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THE SOUTHERN WORLD, APRIL 1,1884.
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EASTER TIRE
BY BATHS C. STWAMV.
April skies so clear and Mae.
And April flowers of many a hue.
And singing birds and fresh green grass.
Bring happy thoughts as Lenten days pass
Of the blessed Easter-time.
For us our Savior was crucified.
Was crowned with thorns and for us died.
Then rose from the tomb,robed in glory bright.
Crowning with a halo of sacred light
That blessed Easter-time.
So earth and sky, and creatures too,
Unite to give him homage due;
The purest and best of heart and mind,
And fairest of flowers with reverence twined
For the blessed Easter-time.
little foot arc At rest, and the voice, so
dtaa impatiently hushed in its noisy
m quiet forevermore. Be slow to
anger, fog repentance never fails to fol-
kv« in the footsteps of passion, and the
evil temper oftentimes displayed in pun-
iahing a child, merits a severer punish-
view. A well of good water was one of balmiest weather for weeks, but
the excellencies of the place, but I look- the past few days old Boreas ha«
ed in vain for the gleaming sand so com- reminding us that winter has not
mon in a Georgia yard. The house was his final leave, and that it may U
on black land, but sand in abundance time before the dead, crisp l eave8
could be found on the banks of creeks place to the buds of spring,
and in roads through the piney woods. | If this should meet the eye 0 f
men! than that of which the offender | As the rain had ceased, I walked out to my friends of the Sunny South h]
the luxuriant garden, and my attention hold, let them be assured that mv
was at once riveted by a strange looking silence has not been voluntary, but
tree, whose leaves, beautifully striped my letters have been ignored; til
with purple, resembled those of a col- ’
Written especially for the Southern World.J
TRAINING OF CHILDREN.
'"Love is as Strong as Death.’'
BY COMFORT MARSHALL.
Though the man of wisdom did not
abide by his own words in the training
of his numerous family, yet he was a
stern advocate of the rod, and this fact
in conjunction with the knowledge that
his parental love was too widely diffused
to possess much strength, was probably
the cause of the evil uprearing of his
children.
If parents would have their children
become good men and women, they
should be not only firm in instilling their
duty, but be gentle with them, not for
getting that as the parents are in their
has been guilty of.
"Ah! lip* with curve impatient,
Ah! brow with that look of scorn,
*Twere a cruel fate,
Were the night too late
TP undo the work of the morn.”
And when in the quiet evening you
give the little ones the good-night “ kiss
of peace,” let it be with the earnest
praver that we may make their lives an
atmosphere of the “ love that is stronger
than death”—that reaches beyond the
grave and extends into the eternity
where the children do always behold
the face of the Father.
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Written especially for the Southern World.J
Sketches of Southern Texas.
BY EUTERPE.
In December, 1860,1 left my Georgia
home and took passage for my future
abode, two and a half miles from the
thriving, aristocratic little town of Mos
cow , Polk county, Texas. After arriving
at Liberty, I took a seat in a two-horse
abomination, called by courtesy “ a stage
coach,” which ran (or rather crept) be
tween that town and Moscow. A fine
drizzling rain didn’t enhance the delights
of the journey, as the undulating features
of the country caused the old stage to
creak and jump, thereby endangering
the craniums of its inmates. Chancing
to look from the coach window, I saw a
lard plant. It was five teet high and
tied up to the high fence.
“What’s this?” I asked Aunt Tildy,
the sable queen of the kitchen.
“ Bless your heart, honey, is you cum
all de way frum ole Georgy to ax me
what a collard stalk is? He, he, he,
chile, you’se makin’ b’leve you dunno.”
My tree was a collard stalk left for
seed, but it was a beauty sure enough.
The next morning I went to the cowpen
and started back in fear when I saw
what I supposed to be huge oxen with
immense horns, looking defiance at the
new comer.
“"VV^ere are the cows, Ann?’
quireft of the dairy maid.
“The cows? why, mistiss, them’s the
Texas cows what’s scaring you so, and
here’s the ca’ves jist about like our ole
piney woods cows in Georgy.
I said no more, being lost in thought.
Indulgent reader, go to Texas if you
would have liberal views of human na
ture, animals and vegetables. In future
sketches I will give you glimpses of that
far-famed land taken during the war and
after the surrender.
Valdosta, Oa.
necessarily leave the Sunny
Household, sans ceremonie, but
some of us may meet very pleasant
the Southern World’s Home Cii
Some day I hope to be able to q.
more satisfactory visit. For thepn
accept the kindest regards and
wishes of p ALMe .
I in
daily life so will the children he, for a P roces ®* on made me hold on to my
corrupt tree cannot bring forth good
fruit.
Our “ life is but a winter’s day,” and
if parents could teach their children
more of the “love that is stronger than
death,” there would ho fewer breaking
hearts at the end of the “ winter’s day,”
when the weary grey-headed traveler,
who must ever be “ moving on,” ends
his lonely pilgrimage, forsaken by all
that should have made life most dear.
Love for a child does not mean, as
many erroneously suppose, blindly giv
ing him his own desires, but showing
him the right from the wrong, insist on
his following the one and forsaking the
other, letting duty, through love, be the
main-spring of action. A child govern
ed by fear, in nine cases out of ten, will
make that most pitiable creature, a liar
and a coward. Let parents in mercy
spare their hands and refrain from harsh
words, remembering that they are in the
'place of God to their children. Upon
them depends the weal or woe of their
whole future existence—maybe of their
eternity—and as they deal by their chil
dren, so will God deal by them.
In any child reared up by principle
and not passion, the *' beauty of holi
ness’’will be developed in the year of
his manhood, and when he is old he-will
not depart from it. If fear and selfish
ness be the ruling power, the evil tem
pers which have been only repressed
during childhood, will break forth with
greate** fury lo* the long repression, and
as long as life lasts, as long as the pulses
beat, and the heart throbs, so long will
this wrong training be a part of the na
ture and life of the man.
The majority of parents are well
meaning enough, and love their children
devotedly, but they are too fretful and
impatient with the little ones, driving
them from their sides by fault finding—
oftentimes unintentionally—but none the
less effectually. They scold if a gar
ment is torn; they fret and fume over
the disordered rooms; they answer im
patiently if questions are asked. How
scalp in anticipating horror. A long
line of Indians, mounted on mustang
ponies, with guns and hunting knives,
and a row of squaws with pappooses
strapped either in baskets or blankets
on their backs, walking abreast with the
ponies, was a sight most unusual to my
eyes.
14 What on earth are they going to do ?”
I hurriedly asked our Jehu.
“Them Injuns is only agoin’ to pick
out the cotton what’s left in the fields
|now,” he calmly replied. “You Bee,
ma’m, the planters here make more cot
Written specially for the Southern World.]
Dear Circle—How tiue it is that
“every creature under heaven’s blue
dome has a longing for Home, Sweet
Home.” The Home Circle is at once
suggestive of peace, comfort, content
ment and protection. More than once
have I looked in upon yours and wished
I might be worthy of a quiet place as
visitor; and one day dear Miss Mattie
(perhaps divining my thoughts) kindly
invited me to a cosy corner and a social
chat.
I feel as if I must say something, but
while my “ say ” might prove not too in
ton than they can pick out afore next teresting to you who listen, I will at
year, and as they don’t own niggers
enough, they hires the Injuns to pick it
fur them. You will see the field whar
they are agoin’ jest heyand that hill
afore us.”
In a few moments a large field literally
snowy with the fleecy staple came in
view, and the heavily laden stalks were
almost high enough to need step-ladders
for convenient gathering. Kind reader,
deem me not a lineal descendant of the
famous (or rather infamous) Baron Mun
chausen as you peruse the following de
scriptions of the products of that para
dise of States, Texas. My next surprise
was a large field thickly covered with
pumpkins that were as large as cider
casks 1 A drove of hogs, resembling
bears in size, was quietly feasting on the
nutritious vegetables.
“ Is that the usual size of your pump
kins?” I inquired of the driver.
“No, ma’am,” he replied, “that far
mer made a failure in his punkin crap
this year and jest gathered one barn full
and turned in the hogs on the balance.
Some uv our planters makes punkins
larger than a hogshead, and lets the
poor people live in ’em all winter. They
slices down the walls fur pervisions and
when the rine gits thin, they moves into
a nuther punkin, and keeps on a moving
till spring sots in.”
Of course I felt constrained to believe
at least half of the marvels of my adopt
ed State, so I nodded my belief and we
journeyed on. 8oon the town of Mos-
present only suggest a question upon
which I have been thinking for a few
days past, namely:
Are there any among you that belong
to the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific
Circle ? I do not, but have been reading
their hand-book, sent me by the Secre
tary, Miss Kimball, and think that it
would be both pleasant and profitable.
Its object is to “ promote habits -of
reading and study in nature and
science, and in secular and sacred
literature in connection with the routine
of daily life (especially among those
whose educational advantages have been
limited), so as to secure to them the col
lege student’s general outlook upon the
world of life, and to develop the habit of
close, connected, persistent thinking.”
Its membership numbers about 24,000,
and represents all creeds and lands.
On certain “memorial days” the big
bell at Chautauqua rings, and it is said
tnat all true Chautauquans (that is true
members of the C. L. S. C.) on what
shores soever they may dwell, can hear
its distant echoes.
This is sentiment, though romantic,
and perhaps not true literally, is beaut!
| ful, and must be inspiring.
All who wish can obtain information
on the subject by sending stamp and ad
dressing Miss K. F. Kimball, Plainfield,
New Jersey, and asking for Hand-book
No. 2 of C. L. 8. C.
Written especially for the Southern World]
How to Treat Dues.
Editor Home Circle—It was
tention to devote this paper to the d]
room, but this morning upon open!
paper just received through the i
discovered a bed bug, which
to me the possibility that an article J
struction, whereby these pests cal
totally exterminated, might be aco
ble to some readers of the Son]
World.
Although bed bugs are conveyJ
many ways, I think the most comm]
in laundried clothing. It is the hi
many laundresses to put the clothes J
their bed as they are ironed; thewa
of which attracts the bugs, and the]
secreted in the folds of the clothes.1
I speak from experience when 1
they can be totally exterminated,
necessary to begin to look for them|
in March, and a thorough examin
must be made every week during
spring and summer. Let the beds!
be well washed with strong soap-]
if the case is a bad one, take the stq
pieces and thoroughly examine
part. When sure they are clean!
every crack and crevice with a s!
solution of alum, in water. Disso|
quarter of a pound of alum in a qu
water. Keep a bottle of the waterl
stantly on hand and apply with a fear
If rooms are ceiled the boards shoal
well washed with alum water, and I
whitewashed, If there are cre|
which cannot be penetrated
feather, use a syringe. PerseveJ
seems to be the motto of the little;
but if their motto is followed, and i
eral supply of alum water used, I i' a l
doubt they will be exterminated.
Written especially for the Southern " 0111
Fancy Work-Narrow Crod
Edge.
Make a chain of ten, turn. 1.3d*
in fourth chain, 1 chain, 1 double in
3 chains, turn.
2. 3 double under the one chan
chain, one double under first sti
last row, 4 chains, turn
3. 3 double under the one chan
chain, 1 double under last stii
chains, turn.
4. 3 double under the one cha
chain, 12 double under the four coj
one single under first turning
5. 1 chain, 1 single on top of nj
ble, one chain, one single on next
and so on all the 12, 2 chains, 1
at the first, putting the three dou ■
der the one chain or loop inste au l
fourth chain. _
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Written especially for the Southern
Knitting Patter®'
This design is in nines. b’ a - v |
number of stitches divisible by -
1st row. 3 plain, narrow, t-°
plain, repeat all round.
2d row. 4throw,6throw
Sthro*!
would these parents feel if there were cow was reached, a carriage procured that this may fall under the eye of some 5th 'row. 2 ’ plain, narrow,
no little troublesome garments to mend ?
Would not the heart ache bitterly if the I
disordered rooms were always prim and the summit of a hill, and surrounded by 1 vidual experience in connection
neatr-but, oh, so lonely 1 for the busy|
and my face turned homeward,
house, built of hewn logs
As all ages and classes of society are al L r i°^?' o ..i-in narrow, t. o« r J
enrolled in this association, it is likely ro ^ Lover l! 3 plain, repeat
that this may fall under the eye of some 5th row. 2 plain, narrow, 1
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ard. A large member, and if so, I shall be exceedingly narrow, t. over 1, narrow,
, situated on thankful for any information, and indi- P l £?’ repea £ over 1.d
wounded by | vidual experience in connection.. | tii^Taver VI pfein^Pg^
[ tall oaks and hickories, soon came into 1 We have been enjoying the mildest,