midst, and it
is we'll TO lie charitable in regard to the faults
Of otbers-witb bit of memory for our own
misdoinss- Ii sho add 10 this charity for her
neighbors, a certain enthusiasm and loyalty
for her friends, IL will not 90 amiss. As TO
dressing, if she be perfectly fresh and clean
every day and viii wear simple frocks, accord
ing to the fashions il she can, why, she' will be
attractive, and il she add thereto any grace of
features, form, or motion, she will be but the
more pleasing. As for her goodness itself-a
good temper. not given either TO complaining
or to enduring over niuch silent agony-tlie
domestic martyr is Of AL beings the most unen
durable. Let her go 10 Whatever church she
pleases-to tho groves or 10 the church OF
candles aud priests, masses, affairs and saints.
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With never n word about cooking nor econo-
MIXING. She ougb TO know how TO do both well
as much as she has TO. That's where good
sense will come in handy.
1t is said that bicycle riding produces an
archcd instep. though how they" found it
out is puzzle. ~
Also. some physician has said that big hats,
ali befeathcrcd and befowered, produce nervous
and brain troubles for their wearers; first,
because they press TOO heavily on the head;
and, secondly, because they are constant worry
10 their wearcrs for fear the feathers will break,
the flowers fade, or the poise be disturbed.
However, big hats are very becoming, and per-
haps worth the risk, but it is "a sin to
them at the theater.
G,,ss Ijpen IL pa,v IN he had made with k,ce