The sunshine from our sky may die,

The greenness from life's tree;
But ever, 'mid the warring storm,

Thy nest shall shelter'd be.'-Gerald MasSEY.

'She who does not make her family comfortable, will herself never be happy at home; and she who is not happy at home, will never be happy anywhere.'-ADDISON.

'In words be thou

A gentle flower grown musical.'-DEROZIER.

'How do the duties of a good wife, a good mother, and worthy matron, well performed, dignify a woman!'-RICHARDSON.

The scales of household polity are the scales of love; and she who holds them should be a sympathizing friend, ever ready to make allowance for failures, ingenious in contriving apologies, more lavish of counsels than rebukes, and less anxious to overwhelm a person with a sense of deficiency than to awaken in the bosom a consciousness of power to do better.'-T. S. ARTHUR.

'The air of Paradise did fan the house,

And angels officed all.'-SHAKSPEARE.

'According to the experience I have learned, I require in married women the economical virtue above all other virtues.'-FULLER.

'Woman was created to refine the joys and soften the cares of humanity by the most agreeable participation.'-ADDISON.

'She twines and inweaves

Heavenly roses with life's earthly leaves,—

Weaves for her favour'd ones love's happy band;

Veiled in fair grace, and in modesty's tire,

Watchful she feeds with perpetual fire

High sensibilities, holy of hand.'-SCHILLER.

'Woman should be acquainted that no beauty has charms like the inward one of the mind, and that a gracefulness of her manners is much more engaging than that of her person; that meekness and modesty are the true and lasting ornaments: for she that has these is qualified, as she ought to be, for the management of a family, for the education of children, for an affection to her husband, and submitting to a prudent way of living.'EPICTETUS.

'Can comeliness of form, or shape, or air,
With comeliness of words or deeds compare?
No: those at first the unwary heart may gain;
But these, these only, can that heart retain.'-Gay.

'Tis virtue that doth make them most admired;
'Tis modesty that makes them seem divine.'-SHAKSPEARE.

'Good without effort-great without a foe.'-BYRON.

'Women are never so amiable as when they are useful.'-COBBETT.

'The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.'-LANDOR.

'She hath a natural wise sincerity,

A simple truthfulness; and these have lent her

A dignity as moveless as the centre.'-J. R. LOWELL.

'A world of comfort

Lies in that one word, wife.-After a bickering day,
To come with jaded spirit home at night,

And find the cheerful fire, the sweet repast,

At which, in dress of happy cheeks and eyes,

Love sits, and smiling, lightens all the board.'-Knowles.

'Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long;

And so make life, death, and that vast for ever,
One grand, sweet song.'-CHARLES Kingsley.

'How much is it to be regretted that women should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform,—to entertain, when they might instruct!'-DR. BLAIR.

'All her luxury was doing good.'-GARTH.

'A good wife is none of your dainty dames, who love to appear in a variety of suits every day new; as if a good gown, like a stratagem in war, were to be used but once.'— FULLER.

Her sway is held on earth,

Enthroned by native worth.'-THOMAS WOOLNer.

I am prejudiced in favour of her who can ask with a loving confidence, yet without rudeness; she has faith in humanity, she has faith in herself. No one who is not accustomed to give generously, can ask nobly and with all faith.'-LAVATER.

'It makes us proud when our love of a girl is returned; it ought to make us prouder still when we can love her for herself alone, without the aid of any such selfish reflection. This is the religion of love.'-HAZLITT,

It is in the heart that God has placed the genius of woman, because the works of their genius are all works of love.'-LAMARTINE,

Tell me a thing she cannot dress

Soups, hashes, pickles, pudding, pies;
Nought comes amiss-she is so wise.'-LLOYD.

Give me next good, an understanding wife,

By nature wise, not learned by much art,

Some knowledge on her side, will all my life

More scope of conversation impart :

Besides, her inborne vertue fortifie.

They are most firmly good, that best know why.'-SIR T. OVERBURY.

Sweet the music of the step

That meets us at the door,'-J. R. DRAKE

'Silence and a chaste reserve

Is woman's genuine praise, and to remain
Quiet within the house.'-EURIPIDES.

'In person decent, and in dress,
Her manners and her words express
The purity of mind;

Good humour brightens up her face,
Where passion never leaves a trace,
Nor frowns a look unkind:
No vexing sneer, no angry word,
No scandal from her lips is heard,
Where truth and sweetness blend.
Submissive to her husband's will,
Her study is to please him still,

His fond and faithful friend.
She watches his returning way,
When from the troubles of the day
He seeks an hour of bliss:
She runs to meet him with a smile,
And if no eye be near awhile,

The smile is with a kiss.'-ANON.

'Let no man value at a little price a virtuous woman's counsel.'-GEORGE CHAPMAN.

'The modest virgin, the prudent wife, or the careful matron, are much more serviceable in life than petticoated philosophers, blustering heroines, or virago queens.'— GOLDSMITH.

'Th' affection warm, the temper mild,
The sweetness that in sorrow smiled;
The cheek where beauty glowed,

The heart where goodness overflowed.'-LOGAN.

Oh, what makes woman lovely? Virtue, faith,

And gentleness in suffering; an endurance
Through scorn or trial: these call beauty forth,
Give it the stamp celestial, and admit it
To sisterhood with angels !'-Brent.

"Gently entreating, and sweetly beguiling,

Woman reigns while the graces around her are smiling,
Calming down the fierce discord of hatred and pride.'-SCHILLER.

'Thy soft hand, amid the maze of ill,

Can rear one blissful bower of Eden still.'-BERESFORD.

Fair ladies! you drop manna in the way of starvèd people.'-SHAKSPEARE.

'Well thou play'dst the housewife's part,

And all thy threads with magic art

Have wound themselves about this heart,

My Mary!'-Cowper,

'Hers was a gracious and a gentle house,
Rich in obliging nice observances,
And famed ancestral hospitality.

A cool repose lay grateful thro' the place;
And pleasant duties (promptly, truly done,
And every service moved by hidden springs

Sped with intelligence) went smoothly round.'-THOMAS WOOLNER.

'Blessing she is: God made her so,
And deeds of week-day holiness
Fall from her, noiseless as the snow;
Nor hath she ever chanced to know

That aught were easier than to bless.-J. R. Lowell.

'Her voice was sweet,

And tuned to music, bearing with it a charm.'-BARRY CORNWALL.

'When she spoke,

Such a becoming diffidence adorn'd

The accents of her voice, as seem'd to say

She fear'd her words might wound that modesty

In whose defence her trembling tongue pronounced 'em,

In gentle, yet in most persuasive sort.'-BELLER.

'A lively smile, that sent

This silent speech in sunshine to his heart.'-WIFFEN.

'She will be herself in all changes of fortune; neither blown up by prosperity, nor broken with adversity. You will find in her an even, cheerful, good-humoured friend, and an agreeable companion for life. She will infuse knowledge into your children with their milk, and from their infancy train them up to wisdom. Whatever company you are engaged in, you will long to be at home; and retire with delight from the society of men into the bosom of one who is so dear, so accomplished, and so amiable. If she touches her lute, or sings to it any of her own compositions, her voice will soothe you in your solitude, and sound more sweetly in your ear than that of the nightingale. You will spend with pleasure whole days and nights in her conversation, and be for ever finding out new beauties in her discourse. She will keep your mind in perpetual serenity, restrain its mirth from being dissolute, and prevent its melancholy from being painful.'-SIR T. MORE.

'We do not call a woman's perfection manliness. We do not think that woman will ever find her crown-though she may seek it-in quitting her privacy, and usurping the functions of statesmen, of orators, of professional workmen. We incline to think that, in grasping at power, she will lose influence; and that, though the novelty may dazzle for a moment, in the end the performance will disappoint the promise.'-REV. C. J. VAUGHAN, D.D.

'Come near me, wife; I fare the better far,

For the sweet food of thy divine advice;

Let no man value at a little price

A virtuous woman's counsel. Her wing'd spirit

Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words,

And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.'-CHAPMAN.

There is a ripe season for everything; and if you slip that, or anticipate it, you dim the grace of the matter, be it ever so good.'-BISHOP HACKETT.

THE

HE first rule of marketing is to purchase from respectable tradespeople, who have to support the character of their shops. The second rule is, not to purchase inferior articles under the idea of being economical. A bargain is seldom a prize; and this is especially the case with regard to butchers' meat. The best meat, and the prime

parts, are unquestionably the cheapest in the end, although the first cost may be the greatest. In coarse and inferior joints there is always too great a proportion of gristle, bone, and hard meat, to render them truly economic.

GOOD MEAT.

Good meat has the following characteristics :

1. It is neither of a pale pink colour, nor of a deep purple tint. 2. It has a marked appearance, from the ramification of little veins of fat among the muscles.

3. It should be firm and elastic to the touch; bad meat being wet, sodden, and flabby, with the fat looking like jelly or wet parch

ment.

4. It should have little or no odour, and the odour should not be disagreeable; for diseased meat has a sickly, cadaverous smell, and sometimes a smell of physic. This is discoverable when the meat is chopped up and drenched with warm water.

5. It should not shrink nor waste much in cooking.-Dr. Letheby.

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