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Darien Timber Gazette.
VOL. 6.--NO, 49.
Darien Timber Gazette,
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING,
DjUUEJV, GEOIIGI*!,
CORNER BROAD AND.NORTHWAY STREETS.
RICHARD W. G-RUBB,
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Timber Gazette, Darien Georgia.
City Directory.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
County Commissioners —James Walker, Chairman;
Adam Strain, John M. Fisher, J. A. Atwood, T. H.
Ciiguiliiat, James E. Holmes, Joseph Hilton.
Citric Board of County Commissioners —Spalding
Kenan.
C\erk Superior Court —L. B. Davis.
Ordinary —C. H. Hopkins, Sr.
* Sheriff —T. Butler Blount.
Receiver Tax Returns —W. McW. Young.
Tax Collector —O. C. Hopkins.
County Treasurer —M. C. O’Neil.
County Surveyor —W. R. Poppel.
Coroner —Philip Maxwell.
The Commissioners hold monthly meetings on
the first Wednesday in each month.
CITY OFFICERS.
Ex-Officio Mayor —James Walker.
Ex-Officio Aldermen— Joseph Hilton, J. A. Atwood,
Adam Strain, J. E. Holmes, Thomas H. Gigniiliat,
John M. Fisher.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Committee on Finance —Messrs. Strain, Atwood
and Hilton.
Committee on Accounts —Messrs. Holmes, Gignil
xiat and Fisher.
Committee on Harbor —Messrs. Hilton, Holmes
and Strain.
Committee on Health and Cemetery— Messrs. Fisher,
Atwood and Holmes.
Committee on Faupers— Messrs. Atwood, Holmes
and Gigniiliat.
Committee on Jail —Messrs. Fisher, Hilton and
Atwood.
Committee on Streets and Lanes —Messrs. Holmes.
Strain and Fisher.
Committee on County Roads —Messrs. Atwood,
Gigniiliat and Hilton.
Committee on Public Buildings —Messrs. Gignii
liat, k lslier and Strain.
Committee on Police —Messrs. Holmes, Hilton and
Strain.
Committee on Ordinances —Messrs. Atwood, Strain
and Holmes.
Clerk and Treasurer —Spalding Kenan.
City Marshal —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr.
Deputy Marshal —Alonzo Guyton.
Harbor Master —George Crane.
Port Physician —Dr. James Holmes.
Inspector General of Timber —George W . 1 aries.
Port Wardens —Isaac M. Aiken, John H. Burrell,
anji James G. Young.
Jailer —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr.
Board Pilot Commissioners —Dr. R. B. Harris.
Cuairman, R. K. Warner, W. C. v lark, Arthur Dal
ley, W. L. Fulton, J tines L-ioiilison.
Mitcneil. .Lewis Livingston, Secretary.
masonic.
Live Oak Lodge, No. i-ii, meets first Weduesda>
uigiu in eacii month at their hail near the M.igno
lia H>use; James walker, Worshiplul Master; M.
0. O Neil, Secretary
UNITED STATES OFFICERS.
Collector oj Customs, Brunswick District John I.
Colloid. ai Brunswick.
Deputy CoUector oj Customs for Fort uj Darien
Charles i. a <.va-'-uJ.
ln> n' —C. i_><lVld.
l*s . Isi-,\ —.). \VeUsier Davis.
Deputy Marshal —Joseph. B. Bond.
SUPEUIOK COURT—EASTERN CUiCUIT.
riou. Win. j>. Fleming, Judge.
Major a. B. Sini, node inn* Oeueral.
uun k;u Gouiuy—Mondays m April and October.
i.ttiughaai County —First Mondays in May and
Novemoor.
ui \; i . iuo —Second Mondays in May and
November. . ,
ui.a. 11 >iin.y —Ars. Mondays in December
i . ... uni, . Mondays m May' and
Liber,, „,11,V—iUe u J( iiMnli.iJ Mondays
a November.
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, ua .. . J.oo morning (aund&y ex
, , ... in., vieparong every aiier
p. m. Mail cioses ai “2 Vt P- 111 •
i. - ..inLie .v duii Railroad,
\ , iue- iay mornm* and
t , ,i . very Monday, toneniug at
.. • , ,tu . i a A.;.vp ui bom ways.
L .aEiOCS.
. v .,. . .11 - v J, a. vne Meinodist Church
v'.-; in I r. .a tl il o-doeix, and evening
.i, ti, ‘ , u ae Ridge every Sunday
a.ce -a • • . • . Rev. H. E. Damian, pas
• iMuui n ai ii a. m. and
y, a A . . .u. Church, colored, Rev.
u. .1. D..11.U, • . ■■■■*■■
UP.) #I,OOO A YEAH, or *5 to S2O
i day in your own locality.
, i risk. Women do as well as
nen. Many make more than the
amount stated above. No one
f can fall to make money last.
Any one can do the work. You can make trom
50 cts. to $2 an hour by devoting your evenings
and spare time to the business. It costs nothing
to try the business. Nothing like it ever offered
before. Business pleasant and strictly honorable.
Reader, if you want to know all about the best
paying business before the public, send us your
address and we will send you full particulars an
private terms free; samples worth $5 also lr^ e>
you can then make up your mind for y°' ir ®® l •
Address GEORGE STINSON & CO., Portland, Me.
june 20 .
Garden Seed.
WE HAVE ON HAND A SUPPLY OF FRESH
Garden Seed, just received, consisting in
part of
BEETS, CABBAGE,
CARROTS, CUCUMBERS,
CELERY, EGGPLANT,
LETTUCE, OKRA,
ENGLISH PEAS,
BEANB, TOMATOES,
SQUASH, OYSTER PLANT,
EARLY CORN, PEPPER, Etc.
W H. COTTER * CO.,
Druggists and Ajfotbectzigs.
j Professional Cards.
'yy ALTER A. WAY, “ ~
Attoruey-at-Law and Real
Estate Agent,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Will practice in the Superior Courts of the
Brunswick and Eastern Circuits. Also in the
federal Courtß in cases of Bankruptcy, etc. Par
ticular attention given to the collection of claims
and the examination of land titles. april2s
w. ROBERT GIGNILLLVr' '
Attorney-at-Law,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all legal business in
the Eastern and Brunswick Circuits, and in the
United States Courts at Savannah, Georgia.
april2s-ly
E. B, Delorme,
Attorney & Counselor-at-Law,
and Notary Public.
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Office on Broad street, near Timber Exchange.
July‘2
~QR. SPALDING KENAN,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Offers his professional services to the citizens of
Darien and vicinity. He can be found at all hours
day and night, at his office on Screven street, next
door to Mr. Wilcox’s dwelling house. augH-ly
jyt. R. B. HARRIS
Offers A l ' B professional services to the citizens of
Darien and' surrounding country. All calls prompt
ly attended, both medical and surgical. Office
under the Masonic Hall, in old Custom House
building.
T - J. ABRAMS,
(J • -■*-
Commercial Bu.'hDng,
jnneC-tf SA VANN AH, GEORGIA.
HENRY B. TOMPKINS. B- A- DENMARK.
rpOMPKINS & DENMARK,
Attorneys-at-DA'y?
No. 105 Bay Street, SAVANN 1 AU, GA.
Practice in the United States Courts, and *’ n
Superior Courts of the Eastern Circuit. je6-i.
WM. GABBARD. P. W. MELDRIM. W. W. FRASER.
Q ARRARD, MELDRIM & FRASER,
Attorneys-at-Law,
DARIEN - - - - - - GEORGIA.
Office at the Magnolia House. Marl3-Iy.
CAREY W. STYLES. | W. J. WILLIAMS. | J. C. VINCENT.
Styles, williams & vincent,
Attorneys & Counselors
At Law,
BRUNSWICK, - - - - GEORGIA.
Will practice in all the Courts of the Brnnswiek
Circuit. In the Supreme Court of Georgia, and in
the U. S. District and Circuit Courts for the South
ern district of Georgia. L id cases a specialty.
Office in Littlefield & 2iso' tnew building, on the
Bay. apr2-tf..
Miscellaneous.
LOOK OUT.
HOYT’S COLOGNE, CORNING’S COLOGNE,
LUBIN'S EXTRACTS, POMADES,
HAIR OIL, TOILET POWDER,
LILLY WHITE, PUFF BOXES,
BOUGE, TOILET SETS,
And in fact, a full assortment of Perfumery and
Fancy Toilet Articles. Soaps—toilet, laundry and
medicated. Give us a call.
W. H. COTTER .V CO.,
feb22-tf Druggists and Apothecaries.
111*1 AlTf*!! A LIMITED NUMBER of
ml A I •** | active, energetic canvassers to
f| H; <I V engage in a pleasant and
profitable . Good men will find this a
rare chance
TO HAKE MOM’.Y.
Snch will please answer this advertisement by
letter, enclosing stamp for reply, stating what
business they have been engaged in. None but
those who mean business apply. Address
jeSO-ly. i'isi.kv, Harvey t Cos., Atlanta, Ga.
Y MONTH guaranteed. sl2 a day
it home made by the industrious.
Capital not required; we will start
vim. Men. women, boys and girls
make money faster at work tor us
than anything else. The work is
light and pleasant, and such as anyone can go
right at. Those who are wise who see this notice
will seud us their addresses at once and see for
themselves. Costly outfit and terms free. Now
is the time. Those already at work are laying up
large sums of money. Address TRUE k CO.,
Augusta, Me. ,juue2o-ly
Col lat Brothers.
Perform Their Promise
>cw Inducements to the I'urchnsinir
Public!
Ilr've. 'll Ev ry n part mint !
Hr ves ir mfthe Jobbers ! !
Special llrive- from our lluyers! ! 1
Solid Fact! Solul Fact
Savannah Prices in Darien.
In Groceries,
Hardware,
Wood 6c Willow Ware-
Crockery,
Stoves,
Glassware,
Sadlery.
-rjrrE OFFER SPECIALITIES IN DRY GOODS
and Blankets. Shoes of all grades,in pegged ma
shine and hand sewed. We keep in stock a fine
selection of Ladies and Gents hand-made Boots
and Shoes. We are offering the finest line of Gents
FURNISHING GOODS,
Clothing,
Hats,
Trunks.
Valices,
Which vre carry In endless variety and constantly
receive from Nortnem markets only. Thanking
yon for past favors and saUciting a continuance
of the same, we arc yours,
aJMf. COLLAT BROTHERS.
DARIEN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1880.
JUST OUT.
Hood's Great Book
OF THE WAR.
Advance and Retreat,
Personal Experiences in the
United Stales and Conicd
erale States . inn ies.
By General J. B. Hood,
Late Lieutenant-General Confederate States Army
puplished for
The Hood Orphan Memorial Fund.
—BY—
General G. T. Beauregard.
New Orleans, 1880.
The entire proceeds arising from the sale of
this work are devoted to the Hood Orphan Me
morial Fund, which is invested in United States
Hcgisted Hoods tor tliG nurture, care, support
and education of the ten infants deprived of their
parents last summer at New Orleans, (the melan
choly incidents of which sad bereavement are
still fresh in the public minds. The book is an
elegant octavo, containing 360 pages, with a fine
photograph likeness and a line steel engraving,
made e tpressly for this work, four large maps of
battle fields, bound iu handsome gray
English cloth three dollars, or in a fine
sheep binding with marble edge, three dollars
aild fifty cents—la half bound Morocco, library
style, four doilars, or in best levent Turkey Mo
rocco, full gilt sides and edges, five dollars.
On the receipt from any person remitting by
mail or express, oi the amount in a registered
letter or by a postal order, bauk draft or check,
a copy will be immediately sent free of postage,
registered as second-class matter.
The volume is published in the best style of
typography, on elegant paper, with illustrations,
executed at highest specimens of art.
The author, the subject, the purpose, all alike
render it worthy a place in every library,—on
every desk—or upon the book shelf of every
house in the country.
Agents wanted in every town and county in
the United States, and a preference will be given
to honorably discharged veterans from the army.
To the ladies, who feel a desire to express their
sympathy with The Hood Orphan Memorial t\inil
the sale of this book among their circle of friends,
will afford an excellent way of contributing sub
stantial aid to so deserving a Cause.
For Terms, Hate* to Agents, Etc., Ad
dress nlth full Fart leulars,
Gfn’l G. T. Beauregard, Publisher,
On behalf of the Hood Memorial Fund.
j3O-ti. New Orleans, La.
Davis’ Brothers,corner ofßull and York streets
Savannah. Agents for Savannah and Darien.
GEORGIA & FLORIDA
INLAND
STEAMBOAT COMPANY.
The Darien Line!
Savannah, St. Catharine’s, Doboy, Darien,
Union Island, St. Simon’s Brusuwiek,
St. Mary’s and Fernandina.
Connecting at Darien with steamers for all land
ings on the Oconee and Altamaha Rivers,
Captain P. H. WARD.
X ATILT, leave wharf, foot of Bull street, every
V> TUESDAY aud FRIDAY at 4 p. m„ for
above points, connecting at Brunswick with Ma
con Brunswick and Brunswick and Albany Rail
roads for all points on the line of those roads, at
Fernandina with Transit Road for Jacksonville.
Cedar Keys, and all points on Florida Central
Railroad and Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile
Railroad, and with steamer Flora, Captain Joe
Smith, for all points on St. Mary’s river.
Through rates of freight to aud from Northern
and Western ports.
Steamers connect, at Brunswick with the up
ward and downward trains of the Brunswick and
Albany Railroad ami with the Macon and Bruns
wick Railroad.
THOMAS WHITE, Agent, Hotel Wharf.
Darien, Georgia.
iiPECIAI; NOTICE.
(’APT. THOMAS WHITE, Agent, is authorized
to adjust, promptly, all claims at Darien.
W. F. BARRY, General Agent.
J. N. HARKIMAN, Manager,
sep22-tf Savannah, Ga.
Singer Sewing Machine.
JULIA CLARKE HAVING SECURED
the agency for the genuine and old reliabie Sin
ger Sewing Machine, is now prepared to serve all
those who are in need of the best machine that
is made, and at very reasonable prices. Mrs.
Clarke is also actirg in Darien for Messrs. Ludden
& Bates music store, Savannah, and will be pleas
ed to take orders for any thing in their line. Give
her a call opposite Mr. Reuben Walker s offices.
Darien, Ga.. December 26th, 1879.
A GREAT SOUTHERN PAPER.
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THE NATIONAL FAMILY PAPER OF THE SOUTH.
48 Columns. Do you Take it ?
rpHE SUNNY SOUTH HAS BEEN CONSTANTLY
1 improved till it has now nearly attained to
perfection. The last issue came to us enlarged to
48 columns, is really a grand number in every re
spect, and everybody should send for it without
delay . In future it will combine all of the best
features of all of the papers of theday. and justly
be called the national Jamily paper of the South, for
it will soon reach almost every family. It will con
tain everv possible variety of reading mat ter.with
splendid 'illustrations,and everything to entertain,
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every community and send right along for it.
Clubs of five can get it for $2 each, a year. A sin
ele copv $2 50. Don’t wait for agents.
g Address J- H. *W. B. SEALS,
d r . Atlanta, Ga.
announcement.
%
TATE FEEL GRATEFUL TO OT'R MANY
V V friends and customers for their liberal pat
ronage during the past year, and we have entered
anew year with the determination to deserve a
lamer share of their trade. We do not keep cheap
drugs, hut sell a GOOD AND PURE ARTICLE OF
MEDICINE as loyv as it can be sold. Remember
that we have constantly in stock a full assortment
° f PURE MEDICINES,
PAINTS, OILS,
VARNISHES,
PATENT MEDICINES of all kinds,
HAIR DYES,
HAIR OILS,
HAIR BRUSHES,
TOOTH BRUSHES,
.And the best article of No. 1 KEROSENE OIL at
lowest prices. , , . . .
Prescriptions carefully compounded night or
d * y ' W. H. COTTER A CO..
feb22-tf Druggists and ApethcewrWk.
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Emil A. Schwarz & Bro.,
DEALERS IN
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125 & 127 Broughton,St.
SAVANNAH, GA.,
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EMIL A. SCHWARZ & 8110.,
AN ORDINANCE.
As Ordinance to require the owners f unoccu
pied lots to keep the same (lean, and forbid the
planting of rice or the sobbing or ov r owing of
lands within the corporate limits of the city
of Darien.
Sec. 2. Be it ordained, that from and after the
passage of this ordinance, it shall be the duty of
the owner or oyvners of each unoccupied lot in
the City of Darien, at his or their own expense re
spectively to keep the same clean and free from
all garbage,rubbish, filth,weeds and undergrowth
and any owner ot such unoccupied lot or lots who
shall fail or refuse after 10 days notice from the
city marshall, to comply with the terms of this
ordinance; upon conviction thereof before the po
lice court of said city, shall be subject to a fine not
exceeding dollars or imprisonment not exceed
ing days.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, that no person
shall plant rice or wet culture or prosecute any
other business within the corporate limits of said
city by which the soil shall be overflowed, or wa
ter soaked, or the drainage ol said city obstructed
uudin the event of the violation of any one or more
ol tlie provisions of this act, it shall be the duty of
the corporate authorities of the city to abate and
stop the said rice planting or other injurious oc
cupation as a nuisance in the game manner as is
now prescribed by layv.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted that,all ordinances
in conflict with this ordinance be.and the same are
hereby repealed.
Darien, Georgia, April 16th, 1880.
J. J. SUTTON,
BUILDER and CONTRACTOR
DARIEN, GA.
Plans. Specifications and Estimates furnished.
I guarantee to my friends and the public to give
entire satisfaction to all work entrusted to me
j&tf* No Wood Butchers employed. - Jft
june27*ti J J* SUTTON#
Love in Pa’s Hat.
Air. AI. was a retired manafacturer and
possessed a considerable fortune. Ha also
had a daughter, nineteen years of age, of
gieut personal attractions. What wonder,
then, that she should have made many a
young fellow’s heart beat quicker who
tried to gain her virgin affections ? But
“papa' M. took care of his treasure as If
she were the pupil of his eye, and many
were the unrtiappy mortals who left his
hospitable table never to return. “Plenty
ot time, said he, “when the right one
comes and I approve,” etc.
But the right one had come long ago,
only papa didn't know it, and he had
come in the person of a young engineer,
who had formerly had business transac
tions with papa AI. The young people
had seen each other, spoken to each other,
looked at each other, and a kind of un
derstanding had been come to. Yes, and
the affection was deep enough to last, even
when Air. AI. retired from trade and the
young gallant had no further excuse for
coming on business. Then there was a
succession of dark days. But love is in
ventive, and iu this instance also proved
to be so.
Mr. M. was m the habit of visiting
twice a week at his hairdresser s to have
his beard and wig looked after; and on
this tact love built his structure. One of
the younger assistants was taken into
confidence, and consequently, considera
ble attention was paid by the young
man to Mr. M.’s hat, receiving it on his
enteiing, giving it a careful brush, and
handing it back on departure; and in this
wise poor, dear “papa” became, uncon
sciously ot course, the postilion d'amour
between bis daughter and her swain.
Thus things continued four long
months; but the best silk bat—let it be
ever so carefully brushed, wants an iron
now and again. Mr. M,’s hat was several
years old, and just about Christmas it
wanted ironing badly. Bo Air. M., instead
of proceeding to the hairdresser’s as usual
wont to his hatter’s and presented his hat
for renovation.
Air. Hatter says, after inspecting it: “Is
this hat too large for you?”
“No; why do you ask?”
“Because you put paper inside.”
“Paper ! Pap. r ! Not I; how does it get
there, I wonder?”
Not long did he wonder, for on careful
ly unfolding the paper, he read: ‘.Don’t
be down-hearted, dear Edward; my father
is good and generous of heart, let us speak
openly to him of our love; he will not say
no, if we promise to make his old age
happy. On my knees I will confess my
love to him. Besides, our corespondence
caunnot last much longer, the continued
brushing has so worn papa’s hat, that I
fear from day to day that he will have to
have it done up,” etc.
Air. M.’s hat having been refreshed, he
went as usual to his hairdresser’s, having
previously carefully replaced the letter.
In the saloon he kept a steady, though
■covert out-look on the officious young
assistant, and found his surmise correct.
The operations finished, he gravely re
ceived his hat, handed the assistant as
usual his pour boire, and departed.
Before returning home, however, he
took occasion to inspect his hat, and ex
tract and read a missive from no other
than the engineer. Among other things
the young man swore that not a penny
did he want of his love’s father—his posi
tion, thank goodness, bringing him more
than sufficient to live happy and comfort
able.
“Well,” said papa, “he seems to be an
honestly disposed young man, and if,” eot.
For some time he allowed the corree
pondence to go on, reading regularly and
watchfully the letters from both sides, un
known to them, of course, until one day,
when the letters had been particularly
desponding and good, he put an end to it
and made them happy, as may be seen by
the cards sent to all whom it may concern.
Why are There Any Unmarried Wo
men !
One of the greatest social problems of
the day is to explain why there are so
many marriageblo women who never get
married. Some say it is owing to an ex
cess in numbers of women over men, in
consequence of which there are not hus
bands enough to go round. This, howev
er, is disproved by statistics. Take tlie
world through, and figures show that there
are as many men in it as women. Others
attribute it to tlie expensiveness of mod
ern life. Men do not marry because, it is
said, they cannot afford it. But the fact
is, no man who truly loved a woman ever
hesitated to become engaged to her and
eventually marry her because of poverty.
They are coldblooded men, with no idea
of any feeling for a woman stronger than
languid administration, who may be det
tered from assuming what they regard as a
bvirden in the shape of a wife, unless as
sured of a liberal income but most are not
so calculating. Others, again, attribute
the evil to woman’s fastidiousness. They
while waiting for an imposible shadow let
the possible substance slip through their
fingers. This is a libel on the sex. Asa
rule, they are no more fastidious than
men are, and are just as susceptible as
men to that enchantment of love which
invests its object with every perfection and
covers up every fault. So far as men and
women are concerned, they areas prone to
marriage now as in any period of the
world’s history. Nevertheless, there are
women waiting for husbands and not get
ting them. They are pretty, they are ac
complished, they are sensible, and under
proper training they would make excel
lent wives and mothers; but they never
get a chance. What seems to be needed
is a more thorough method of bringing
men and women into social contact with
each other. —Golden Era.
A couple in the backwoods of Michigan
desired to marry, but they were not with
in reach of a clergyman or justice. There
was not, in fact, a human being within
twenty miles. So they wrote out as much
of a marriage ceremony as they could re
mernbtr, including affirmative responses,
signed their names to the document and
pronounced themselves husband and wife.
“Ah? my darling wife,” said George,
the week alter his marriage, “If your hus
band were to die, what would you do?
“don’t know, I am sure, George,” saidtbe
wife, reflectively. “I never thought of
that. I must look in my Book of Etiqette
| and read the rules for young widows 1”
$2.50 A YEAR.
The Idleness of Girls.
Another great mistake that many of our
girls are making, and that their mothera
are either encouraging or allowing them
to make, is that of of spending their time
out of school in idleness, or in frivolous
amusements, doing no work to speak of,
and learning nothing about the practical
duties and the serious cares of life. It ia
not only in the wealthier families that the
girls are growing up indolent and unprac
tieed in household work; indeed, I think
tnat more attention is paid to the indus
trial training of girls in the welthier fam
ilies than in the families of mechanics
and ot people in moderate circumstances
where the mothers are compelled to work
hard all the while.
“Within the last week,” says one of mv
correspondents, “I have heard two moth
ers, worthy women in most respects, say,
the first, that her daughter never did any
sweeping. Why, if she wants to say to
her companions, ‘I never swept a room in
my life,’ and takes any comfort in it, let
her say it; and yet that mother is sorrow
ing much over the short-comings of that
very daughter: The other, said she, would
not let her daughter do any thing in the
kitchen. Poor deluded woman ! She did
it all herself, instead !”
Ihe habits of indolence and of helpless
ness that are thus formed are not the
greatest evils resulting from this bad prac
tice, selfishness that it fosters is the worst
thing about it. How devoid of conscience
how lacking in ull true sense of tender
ness, or even of justice, a girl must be
who will thus consent to devote ull her timo
out ot school to pleasuring, while her
mother is bearing all the heavy burdens
ol the household! And thejfoolish way in
which mothers tliomselves sometimes talk
about this, even in tne presence, of their
children, is mischeivous in the estreme.
"Gf Hattie is so absorbed with her
books, or her embroideiy, that she .takes
no interest in household matters, and Ido
not like to call upon her.” As if the
daughter belonged to a superior order of
beings, and must not soil her hands or
rutile her temper with unnecessary honse
work ! ’The mother for who she toils. No
mother wliojsuffers such a state of things as
this can preserve the respect of her daugh
ter no mother can afford to lose.
The result of all this is to form in the
minds of many girls not only a distasto
for labor, but a contempt for it, and a pur
pose to avoid it as long Sas they live lby
some'means or other.
There is scarcely one of these forty let
ters which does notjmention this as one of
the cheif errors in the training of our girls
at the present day. It is not universal,
it is altogether too prevalent. And want
to say to you. girls, that if you are allow
ing yourselves to grow up with such hab
its of indolence and such notions] about
work, you are preparing for yourselves a
miserable future.
Finding Fault.
Does it pay to find fault? You who are
the wise keepers of houses, and the dear
keepers of hearts, does it pay ? There are
heavy burdens to bear all day manifold
careß from the rising to the setting of the
sun—blunders made by those who should
have known better, many a thing to annoy
but don t make cold and cheerless the
home-atmosphere by finding fault. There
is no blight more deadly in its tendency—
nothing that can more surely dibt.urb the
harmony of home, nothing that will recoil
more quickly upon yourself—than the
habit of fault-finding. Not that errors
suould go unrebuked, or mistakes uncor
rected; but note such down in your mem
ory, and when the work, und oare, and tu
mult of the day are all over, then call the
little ones and the larger ones around you
and then tell them sorberly but kindly of
the wrong-doings, and see if you are not
amply repaid for your forbearance by the
smile and the tear, and the little word of
contrition and premise amendment. Yon
will be a thousand times happier when
you lie down to sleep, and a sweet forget
fulness has settled over your little flock,
than you would have been had the blue
eyes now closed been filled with bitter
tears that overflowed at unkind censure
or had the little golden head drooped un
der the shadow of your constant frown.
How fair, and sweet, and satisfying life
might be to us all if we forget to fret, and
find fault, and complain. Don't sjkve
your words for praise and appreciation
until it is too late. You love the little
children—the dear little children ! And
if they do speak loud, and leave doors
open that should be shut, and disturb
the order of the house, don’t find fault.
It won’t pay.
Dress and thf Complexion. —A soft
blending of colors is usally exceedingly
elegant, but many ladies make a great mis
take in buying goods for a spring, sum
mer, or even winter dreses, They endeav
or to match their hair, skin, or eyes, in
stead of purchasing a shade which, while
it harmonizes well with the color of these
natural charms, contrasts with them and
forms a species of which is calculated to
set off at the best advantage these natural
beauties; golden brown hair is lovely, but
it loses half its gleam if the dress be a
shade to correspond; brunettes who have
a great deal of color in cheek and lips are
apt to find deep or clear red unbecoming,
and can often wear tints which a blonde,
to whom tints and delicate shades see right
fully belong not dare to wear. Contrast,
provided it be not glaring or inharmoni
ous is one the secrets of artistic effect, it
brings into strong relief all the good points
of face and figure, and throws the defects
into the shade.
“Water,” remarked an old toper, “as
the base of all fluids, as the monkey is tho
great-grandfather of man, the distillery
has done for the one what civilization has
done for the other - added the spirit.”
“Mama* said Henry Thomas, a bright
little fellow, over in Algiers, "Mama, have
my toes got eyes?” No, my darling; why
do you ask such a question?” “Because
my foot’s asleep.”
A young lady in Ohio has been adjudg
ed insane because sue fell in love with a col
lege professor. This ins’t very compli
mentary to the college faculty thereabouts.
Ilt is believed that cats can be made
tender hearted by playing soft, sad musio
to them, but how much easier it is to hire
a boy to chuck ’em off the bridge.