Year: 1873

Beauty IN wife can hardly be con-
sidered a desirable gift, and it certainly
is not Joy forever. 1t is apt to de-
velop a spirit Of coquetry that jeopar-
dies domestic peace, and to stimulate
others than the husband to gallantry a
triie too tender for the tranquility of
home. Coquetry, too, is expensive and
likes to array itself in beautiful attire;
then often the one pair of eyes belong
ing to the husband are not deemed
enough for such elaborate decoration,
and the appreciation of other eyes is
sought for, and too often found. The
splendid woman attracts too much at
tention, and elicits too many comments,
for the husband Of a quiet turn The
trite proverb that beauty is only skin
deep is particularly applicable to the
man marrying a woman with such gift
for in six months of married life the or
dinary-looking wife may look as hand
some as her more favored sister There
70 a certain kind of vanity in some men,
however, that finds compensationfo for the
loss of their own admiration in that



which their wives produce on others,
and who are thus, to some extent, mar
ricd for the galleries as well as them
selves. The beautiful woman creates
her greatestimpression in the beginning,
and if she has not the amiable and men
tai traits essential to command esteem,
in time her beauty comes to becommon-
place. To maintain the first impression
requires unusually goodresourees. The
ordinary-loolIing wife, possessing these
resouroess-like good wine, improveswith
time. The beautiful wife is generally
too conscious of the charms of her per-
son and should she be disposed to for
get them, there are always people who
never fail to remind her of them. Fa-
miliai with general admiration, if any
thing goes wrong in the family circle,
and her conduct does not meet with the
husbands appreciation, she isinclinedt to
think that every one but her husband
finds her without blemish. In such
case she is accessible 10 regrets at not
having selected one of the old and con-
slant admirers who always found her
perfect in all that she said and did Nat
urally, the gallant choir of her maiden
days were never. capable. of telling her
that she was naughty under any circum-
staIices, but always sang the one favor
ite air about her resplendent loveliness.
The symphony of old times becomes
more melodious contrnsted with the dis
cordant solo Of the reproving husband,
which she listens to with ill-disguised
petulance. In a word, in such moments
of chagrin she is apt to find all the world
agreeable except her husband.


There is a general rule of life that the
durable should be preferred to the
showy, and with limitations it applies to
the choice OF q wife. The harem belle,
when asked what her occupation was, re-
piled that tit'was to be beautiful ;-but
the requirements of the west are greater
than those of the Orient. The man soon
makes up his mind as to, what, be ad-
mires and desires in the physique of wo-
man, but it requires more time for him
TO come to a Conclusion as to what is es-





tiles 1t may be pretty safely adopted
as a rule, that the woman should have
mind enough 10 comprehend that of her
husband, to share his plans, and to sym
pathize with him in his daily occupation.
The absence of sufficient intelligence to
do this often leads TO an estrangement,
for ignorance of the husbands occupa-
tion implies ignoranceof his financial re-
sources. Familiarity With the husbands
business enables the wife to regulate the
outgoing to the incoming, and tends to
repress unreasonable demands and un-
pleasant discussion. In this respect the
American wife is behind the French one,
who is generally we'll acquainted with
the practical affairs of life, and is as
competent TO protect the interests of the
family as the husband himself, trait
greatly fostered by the code, which
places woman on the same legal footing
as the man. Thus, to know when the
purse isfullRnd when IL is- empty, is a
kind of knowledge that contributes much
to the pleasure of married life.-GGlary.


SPRorRosooPro RESEARCH. Professor
Lockyer states that when an image of
the candle-fiame is thrown by lens
upon the end of spectrosoope, and
portions of the fame are them ex-
amined through the slit, many of the
phenomena presented by spectre
scopio examination of portions of the
sun areiikewise seen by an inspection of
the flame of the candle. Thus, when
the blue part Of the candle-hame is ex-
amined, a tolerably fair bright-line
gaseous spectrum IS seen, projected
upon faint continuous spectrum.
When examining sun spots, a general
and a selective absorption is visible, es-
pecially in the sodium lines, which
thicken in proportion to the abruptness
of the deolivity of the sides Of spot.
The greater the pressure. the thicker
the absorption lines. The researches
made in TINS fieldof observation by Pro-
fessor Loclyer have satisfied him that
there are bright lines in the solar spec
trum, and that these are far more un-
changeal1le than the tlarlz. ones. If, he
says, the theory be accepted that the
sun is simply the condensation of the
tremendous nebula, there is evidence
that it is ahot globe now cooling, which,
after the lapse of untold ages, will roll
as a cold, dark ball through space.