THA WISCONSIN FARMER.



will be happv when she fade her family lnk.



ing for bread which kis goodnes will fail t
procure. Why, only the other day I passed
there and he was actually-tending baby while
his wifq washed."
  "Raining, was it? You are blessed with a
good memory. Better be tending baby than
spending time, and money too, at Brown's,
hadn't he ?"
  "Insinuating, are you, Mrs. Smith?   Do
you not know that I detest that ? Jones would
have had the tub all ready for the pickles
while I have been talking, would he? Mrs.
Smith, I wish you to distinctly understand
that I have the liberty of talking as much as
I please and as long as I please in my own
house. Wouldn't care how much I talked nor
how long, if I would only work, too I Mrs.
Smith, I am none of your milk-and-water men.
You have provoked me forever, and I tell you
now, once for all, that when my day's work is
done I wish to rest without being ding-donged
continually about your trifling jobs. They
are of no account; and now I believe I will
run over and take a smoke with Hamlin.
You do wish I would fetch you cup of yeast.
There it is again. No, I will not. [Exit hus-
band, pipe in hand]                     *ee

             The Narrow Lot.

        A little flower so lowly grew,
        go lonely was it left,
        That heaven look'{ like an eye of blue
        Down on its rocky cleft.
        What could the little flower do
        In such a darkeome place,
        But try to reach that eye of blue
        And climb to see heaven' face?
        And there 's no life so lone and low
        But strength may still be given,
        From narrowest lot on earth to grow
        The straighter up to heaven.

                            Gerald Mlassey.

  The love of God is the essence and perfec-
tion of religion. It is the love of all sublime
and beautiful things; the love of all high
thoughts; the love of all lofty purposes; the
love of all noble feeling; the love of all ele-
vated principles; the love of all holy and
generous affections; the love of all magvani-
mous deeds. He, then, that has added to his
permanent possession one image of beauty
and nobleness, one sound principle, one just
thought, one generous sentiment, one pure
aspiration, one holy feeling, one right act,
one unclouded gleam of truth, has taken no



inconsiderable stop towards the attainment of
that love of God, which, whileitis the perfec-
tion of religion, is also the perfection of hu-
manity.

         Let Us Wry it be Happy.

   "Let ns try to be happyI we may if we will
   Find some pleasure to url to oeerbanee the ill;
   There was never an evil if well undsrstood,
   But what, rightltnenaged, weild turn to a good.
   If we won but as ready to look to the light
   An we re to sit moping because it is night,
   We should own it a truth both In worn ad In deed,
   That who tries to be happy is sure to suoceed
   Let us ;ry to be happyl some shades of regret
   Are mure to hang round which we cannot forget;
   There are timns. whe the ljghtest of spirits mast bow,
   And the sunniest faee wear a cloud on its brow;
   We must never bid feelings the purest and best,
   To He blunted aad cJd in our boooms at rest;
   But the deeper our own griefs the greater the need,
   To try to be happy lost other heart bleed.
   0 1 try to be happy I it is not very long
   We shall cheer on each other by counsel or song;
   If we make the best use of our time that we may,
   There is much we cand do to enliven the way.
   Let uts only in earnestness each do our best-
   leftor God and our conscience, and trust fr the reet;
   Still taking this truth both in word and in deed,
   That who tries to be happy is sure to succeed.
                    - * .
  It is the great event of life to find, and
know and love a superior person; to find a
character that prefigures heaven    and the
saints on earth. Such a one is left alone as
the gods are. In all the superior persons I
have met, I notice simplicity and distinctness,
truth spoken more truly, as if everything like
obstructions and malformations had been
trained away. What have they to conceal?
What have they to exhibit? Between simple
and noble persons there is always a perfect
understanding. They recognize at sight, and
meet on a better ground than the talents or
skill they chance to possess, namely, on their
sincerity.-Enerson.

  A BEAUTrFUL TnororT.-Leigh Hunt says:
"Those who have lost an infant are never, as
it were, without an infant child. They are
the only persons who, in one sense, retain it
always, and they furnish other parents with
the same idea. The other children grow up
to manhood and womanhood, and suffer all
the changes of mortality. This alone is ren-
dered an immortal child."


         HEALTH AND DISEASE.

       Ventilate Your Bedrooms,

 The importance of ventilating bedrooms is
a fact which every body is vitally interested
in and which few properly appreciate. We
iopy the following from an exchange, which
shows the injurious effects which must arise
from ill-veutilated sleeping apartments: "If
two persons are to occupy a bedrseom during a
nighit. let them step upon weihitnr scales as



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