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HEART PICTURES.
TT^r 1. Ir is trie gold brown of chestnuts,
;• eyes blue as th»* heavenly zone,
in as tin*, snow of the lily
■n rose blushes are over it blown;
Iler i.,is shame the heart of carnation,
Her movements are exquisite grace.
It r v.Le L the sweetest of music,
And smites lie asleep on the face
()f the woman I love.
There is less of gold glint in her tresses,
A leu threads of silver wove through,
The crimson of lips not so vivid,
And lighter the eyes in their blue;
Her movent' nls more stately and grander.
Though losing no whit of their grace,
And the smile is more patient and tender
That shines on the matronly face
Of the woman I love.
Faded out all the brown and the sunshine,
Burnished si'ver the curia of hair shine.
In her e\es l"ss of earth, more of heaven—
Less stained are the cheeks with life’s wine;
The skin not so lily in whiteness.
Paler now the waves o’er them roll;
But t he voice still retains all its sweetness,
And the face is illumined by the soul
of t tie woman 1 love.
Earth, keep her to bless and to brighten.
Death, send not thy stern flat down;
And heaven, linger long in the weaving
St randy of gold and of pearl for her crown.
Titer** are angels enough clot hed in glory—
l ew given life’s grids to assuage;
And the tenderness, purity, beauty,
Arc perfected and hallowed by age
In the woman 1 love.
— William 11. Ilushnell in New York Mercury.
ClNDEI!ELLA IN EGYPT.
We may find sermons in atones, but
wlift would look for fairy tales in a sand
heap?
Nevertheless, in the last tomb of the
la -,1 king of the twenty-sixth dynasty,
lies buried the original story of Cinder¬
ella and her slipper.
There is. indeed, only one variation of
any consequence between the two ver¬
sions. and the ancient one is certainly the
more romantic. Cinderella’s princely ad¬
mirer finds in Ixer lost shoe a clew to his
vanished enchantress, but King Psarn
nieOehus fails over head and ears in love
v. -ih he knows not whom from only see¬
ing her sandal.
The ancient f’inderella was a beautiful
Greek; Sappho calls her Dorieha, and that
was most likely her proper name, but the
Greek people, with whom fairness of skin
was one of the highestqualities of female
beauty, named her, from the loveliness of
her complexion, Khodopis, Rosy Cheeks,
and as Rosy Chfceks she is known in his
■orv.
She is mentioned by several writers, but
the slipper story rests on the authority of
.Elian. He relates it as having occurred
to Psammetichus.
Tuere were three kings of the name,
itnd he probably meant the third (Psametik
HI of the Sculptures), the last of the
nynasty of the Suite kings, who was con¬
quered and deposed by Cambyses the
Persian.
Khodopis was originally n slave and a
fellow bondswoman of JKsop, the writer
of fables, in the house of ladmon of
Samos; and, like the heroine of the modern
tale, a menial and a drudge, so the par¬
allel holds good from the beginning. Like
Cinderellh, too, she had a fairy godshother,
but a more powerful and lavish one, and
her nan s was Aphrodite.
This patroness procured her liberty and
heaped upon Iter richesa; and Khodopis,
To make her name immortal by an offer¬
ing such as had never lieen made before,
dedicated with a tenth part of her prop¬
erty a quantity of iron spits in the Temple
of Apollo at Delphi, and this extraordi¬
nary gift was still to be seen there in
lleixxlotus’ time.
Some also say that she built one of the
Pyramids , . . of ,., Egypt; but, * as Herodotus ,, re
marks, those who say so evidently know
nothing about it; and however this may
be if Khodopis was not so simple as onr
vwn Cinderella, she was, at all events,
more lucky; and if her coachman, and
torses, and chariots were really rats, and
mice, and pumpkins, they never resumed
their proper shape; -and 110 disenchanting
c !*.vk sent her hurrying back to tier scul-
1 *ry, one shoe off and one shoe on. Mid
night never struck for her, and she lost
her shoe m quite another way.
At the time I speak of she was said to
be the most beautiful woman in Egypt,
and she lived at Naueratis, a port on the
Canopic branch of the Nile, founded in
the preceding reign by colonists from
Miletus; and though a born Greek, living
* in a Greek city, it pleased her now and
then to play the Egyptian, and to adopt
the manners and fashions of her new
: country. And so it came about that one
I morning, before the sun was yet high, she
went down, just as did Pharaoh’s daugh
ter, with her maidens to bathe in the
Nile.
At a short distance from the bank she
left her litter, and sought a secluded
| creek, where, screened in by the feather
j ing papyrus, she would be undisturbed
and unseen from the busy river, and there
her girls unmade her toilet. Now the
banks of the father of rivers are hard in
places—a mixture of sand and clay baked
by the scorching khodopis sun, and rough to
delicate feet. So did not quit her
sandals until the moment when she
stepped down into the still, cool water,
herself as white and rosy as the lotuses
around her.
There, half wading and half swimming,
she played and frolicked, happy in the
pure joy of living, like the gay butterflies
that fluttered about the rushes. She
gathered handfuls of lotuses, und threw
them away again; and then, in a lazy fit,
she floated on her back, and gave herself
up to thoughts on things in general, and
on herself in particular. But to return
to her sandals, which she had kicked off
on the river’s brink. They lay as she
had left them, a pair of dainty shoes fit
for such dainty feet. They were em¬
broidered in gold and brilliant colors with
a quaint pattern, and with the ever
present lotus, and most curious of all,
the upper surface of the sole, on which
I her foot rested, bore the iigure of a cap
I live with bound arms, on one sandal an
Egyptian, on the other a Greek—a fan¬
ciful way of suggesting the dominion of
their owner over the hearts of two na
tious.
Now it chanced that just above, sailing
round in his vast circle, a mere speck in
the daucing blue sky, wus an eagle, and
as the sandals glittered by the water’s
edge they caught his eye. Now, whether
he thought they were good to eat or
whether he was a bird of cultivated taste,
I know not, but straightway he swooped
and seized one.
* Khodopis, roused from her reverie by
the rush of wings, caught sight of the
great bird as it flew off, and, frightened,
act* to screaming and then ducked. By
the time she had recovered herself and
taken in what had happened the eagle and
:ur sandal were in the next parish.
Of course, directly it was aN over, hei
girls, who had been busy telling one
another secrets, began in their alarm tc
hide everything away in a place of safety,
as if they expected a whole phalanx of
eagles were coming to carry off their mis¬
tress’ clothes. And no doubt they had
some reason for their concern, for ancient
ladies had a variety of amiable little ways
of producing sympathy in, their slaves
when things went wrong; and Khodopis,
sweet as she was to look at, was like the
rest. But after all it was not a very
serious matter, for Kosy Cheeks had cup
boards full of sandals ut home, and be
Sides, her litter was only round the corner,
so, after her first astonishment and fright
were over, she thought little more about
it. Now, this event was, in reality, the
turning point of her life, for what did this
mysterious bird do but fly straight aw ay
w ith his prey over the Delta, far up the
long river to Memphis, and there, as if
his mission ended, he dropped the sandal
before the judgment seat of King Psarn
meticlius.
The king was sitting in the open air,
close to the city gate, dispensing justice
to his subjects. The sun was hot, and the
ima ,ri mit ions of plaintiff and defendant
n ilive ntive and inexhaustible, so
psammetichus was bored his thoughts
ZTclZL wandered far a hTiir wav and he fell to build
c^M ev^ n bulid t Now no thelSor Ori« tal
acastlein
otherwise, without giving it a mistress;
go he pleased himself by imagining for his
j dea i p a i a ce an ideal beauty. He pict
ured her with the eyes of the gazelle, the
vo i ce Q f the nightingale, the litlieness of
the panther, the tread of a goddess; and
as his thoughts dwelt still on the dainty
toes that hardly pressed the ground they
rested on, the sandal fell from heaven
plump at his royal feet. Astonished out
of all dignity, he jumped up, stared up
into the sky and down at the slipper, and
then stooped and picked it up, for no
one had dared to touch it. Was it
a goddess’? No; it was a lovely lit¬
tle shoe, but certainly an earthly one,
with the print of five little toes distinct! v
i marked on it—the very little toes he had
! just been dreaming of. Then of a sudden
, it became plain to him. It was an answer
from the gods to the wishes he had just
! been indulging in—he had planned a
j castle, here was a mistress for it. “Let
« search be made,” cried he, “for her who
j owns this sandal, and by these signs shall
j you know her: Whomsoever the shoe fits,
1 and who has the fellow shoe, and who can
explain the symbol on the sole, she is the
rightful owner; bring her to me, that I
may make her my queen.” To hear was
to obey, and the messenger started on his
search. Many days he traveled down the
Nile, making proclamation, of the will of
Psammetichus as lie went, bearing the
sandtil on a cushion. And wherever he
came through the whole land of Egypt
there was a routing out of cupboards and
a hunting up of left off shoes, in case by
chance there miglitJre found among them
u match for the minderful sandal; but
none came to light, and the maidens were
left forlorn.
At last he came to Naueratis, and when
the proclamation reached the ears of
Khodopis she remembered the rape of her
sandal, and knew herself the one sought
for by the king. The ambassador was
admitted to her presence, and then at last
the shoe fitted, 4 * And here,” criedRhod
ouis, “is the fellow shoe; and this is w r hy
I wear these symbols on the soles—as
Greece is captive to my beauty, so shall
Pigypt be, and Egypt’s master.” And
then she w r ent with him to Memphis, and
when the king, whose heart was sick with
waiting, saw her, lie succumbed at once
to the charm of her loveliness; lie did as
he had promised and made her his queen.
And the rosy cheeked Greek slave sat be
side Psammetichus on the throne of Pha
raoh. Harper’s Bazar.
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Flat* in New York.
i The flat system is more and more ex
tending, and while it gives rest for the
weary and freedom from annoyance on
the one hand, it on the other hand, a la
Paris, covers up some amount of immor
ility. It enables, however, a great many
poor girls employed in stores, telegraph
yffices, theatres, etc., to go by twos and
threes together and get cheap and com
fortable homes, which they cannot get in
large hotels or poor, overcrowded board
ing houses with wretchedly cooked food,
Besides, they get to have a pride in their
skittle homes, which they adorn with taste
and comfort.—New York Cor. Kansas
Citv Journal,
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher has no indica¬
tion of widowhood or bereavement in her
dress, for she shares her dead husband’s dis¬
belief in tho propriety of mourning garments.
She looks exceedingly venerable, however,
and a little less austere than of yore.
The annual convention for the American
board, at the Old South church, Bouton,
amounted to $7,500. Of this sum $5,000 is to
go to the board, and $2,500 to missionary ob
jects through other designated channels. The
ecutribution a year ago was $ 8 , 100 , all of
which went to the board,
statistics of Presbyterian colleges show
i t 5G8 clur-ch members now in college out of
2,327 students, ltJ 7 of whom were converted
last year, and 382 of whom intend to be min
isterg> Pr ificeton shows 515 students, 300
church members, Y. M. C. A. members,
seventy-two intending ministers.
Rev. Dr. Jud son Smith reports cheering
prospects for Christianity among the Mon
C o1 * Thefactthat . .. . the ., number , of converts
in China has more than doubled within ten
years, and now exceeds 30,000, is at once a
proof that Christian work is grandly success
ful there, and is a powerful stimulus to more
abundant labors.
| A wealthy Methodist in Chicago, in giving
to the Missionary society property valued at
> $126,000, justifies the purpose of the gift in
i these words: “Every man in America has
j had as good a chance to hear and obey the
Gospel as I have had; therefore, I propose to
help those in tho older world who had lesser
or no opportunities.”
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