THE WISCONSIN FARM&R.



        The Ofmnu.
aprl    nds us bads and beauty,
     sait w foliage leads
Which Autuon paints in duty.
But Wlnter rudely ens
Ir so with Life's gay morning;
AU bright an mssmisg fair
Soon passes into riper years,
Then resa with untold cue.
Then gather each to order,
That when your course is done
Fach seaon may one beauty yield
Store Lasting than the sun.



                  Moving.
  l eople who live in cities and move regularly
every year from one good, furnished, right-
si ic-up house to another, will think I give a
very small reason for a very broad fact; but
they do not know what they are talking about.
They have fallen into a way of looking at a
house as a sort of exaggerated trunk, into which
they pack themselves annually with as mnuch
nonchalance US if it were only their prepara-
tion for a summer trip to the sea-shore. They
don't strike root anywhere. They don't' have
to tear up anything. A man comes with a cart



old house, strewn thick with the debri, of many
generations, into a tumble-up, pesky, perky,
plastery, shingly, story, new one, that is not
finished, and never will be, and good enough
for it, and you will perhaps comprehend how
it is that I find a great crack in my life. On
the further side are prosperity, science, litera-
ture, philosophy, religion, society, and all the
refinements, and amenities, and benevolences,
and purities of life-in short, all the arts of
peace and civilization and Christianity,-and
on this side-moving.-Atlantic Konth~r.



         One Way for Women to Help.
  A cause of complaint ond source of discour-
agement among the loyal women of the country
has been that there seems to be so little that
they can do to help on this great conflict. Of
the thousands whose hearts and nerves are
strong enough for such service, only now and
then one is so situated as to become an efficient
nurse of the sick and wounded. A still small-
er number have, or will have, the opportunity



and horse. There is a stir in the one house-
they are gone ; there is a stir in the other-to exhibit the heroism of woman
In the face of
they are settled; and everything is wound up real danger, or to what lengths
of sacrifice
and set going for another year.          and work it leads when aid or cheer
to our
  We do these things differently in the coun-
try. We don't build a house by way of exper- cause is the result.  Unwonted
and compara-
iment and live in it a few years, then tear it tively unnoticed the women
(f the North have
down and build another.  We live in a house given themselves to the work
of preparing
till it cracks, and then plaster it over ; then it
totters, and we prop it up; then it rocks, and lint and jellies for the hospitals,
saving pray-
we rope it down; then it sprawls, and we ers for the army and still, with
imploring faces
clamp it; then it crumbles, and we have a new
underpinning, but keep living in it all the time. they are asking "
What con cc d  "
To know what moving really means, you must  Retrench! This is the first thing,
and an
move from just such a rickety-rackety old farm
house, where you have clung and grown like a imperative duty. Retrench! This
is the sec-
fungus, ever since there was anything to grow  ond thing, and every day becoming
more im-
-where your life and luggage have crept into perative. Retrench ! This is
the third thing
all the crevices and corners, and every wall is
festooned with associations thicker than cob- that women can do, and in the
end will be
webs that are pretty thick-where the furni- found the m st imperative of
all.
ture and the pictures and the knicknacks are
so become a part and parcel of the house, so  I know how the small retrenchment
possible
grown with it and into it that you do not know  to your means and mine will
look when we
they are chiefly rubbish till you begin to move
them and they fbll to pieces, and don't know  think of the enormous expenditures
of the
it then, but persist in packing them up and Government, running up to millions
daily. I
carrying them away for the sake of auld lang know, too, how, in spite of
our most earnest
syne, till, set up again in your new abode, you
suddenly find that their sacredess is gone, enthusiasm for the cause, a just
indignation at
their dignity has degraded into dinginess, and some of the seemingly reckless
expenses of the
the faded, patched, chintz sofa, that was not
only comfortable, but respectable, in the old war service makes, us feel
how insignificant a
wainscotted sitting-room, has suddenly turned good our little savings may
accomplish. But,
into an I object," when lang synes go by the my friend, consider where
these millions, that
board, and the heir-loom is incontinently set
adrift.                                       are piling up to tens and thousands
of them,
  Undertake to move from this tumble-down came from.  I need not tell you
tbiey are but



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