Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 15, 1879, Page 12

i B i} 2z THE. CHICAGO 'TRIBON * BATURDAY, MARCH 15, 13¢9---Bla’ EEN PAGLS THE HOME. . The Monthly Meeting of the Club and What Was Done. ‘Bomo Beautiful Thoughts on the Beau- ties and Duties of Womanhood. ; Instructive Essays on the Boys and Girls of To-Day. ‘ Florienltnre Treated Of by ¢¢ Rennle? and Other Correspondents. QOoutributions on Various Bubjeots of In- torest to All, A CONTRAST. When walling winds do roam aronnd, *And ahift, and surgo, with sullen sound, ~And swee the anow from frozen grounds When barren trces Are forced 1o make with graco profonnd Their courtentes: When each gray dawn bat bar A sullen sky, no tinge of blue, And earth with scarce more cheering hue, And yot rublime,— Then may you knaw, with reason (0o, "Tis winter tima. When zephyrs molst, up from the weat, Doth lall tho tardy day to rest, And warn cach blossom, quaintly drassed In enowy gear, And each gay warbler from its nest That night i near: When cach dim dawning doth beget A ruby sphero tn sapphire sct, That glowa without a frown or fral, Through all the day,— Then knosw, with soander reason yet, Winter's away. Mixznas Poixr, Wis. L. A. Osnonxs. NOTES TO CON'TRIBUTORS. *Corron BED~Exchanre column abolished. to view “a Those who sent. lntrurn to The Homs far the Yenelit of * An Anxious Mother * sre fuformed that she has received them. w*n M AN OLD Borpten—Address a letter to Gen. Joseph 8, Reyuolas, 210 South Water street, Chicago, for the Information you desirc, * *n A rocent commuaieation from Ottawa, 11, in which the place was described as o littlo Arcadia, has oved a gentieman of this city to write lo ‘I'ie Hlome a letter, fn which hic draws o {right- ful pleture of the place, A press of other mat- . ter prevents its publication. . **a The Jady of Morris, lll, who wrote to The Home over the signature of *Blue Bell ™ (s fn- formed that another correspondent claimed und used tiat nom de plwme kome timo ago. In any event, the Morrls lady's letter could not have been used, since the exchange column of ‘The Home has been abolighed. s L wte Teaders of The Home will notice that, on ae- count of buslucss dutles which cannot be neg- lccted, **Orlena' has resigned the Seeretary- sbip of Tur Triouxe Home Club, During the Jongr timo that the ludy bas performed the dutles of the ofllco sho has thrown heart and soul Iato the wwork, and contributed in no small depree to the rymarkabls success atiafued by the Club. Although no longer su officer of the orzaniza- tlon, alia will still take an uctive Interest In its welfarg, and contributo frequently to these col- umns. THE LETTER-BOX. Thero ava letters, papers, or postal-cards at this office for the persons named below, Those Jiving out of the city will vlease sena their ud- dress and o thras-cent stamp, upon recelpt of which thelr mall will be forwarded. Resldents of Chicago can obtain lotters addressed to themn by ealitug at Room 30 Tribune Bullding: Denver, Ylolet Vernon, Keroseno, Eita, Eylvanus, Fern Leaf, Gnedner, Juhn Smith, Yankeo Nell, XKirehen Dovotee, Wicked By Caiin Lily, Graphic. Charl2e N, Gregory, 2 THE IIOMY. CLUB. BECRETARY'S LETTRR, ‘ Cnicaao, March 18.—The rcgnlar monthly ‘mecting of Tie Triuxnn Home Club was heid at the Tremont Ilouse last Wednesday, a goodly number of members belng in attendanve, In lie absence of the President, who Js attending 1t the bedside of hor sged mother at Ashtabula, ., Aunt Lucy was ealled to the choir. The af- .2rioon was taken up with reports of Commit- jees umd bustuess counected with the Falr Those ladies who flud no’ time to attend the veekly meetings and co-operate fn thisway with e wotkers, euch took a shore of work to thelr ywi horaes to prepars for the tables. Durlng the iossign Orlena handed tn her resivuation as See- retary of the Club, her increasing duties con- neeted with thesewing-machiue oftice renderiug it nbsolutely impossible for her to occupy the positiun longer, ''he vacancy wus filled by Kittle, a hizhly respected member of the Club, who will no doubt render more effectivo service In the dischargo of her duties thau could have been ho. ed for in the Hmted time of the former Secretnry, Alter appolnting a mneunfifor next Thursday . the resldence of Mra. ). V. Shavs, 740 West Honros atroet, the Club adjourncd to Thurs: April 10, to meet st tho Tremont House at Profeasor, Jollet, 8, > . I, of Muskegon, Mlet, please send along any articles you wish to donate, They will Lo ncs ceptable, Thinkwe can use thoss you mentioned, even il not just exactly in scasan, At ony rute, our thanka “witl be duo you for whatever you donate, On sccount of ‘the absence of he Pres- Ident, we were unable to deelde ot what time the Ealr will open, Rlgourney, 1 recetved another package of laca a fuw dnys ogo, for which 1 thank you fn the namne of the Club, Mra. Savers, 1 called theattentionof the ladles to your offer, and they are willing to accept your asslstance in the manner you yropose, 1 buve recelved an exqulsite’ snmiple of etch- i on itass,~n Scriptura) subject which no one could full to recognize, It1s a donation from Mis, Potlard, of Duvenpart, ln. . Mra, Blakely, let your Jittlo friends send us whatever they wish'of their haudiwork, 1t wiil be doubly prized, coming us an offering from thelr tender hearts, ‘Uhe other nrticles you mentioned I think can be disposed of, Peegotty, Aunt Mab, und those other corre- spondents who have sigmtled thelr deslre to send contributions to my curo, Wil please send themn when ready to my address, cure Wanzer Bewlug-Muchlue Company, 104 Lake stroct, kEx- preas packuges should be” sent to Mir Jo W, bays, 25 Enst Juckson street, Chicavo; mone; to Malue, 60 Twenty-thivd atreet, Pleass sen 18 800N a3 ready {0 vvery (nstauce, A frieud of ‘(he Jome deslres the recipe for preserving lemane lor use in the summer, which was publishied soine thng ugo, as ber copy has been mislald, Remcmber, the next wonthiy meetlng will bo on Thursday, April 10 Aud now 1 must bid adieu to the friendlv re- Tatlunshit 80 lonie ago catabiished, wnd, stup- umfi from the tront, which has presented alike Ite Dristhing boyonets uud its beds of roses, s bitter draughts and houeyed uectur, luy ot the legt of my syccessor the sceptre which hus thua lar been g0 poorly wislded. In dolny this { ouly give up tuy sctive duties, remsioing sull a Sevoted mepiber ol tis Club, ‘Fhuuking wy correspondents for the hosts of kind words recelyed, i asking thelr remem- brance dn the future, £ will quivtly bow myself put., OnLeNa, WOMANIIOOD, 178 DEAUTIES AND TRIALS, To the Editor o) The Tribuns, stanton, Ia., March 10.—A womau’s lot,—aud Yhat 1s 1t pray? To sit with folded . hunds and we Wfe deifting by,—to be & mere nullity, The itwortsl Shakspeare sayas ¢ Blio Is 8 woman, dierefure to be chosen,” Yes, e cannot choose vhow shie wauts, but must wait, and to the tirst oue who chooses ber as he would a siove or any article of furniture sbo must say ** Yes,” as §f all thy Lonor in the trausaction wes conferred vuon ber. 1t 4s not true, as bas often beenssld, that every woman wants n master, and fs a3 forlotn a8 a mnsteriess dog. It {an greal deal truer that & man (s a8 forlorn as o masterless dog when no woman cares for him. Look ab the homes women make for themaclves: how neat, how bright and cozy, and then look at the old-bachclor dens. Women can get along a preat deal botter by themselves than men can. 1 bellove it is woman who holds faith in this world,~It 18 woman hehlnd the wall ensting oll on the tire that burns brightor and brighter. This world has always been busy in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could atop into wealth, exeept the dour of mar- riage. Al vigor or encray, such as men put forils 1o obtait this golden key of life, is con- demned and scouted as unfeminine, and a wom- nn of the upper ses who umlertakes to et wealth* by ber own honeat excrifon or lm.lusu[)‘ ia condemped by a thousand volees, Nearir afl women want eomething of thelr own, ‘Thiey want & homeof their own, they want a work worth dofug, and they want money that they can useas they picasa, that they can give or withhold and dispose of as absolutely theirs, asl not another's, but all the world eeems ar- ranged 80 as to hindor a woman from getting i, It scems to me that our sex s enough welzhted by uatttre, nnd that, therefore, all the laws und fnstitutions of mociety ought to act in just the contrary direetfon, and tend to hold us up,~to widen our way, to encourage our efforts, becanse wo nre the weaker varty and nced 1t most, "The world is now arranged for the strong, and 1 think it vught to be rearranged for the weak,— for thoge whose llves hurn themscives out in white ashies In slleace ami represslon. Now It appears to me that the takihig for granted 1hut nil women, witliout respect to taste or tempera- ment, must have no sphere or opening for thelr facultics excepl dotnestie life, 18 a8 great on sbsurdity {n our moilern, civilization as the stupid castom of balf-civilized nations by which evory son, no matter what his cnaracter, must confing himself to the trade, of his father. No woman ought to enter marrlage for provislon, or statlon, or support, or worldly position, but simply and only irom the most holy sifection, And my theory of life would be to have soclety 50 arranged that womnn would have every facil- ity for developing her mind and perfecting ber~ acif thatman has, and ovérv opuuriunity for aequiring nnd holding property, for securing an inNuence, position, and fame, just as man docs, 1f laws aro to_make any difference between the two sexes, they ought to help and not hin- der the wenker party, Thena man wicht feel that his wife came 1o him from the purest ad highest kind of jove,—not driven to himas u refuge,—struggling and seriving to bring ber mind to him beeauso ehe must marry mmfllmlv; but choosing him intelligently anid freely be- cause heds the one more to ner than all the warld healdes, A superior woman, gifted with nersonal attractions, who 18 forgetting herselt in the enthusinsm of somo calling or pro- fesslon, mever becomes an old muid,— she oes not wither,—she ndvances ‘ns life zocs on, und often keeps her charms longer than the matron, exhausted by famlly cares nnd motherhood, 3 you avpeal “in this matter of sex, there 1a the Temale clenent in grand, powerful fors a8 well 08 in gentle aml dependent one: The * female lon and tiger are more terrible and un- tomablo than the male., Greek my- thology .was n perfect reflection of Nature, It dlan't fit every woman for oue type, but clothed womun with majesty und poirer,ns well as grace. Minerva is vind in celestinl armor, lead- iny the forees of the Greeks to battle. "There is vigor {n thelr impersonation of Diana, the woman strong in herself, scornlug physieal pas- sfon, nudd terrible fn her radient beauty: gelf- suflicient, vlctorious, and capable of a grand,free Hfe of ber own, not needings to depend on wan. ‘Fhey also had thelr plump littlo Aplrodite sud thelr zod-lke Venus, and there was thelr Juno, the housekeeper und domestic queen, In short, the Greeks conceived o variety of sphieres tor womanhood, but wo {fu modern times have re- duced atl to onc—the vine that twines; as it there were not female oaks snd piites us well ns male. It takes o)l sorts of peools to ke up the world, awl there ought to be provision, tol- eration, nid free course to nil sorts. Peupie don't reatize what it {8 to starve facultles. ‘They understund physiea! starvation, but the siow faintng and dying of desires und capabilities for wunt of exerclse 1s what they do not understand. ‘'here 18 po point thut requires more cureful handilng, to disetiminate right from wrong, than the limits of scif-snerifice, ‘To o certain extent It {s a virtug, aud the uoblest one, but there are riedits ol the individunl thut ought not to bo sacriliced,—our own happiness has its Just place, s Leannot see it to bo wore rghit to sulfer tojustice to oneself thun to another, i one eun help it It ecems to me that one Obwes it to God amd the world to become all that one can be and to do all that they can do, nnd thut a blind und unréa- soning authority \hat Sforbids this ouglt to by resisted, A If we would help anothier escape from an un- rearonable tyrauny, we ouzht 1o do thut much for ours We nro In the world Just us weare {u a rullrosd-car, und we can't helw its careying us on even b we don't Iike the places it takes us through, nnd It takes courage to et ousalung at ume desolate wuv-atation aud piteh our tent und muke our way when everybody in the car {8 screnmingg vemonstrances or laughing at you, ‘The most of us will sthy {n the car and wish wo hadi't, snd wish it wos going a better way. don't think the cause of woman will be advanced fu this world a8 much by mecting togettier and talking about it as by each Individual woman pro- posing 1o hersell some goud work and settiny ahout it patiently und quietty. ‘The lives ol eirls from the time tlmf cave school till theday ot thety marriage should uat be such a woste o8 itis now. ‘Phe girls will bear belug made n great denl more self-sustalning than they are or ever huva been, Do not think by this that Tam ad- vocating woman's riichits in the common aceepta- ton ot the torm, 1 mean womun's rights 1o so 1ar us it §8 her rizht to support snd malutenance by the exertlon of her own hunds, 1 think they ato rights, and that It §a very important for the wood of sovlety thot these rights should be respected, am not disposed to inslst on the f[mimedlate pravting of ‘\u)mcnl- rizhts to womnn. I wouldsa great deal rather cume to thut by graaual evolution than by de- structivo revolution, It would not be right to force them when there s so little preparation wmonie the wouen that they could do themseives no credit by it. Women ought not to have the ballot untll they wiil do themselves eredit ad improve soclety by {t. 1 am perfectly willing to walt und have It come to them fu the way aud at the thne that will e Lest for the general zood, Wo must be educated to it first. It1sa great deal better and sater 10 huve ple eilucated for the baltot than to have them educated by it, ‘Ihe iImmediate rusn of women luto politica, as they nre now without experience or knowledge of polltieal econoniy, would be n ereat and dire wistake, Women ought never to ia fnto public 1tfe tilt they have xomo practical fumiliority with the great subjects which ore to be cousldered, about which” now the beat-instructed wainen know comparatively nothing. ‘Thequestion thiat munly foterests pio now 18w huimanitarion one. It is an absolute lact thut o great mwany women do have their own living to get, sl they do it with mouy of the laws und iustitutions "ot so- clety clused against them, The reason of Lhiy & that all of these laws and Institutions bave mmia by man, without any cousent or voneur- rence of thelrs, Now, ns women are dilfel frum mien, nud have altogethier n different clas of feelings, andd wants, und necessitles, lteeriain. Iyis right aml projer that they should have somo share Iy muking the Inwa Dy which they are to be woverned, Ttis true that the luws hiave been madwe by fathiers, and brothers, and husbunits, but 1o man ever unm‘pwmmln fully the uvcessities of women. And it seomns to nio thut o State where all the laws are nade by men, without women, {s just lke « family that s mannged entirely by “fauthera und brothers without any concurrenco of mothers or slsters, But it is sn easy inatter with o few dashes of thie uen, even 4 poor obe; to accomplish a ereat deal of work 1u a stiort space of time, to chungo residences, to changzo llves, to build hous i uven eities, to et people into trouble winsd out wizuin, but cach operation in 1ts actual perform- ance los many concomuAnts: many apents must be employed, and w8 one event In this shifting lite elther leads to another or has been preceded by another, It will uot slways answer tu dash on from point to polut fn the story of Intmun events without sometimes entering foto varticulars, both ol ehoracter nnd ageocy, it wa 1nay see more elearly the mutual dependenve of effeet und cai ‘Time rolls steadily around and they who Keep up must run fast, The Lopes uird fears which acitate us, which press our viston furward into the [uture, must soma thue bo tested, And how mony of us sra thero wlhio live alone on the interest of the woment,~ who iave 10 to-norrow lustening toward us, whosy rovelations shall crown us with the wreuth of lupploess or sink us into the eloom of despuir, We all have onr history, uwml yet there are or secem to be blank mowents fn our existence,—whits pages with no record save that of time, The past I simoly past} to smila over, to dream over, Lut so conletely past that wo hordly feel dt hus any fufluenco over the present woment 1 which wo lye and breathe, and no fnttuence whatever to that futurs which lles stretehied out belore us, gradually taking forin und shape, influenced by cvents enacte fur away among {riends whosd lives are destined 1o become futerwoven with our own so closely that death alous can break those threads when once uuited, And fn the meantime we live flnu:uy on, chatlug perhaps at thie anparently cad calin around us, longing to bo up and do- fug, willing rather to Bubit tho battlo than to walt patiently the even curreut of events, ‘Uhero aro spots ju this varled world of ours like oases in the desert, whera sweot sounds, sweet odors, throw upan the seoics thelr united fulluenco, charming the wearfed spirlt to repose, causiug .+ and renery: trugaie, it to forget the trinlsof the ing its atrer:gth for the anward Wo seo, the voung girl at 10,—that falry ago whery stic' atamis on the throshold looking back unon irthood with cimotfons thnt are bart sweet gladness of cacape and part tewder beputiiul regret, and looktng forward with keen ielight nnit exquisita anticipations into the rose and golden world Iying at lier fect to be conquiered at lier own aweet willg, n perfect pleturs of ine goconc atd purityy— " v Standing with reluciant feet Where the brook aid rivor meet, Womanhoad and childhood fleet, . A gir! lingers longer than a man at the lovel fatea of friendship, betora sho fiuds to what wonderful temple they open. ‘That other lire when once begn must bind her to its track, from which all other companionships must fall loose ur speed away, If waseo her nizain At 10 or B3 1t {8 when woman lifo i3 fullest, Intensest fnn Its fulitiment and greateat radiation, or in fts relization of & nature uncrowned, of needs unmet. Ifa vislon come at that ago of somne- thing that *“inight have been” but uever was, 1t revenis itself acroes all barrlera and diserep ances, il the Atrurgie, i struigle follow, i in provortion. With il her ripe knowledee of hier full power, sho discerns iv herself her youth agoln, and what ft should have given, siainst thita atrong unsatisfled time. 8ho I8 bok n the years when she nfssed ft. 8heis a woman in ihe Indian summer of her life, softencd and sweetened fnto a splendid, fascinting being, ‘he briel youth that comes in this mnnner, Ilke the Tlafe love, has a clow that the first vouth never knew,—sho is nt the climax of her womnauhood, Mizram. OUR GIRLS, TWHAT SHE MEANT. To the Editor of The Tribune. Cuicaqo, March 13.—I bLeg o thousand par-, dons of each person who fnterpreted my article ot Feb, 23, on '*Thougltlcasness,” in the man- ner our good friend Dame Durden has evidently done. 1 was not directing my remarks to thoso kind-hearted, self-sacrificing irls that make up the beauty wid worth of existence, not Indulg- gz in & wholeaale * staughter of the funocents,” as my own remarks will prove. ‘I'nls extract, for fustance, “There are many nobile, loving alspositions amoug you, and, alas! thut 1t is eo, some listless, rebeltfous, nnd thankless,” You will notlce that I have classed * many ™ amowe the noble, and *some™ among the Hstiess, In comparing the two words wo find there Is 1o timitation to the first, which might nclude milt- fos, but the last can mcan but a very few at most. i 1 am In hopes there are bunt few who Ine terproted ¢ the samo as good Dame Durden evidently did, as T have too much reapect aml love for **our uiris" to wish them to harbhor the thought for one moment that [ intended to wive thein a wholesale reprimand, [t was only to a portion of thuse who do not rely on the help of servants that my remarls were directed, as those who have plenty of help throughout the establishment do not reed to exerl them- selves, however well-inclined they may be. Stortly after Dame Durden's critfelsm was published, & gentleman safd to me: “I have a daughter who Is decldedly lazy. ‘The only way we can manage to eet the Jeast chore of “work from her {8 by lirlug ber, and then she nsually manages to_zet the pay while nammu doces the work. We have coaxed und driven, but it does po gooll. We counot nhways be punishing” Had Dame Durden taken fnto consideration the 1act of my clarstiy myself with the thouuhticss ones, sho would have been far lesa denuncintory in hereritielsin, Tknow that I was thouchtless, and yet not more 50 than_many glris of the present day, Not beeause I had no care for mother's wel- fare,—for she was alinost worshiped by us,— but because T did not stop to conalder what ob- lizations I was under for the duys of paln sl nihts of weary watening she had endured for her soungest babe, And yet we were under such strict discloline that when directed to ae- complish a task it was not to our credit to dis- obey. There wns no whippluys, nuo severo chastising, and 1 wondernow how such a system of cvontrol became Inouwicurnted. But what T deptore In my own case 18 the fact that 1 did not antleipate the attcutlons that wonld have relieved her from the eare and responsibitity In- ciinbent on a motlier, to the excluslon of my awn selflsh ease, 1did not stop to consider that by nnticipating her wishes and desires I might shlit a portfon of the burden on to my own shouldera, und, dolug myself no hurm, miicht be the mieans of render- fu her o valuable service. Thus carelessly passed the golten hours, and life scemed nfl sunshine and roses, for mother gulded the helm and kent the saiis {1 teim, whilg the bark passed stnoothly over the sand-bars of youth, floating quietly amid the ripples until the Inevituble Tliaven was reached, viz., marrluge, And thus I fear it [s with sorne of tho girls who ay read these lines, Not thut they mean to shirk the responsibilities of life, but'the buoyant, hapny, gleeiul spirit that belongs to our youth cannot be buraened with the sombre realitles of our more watuge years, o fltter emblem of henven can bo conceived of than a beautiful lgnt-hearted, aminble, unselflsh mrl, ung mothers who huve veen endowed with the capacity to mold and govern such priceless treasures arg more to be honored than the ruler over o empire of submigslve subjects, Apaln 1 say, be conslderate of mother's welfare, for with your udvent came o lifelone fear that her hopes might not by realized, snd sne therefore unable to render a goud account of lier steward- ship. OHLENA. OURR BOYS, WHAT THEY 81I0ULD DE TAUGUT. 70 the Editor of The Tritune, MusgBaoN, Mich,, March 12.~1 am glod to sca *QOur Boys™ recelving o llttle attention, They bave been nelected too long, aud 1t Is about time, tou, that the eirls had a little reat, [ bave hardly taken up a paper within tho past two monthis thay did not contaln some advice to the glrls, or to thelr porents in their behalf, One would think from whut they read that every mother's daughter wos on the road to destrnc- tlon, and that it took the united ciforts of both women and men to bring them to o scnse of thelr responsiblities. No wouder the young men do not want to get inarrled, They get the Idca, from what,their own sex say ahout them, thut the ordinary gisd iaa bundlo of “vanity ond vexation of splrit,” and it requires n mon of more than ordinary couraze to Lo willing to recelve one to his bosum, 1 supnose nons of us aro willlng to admit that the women of to-day sro worso than thelr husbands. Ts it then pos- sibls that the presont meneratlon of girls Is worse than the Jast? It women are rotrograd- fng,wo had Letter take w seat In the back- ground, and cense clamaring for our ¢ rights but if, instead, they arv advancing, why all th #ado about nothlug i Do not Jecture the vour girls until’ they rush into matrlmony to escape, I admit that there s room for fm-~ provement In them, but so there s in us all, and I contend that they are plenty good enough for the boya as they ave, aud, If they are to by made still Letter, {t 18 but justice ta demand st n like improvement be mude on the other slde, Girls aro Jectured continually, from their Bivth up, by thelr parents, and everybody clae, fu regard to thelr dutles, present and future, ‘fhiey are taught that upon them depends tho or woe of coming generutions, uid that must fit lhulu lves to bo ool wives, mothers, and houstkeepers, Ts it any wonder that so many eirls 1ok upon marringe as the chlefl and alm of thefr existence when atl thelr Myes tho subject i presented to them n thialighti But who ever thinks of talking to boys fu this way! ‘The lectures they gotaro generally on the art of making moucy, Who ever thinks of telling a boy or younyg man that, for the sake of his unborn children, wnd the happiness of his future wifs, aud the influence.he may cxert on saclely, he ahould and ought to keep himsell uusullicd by sin, and freo from all bad Labltal They ma hear this {n a gencral wav o few times in thelr llves, perhavs, but it I8 vot instilled fnto their minds from fntancy up, 8s it is into those of the girls, 'Their parents seldom I ever speak to them upon this subjeet, ' One would slmost suppozo they had nothing to do with it, no re- sponsibitities rezarding Whelr familles, except to provide food, und raiment, and shelter. Now, 1 have alwoys supposed that as much depended upon the husband and father as upon the wite und mother in the maging of & happy home und he rearlng of & family. And, sucl belng the case, why should not boys bo taught that, it they desire a huppy homo siid lovatle children, they themselves must set a good exsmple und strive to make them suchi Does ono expect to find the clitdren of a profane und tyranuical father pure in socech and just o actioni Or thut the sons of a dishonorable, fmmoral man witl make uprheht und honorabla citizens, even though their mothers may be all that could be desired In woman? Or that the chitdren of a whisky-drinking, tobucco-using man will_be as stroug as those of the one wlo does not? ‘The wirls mustn’t “baug™ thelr heads nor comuress their bodlos, for one injures thelr brains, the other the constitution; bug the boya can drink wine and suoke cigass, buth of which tend to weaken (he braiu and nerves, and there 1o uot halt sy much soid to them. Is this jus- ticet Hos pot w woman s much right 10 {o- *\lm her health as amon hast Bowe one said ately (1 thiuk it was [o The Homu) that mothers modo thelr sons what they were, '§ deny it “pect of suceesa, know mothers whosa sons are not all that they vould wish or deslee, and, though thoso moth. ers might have falled somettmies in their duty, they cortainly did not. teach them to be had, No, 1do not belfeve that all depends wpon the muther. Tlie father's influence wia_cxampla i fait In the honse as well as In the world, whother Tor good or bad. FLORICULTURE. ABTERS AND PULOX DRUNMONDIL To the Editor of The Tritune. HixspawLx, Ith, Feb, 28.—For any neraon to cultivato sll the flowers which1lve nlready presented and shall continue to Intreduco fn this scries of letters on anfinals would requira o much Inrger extent of ground than most of my readers could find time to attend to, With e best iInunagement and with good seeds even the most experfonced cultivators have a sharo of faflure, A tittle attention to these bints will mako success rensonably certafn. 10 you huvs no experience, select the kinds most ensily grown, such ns nsters, balsams, pelunins, zeonla, and pittks, Great carc should be used In selecting sceds for the purpose for which they are dealgued. 1f we wish to cover a feuce, the morning glory, nasturtium, or sone hardy climber, should be chosen. For a showy bed, 2hlox Drmmondit, verbenn, nud such flowers as cont{nue long n bloom, nre desirablel Tor tall flowera for a backoround select zennia, nenlla, marigold, and for cutting for small bouquets there should bes,minonctte, sweat alyssum, swect pea, and other Iragrant flowers, Judming from the very Jarge quantity of flow- ers now known to florisis one woultd think noth- ing more of Mmterest could be athered up to pleaso the eve. Everv vear the seedamnn’s catalogue teems with novelties—some of them declded ncqulisitions, wnd really *somothing new, something 1o pleane, nnd something to in-. struct,” ‘Then’ apaln sume of them after triol aru cast aslac 88 worthless, and gink Into the obscurity trom which they emerped, Who ‘of us'of more mature years would recognizo in the magnificent aster of the pres- ent thine, the inslgniffieant queen dafsy of our childhood's_days? To the ekill and persever ance of o Frenchman, M. Truffaut, wa are in- debted for the wotcderful tranaformationtol thia popular flower. Other florlsts, hoth European ad American, hava still further ftaproved it, so thut it is now to be found fn many difforent colors wid habits of growth. I havo ten dis- tinet kinds myself. To grow nsters in perfec tion, they shoutd bo planted in beds of very rich ground, the tall varieties in the centro about ilfteen fuchea apart, skl the pombon und dwart around them, say, slx Incles avart, Sow the seed fu boxes In the bouse next month, or in the open border in May, Strive for stocky plants, for a splodling aster will never nmoun! 1o auvihing, For brillianey of color and Tong continuation in bluom no annual excels Pklox Drimmondit, Three years 82o Wwe cuit an octugon-shuped bed In the Inwn, and planted this annual, and wo fall to eall to mlud a more charming display than that bed afforded us. ‘The colors ranged trom pure white to deepest erimson, (ncluding some iz’n:lluw and striped ones. ‘Tho best cflect, however, I8 produced by planting cach color ‘In scparate beds, or in lines in what Is known aa ribbon gardening, Liillan’a lotters on bedding plants are excel- lent, and show a famiilarity with the subject she treats upon; but it {s not'every one who ean afford to purcbase coleus aml achyranthus, while aununls are everybody’s flowers because the eceds nre chcap, Auy one can send to meo and pet six varietlea best sulted to thulr pur- pose for adime; aud, If they cannot get them otherwise, I will give the seed free, Wonetu—flalf o lifetime spcut In growlng flowers of every kind, as well as same ten years! irreenhouse experiencs unyer some of our most successiut American floxists, I iy authority for saying verbenas are bestiralsed from seed. “The patay {8 classed 28 au anvuul by Jumes Viek,— o atandard suthority, ' - L'ewoly—1hers yet remalus the forlorn hope to save your ross geronjum li,y cutting 1t down and putting 1t in the darka: It you can give it botton neat and there fs life in the root it will swart much soouer. Donot glve much water. You can zet nnother fod adime. Box 600, Iuwn—S‘nHumu your mignonctte frequently and you willobdniall the ruse. Itls caused LY too closean atmosphere, Keep water iu your room, 80 it cangraduully evaporate. sl ReNNie, Box 101 eyt TLANTS FOILORAVES, To the Editor 41 i Tribune. INSDALE, 1L, Marchi {i—The season Is rapld- 1y approuching when tlst of us who beve been called upen to lay away the loved forme of our dear ones to thelrloni drep fect lkasurrounding thelr narrow homes 'witkethe beoutiful flowers. To many of them, whel!in life, the enltivation ot flowers was thelr all-ghsorbing dellznt, and what movs ftting tribuyg to the memory of the dead than to clothe tiwlr resting-places with the flowers they lovedvsd well7 Are not flow- crs the stars of the enrq\l,{uutl aro not our stars the flowers of heaveud .o . To eunmersto all the. annual and tender olants suitatile for the ombellishment of graves would b a formidable tadi, and in refercnce to it it Is only necessary to say thut what i3 deslrablo 1s to mako the spot look bright and cheertul, and the love which promipta s to this sacred couse ;r‘lH“:uunlly unnble us t9 do what s most be- itbing, 'Fhe hordy planta that ‘oo remaln year after yearare the ones which .ghould be mainly de- pended upon, Of theso Lwhll name o few. Let t bo understood, there agp_wany other plants suitabie for the purpose,..T sunply kive & selee- tion lkely to do wulfln any locality, ‘The deutzia s a hardyg low-growing shrub, bearing white, delivate fipwers in_sopring. The dicentra, or tleoding heart, cunnot be spared,— fudeed, trace, wnd hardiness mako (4 ts b(‘nul{. very destrable. Uhinesa peonies, eapeclally the piuk und double white, should be always used, They are perleetly hurdy and very Iragrant. Percnnial phlox comes fn many shades. It blooms Ireely, nid the different varicties sue- ceed cach otlier from midsummer untll Sep- tember. The double dalsy.ls admirably sulted for gruyes; it dulghts in shade. Ancinone jn- poulea 13 Invalusvle for. the purpose under constdorntion 1t fs fn bloom when nll others have vensed to flower, Pausics unid violots are 80 woil known as to necd no mors than passing mentlon. Lo not ¢laim that they are hardy, athough they uiten survivo the winter without protection. Asa hundsome tralling plant the vinen or rurlwluklu must be notfeed. 1t has prety, shintig, dark-greon leaves aud amall blue tlower, ‘Iliero1s atson variety with variegated fohnze, Of thy bulbs sultable far zruve-leco- ratdug, we may mentlon ofl the Miles, glving prelerence, however, 1o L. candidhun with {ts elear white, sweet-seetted flowers. ‘The anow- drop I8 the lrst flower of spring, and 13 followed by the croeus, hyneinth, aud” 1Y of the valley. All thero are hardy, ‘Uhiey requive to Le planted In the full, bowever, Al tho plants aind bulbs named 1n this letter can ba purchased at o cost of not more than 20 cents cach, und some for luss. Come to my grave, and you will see A pumwys aad tao bloom shall be A weerno, frlend, to you from me, Fuat 1 have not forgot you, . Rexnig, Box 101, BEDDING PLANTS FROM SEED, To the Editor of Ths Tribune, Orrawa, 1., Mareh So—In writng, u few weoks since, on bedding plants, I spoke of some that could be eamly rolsed from sced. Of theso ryethrum anrcum (golden gem) is ono that s very popular now, in geometrie designs, or in ribbon gurdenlng. ‘Fho perilly, also, of n bronza color, Is mueh used {u contrast with the cineraria und eenfauria, with thelswhite folfage, Theso can allbe ralsed by the mnatcur from sced,.| with but little care. Withn hot-bed or cold frumo there would bomno difieulty, und even with boxes in the houss onu las zood & pros- ‘Tak shullow buxes und H1L them with ting soll, Havhyg thoroughly wetted the earth, press it iemly,—sprinkla e secds on 1ty covertng them very sllghtive ‘The centuieria aced, being lurae, will need more coveriig thun the tiner seeds. Innuswer to Ars, Phillivs, althouch not a floristy 1 ean tell you that muurandva is o sult- uble plant torn winter hangiug-busket, und s sutved efther from seeas or cuttings, 1f sceds ure planted 1n May or June they will Lo well grown hrv sutun Cuttingd arg ratsud ns canly undin the sume munner s Kenilworth vy, For your window-box, I think you will #ind vothiig more satistuctory thund Gen, Graut Kerantuw, it bolng a free vlovmer und of brill- faut colur, one or two foverfews, o fow durk coleus, sumo cundy-tuft, and sweet alyssum; for vines, trudescantia, wnd msturtium, the brizht Howers of the lutter adding beauty Lo the il By autumy, it your box has been suce 1, you wiil have a tine ornuament for the . 8., have you searched for corth-worms at tho root vf your slck gerantut Liuiaxn. VARIOUS MATTEHS, b (he Kiitor af The Triduna. Dananoo, Wis, March 5,~Mre, F. L. Phillips; i have a hanging-vasket of maurandyy vloe, and it {8 g beauty; 1 started it from a cutting, My Qlyantic (radescantia is full ol buds; is it 8 com- wmon thing for them to bloom? I ucver saw one fu blossom, aud never board of such a thlwr, nndd can hardiy walt for the buds to open tha dark-striped tradeacantin has been full of little purple blossoms all winter: for perpetunl bloony, 1 think, the lttle musauito plant Ueats them all. Jonnle Juno, I think of you with gratitude every timo 1 inok at 1t. T wish I conld divide it with averybody. A candlo eactus also has hean heautifu with yellow waxen flowers; it e not the Roman candle cactus; tliey are very differ- ent. Wil some ona tell me low Icannake n suminer-blooming ik oxalis wait tiil the winter to hlussom? We prizo every flower so el more in the long, dreary winter capeclally as steadily cold as this winter hna been, Jack Frost haa been very kind to my plants, nota leal has o touched, A friend told ms one day_that it 1 would pot my cholce garden rose {n'the fall, and loave It out doors till midwinter, and then bring it iny ftwould suon bave roscs on sgalnj hxs any reader trfed it1 Jeante Bradley, Janesville, Wis,, 1 wrote to vou Dec. 24, and'the letter returned to e this- week, having elrcled around by the Dead Letter Oflice: won't {nu pleass send me your address? And Siroe, 1t you witl eend e your card [ will thunk you,” 1 used to live in Farmington, Lucretius, you are not forgotten; your card recefved, and you will soon receive a wee little lotter from Bunsuing No. 1. FLOWERS AND THE FAIR, To the Editer of The Tribune. Cnicaao, 111, Feb, 28.—Peggoty and others, 1 hiope you have not had the misfortunc 1 hnve had. 1 lost threa of my prettiest gerantums, The wind singled them out from mmong several others, and chilled the roots throngh the pots. 1 did not fined bt out for several days, or untll I discovered the stock withering just above the soll. | cut the green tups off, *slipped * them, und they too died, : Fricnds, what are vou golng to do, to help The Jlome Fair along1 I would suggest to all Jovers of flowers thut have plenty, to enlarge thelr stock on \m‘d,—m us to o able to sparo an abundance of Yhem towards the floral toble, Lknow of uothing that would sell better, ‘L wish wo could have more letters from the old contributora,” s the word 1 have from my home correapondents und acqualntauces, Cowmne back, old fricnds, wo have missed you long enough, LeLt, THE, ROCKFORD MAID. ‘' RRIOA " TALKS DACK. rt plonsant, gamesomo, passing conries : winspecch, yet sweet as spring-timo flows 1f #he Uc curst it I for nolley, For sho s not froward, but modest as the dove; She is not hot, but temperate as the morn; For paticnce sho will prove a sacond Grissel, —Taming of the Shreto, To the Editar of Ths Tribune. Mirronp, Ind., March 4—Tho gentle humil- ity with which Alfarotta deprecates criticlsm hus taken me captive. Certaloly no person could deliverately wound the tender sensibilitics of ono who, both as Oppoponux aud under her Iater title, hus been 50 fnvarlably thoughtful and coosiderate {n her language toward those who differ from her. £ can only admire the refinement and eloguence of those expressions which she inteuds to be personal, without ever trylng to mitate them, a too rigid youthiul trafning having crippled my powers fn thut dl- rection, 1do most slncerely hope, however, that her many virtues may in time bo rewarded by the companlonship of & sccond Petruchio, who alone, of all maukind, wobld bo ber fitiing mate, ‘This tribute to the young Indy’s merits 18 ns alncere ns it 8 luvoluntary, und I trust it may atone for my previous eriticism, Almoretta confesses that she was carcless In dating her artlele, W1l she pardon me 1f I sug- ecat thnt there was o littlo carolessness nll the way through? Bhe dated her letier dun. 1. Sho snya, 1 wos mMn{x beloro the grate last aven- ingn,? and expressiy adds,as I to permit no doubt concerning the time, *it was New-Year's Eve,”! Now, Aliarettn says she wroto Jan. 8. 1t followa, therefore, that'lf sho was sitting by the grato “last evening” (Jan, 2) it wus not New-Year's Eve. if, on_the contrary, she was eltting by the grato on Now-Year's Eve, it was not **last evenlug,* If {t was *Inst evening," 28 she states, when she was sittiug by the grate, ghe admits the chief count {n my indictinent, Viz.: that within twenty-four hours shie killed the wldow, buried her, scut o snow-storin to cover her grave, and found her children com- fortable homes {n the country: and 1 reassers, in the face vl Alfarcttn’s modest depreclation of her own inerits, that the matter was necoms plished with uncxampled celerity, +nLet us leaye: the poor widow, however, to lier For th o But al -quict vest while [ ineution one point vn which L {lupu to induco Alfuretta to recousider hor opin- one. Judglug from herremarks on crities,~romarks characterized by her usyal extreme gentiencss ofexpresston,—1 Infer thit she considers all erit- jelsma fmproper, ‘That might be if no person wrote exept thiose whoso suthority 13 unques- tloned; but, when an unknown writer appearsin print, she chatlenges the critivisms of all her renders, Mer [deas, nud the language 1 which she clothes them, are legitimato subjects for analysis, Those writers who speak with undoubted authiority upun any subject are few indeed, and the position must be eatned fu spite of adverso oplion. Hnupg {ndeed are they who, having demonstrated what they have done ther right to Intellectual soverelgnty, see criticlam itself tranawmntted, by the touen of truo genius, iuto the pure gold of reverent nnd unguestion- ing ndmiratton. « Now it would undoubtedly be the highest presumbtion in an Altarcita to critfclse an Awassiz 1 zoology, a Gray inunatomy, a Chand- ler in chewmiatey, o Lyelt or a Dana i geology, or a Taylor Lowis in Greok, but the mercss schoolboy may criticlse an Alfaretta without auy presumption whatever. A few petals from * the inflorcscence of the tree of knowledgo™ have floated down to me Intelv, and they ars well worth belng preserved in amber for the -benefit of futuro genorutions who may feel inpelled to annilulnte thelr unfur- tunate fellows with o deluge of words, Mr, Lincolu, on being asked how ho rot his unusual power of “putting thiugs,” replled: “ Among wy carliest tecollections I remember how, when o merve clild, I used to et frritated when anybody talked tome in _a way 1could not understand, 1 don't think I ever got angry at auything else In myglife. But that always disturbed iy temper, wid has ever since. I can remember golni.: to iny lttlo bedroom efter hearny thg neighbors talk of an evening with my father/and spending no small part of the ulyht walking up und down und trylug to ionke out what was the exact meanmj of some of thelr, to me, dark saylugs, 1 could not sleep, though | often trled to when I got onsucha hunt after an ldea nntil I had eaught it, and, when I thoucht ! hod got it, I was uot satisfied until 1 had put it futo langusge plamn eoough, us [ thought, for un{ boy 1 Kuew to cowpro- hend, T'ins wus a kind of passion with me, and It hus stueks by me; for [ am uever casy now, when 1 oam hundling a thought, till 1 have buunded it north, und bounded {t south, and bouuded 1t cast, und bounded it west.” 1read the othier doy that the secrot_of John Bright's wonderful power over his audivnce lies 1w the fuet thut he usea such excocdingly clear ‘und piain languoge, nearly three-fourths ‘of his words baing munosyllables, I use thess facts coneernhig two great men to illustrato my first petal, No thought which Is not worth pattiug nto wood, pluin English fs worth any expression atull. And the second 18, akin to the firsr, Sunplicity of style s the product only of bigh culture, * Natious ewerging from barbarfsm and syenly ¥ youth (vide Country Pareon) may de- Tleht {0 boinbust, but the ripeness of *maturer years nitd maturer culturs will chango all thut, 1 have rend somuwhero that Bir Walter Scott traveled many miles to study the flura of a cor- taln apot which ho made the” scenc of an incl dent in oue of his nuvels, Thers was accurac! for you, Andbe hod his reward, For, mar! this: though mankind generally may not take tho trouble necessary Lo securo the bablt of curacy fn themselves, they value {6 where fb ex- {sts, und the Waverly Nuvels will bo admired for pees o8 falthful delineutions of the munners, clmu:;u. {deas, nud prejudices of days long passed, ‘fo iy mind Hownll the most fasclunting amotg Amerlean nove ‘There §8 a subtle charm about bis writings which detles analysis, amd 18 as intungible os the perfume of o rose, but onw of the exceedingly satistactory thines about him is bis fdelity 1o detatls. H1s storics wre porfect, hurmonious, and complete, Ha'l sirikes no false chorda, Ile does not offer you 1ilies of_the valley und dohlas fn the same bou- quet. You do not slmply read about the places where lis nien wict womnen movo snd have thelr being. You go with thent. You feel ths dust aud the beat, the yefreshing covlness, and he w ine siuwerd, 'The saine sounds quist your cars, your eyes brighten as do theiss. For the timo You llve witk those of whom you read. brothier of mine, who bad read A Chance Ac- quaintauce,’ wentwith his wile to spsad & week i Queber, boplug to find the same hcnmlufi: place where Kit { ond her couslus staye Aud they found ¢l The very houso with its fa- midar outluok but, alasl the srovms were al- rendy ongeged by suother oQuple, who, I am glad to believe, were also s&fatuted with Kit- l{, und whose stay fn Quebee bronght addition- ul pleasurcs because apent in a bouse alive with weinories of a charming womun, 1 belteve thut o thorough course of dlscipling in Euclid would teach msuy persons, now care- less of accuracy, ite tuestimably value, aud Alfurctin’s eyes mizht bo opened to dlscurn that every seriter i responsible for any and all inaceuracles of language which grester cere vould have provented, Enca, - TEMPERANCHE, BRIGNT TROUQUTS BY ‘' CHAT." %o the Eiitar of The Tribune, Drcatun, 11, March 11.—The temperance movement that is sweeping over the land like a pure, exhilaratiug breeze Is one in which we nll, old nud young, rich amd poor, satnt and sinner, are vitally {nterested, und Iam glad it (s belng talked about in The Ilome, and that it 1s dis- cusscd everywhere, for in tha war we aro wan- fng our Infantry s teason and argument, and oitr greatest cannon the mighty gun called Agltation, Mounting the lightning-ahod steed of Memory, he will carry ue back three or four yonrs over the sunny flelds of Ohlo, the sweeping pralries of Illinols, and the bluffs and volless of falr Wiscousinj he will gallop from the turbulent, rosticas waters of the free Atlantic to the golden strand of 1he biue Pacitie, and evory- whers we will seo earnoat, enthusiastlu workera, sowing the seeds of temperauco in he hot sun of ooposition; and above the atdrin of scorn nud abuse, sl thie scorching binsts of ridicule, we hear ascending aweet und clear the rrnyerl of tho nohlest und best.of women, ask- ng God to apeed the harvest-time, And com- fng back to to-day, we find that even the sceds thut fell upon apparently_barren ground have sprune up 1u profusion adll yielded a bounteous barvest, not of sweet wheat or golden corn, but agreater and grander one of buman sculs re. deemed and ransonied from the burning fires of the hell of hells, Intemperancs aud strong rink, When Satan (uc:onllnsz to_Milton) fell from heaven and the favor of his God into the durk abyss below, I beheve the firat thing he did was 0 comu Lo earth with liis ambassadors, who sct up a kinedotn and crowned b King under the namo of Aleohol. Aud the subjects of this tyrant, whose scarlet robes olp voyalty ore stajned and dyed in the heart's biood of his vie- tims, whose crowan s studded with dismonds colued frum wormen's tears, und whose songa of victory are sobs of Lroken-hearted mothers and the moans of ruined men; his :ubEncu—-no, his abject, miserable slaves—have recfed and stag. gercd over the carth through the nges that havo pussed away ne softly und swiftly as the ovening clouds, those bright ripples ou tho bosom of the sky. I‘;ut at last, in this age of learning and prog- ress, when (let acoffers say what liey will) houe esty and - purity are eomhlgg uppermost, this relentless despot Is trembling on bis throne. And now s the supreme moment; and may wo all—eyery man and womnan—ariss en mnsse uud hurl him from his earthly kingdom cven as the hosts of Heaven arose, arid, gencrallssimoed by God Iimaelf, hurted him from the New Jorusu- lem. May our weapons bo determination and perseverance, and our rallylug-cry ** Total Absti- nenco und Prohibition” 11 the glad time ever comes 1.'md I bedove it will) when wo can vote away the right to trafile fu or alstill the “bey- erato of death," theu wo may proudly clalm the rlght to be called a freo pooplo. 1have never taken much faterest In the * Woman-Sullrage® question, for I nover had and never expect 10 have any property to attend to, aml so could not enter that 08 a plea: and, na for our othier rights, whay tve need I8 not the batlot, but an Inexhoustible supply of tears and the nbillty to shed them coplously und profusely, But when the time c¢omes for us to vote ruln out of the way of our fallen brothers, (riends, and brothers-in-law, then 1 am willing to let my voleo bo heard through the batlot-box. Then I shall be glad tu 2o to the polls carly in the worning aud vote all day. Bome goor [ellows when shipwreeked on the ocean of intemperance may be able to swin to and cluteh the goud plank totul abstinence, und 8o be washed futo the barbor of salety, but many, very many, alas, will be left to perish. Whnen the storm comes it is u good thingto cling to, but even it muy be swept [rom your hands Dy the great waves of your passion for driuk, and after all the only saie nnd reliable way 1y to prevent even the posstbility ot ahip- wreck by prohibiting the manufacturo and salo of tho rum that causes tho disaster, John 8mith has fallen, und from the depthsof his despair ho crics, “Itis too lute to retoruny Tam lost!” and overcome by grief and humi) zation heds drifting with the current that carries bim to destruction. - ‘Yhero Is paduess In the sight, buta golden promise ln the knowledpo that you did lor o time rise superior to appetite aml temptation, and exuitation n the thought that you can s will dn it oguln. For 1 tell yoult is never too Iate for n man to” retrieve his good name, to win back bhis friends wnd his own self-resvect, It s nover tooslate to do:well arto lot; the. fdeail pnst bury ite dead? uod begia -anow. “Then arouse yoursell irom the lethargy of despair uud thy gloom of despundency, for, weal though you are, you still huvo the power, If you wal only exery h., to break from the clutches of your enemy und be freo ugaiv, Pledee yourself to shuu the fatsl cup, and then ask your frivuds for asmstance, and If they have lost all faith in your prumises nnd give you the *‘cold shoul- ter, uud you can obtmn no sltuation for which your education und capabllities Ht you, don't uive up; but take the first job you cab get, even it it 18 nothing better thun shaveling dirt on the Btreets or carrying the hod, for no matter how hard or common the labor may bo, It it {s hon- est work it will prove your salvatlon, pave the way to something better, and show your fricnds that you Lave the pluck und will to begin at thy bottom of the lndder und work Kour Wiy u‘r. I Kkbow it s hard thing to do, but it fs also o noble one, and no truv nan or wuman but wiil feel a thelll of hops and pride when they soe you 8o poorly equipped and budly armed taking the fleld so bravely aguinst thosc almost frre- sistivle opponents,’ nrpulllu and pride, You can, it you will, rise up from the debris of the ruined past, und make your life, bleuk und barren though it scems, bloszom with the flowers ol industry, virtue, hunesty, und trath, —thiose lmmorial fiowera that never wither or die, but bloom on forever. Methluks when a mon does act this clorlous part, when ho strikes off the shackles of sin and fntemperance, when T fights the rood fight and wina the great but- tle, then all Jeaven ** sends up a rapturous ery, and oven the ranks of hell can scarce lorbear io cheer.,” We reud fn the fables of mythulogy that years and {'u- 8 ago the people helfeved the rainbow was tho nighway over which the sungers of the gods camie and went; and 1 be- lieve your own honest resolution to reform and the prayers of thut loved father and sistee will form u rasvow from you te Heaven, brighter than any that ev pauned the drouping sky, down which God’s messungzers—hope, courage, and strength—1ill cono to your ald, ~ CHaT. TOINTED PARAGHAPIS, To the Editor af The Tribune, Curcago, March 1l.—John Bmith ond his trouble havo arouscd a greut deal of sympathy, und £ am glad that bis letter hos bronght out so many advocates of tha temperanco cause. Someo ono makes an cxcuso for the “wowman in the case’? by saylug that sho had only known hiin for a short timo, but I dow’t think that that s any oxcusc at all. What 1 she didn't know about his fatal apr.e- tite for liquor? Bhe'd po buslness to offer o elass of wine to auy goutlemau who called upon her. Many a reformed drunkard, now respected by all, aud & genticman lu appearance wid nan- ners, was ouce very low In infsery and degrada. tion, and a siogla glass of wine mizht exclto the old ;nLnlon. sud s would fall as low as ju years one by, B Wouica have & great influcnco over men, and, therefore, should be very careful how st hn- fluence Is excrtod, Mauy & muu cannot reslat a protty girl's fuvi- tation "to “*tako a plass of wing {un for my spke.” Ho ho takes that one and usually takes suyeral more to keep the tivet one copany, 1 hopo the time will come when o nan will have strenizth of miud euouwh to say * No* toa woman wlien she tempts liim to do'wrong, even 1t she bo as lovely as Venus, It women could be mada to realize tha power for good that they have they might do better, but it 1s hard at this thne of the vear to tnake them realize anything but the it of a new po- lonalse or the sivlu ot thelr spring bounets, ¢ the ladles would anly tuke uit uctive fotere est jo the cause of temperance, [ am suro that much zood could be doue, dou't wean for them to get up another “erusude,” nor wnything of that kind, but to use thelr infuence dafly aud wherover thuy go aguinst the use of liguor in any form, Lou't muke pies ot the mysterious kind called mince, und don't make puddings with bruudy or wine asucos. 1 dun't bellove In using ‘any spiritous or malt liguors, wing, or cider?’ when a suvstituto can be outaiued, und une can always flud some- thing to use 1o place of liquor every time, I can, Yiovis, R e TOE HORRID MEN, TUBIR BUFFRESSION CALLED FOR. To the Editor @/ Ths Tribune. Rockroxp, 11, March 10~I have been sn Interested reader ot ‘Tlig Houie slnco fts com- moucement In your columus, 1 have nover be- fore offyred 8 communication, much as L wanted to do It at differcnt tined; for you know waa- enare always ready to express an oolulon on any subject whatever. There 1e one thing, how- ever, which I can no longer rofrain from speaks z When this deparrment ditted Into the pPaBer 16 was walled. o oy '{':"*l underatoad to Le, the ladies' department, :'| 1A columns SWera given up to them, After While there began to b susniclona that Mrlnl. loLtees wera written by men in disguise; oth s attempted no diszulsc, and somo of 1hese gam valuable fnformation which all were glaj se receive, Most of them, however, wero of u° account to nn‘\;bmly. unless they amused u;: writers, and kept thetn for the time out of worse mischier, St they did at Tast sall wag, maseutine colors, which was honorahle, < But how snall ‘we cxoress our contempt for those who, Jika your Hockford correspondent, Oopononux, allas Alferetta, alias a man, met; horleally apeaking, dou the petticous om‘:‘ ke Jell Davis, pali themaelves oft for whmen] M in future Hockford eannot ba rnnrcmnmu‘ The Home by o 1."nnulnn woman, 1 beg vou wn’i allow us to remaln unrepreseuted, Buch letters as that of Patrfurch and others are evident]; written simply to call sub the Indignant repm.: .of those who are 8o credulous as to think them sincere. 1 have looked, but tooked in vain, for o protest trom the leadiig correspondents, ' Now Ibeg you, Indles, a8 one of many who, although we do not aspire to b correspondenty’ consider The lotme & houechuld treaaure, thag you will not allow it to slip out of your imu’l- nto thoso of men who lisve nothing better g do than- write nousense, nnd pretend to 1.: women, Men.are all right in thelr place, but when they nttempt the feminine role thoy ae slmply ridiculous, Ax Hoxnst Wouix, LYING, ANOTHER CITAPTER WANTED, 20 the Editor of The Tribune, Marre Gnrove, Wis, ,\l-rchT.—Fern-Luy Your subject of n few veoks ago was a gomi one, and well delineated; but we want another chapter, oye, if it takes up half our alotted suaco and the rest of us have to walt on the doorster. ‘This s tho subject of all subjects nearest my heart, ono I have looked anxiously for ever since I beeame a reader of The Home, and one which I humbly opine to be equal if not paramount to all othera yet discussed, Plense give us the sccond chapter on the lying and deceptions so rulnousty carried on bugpanieand wiver, © T i ying, even the little **white Hes" fashion™ hos styled * bits'of sacred flba,"lém thelr damaging Inflitences unon the charscter of ho or slia who mny stoop to avall themnsalyes of so filmay a subtorfuge. But 1o measure ity rulnous” efforts in these relations requires an ol i Twgiort hink of ft! Two loving beings oceutpying most, sacred relations of this life, dl:llgergl‘ctll; lylng nnd decelving each other! Think of fts enormity! What 1 caunot understandis the motive which actuntes them, for Ihovocertainly known most excellent, most catiniable couples in other respects resort to this destroying prac tiee, when the truth would have served them tar better, Ilaven't you, readert Forrr-1ivo, BILAMS. SOME SPECIMEN ONES. To the Liitor af The Tridbune, Exorewoon, I, March 8.—Lest The Homa fricuds will imagine before they have read this Ietter through that 1aw talking of the bug. bears,—of men in particular,—nillow-and-shect shams, that many lousckeepers use to cover up sollea linen, I will hasten to undeceive them. Itisa different’kind of sham nltogether. e hovo our sham fady and gentleman; the frst will adorn herself with dollar jewelry aud cheap laces, nud fmngine they ore genulne, aud that other people share with lier the snme botlel, The sham gen- tleman will wear Brazillan pebbies, and try to convinee s friends and himseil that they are eenulne dlamonds. I know people who, if ey possess o piece of statunry and stuffed bird or other ornatment, will at oure placs it fn the front window,—to be admired by passera-by, which, [ suppoac, 18 well enoueh as long as (Leontributes to thelr vanity., ‘Then we have our soung lady nnd younys gzentieman shums who look upon ell labor as vulgar and not becombg them,—which, by the way, needs correcting, A quarterof a ccm?ry hus vastly changed tastes 1a this ree apects family, when there were daughters nble Lo as- sist, but mothers and doughters alike equally shared fn the domestic toll, It 18 In vain at the present un{ for the faded mothier to expect any assistance In the culinary department from her danghters,—the 4 Mays,” * Mamles,” und M Mattles? of the present day, Oh, uol they must not be seen in the kitehen,—it's decidediy vulgar—bat must spend thelr time, If not -awuy »at Madame, > Pompadour’s bnhhini school, n- the patlor” or sliting-room, in full dres, oither thrimming’ the plano or reading lizat literature, nud the result is that thereds & vagt mtmber of more than useless people thrown upon the world, who remind one ol the aban- doned hulls sumetimes ulukcn‘ up ot ses, with only n monkey un board, With the present false notfons that prevail, how la the maiter to tie remedied Peovlo fu making estimates of others should talke the dress intu constderation, und should remember that the soldier In pur- chasing o sword examines the value und quality ol the blade, not ot the scabbard. Walltlower,—wlio s revelmng In the land of flowers,~will you take your humeward fly whh our robins? ‘Tlicro s ohe fome frlend wito has thought of you mnnI times in your wauderlugs. Every ‘plant that 1 possessed—togetlier with VOUur generous zm—flumhml by Jack Frost's fey totich, You may know I felt badly cnuu;in over thelr Joss. Fill every nvailable’ place In trunk and kuapsack with trophics to brig hunis with'you, Cavta Lun, MUSIC. BOME OF IT8 DEAUTIRS, fu the Titttor af The Tribune. MATTOON, IM., March B.—Tones harmoniously arranged fallig upon the ear ind responsive chiords fn thie humnn soul, The lovo of welody {u ol its forms fs inberent fn mortals, From the time when the morning stars sang together at the laying of the cartl's foundatiou to the present ago, tusle has held fis sway over wane kind, “The volce 13 naturally the medium ot cxpres- slon of melody; and not to mortals alone i 13 vouchsafed. ‘The varlous songsters of the feathered tribes delight in pouring forth {helr nyinns of prafsc la notes of such exquisite toos that humanlity falls to reproduce them but mag hins accomplished wonders by the iuvention of Instruments that represent the many sounds that ure exprossed vocally, To Mercury fa aserlbed” the orfein of instri- mental musfe. ‘Ihie god noticed o dried mx"i tolso_fn its sholl; the sinaws wero stretche Ughtly, and, s the wind pasecd over them there Wero certaln fntonations like those o[ 1: ZRolkan borp, As the sinews luy fron cdyeu“ cdge of W shell, they resembled tu foru b lyre, which was modlfled by many changes 1n the ebdeavor to procare the createst mmp“ri :’g tone until there was proguced the horp, u'r ‘x‘?m strings are often swept by hands that ql{ltdw nto thrilling strenms fts slumbering me u‘,“. the same shapo {8 Tound in that lnstrunicat m{luch 18 ll(xc prefercacy of cultivated sucletiy the pianoforie. B Civilization with its ranid strides has lcflu"' fmpress upon this ne upon other nml. ot turles succeed cach other, and the mm‘x' i forth a8 an fmprover upon thoso precedit Loy In this oge wa sca the uol!mle\y—chJhm}u the quisitely-macy fnstruimcnts that have .CIL‘ b tol outgrowth of long practice fn this ©aweels o ull urts,” Buavagy nnuum\wam \vmn: ln!: deep their armies to battle by the benum.“ of Al drums nnd the blowlng of concti-sh 't'mua r shouih lacklng the csaontial ulumcmn‘ musu‘ —harmony,—yet cansed the {nspiration bl,l\m‘“)‘ untutored hordes that tho tine military bty the present day give, and revived «.uurn.rlzo o secnied 1o be on the wane os readily as Ahe uer patriotic ulrs of modern civilization LG rocs on the Southern plaatatlous, ¥t o finn]m und the melodlous volces nr.'umr:r !ty eift of the Creator to thls loug-sulter ht o produced mors mclody of "‘ {aners that etira the soul to f ;ur el mosts dopths than many Ol Wity the drilled musictans could have done. VUG former, melody came as a spontaticos GEOT, g of feclingi with the lutter, 8 weu»;u:mur that lacked tio fuspiration ihiclt chardeti e trug musle, 1 fa 1ot cultivation nlfl\ll‘::l fords the charm thut binds tho llll & beaut sillcon fatters, but the goul must [eel LY, e and reatiuy of tho sentiment pervading Uiy, ody, A nian with music u his soul u'n“‘ st ordinary jnmhur{), und, by regulating 1o tuned to wive the required mudulativn, o0 gultari sounding 1ike those upon & sweel-to u.earelh‘[ whilo another, who knows but ;(l’wl 2 gino - de of the art, would, with tho & ‘D a5 would strument, fuil Lo cvolve such '"",:::., toneh the dopths of ou's consclous % atould 1t fa entlucutly suitale thut ;m:u‘umul s forn o portiun of Diviue yorsli! v.“m‘, aated Hifting up nad_soaring SWRY m}'“ fumu T ihe that pothing else can fnduce. l: als ane grand choruses roudered at cathe g ou Wost ccases to exlsti there 18 KDL -, drawlig nearer to Heaven, that 18 800 P énved through other chonnets, Ul wljole boling seems mountivg o n the wings of 800 1 :ffiylhlce&llf::“u cummund_ Lev M}\w. apart to* ?ucudum;» dnlyh-u H D"",':: 3’«',‘:?. . .“Dnvlh'lannd othiers bynflnplmllon wr Y ed oy the fulf the psalms, whicly were remlu:ir “‘,l" to th tuousand 1hen who devoied ib / ‘Then there were no female help fu the