The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907, July 10, 1875, Image 8
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A REFORMATION.
BY PAIi MEN AS MIX.
You're surprised at my going to church, are you, Joe ?
Well, it’s never too late to begin
To loosen the shackles that bind us, you know,
To the rack of convivial sin.
3Iy going at first was a little mistake,
For I hated the usual cry
‘Bout the wails of the lost in the sulphurous lake,
And regarded all sermons as dry.
*Twas all upon Mary's account that I went;
Poor child! she entreated me so
To leave ofl my dissolute ways and repent,
That to please her I told her I’d go
As far as the door. But the usher exclaimed
With a smile, “I'm so glad you are here."
So I blundered on in, for I was ashamed
To retreat after getting so near.
And, Joe, when they started their beautiful song,
And Mary joined in with the rest,
A memory—buried, O ever so long—
Rose warm as a tear in my breast.
I remembered the time in my innocent youth
W’hen my poor, patient mother and I
Together gave heed to the lessons of truth
In the dearest church under the sky.
Her voice when they sang was far sweeter to me
Than any that joined in the strain,
For oft it had soothed me to sleep on her knee—
Oh, would that I could hear it again!
Well, Joe, I resolved then and there to reform,—
A virtuous life is the thing;
It’s the ship that will bear a man safe thro’ the storm,
And joys that are genuine bring.
What's that? You'll stick to me now r as before?
Good enough, my trusty old friend!
Together in life, to the heavenly shore
Together we'll go in the end;
And when we are safely “up yonder,*' some day
W’hen Mary, my darling, is near,
W’e’ll single her out to the angels and say,
“She got us old fellows in here!”
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LOVE STORIES.
BY BOSA Y. RALSTON.
“Is The Sunny South going to be filled up
with those sentimental love-stories that ain't
worth a cent ?” is a question repeatedly put to
me by that class of crusty old fogies whose youth
has passed, and their love-dreams perhaps for
ever fled. They seem to forget that they were
once young, and took special delight in the so-
called “trash literature" that they now so much
affect to contemn. Such an expression natu
rally proceeds from a selfish and envious dispo
sition. It is selfishness because they would have
a paper to contain just such reading matter as
would please themselves; and envy because, see
ing they no longer take pleasure therein, they
would utterly exclude all those articles from
which numbers derive such innocent and pleas-
ureable amusement.
It is objected by this class of literary carpers,
that love-stories and romances, continually put
in the hands of youth, will vitiate their taste,
undermine their principles, give them errone
ous views of life, and eventually supplant all
desire for solid matter, such as history, the Bible,
etc. It is admitted that by the frequent reading
of love-tales, young persons will acquire a taste
for them. But suppose they do ? Is it an acqui
sition wholly to be deprecated ? Is a young man
going to be any the less brave, honest and gal
lant, or a young girl any the less gentle, modest
and pure-minded, simply because they read them?
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"WHO IS FLOY FAY f
BY HOPE DE VERE.
I wonder who Floy Fay can be ?
If she is young and fair.
If she has sparkling dark-blue eyes.
And a wealth of golden hair ?
I think that she is handsome,
I feel that she is gay ;
Although I do not know her,
Yet I love her well—Floy Fay.
I think that she's a maiden
Reared 'neath our sunny skies,
And I feel that he who captures
Will win a glorious prize.
I picture her a maiden
With a gentle loving heart—
Too young, by far, to yet have been
Struck by Cupid’s dart.
If I'm wrong, will you correct me
At no very distant day,
And tell me who you are, fair one ?
Tell me who you are, Floy Fay !
“Kit," Montezuma, says: “I wrote a young I “Domino," Columbus, Texas, asks: “1. Is it
lady a note to see her to church, but could not not better when in the company of ladies to say
fulfill my engagement on account of sickness, too little than too much? 2. Does it show good
and got a young man to fulfill it for me. Do breeding in any girl, whether in fun or other-
tou think I did right by sending him, or should wise, to tell a gentieman to ‘ shut his mouthy
I have written her a note to excuse me r” . . . Now, I have had none to tell me this, for I never
You did wrong. It was not your business to give them a chance, but ask for information, as
furnish her with an escort unless she requested it is frequently done in this village." . . . It is
you to do so. Many good reasons might be better in all kinds of company to say too little
than too much. Say but little and look wise,
like the owl, is a capital motto. It is very un
given for this.
Wii.liam H. Donald, Jr.. Savannah, asks: “Do
you know of any nice young ladies who would
take pleasure in making one poor castaway
happy or make him still more unhappy ? If so,
you will confer a great favor by recommending
me to a few of them, for I think I have been
lonesome long enough, and should like very
much to make quite a contrast between my past
becoming in young ladies to tell gentlemen to
“shut their months.” The voting ladies of your
village should be more prudent.
“Pansy "asks: “How are sash ribbons worn
now ? In every-day life, it is very common,
when any one does you a kind turn, to say
‘ Thank you;’ what would be an appropriate an-
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OBITUARIES.
BY H. E. SHIPLEY.
and future life; so if there are any compassion- swer? If a gentleman friend offer to make a
ate young ladies that you know of. please put in present of a dress, should I accept?” . . . 1.
a good word for me.” . . . We submit your case Our Fashion Editress will reply to your first
to the ladies. j query. 2. No reply at all is necessary when a
Callie asks: “1. Where is Augusta J. Evans, person simply thanks you: but if the grateful
and why doesn’t she write any more? 2. Could person is very emphatic in returning thanks, a
you tell me where Mr. John W. Norton, the 1 simple reply ot “All right, sir, would not be
actor, is ? What is good to keep the hair from amiss. 3. It a gentleman is pecuniarily able to
falling out ?” . . . 1. Miss Augusta Evans (now make a voluntary tender of a dress to a young
Mrs. Wilson) will have out a new book soon. without expecting her to feel under any
and will then write for The Sunny South. 2. special obligations for it. there is no more impro-
Don’t know where Norton is. 3. The best thing | priety in accepting it than there would be in
to keep the hair from falling out is to keep the ■ accepting a bouquet or an iced pound-cake. It
skin of the head clean, brush it with a stiff is a false modesty which sometimes prevents
people from accepting presents voluntarily’ ten-
brush, or scratch gently with the finger-nails, and _ - . . ...
It was Charles Lamb who, when a child, walk- use cold water. ‘ dered. The greatest objection to it is, that a
On the contrary, by studying the portrayed lives ! ing with his sister through a churchyard, wished “Distress,” Elm Grove: “Would it be advi- ‘ . a „ \. con ?° acce P_ s „ u „ c . a presen^
of fancied heroes and heroines, they are instantly to know where all the naughty people were bur- sable for a
stimulated to greater deeds themselves. I have ; ied; and who later in life wrote the truism that marry a man juai unite ua ugv, nuu uc a mu- | v
' ‘ “ _ if one-half of our departed ones could come out — 1 —° “ T — ‘ ”
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SKELETON LEAVES.
BY MBS. B. MALLON.
never yet seen any bad effects of sensible and life
like love-stories upon the manners and actions ! of their graves and read their epitaphs, they be children, or had I better wait until I am
of our young men and women. | would never recognize themselves. older? Then he, too, would be growing quite
As to destroying their tastes for solid matter, ! I am forcibly reminded of this whenever I aged; but where love is the ruling passion, I
suppose they were denied all access to novels, ] walk through a cemetery or read one of those know not what course to pursue. I desire your
romances and love-stories; would they resort to ! obituaries which so few read and still fewer be- advice.” ... I should consider you “plumb”
historical libraries any more frequently than lieve. When I see it stated in the ;Spread-Eagle crazy to go into any such a copartnership. How
they do now? How many modern Herodotuses ! Gazette that the demise of Mrs. Brown is a public any woman can voluntarily become the slave of
would we have ? Were the theologians of an- ■ calamity—that she was the paragon of her sex, an old man and another woman’s brats, I cannot
cient times, before love-stories were so popular, I the amiability of whose disposition endeared understand. Look up a better chance,
any more recondite than at the present day? her to every one who came within her charming Droveb, Onancock, Virginia, says: “I am in
It is also maintained by these would-be critics '• influence, I straightway remember—I am her a g rea t dilemma, and wish you to'decide forme
that love-stories will give to the young preco- | nearest neighbor, you know—that from morn w jj at ; s best to q 0 j Nearly love a beautiful
cious ideas ot love and set them to dreaming ol till dewy eve her voice, pitched in the shrillest a nd accomplished young lady, who professes to
matrimony, when they should be preparing for ! tenor, was borne to me by the gentle breezes in j ove me pj U { j ) lave a r j va j j s both wealthy
other realities of life. This, again, is fallacious ^ beration of her servants or children, and often good looking, thereby having the ascend-
reasoning, for did the antediluvian sons and of poor Bi* u himself. Nor do I forget the a ncv over me, I being homely and a cripple,
daughters never dream of love? and were they ; gusirof tearful confidence, induced by too much Although not what we term rich, I think I am
utterly incapable of comprehending its mean- Tom and Jerry, in which that individual told fully able to supporta family. Please, my dear
me, as I led him one night an unwilling captive - - - - - - - - -
towards his Lares and Penates, that she was the
torment of his life.
When Mrs. Jinks read in that same obituary
that Mrs. Brown had left a disconsolate husband
young lady sixteen years of age to j 1^°^ ™ der special obligations, and
marry a man' just twice her age, and he a wid- | ^ reby ^mg the man an undue advantage of
ower with several children? Would we not all
ing, because the literature of that age was not
infected with “such trash?” Nay; every youth
and virgin had his and her own ideal hero and
heroine. The only difference was, that theirs
w r ere of their own creation, while ours are those
jroeis sum oi it, nisiorv is leemmu witn ns wont- »•» «uu, a luuaum nuu a uu»m , nuu u man ,
ings, and no one who has ever read the Scrip- children is interestin’, everybody else’s is angels. I | w0 y ea F s loved a beautiful and lovely young
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NO III.
A beautiful addition to skeleton bouquets will
be found in the seed-vessels of various plants.
These must not be gathered until the seeds are 0 f others. and six interesting children to mourn her irre
mature. I give the names of a few plants which Love is an essential element of human nature, parable loss, her nose took a sudden elevation,
furnish desirable specimens. Stramonium or an( l at the proper age, will be instinctively and and she immediately said to Jane Amanda:
r„ t, i i i , , ,, intuitively comprehended, w’hether we have ever “ Very disconsolate indeed ! Gallantin’Susan
Jamestown weed, balsam apple, lobelia, skull- rea(1 of itor not. It is also a divine institution. Briggs home from church before his wife’s tracks
cap, poppy, ground mallows, Jerusalem cherry, Poets sing of it, history is teeming with its work- was cold, a laughin and a bowin’; and if them
black henbane, monk’s-hood monk’s-hood, wild
salvia, sage, figwort, toad-flax, blue nicandra,
wild hop (very beautiful), and all the varieties
of the ground cherry family (pkysalis). The
flowers (so called) are the two species of hydran
gea, and are specially desirable. Gather the
bunches after they have begun to turn Brown,
and soak them from six to eight weeks. Exper
iment will reveal many more desirable speci
mens, but do not make great use of those which
are very woody.
ARRANGEMENT OF BOUQUETS.
Having completed all the various processes re
quired in the preparation of leaves, ferns and
seed-vessels, and having ready a perfect store
from which to select, the next step is to arrange
sir, instruct me through your columns which is
the best course to pursue, for which I will ever
be indebted.” . . . Remember that the race is j
not always to the swift nor the battle to the j
strong. The rabbit and tortoise went on a very |
uneven race, but somehow or somehow else the ! ati appl to frie nd ‘ Vivian.’ ”
slow-plodding tortoise won the prize. Bear these | if ol
things in mind, and never succumb to appar'ent
difficulties.
C. H. W., South Carolina, says: “I have for
Marie, Tuskegee, says: “Please inform your
Lawrenceville gentleman that I—a young lady
fresh from college, having just made my debut
into society (of course true to my sex)—am in
quest of a ‘better half,’ and will assure him that
I can equal the Houston girl in making ‘ big, fat
biscuit,’ as I am a splendid little housekeeper.
I think I can suit him in that respect, though I
have no preference between the two; and if I
cannot get him, please recommend me to his
fleshy friend. Perhaps I can suit him, although
I cannot equal her in weight, as I only weigh
one hundred; but think that quite enough for a
lady of five feet, and think I am fully compe
tent to take care of him. I liked to have omit
ted informing him that I am not sandy-haired;
instead, I have very long, wavy black hair, fair
complexion, and large brown eyes (that will cap
tivate the heart of any man.) Now, dear Sunny
South, don’t think me at all conceited when I
say I have the reputation of being very beautiful,
and that all the boys of our little city are dead
in love with me; but I don’t want a Tuskegee
gent. If you think I need further recommend
ation, apply to my friend ‘Vivian.’ ” . . . The
Lawrenceville gentleman (but it should have
tures can fail to be impressed with the beauty ! I dont see why them newspaper folks can’t tell
and simplicity of the love-stories it chronicles, the truth.”
Who has not read the beautiful and touching j And just there Mrs. Jinks struck the question
story of Ruth and Boaz, of Jacob and Rachel, of centrally. Not that I would have the “newspa-
Esther and King Ahasuerus; and what can be j per folks” lay bare the representative Mrs.
more romantic than the manner of love-making | Brown’s constitutional peculiarities, for when it
between Isaac and Rebecca?—a little more ad- j comes to that, who shall throw the first stone?
venturous than the love-stories of to-day, for j But it is this inflated style of obituary, this use
where is the maiden of modern times who would ! of hyperbolical language, I protest against. The
so readily consent to leave her parental roof, and time-honored motto, Ad nisi de mortuus bonum, is
go off into a foreign country to be the wife of 1 but the exponent ot a feeling which has its root
one she had never seen, simply because he had in Christian charity—a sort of chivalrous senti
lady with a pure and unceasing devotion, but
have not until a few months since made known
to her my sentiments. She at first refused me,
but subsequently has consented to be mine,
though says she may change. Why is this pro
vision in her answer?” . . . The provision
shows her to be a sensible woman. It shows
that she means business, but intends to be cer
tain as to the character of the one with whom
she forms a partnership. As you have been two
years in making up your mind, and she has but
taken into his head to send for her? Now these
things are recorded as farts and yet the love-tales
of the present time are not half so romantic.
If young couples are disappointed, and find
each other not such as thev had read of in nov- I
els, it is their own fault. It is not the design of writes an obituary voluntarily or does so be-
them in bouquets and graceful wreaths" under ' vorks of fic t ion an > T more thuja .those onmprajs, r cause he is asked, t after lie has^said all his own
glass-shades. It will be found that in the pro- 1 , to P ake us models, nolens voltes. The one sets ^mdIy : Te^ings^rf>m'!» not to, plfipge into ex-
recently been informed of your intentions, she
ment which would seek to protect those who .means to say that “Barkis is willin, provided
cannot protect themselves; very good in its 5’ 01 } come U P to the estimate she fixes upon you
place, very proper, yet like everything else, lia
ble to abuse. I would simply ask that most or
thographic friend of the afflicted family, who
and that you fix upon yourself. So it depends
upon yourself whether she changes her mind or
not. She is smart.
B. A., Butler, says: “The writer is a young
man of good standing and passes well in the
firstrcireles of society. Some tiinfe since he was
cess of mneeration some of the leaves will have before us a mass of rules by which we may be Jggerations to please ^the family. I trust, when rather in love with a young lady of the highest
lost their stems. These can
Take various^sizes of snool cotton from nnm therefore, repeat, if voting lovers are disap- wait and conversation, may be kept for discus- out any known cause, she refused to accept his
her 8 to 40 and stiffen well a vard or two of each pointed in each other, they would do well to sion among those who love me, and not held up company to church, without making any excuse,
in a thick solution of gum Arabic. Stretch exaIt, ine their own hearts closely, and see if for the admiration of an incredulous public, the , Since then, she treats him seemingly as kind as
readily be'sivm-dbid i governed, and the other portrays in fancied I have “shuffled off this mortal coil, that wliat- standing, and had paid some attentions to her,
■ “b [ sketches that whicii is worthy of imitation. I, ever virtues I may have set forth in my daily ' such as accompanying her to church, etc. With-
them to dry, and when perfectly dry and stiff,
cut into stems of required length. I3y slightly
fraying one end, they can be so neatly attached
to the leaf with gum Arabic as almost to defy de
tection.
Having procured a stand and shade of per
fectly white glass and »of a proper size, not too
large, prepare a cushion of black or dark-blue
velvet stuffed with cotton slightly raised in the
centre, and just large enough to tit on the stand
within the groove which receives the sjiade.
Tack or-glue the cushion to the wood and- con
ceal the edge with delicate fern-sprays.
some of the fault does not lie therein, and not j sole effect ot which w-ill be to cause every sin of before, though he don t feel disposed to extend
■ ■ omission or commission of which I have been the former courtesies. Do you think he should,
guilty during my whole life to be thoroughly and how’ should he act towards her?” ... It
aired by my enemies, and the obituary itself to may be that his “good standing” is only good
be read by my friends with a tacit ignoring of in his own estimation. Those “first circles”
its exaggerations, and a look which being inter- very frequently fail to put the same estimate
attribute it to any false phases of life that they
have obtained from novels and romances.
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OLD THINGS HATE PASSED AWAY.
BY j. h. B.
All things have become new. The greatest
difficulty of the age is to make people believe
that such is the case. I have special reference
to men whose occupation is farming (so called),
Group the leaves as in forming a bouquet of J f nd 1 / e P eat ’ the difficulty is to make them
natural flowers, taking care, of course, to place kn ° w . the y a ^°t farming under the old regime
the larger specimens at the base of the bouquet, i 0t biteen ) ears ago. Then, they could
Use a piece of silk-wound wire with a small ball ; ? om “ alld labor ’ plant crops, etc., with that fact
of white wax on the end, as a firm foundation lr | vl ®7’ and consequently plant what they
for the stems; and when all are cut the required biased; now they cannot command labor, and
length, bind the end’s together for a couple of p .*!?*’ lt ls a matter of uncertainty
P -.1 .. ■. ... “ .1 whom they will get to cultivate it, or whether it
will be cultivated at all. Hence it follows, in
preted means, “I know better, but I won’t say
so—poor thing !”
inches with thread or silk. Pierce the centre of
the cushion quite through to the wood, in order
to insert the stems. A small gimlet-hole in the
centre ot the stand will do much toward making
the bouquet firm. Stramonium pods or those
of the balsam apple make beautiful receptacles
for bouquets. Remove the centre of the stra
monium pod and spread it like a star at the base
of the bouquet, or use the balsam apple as a sort
of vase to receive the stems.
my mind, that there is less money made and a
thousand times more trouble experienced in
raising cotton than any other production of the
farm.
I have in my mind an old farmer living in
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
“Ophaline ” will find her questions answered
in our reply to “Pansy.”
“Three Readers” ask: “Will you please in
form us why the inauguration of the Presidents
of the United States always takes place on the
! fourth of March ?” . . . That is the time ap
pointed by law. It is at the close of the long
session, and a very appropriate time.
I A Reader, Calhoun, asks: “Will you please
| inform me whether or not you can send The
Sunny South to different post-offices in the same
j county, where the subscribers have all sub-
j scribed in a club together?” . . . Certainly. It
does cot jitter where the parties reside,—
whether in the same county or not; they can
upon a fellow that he places upon himself, and
perhaps the young lady designed to take him
down a few button-holes. All of us might ex
claim with the Scotch bard:
“ O wad some power the giftie gie us,
To see oursilves as ithers see us,” etc.
But if she is disposed to be friendly and social,
been Summerville) finds no lack for proposi
tions. He must answer for himself.
Gebadline Fitzgerald, Madison, says: “I
have been engaged to a gentleman living in New
York for several months. He gave me a pretty
ring with an emerald set in it, and a few days
ago I swallowed it. At first, I thought it would
kill me, but it has not yet. I wrote to my be
trothed about it, and he replied in a teasing,
nonsensical letter, saying that he and his friends
had and still have jolly fun and much laughter
over the ‘joke,’ as he terms it. Now, he has
sent me a handsome diamond ring, and jestingly
bids me to keep it out of reach of my mouth. I
dislike to be laughed at, and especially by him.
I am strongly inclined to return this second
ring and break the engagement, but am afraid I
can never forget him, for he is my soul’s idol,
and I love him fervently and devotedly; but I
am quick-tempered, and cannot bear to be
laughed at. I have promised to go to the
springs this summer and meet him there, but if
I see him to be teased all the while, I shall cer
tainly ‘ break off.‘b”"fiQwever, I leave it to you
to decide, and patiently await your reply in
‘Answers to Correspondents.’” . . . Swallow
ing a gold ring which your sweetheart gave you
is certainly no ground for breaking an engage
ment. He considers it an evidence of your piety,
no doubt, and laughs for joy at seeing yon carry
ing out the Scriptural injunction to lay up your
treasures where “ thieves cannot break through
and steal.” But we don’t think it a good plan
to convert your stomach into a gold mine, for
you might be slaughtered like the goose that
laid the golden egg.
“Poet,” Fayetteville, Arkansas, says: “About
five years ago I married a woman who I then
thought was pretty and industrious. That was
the kind I wanted for a wife. Before I married
her, she was loving and accommodating; but
now she is so corpulent, and sloven, and lazy,
that my life is a curse to me. Two years after
swallow your rebuke and^say nothing more about our marriage, she took white swelling, which
She is posi
her making an excuse. Be even more gallant in
the future than in the past.
“A Lover,” Union Springs. Alabama: “I am
greatly in love w’ith a young lady who is several
years my junior. I think she likes me very well.
I have long desired to disclose my heart to her,
but don’t know how it would take. She is about
seven years younger than myself, and has not
yet finished her education. I have been with
her to church and to public entertainments a
great many times, but have not hinted in the
least that I loved her, except that I have told
will make her a cripple for life,
tively too ugly, now’ for me to respect. She is
perfectly healthy and strong, and yet she refuses
to cut up stove-wood to cook with ! She will
not wash our clothes and hoe in the garden un
less compelled to. She annoys me almost daily
by commanding me to go and cut wood, or hoe,
or do some other work disagreeable to me. I
lost nearly everything in Wall street. New York,
and am not able to hire my work done. I am
writing a volume of poems, and cannot take
time to do manual labor. I want to know what
you would do if you were in my situation ? I
think I’m right in forcing her to do the work.
but if you differ with me I will abide by your
opinion.”,. . . My opinion is that she ought to
break bark over your head every morning and
paddle you with an inch plan , tjfl you had both
white and red sw’ellings and wished you had
never heard of a poem. More than that, instead
of cutting up your wood, she ought to shave
J „ B _ . . her that I thought her very pretty, and that I
DeKalb who has now on hand farm productions j j°' n a club and have the paper sent to their re- was her admirer. Please instruct me w’liat to
five years old, consisting of corn, oats, wheat, | speetive offices. i do in this matter—whether to disclose my heart
fodder and hay, and also cotton. The question j “Alabama Girls” say: “We can cook large to her now, or wait awhile. Is it improper for
is, then, how does he do this ? The answer is, j biscuit, but will not say whether they are fat or a young man, who does not attend a young lady
he plants and sows his grain first, and makes ! not. We. can also make quilts to keep that long, to preaching, to ask the pleasure of escorting
cotton an after consideration. gaunt fellow warm. We can make nice black- her to her residence after preaching closes?” . .
Every farmer in the State can also be as inde- berry dumplings. Tell him to answer, for we If she is still in school and intends finishing
pendent in a few years by following his exam-j want to know how we will suit them.” .... her education, don’t say anything about love
! pie. Not only is independence achieved, but a We submit our “Alabama Girls” to our Sum- matters, for that runs everything else out of j your head and blister it with poems; she ought
merville friend, but should like an interest in their heads immediately. Let her finish her to cover you with a short poem the coldest night
those “blackberry dumplings ” ourselves. education, by all means. There is no impropri- ■ of the winter, and finally have you shot to death.
“Tom Dot,” Milner, says: “I am in love with et )’ in asking or accompanying a young lady ^ with pop-guns loaded with poems. If you have
- - - home from church. suited the tacts in the case, I hope she will carry
^ _ I sub- niy opinion into immediate execution.
greatly to the j while the sen of the average farmer becomes dis- j ntive size^of my legs, although we are engaged, mit the following to your decision / I have for Ella, Indian Springs, says: “ I have lived on
; gusted at farming, and by the time he is twenty, i Should we marry or not? Give me your candid some time paid devoted attention to a young a farm all my life until of late, and I know all
Those are two very serious lady_, and in fact, we are engaged. Very re- about domestic and farm affairs. I am sixteen
A
Another and very beautiful method for ar
ranging the leaves, is to twine them in wreaths
around a black velvet cross, grouping about
its base such seed-vessels and ferns as the taste
and fancy of the artist may suggest. _
Make seieral groupings before determining true happiness that the average farmer knows
upon the final one, and thus secure the greatest nothing of.
ease and naturalness. Leaves and ferns that are This farmer I speak of has his sons at home,
perfectly flat when taken from the press, can the oldest being twenty-five or more, proving a pirl much older than I am (I am nineteen.) I
naturffl r fomf 1R «ud Tll fb 1011 made assu “ e they are satisfied to remain at the old homestead, 0 bect to her age. and she objects to the dimin-
beluty of the bouuue * t0 ; while the sen of the average> farmer becomes dis- Jve size of m°y legs, although we are engaged.
An.l now with tWe w « g llsted at farming, and by the time he is twenty, Should we marry or not? Give me your candid
Siirih- of the mn J J T? * gs ^°? S ' neces " emigrates to Texas or somewhere else. opinion.” .... Those are two very serious lady, and in fact, we are engaged.
reederc LLv! t n -I? ’ Farmers must make their farms self-sustain- difficulties. A fellow who shoulders a wife centlv, I extended her an invitation to a picnic, years of age, five and a half feet tall, and a per-
Hfint Ali n ^suits with pa- mg. This can never be done by planting cotton ; should be provided with good, stout legs, bv which she accepted. So, on the morning of feet brunette. Iam engaged to a smart, honest
soon .wS obstacles will to the exclusion of the cereals. aI1 means; and in your case it is doubly impor'- said picnic, I called at her house, accompanied : and handsome gentleman, but neither of us are
nercpntion ml rUl’innof nf * a 'emce artistic ; Another branch ot industry that might be sue- tant, for the fact of her making objection to the her and carried her basket to the train; had a j rich. We were to be married last fall, but
p - *• • uencacj oi touefi; and it no | cessfnlly engaged m, is the raising of grapes, pipe-stem character of yours shows that she jolly time with her and others until half-past thought it best to wait another year, and now
twelve o’clock, when dinner was announced, he has lost nearly all he owned. If we had mar-
Xom Dot” and all the little dots “get up and We were standing together. She remarked: ‘I | ried he would not have lost so much as he did,
of fruits. We know there is scarcely any kind git.” Your mother, no doubt, was an energetic would like for us to get a nice, cool place to eat and after his loss, he still wants to hold our en-
never suffer,
three years, and
pair of legs, the probabilities are that she would reporter of our city. My young lady friend had has never deceived me in the least thing. He
have to take care of you. never asked me to dine with her; so finding my- neither drinks nor joins idle company. He fol-
L. J. Y'., Bowden, says: “I recently had a self all alone at that hour without any invitation lows the old motto, ‘stick to your bush.’ I want
young gentleman to call on me whom I had to dinner, I felt slighted, and walked about, to know what you think best,—whether for us to
. never met before, but knew him to be a young Meeting with v some gentlemen friends, they marry this fall and help each other through this
home and boards at the same place.” Not like m an in high standing, good moral habits, also asked me to go and have dinner with them. I life, or wait until he gets rich.” . . . Don’t be
the cotton-raising farmer, with a woe-begoneap- verv handsome and intelligent. On his taking accepted the invitation. We were engaged at in a hurry to get married at your age. You are
pearance as he reflects on his situation with his leave, I (in as polite a manner as I knew how) card-plaving, when a servant of mv young lady young enough to wait several years yet. You
papers ripening and his pocket-book not recov- asked him to call again; a lady friend, who was friend came up and said to me, ‘ Miss A— have an idea that you can assist your husband
ered Irom the mash the elephant gave it last win- older and more experienced in such matters, sent for you to come and take dinner with her.’ and help him to get along, but there is not much
ter - ! accused me of boldness. Soon after, I had the I informed her that I had just accepted an invi- in that. It is a very common but mistaken idea
ntlier heneiits reeuH «iii f V I J —pipe-stem character of vours shows that she jolly time with her and others until half-past
rewardIn the refin i Perh a ps no country is better adapted to their cul- means business after manage. She will make 1
reward in tne refining and elevating influence j tivation than this, or we might sav the cultivation *
which such labors exert upon the mind and — - - -
heart.
If directions in greater detail are required
any special point, I shall be glad to answer to _
limited extent through the column of The Sunny you fruit the year round, the expense of which
South devoted to correspondence. is trifling, both in planting and cultivating;
The verses which I subjoin, though doubtful and not many know the profits derived from a
poetrj, contain quite a pretty thought, and may - first-class orchard. Where a farmer has all these
apprcrnately accompany a bouquet sent as a conveniences around him. he literally “lives at
gift to a friend: 1 - - . - . y
phantom flowers.
They are spirits of flowers that blossomed and died
Long since in the garden—in beauty and pride;
Yet they rise from corruption, in robes new and bright,
As vision-like phantoms all spotless and white.
Gay bodies we knew have gone down to decay;
With the winter's first breath they have withered away;
But a change has come o’er them, and dreamlike and f
The features that marked them they once again wear.
The same wondrous tissue, the outline and grace
Of each tiny leaflet and blossom, we trace:
True type of ourselves, whose poor bodies shall rise
From the grave of corruption, the heirs of the skies.
Dear sign of our hope, of salvation the key,
The purest of offerings thy chaplet shall be;
Of blossoms unfading, from heavenly bowers,
We twine round the cross phantom leaflets and flowers!
Stock-raising of ail kinds, and sbeep particu- pleasure of being called on by a young minister tation. A second servant came, and I repeated 1 tbut a poor man can get along better witb a wife.
stringent dog-law.)
But anything will do that will render the
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bearing on mv mind. What I want to know is, compliments, but felt so much slighted that I multiplying soon as they get married, the loads
_ which case did I act properly ?” . . . You could not attend. My young lady friend felt continue to increase, and instead of two loads,
farmer independent, and we know by experi- did wrong in not inviting the young minister, insulted, and said there was no necessity for an the poor fellow soon finds a half dozen on his
ence that cotton will not do it. Politeness and the common courtesies of life invitation. Which of us is correct? . . . You back. Be patient. If he is constant and faithful
demand some expression of our appreciation of were certainly to blame. The young lady did tf will be better for both to wait.. If he makes a
the calls of friends, and when they bid us adieu, much more than she was under any obligations good crop, let him prepare a nice little home,
it is becoming to say that we will be happy to to do. (Your letter has been on hand some with plenty of bread and meat, all paid for,
have them call again. time). | then call for you to take the management
There is a man in Oregon who never saw a
woman; but he reads the reports of the trial, and
I is reconciled to his ignorance.
INSTINCT PRINT