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[For The Suddt Sooth.] A MOTHER'S PRAYER, {Dedicat'd to Mrs. . of St Louis.) Father! in the battle-fray, Shelter his dear bead. I pray! Nerve hie young arm with the might Of Justice, Liberty and Right. Where the red hail deadliest falls,— Where stern duty loudly calls,— Where the strife is tierce and wild,— Father! guard, oh! guard my child! Where the foe rush swift and strong, Madly striving for the wrong,— Where the clashing arms men wield Ring above the battle-field,— Where the stifling air is hot With bursting shell and whistling shot,— Father! to my boy's brave breast Let no treacherous blade be pressed! Father! if my woman’s heart— Frail and weak in every part— Wanders from Thy mercy’s seat After those dear roving tee\, Let Thy tender, pitying grace Every selfish thought erase; If this mother-love be wrong, Pardon, bless and make me strong. For when silent shades of night Shut the bright world from my sight,— When around the cheerful fire Gather brothers, sisters, sire,— There I miss my boy’s bright face From his old familiar place, And my sad heart wanders back To tented field and bivouac. Often in my troubled sleep, Waking, wearily ta weep,— Often dreaming he is near, Calming every anxious fear,— Often startled by the flash Of hostile swords that meet and clash, Till the cannon’s smoke and roar Hide him from my eyes once more ! Thus I dream and hope aud pray All the weary hours away; But I know' his cause is just, And I centre all my trust In Thy promise—“As thy day So shall thy strength be ” alway! Y’et I need Thy guidance still,— Father! let me do Thy will! If new sorrow* should befall,— If niy noble boy should fall,— If the bright head I have blessed On the cold earth finds its rest,— Still, with all the mother-heart Torn aud quivering with the smart, / yield him, ’m ath Thy chastening rod, To his country and his God l [For The Sunny South.] Empty Cradles—Short Graves. WHY ARE (It R PEOPLE UNHEALTHY t BY JNO. STA1NBACK WILSON, M.D. The history of nations and the teachings of philosophy sustain the idea that intermarriages of the same race, but of different nations, give rise to a more vigorons offspring and are more prolific than other marriages. This being true, the people of the United States of America should become the greatest on earth, both in physical and intellectual development. Here we have the heantiful and intellectual Caucassian race, in which the sturdy Anglo-Saxon is the dominant and all-pervading element. On this vigorons parent stock we have engrafted every shade and variety of the white race, which has always shown itself superior to all other races of men, not only in mental power, but also in physical endurance, where its inherent native strength has not been paralyzed by the enervat ing refinements of civilized life. And notwith standing a thousand health-destroying influ ences unknown in the savage life of the dark- colored races, the Caucassian race, though more diseased than any other, shows wonderful resist ance and tenacity of life. This is doubly due to a more perfect physical organization, which gives strength and endurance to the internal machinery of the organism, just in the same way that this superior physical organi zation gives greater external beauty*to the people of this race. Now, with such elements of health as these; with such a broad and solid basis for physical perfection as this; with the constant infusion of new elements refreshing and purifying the stream of life and checking the transmission of that most fatal class of diseases known as hereditary; with a people among whom “ marriage is honorable in all,"and the conjugal union, so essential to health and happiness, is protected by the strongest sanc tion of law, social, human and divine; with a cli mate free alike from the dwarfing and depressing effects of extreme heat or cold; with a government which leaves our men free from military con scription, and at liberty to enjoy the peaceful and healthful pursuits of home-life; with a land of overflowing abundance, where every one may, without exhausting toil, provide an ample sup ply of the necessaries and even the luxuries of life for himself, for his wife, and for as many children as he may reasonably expect; with all these advantages and more, which I will not at tempt to enumerate, why should not the people of onr country he the most healthy in the world ? And yet they are far from being healthy. This being admitted, let us briefly consider some of the causes of this ill health. To begin at the beginning, the prime, the prin cipal difficulty is the want of robust health among our children, and especially our girls. American girls are beautiful, so far as beauty can exist in the absence of perfect health. But this beauly is of the fragile, fading kind, taking its tints more from the lily than the rose, foreshadowing consumption, scrofula and amentia, and fading before the stern experiences of womanhood like morning glories under the heat of a summer sun. Europeans are struck with the beauty of onr girls, and equally impressed with their feebleness. Lady AmLerly, visiting the public schools cf Boston, exclaimed: “I never saw before so many pretty girls together;" and then added, “They all look sick." And how could they look otherwise when the mind was forced like a hot-honse plant at the expense of the body, and when these frail and beautiful crea tures were composed of hot soda-biscuits, strong tea and coffee, sweet-meats, etc. One-half the children of both sexes horn in this country die in infancy for want of proper knowledge on the part of mothers as to the way in which children should be reared. Most moth ers know no more about sterpiculture or the great art of raising children than they do of the Hebrew language. They either know positively nothing, or worse than nothing: their knowledge consists of absurd nursery traditions, which, in most instances, are unfounded superstitions. For want of this kind of information, infants are fed on meat and coarse food before nature indi cates her readiness for such food by the appear- THE TROUBLE WITH SOUTHERN FOWLS. Boy.—“What's all dal staffin' you got dar under yer coat, Ink George?" Uncle Geokge.—“Go long 'bout yer own bizness, yer Impudent nigger you.’" Boy.—“Yes, dat's de reason ole missus can’t raise no turkeys." Uncle Geokge.—“Looker here, boy, I sqush de life outen you,—fore God 1 will! Boy.—“Yes, yer done squshed it outen dat ole gobbler." ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Word to Correspondents.—Your questions must he short to receive attention. We give plaee this week to some which are entirely too long, and after seeing how innch they make in type, we regret having admitted them. A large, num ber are therefore crowded out and left over for the next paper. State your case in as concise a manner as possible, and leave room on the sheet for onr reply, as we answer all questions on the same sheet, for convenience, and thus hand them to the printer. Lottie, Dawson, Georgia: “I take the liberty of asking you a question, which I wish you to answer in The Sunny South. It is this. Where was Byron horn ?” . . . He was born in Holies street. London, on the twentv-seeond of Janu ary, 1788. Stella and May, Tuskegee, Alabama, ask: “Is it proper for a young lady to sit on the colonade with a young gentleman, after coming from church, provided he refuses to go in the par lor?” ... If you mean at night, it certainly is improper, and the young man should bid you good evening at the door unless he is willing to go into the parlor. Female character is like snow—easily blemished—and girls should never allow themselves to be placed nnder circum stances that might give rise to a whisper of scandal. D., Orangeburg, S. C., asks: “Is it proper for a young lady who is engaged to go to ride with another young gent?” . . . Certainly. Hope you would not begin to restrict the poor thing’s liberties before marriage. This is a bad showing for a prospective husband, and we are even now | Wynona and Rosa, Jefferson. Ga.: We have been nnable to find space to rt-ply to your ques tions. It would require a column to say what we would like to say on that moon question. But to answer the whole thing in a few words, we tell yon it is all miserable superstition and nothing more. Your teacher, no doubt, knew better, and put the questions to you in jest. R. M. D., Tuskegee. Alabama, says: “There has been a debate between a young gent and my self as to whether a young man that will steal for his employer will or will not steal for himself. I took the affirmative side (lie will), and I need vonr assistance to convince him that I am cor rect. Please inform me through your column of ‘Answers to Correspondents’ which of the two you agree with.” ... It requires no argument to prove that a boy or man who will steal at all would not stand long upon the question whom he should steal for. The only point to settle is whether he would steal at all. When that is de cided. the other points amount to nothing. H. G. A.. South Carolina, says: “I am in my nineteenth year, and am deeply in love with a beautiful young lady of about seventeen, with whom I got acquainted several months ago in a neighboring town, and have been corresponding with her ever since. A short time ago I pro posed to her. She would not accept nor did she entirely refuse me; but after a second pleading, she promised to be a friend and carry on a friendly correspondence, but nothing* more. Now. could I consider this as any encourage ment, and would I be justifiable in asking her to exchange photographs with me.” . . . It is certainly much encouragement. Remember that faint heart never won fair lady. Never despair. Show her the character of your mind and depth of your affection in your letters. But let the photograph question alone for the present. Alabama” says: “ I am asked by a friend for The dress of children is no less a cause of in fant mortality than the diet. Mothers, for want of knowledge of the plain principles of physi ology, or in criminal obedience to the demands of fashion, leave the necks, arms and legs of their children, the parts which most need covering, bare, thus driving hack the blood upon the in ternal organs and causing diarrhoea, bronchitis, cholera infantum, and all the long train of infan tile diseases which make so many empty cradles and disconsolate mothers, and which, with a mistaken pity tLat is in truth a sacrilegious im putation on the great Creator, are attributed to a mysterious dispensation of Providence. morals from what nature designed them to be; and hence, instead of th6 free and easy romping, rosy-cheeked, bright-eyed, natural, healthy girls of the olden time, we have a race of pale-faced, crooked-backed, small-waisted. affected, sickly “ little women.” who are a caricature on child hood, and would he on womanhood, if their coun terparts could not be seen in an exaggerated degree in the real woman— the wives and moth ers of onr land. This dominant idea of making women of girls guides and shapes her whole ed ucation at home and at school; the only differ ence being>hat it is more rigidly inculcated and enforced when she is sent to school, and espe- sorry lor the poor bird which you propose to advice how to act in the following case; Oer cage. Come, now, when you get her, don’t cut twentv vears ago he took a little penniless or- ofl all her privileges and make her feel like she p han girl, then some ten years old, into his fam- is in prison. Husbands are generally too tvran- ily, gave her a good literary and musical educa- meal, anti a jealous one is a perfect despot. tion, did for her as if she was his child; in fact, A reader, Nashville, writes: “There is a fern- has P etted 1111,1 loved her more than most parents love their daughters. Lately, a person has sought her hand in marriage, who is not her ilv living near here,—two sisters and one grass widow. They were teaching a class in the peni tentiary, but were made to stop it on account of e fl U!l1 ! ) ntl ls objectionable in many respects; be- making love to some of the convicts; and they sldes ’ ls some years her junior in age. Her pro- go to see them every Sunday. Don’t you think j letdor has given her his reasons why she ought it a great disgrace to the three ?’’ . . . Perhaps the three women are no better than the convicts. Doubtless it would be the best thing for them if regular employment should be given them inside the walls. Y r ou know birds of a feather will fiock together. A subscriber, Smithville, says: “There is a not to many this person, still she persists in her intentions to marry him. Is she not un grateful ? Because she is of age and has power to act for herself, do you think she ought to dis regard his wishes? As to money, he can and will make her independent should she remain single or marry to suit him. Do you think an honorable man would marry this young lady in Our children suffer also for the want of pure ! cially if sent to a “ boarding school for young air and bright sunshine. They are kept too ladies.” Here her education is finished; and much in close and over-heated rooms, with too much covering on their bodies while sleeping. I say on their bodies because, while these gener ally have too much covering, the extremities are often either not sufficiently protected when the generally about this time her health is also Jin- ished by the unnatural and health-destroying restraints to which she has been subjected,* and she steps out on the great theatre of life “as little fitted for encountering the toils or fulfill- fair and intelligent young lady ol sixteen sum- j opposition to her protector? Would a gentleman mers to whom I have recently become attached. | do it? Please give me your opinion in the next She loves another, who lam sure does not care | number of your valuable paper.” . . . Under anything for her, but keeps her in suspense. I the circumstances, we think she should by all love her dearly, but she will not accept the offer j means consult the wishes of her guardian and of my hand. What must be done on my part to obtain the young lady’s confidence and to gain her affections ?” ... Be faithful and constant still. She will soon find out the deception of the false jularker, and then her heart will all be child is put to sleep, or the exposure occurs by ing the duties of life, as are the plants of a hot- y 0urs , and she will love you all the harder he- ‘ kicking oft the cover at night - something by house for being transferred to the open borders.” Clinse of yonr constancy and the deception of the no means uncommon among children. And as I No wonder, then, that woman is physically unfit other wish not only to point out errors, hut also the means of rectifying them, I may stop my fault finding long enough to say that all this trouble can be avoided by having drawers of cotton or flannel, according to the season, and long enough to go well over the hands and feet and to fasten below them. As to the air and sunshine, the remedy is obvious. When the child is in-doors the room should he well ventilated for the sake of the mother as well as the child. All that is necessary' is to avoid a physically for her duties as woman. No wonder that she fades in beauty, pines in disease, and sinks to an early grace, leaving a legacy of inherited weak ness to her descendants. For how can the stream be pure when the fountain is corrupt? How can womea thus falsely educated be the mothers of a healthy people? Having now noticed somewhat in detail the principal cause of the fading beauty and the ill health of the American people, I can find space for only a general reference -to the remedy for current of air between doors or windows, and this state of things. This is to be sought in doing this, there is no danger in the free admis- the pli)fjiiii education of our girls and women, sion of air into any room by day and by night. I But*little, progress can he made in this direction Dr. Hall never made a truer remark than when he said, “ More people die of air-tight rooms than unchincked log cabins.” It is well known that those who camp out or live in log cabins are the most healthy. But children are not only deprived of fresh air and sunshine in-doors, hut even when they are sent out, they are either muffled up under a shawl in the nurse’s arms, or they are laid hack in a carriage with the face covered so as to prevent the free access of air and sunlight, nature’s great restoratives and health preservers. Another frequent cause of the numerous short graves to he seen in every cemetery is to he found in the drugging to which children are subjected. They are drugged by doctors, moth ers and nurses on all occasions, for all diseases, real and imaginary; and this drugging is not con fined to catnip or calamus teas and other nursery simples, hut it often includes the strongest and most dangerous drugs, such as tartar emetic, lo belia, calomel, opium, belladonna, etc.; and many mothers, not content with the doses given by the doctors in cases of real sickness, give “spring physic” in the form of vermifuges and drastic purges to word oft' imaginary diseases: and, worse still, a little diarrhoea, colic, or rest lessness on the part of a child, from any cause, is treated by mothers with paregoric, laudanum, Godfrey’s cordial, or some soothing syrup con taining opium, and thus are thousands of chil dren hurried to the grave, or afflicted with a chronic invalidism which incapacitates them for all the duties of life should they have sufficient vital power to resist the murderous onslaught of mothers, nurses and doctors—for he it known that soothing syrups and other preparations of opium are oiten Ielt in the reach of nurses, and that they do not fail to secure their own rest for the time being by the use of a drug which puts many children to rest for all time. Again, American children of the “higher class” are over-nursed as well as over-fed and over drugged. They are kept smothered up in a close cradle or the nurse’s arms, thus interfering with those free muscular movements which are as necessary to the health and vigorons growth of a child as food and pure air. Children thrive best who are allowed to sprawl on a home pallet on the floor, or a large crib or bed where they can roll over and bring all their muscles into action without the slightest restraints. This is doubt less one great reason why the children of poor people, with all the disadvantages under which they labor, are generally more healthy than the children of their more wealthy neighbors. This much for children in general, including hoys and girls. But the great trouble is with our girls. These suffer not only in infancy from the causes mentioned, but sLould they have suf- . ficient vitality to survive the health-destroying influences to which they are subjected in the beginning of life, they enter on childhood with feeble and shattered frames to encounter even still greater trials. And should they escape these, in what a pitiable plight are they for the stern duties and responsibilities of maternity ! As soon as the unfortunate little feminine emerges from the nursery-room, no time is lost in impressing her mind with the great idea that is to govern her whole after life: that she is not a boy, and not evtn a child, hut “a little woman:” that she must be prim, demure and careful in all her movements “like mamma." If she runs, romps, kicks up her heels, soils her clothes, rumples her dress, or follows any of the prompt ings of her childhood nature, she has brought dis grace on her embryo womanhood, and is shamed into unnatural womanly habits by calling her a tom-hoy. The result is that a very large propor tion of the girls in the higher and middle walks of society— in that class, to which we must look without an entire revolution in the prevailing ideas as to the true character and mission of woman. She must be no longer regarded as a tender exotic, as a mere toy to amuse the idle hours of man, hut as a help-meet: which she cer tainly cannot he when she is a helpless, ever- complaining invalid and constant tax on the time, patience and pocket of her husband. This is an error that needs correction more among men than among women. But women them selves must learn that their own health and the health of the whole human family is to he found in obedience to the laws of health—in correct eating, drinking, sleeping, breathing, clothing, exercise; and the proper regulation of the passions, and not in drugging and health-destroying customs and fashions of the day. Physiology and hygiene should form apart of common school education; and girls should be taught the laws of health at the mother's knees as a part of their education and one no less important than chastity, mod esty, or any other moral excellence. But, how shall mothers imbued with the pre vailing^ false notions as to the causes, cure and prevention of disease, who have never learned even the rudiments of health themselves, teach their daughters ? This can be done only by reading such works as teach the true science of health—not medical works, but hygienic, such as the Science of Health, an excellent monthly by S. R. Wells, and the other publications of the same house. These and other works of that kind, if heeded, will do more for the health of our women and girls, and for the health of our people generally, than all the drugs and doctors in the country, teaching, as they do, how to live so as to preserve health, instead of liow to take drugs and get sick. Some of the teachings of these works may be somewhat ultra, hut even the ultraism as to meat eating and the exclusion of all drugs “leans to virtue’s side,” and are harmless, when compared with the excessive druggings so much in vogue among physicians and people. For it would he far better to use no drugs at all than to have them abused as they are. It would he better to use no meat than to have half or more of our the other. Linda, Polly, Frances and Sally, Madison, Georgia, ask: “Will you please tell us if you think it improper to pin flowers on a gentle man’s coat? Also, do you think it wrong to throw kisses to our ‘hoy friends?’ By answering these questions, you will greatly oblige four wild girls." . . . Both are very improper for even “wild girls.” Neither Linda, Polly, Sally nor Frances should ever be guilty of either, unless the gentleman be a brother or near relative. “Four wild girls” must be particular, or their favors and kisses will cease to be appreciated by the young men. They are queer fellows—these b’hoys. protector in all things. He has done a noble part by her, and as he is still able and willing to protect and support her, she will one day re gret it if she now takes so serious a step contrary to his judgment. Men are better judges of men than women. If he has been kind in his treat ment of her, she is certainly at great fault in wishing to leave him and unite her destinies with one who is unworthy of her. Let her think twice before she leaps. Jeannie Dean and Maud Clyde, Houston, Ga., say: “We both write to know if you will be so kind as to recommend ns to some good, useful gentlemen, as young ladies in quest of husbands. We have both been in company a great deal, hut no gentleman has yet fancied our strange style of beauty. That you may form an idea how we look, we will take the liberty of describing our selves to yon. My friend has very light sandy hair, large, black eyes, and a very pretty, sharp Roman nose, and a lovely size,—only about six feet high, and weighing what any sweet little Annie Johnson, New Orleans, says: “I love a angel would, about one hundred and seventy-five -’• L - —’ ’ pounds; but she is most too small,—that is the only objection the young men down here have to her. As to myself, I cannot say that the descrip tion of my looks will be very flattering; hut young men these days want domestic wives, so I am the one to suit them. Not praising myself at all, I think I am the best cook and housekeeper about here. I can make those big fat biscuits, so that when yon look at them, yon would almost fight for some. But excuse me if I am verging on to egotism,” etc. . . . We will tak^great pleasure in recommending you both to the very next squad of Modocs or Comanches that comes along. Any one who wears sandy hair should have a Modoc husband to keep her scalped reg- yonng man in this city, and he drinks like a fish. I am engaged to get married to him, and I want to know how to stop him from drinking. Do you think it would be better for me to break off the engagement, as plenty of young men are after me? But I love him with all my heart, and if I do not marry him I think I will be an old maid. What do you think is the best ? Let me know in your next paper.” . . . Never marry a man who drinks. Better be an old maid or an old anything else. No one so miser able and poor as the drunkard’s wife. When the habit is once formed, it hinds like hooks of steel. If he drinks like a fish now, he will drink like a whale when he gets older. r . ... , „ TT ..... ularly. But you have allowed your friend to eat Charles W illlam, Accomac C H. \ irginia: too £ of .? those bi fat The little “I am in love with a young lady who I have delicate thing is killing herself. No wonder that reasons to believe loves me equally as well. In fact, she tells me she loves me with the strength ; thing is killing herself, no one has fancied her for a wife. It would re- rVT ,U Y I,C VTr T " lui r e Slren g tu I quire too much flour to fill her up. But as you ot her whole soul, and I feel sure she is true to ?an cook , wash an(] njake good biscuits, we are a what she professes; but still I have a good-looking little snrnns , ( , tbftt no n „” baB ,. flnH ,red „„ and icealthy rival, whose attentions she receives with as much gladness as she does mine; and although she loves me so dearly, she will not as yet consent to unite her destinies with mine. What must I do ? I can love none other save this one, and am anxious to marry at once. Tell me, for pity’s sake, or I perish. ”... She is sim ply testing you? If she is true, as you say, to what she professes, you are all right and she is all right. She cannot he guilty of deception and duplicity. She is too pure and good. Vallie, Madison, Georgia: “What is the ori gin of ‘Barkis is willing’? What is the correct little surprised that no one has captured you yet. You must be cross-eyed and red-headed, or per haps those “big, fat biscuits ” have enlarged you to four hundred pounds or more. Send some of them np this way; we have a lean, hungry look, and an excellent voice for good biscuits. A subscriber, Quitman, says: “I am in love with a young lady who is engaged. When I first met her I felt towards her as I had never felt toward any young lady before. As our ac quaintance increased, my love also grew stronger. After I had studied her disposition and satisfied myself that she would do, I told her how much I loved her. She did not doubt, but gave me wish him to address her ; how should she act in order to prevent this, and yet retain his friend ship?” . . . “Barkis is willin’” is one of Dickens’ expressions; one of his characters in “David Copperfield ” is made to use it. It would be difficult to pronounce “cy-clone” wrong. The most effectual way to kill off a fellow when peopje afflicted with scrofula, abominable skin you can't encourage his propositions, hut dis- diseases, fevers and tape-worms, as the result of like to tell him so, is simply to pass it oft' as earing swine s flesh. jest. Treat the matter lightly, and make l.i>n . Things, of whicTi was V^tl 7 innocent 'Wlnle vegetarianism may not be the best sys- think yon do not believe linn m earnest He In a b few da ys she returned several* little tricks doing wrong tinue. She assured me that she loved me, and said that she cared nothing for the other. Weeks passed away and nothing more was said of it. In the meantime, another young man had been paying her attention, but found that I was too far ahead of him. He then sought to destroy our friendship, which he finally succeeded in doing. He told her that I had spoken very un kindly of her, and told a great many other tern for all. it is a well-established fact that vege tarians live long and enjoy good health without meat And while drugs do not always kill out right, and many even give relief in some cases, there can be but little doubt but that the world would be better off without them; that they are palliatives and not curatives, and that the true secret of preventing and curing disease is to be found in obedience to the laws of health and the use of the hygienic agents — embracing bath ing. rest, and wholesome food, exercise, pure air and the proper regulation of the passions; or, in other words, that nature cures our diseases in all cases, and all the aid she needs is to surround the patient with suitable health conditions and to give her fair play. onlhebrakeT” 6 dis « Usted ut himself and P at j of mine that she had been keeping, and wrote President Porter, of Yale College, recently gave the following laconic advice to the students in the course of nn extended address: “Don’t drink, don’t chew, don't smoke, don’t swear, don't deceive, don't read novels, don’t marry until you can support a wife; he earnest, be self- reliant. he generous, be civil; read the papers; advertise your business; make money and do good with it: love God and vonr fellow-men.” Brown Hair addresses The Sunny South thus: “I have short, curly, brown hair. Some people think it remarkably pretty. I want it to be golden. Will you be kind* enough to ascertain for me if there is any ‘stick pomade’ of that color (golden not red) in Atlanta? I have a friend who uses the black pomade, and it gives her hair a lovely gloss. You have been so kind heretofore to all yonr correspondents (girls es pecially) that I feel almost sure you will not throw my letter in yonr ‘trash-basket.’ If yon do, I’ll just ‘pay you back in your own coin.’ . I will quit trying to get my friends to subscribe for you. You see I have a slight tinge of spite fulness in my nature, and all the boys think I am a very independent little creature (for I am little in height). I have a ‘heap’ of questions I want to ask you, but will wait until another time. I am getting so impatient for yon to be published every week. Tell Mr. Seals to ‘ hurry up the cakes,’ and let me have you every week.” Now, my dear “Brown Hair,” I have too little fancy for red or golden color to assist you in me a very kind note, but made no explana- nation why she returned them. After that, she refused to see me. I tried to find out what the trouble was. I wrote her two or three notes, but she gave me no satisfaction. She soon returned home, and a month passed away. I never heard anything of her. A short time since, I learned that this young man, who had always pretended to be my friend, was the cause of all this trouble. Now, what I want to know is, do you think that I ought to try to make up this difficulty when I see her, which will be very soon, or not? I still love her as devotedly as ever. Her engage ment with the other young man still exists. Please answer in the next issue, as I am anxious to he advised as to how I should act.” ... If yon still love her. as you say, you will find the- inclination to reconcile matters very irresistible when you see her again. “The heart that has- truly loved,” etc.; you know the balance. But it seems that she was not to blame. The ubiqui tous “middle man ” had his fingers in yonr love tart, as he does in everything. But when mat ters are reconciled, the result will be, as is changing your pretty locks to either of *them, always the case where third parties interfere in and must therefore decline to inquire for the j love affaire, that this poor fellow will receive the Don’t like to see a young lady’s head combined and concentrated maledictions of both At a recent wedding in Ohio, the minister was pomade. _ a . about to salute the bride, when she stayed him looking like a dead pine-top nor a gorgeous sun- parties. But what your “ sweetly smiling ” is to with, “No, Mister, I give up them vanities now.” * ~ ance of the teeth: or what is quite as bad, they | mainly for the physical, moral, and intellectual stuffed with fine flour, arrow root, and other ^ improvement of therace—are stinted and dwarfed tarehy, constipating articles of diet. j in body and perverted in mind, manners and Mrs. Oates, our charming American bouffer, has quarreled with Tracy Titus, her husband, and has become wild Oates once again. set. Deliver us from red or golden heads. They do with her engagement number one, is the remind us too forcibly of storms, tornadoes and question for you to consider. Think she will do cyclones. Yet we have seen some red-headed to watch. She may be something of an aceom- irls pure and sweet enough in disposition to be plished flirt, and you had better keep a sharp called angels in calico. look-out.