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and Edward were married; and on the same parish register in which, twenty-three years before, her baptism had been recorded, was inscribed, "Married, on February 25th, by the Right Rev. Bishop Blank, Margaret Fairfax Adams, to Edward Eyre Knorton, Esq., of New York."

Knorton took his bride to Europe, and there went over with her, as she had once said she wished to go, spots which travel had made familiar to his earlier manhood. After five years sojourn they returned to their native land, and Lilly, the pet name he loves to give her, now lives in her happy home, her husband's darling, his companion and pride. Thus to the purposes of their lives and to each other, both proved "faithful to the end."

THE WOOD'S HISTORY.

BY H. P. M.

THE Wood was by the summer wooed,
And, that his passion might be seen,
Her slender branches he endued

With simple robes of modest green.
But that way lusty autumn strayed;
From him the summer, conquered, fled;
And autumn the false wood arrayed
In gaudy dress of gold and red.
But of his easy prize he tired,

Tore off her splendors with disdain;
Then pinched her, and, with anger fired,
Lashed her bare limbs with chilling rain.
There stood she, scorned, forlorn, and sad,
Her wild arms tossing in the sky,
With only tattered, brown leaves clad,
Till priestly winter wandered by.

A pure and spotless robe of snow,

A nun's white veil he dressed her in;

And, with sad breezes wailing low,
She now does penance for her sin.

MARRIAGE.

ceive not thyself," observes Fuller, "by over-
expecting happiness in the marriage estate.
Look not therein for contentment greater than
God will give, or creature in this world can
receive, namely, to be free from all inconveni-
ences. Marriage is not, like the hill of Olym
pus, wholly clear, without clouds; yea, expect
both winds and storms sometimes, which, when
blown away, the air is the clearer and the,
wholesomer for it. Make account of certain
cares and troubles which will attend thee.
Remember the nightingales, which sing only
some months in the spring, but commonly are
silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if
their mirth were turned into care for their
young ones. Yet all the molestations of mar-
riage are abundantly recompensed with other
comforts which God bestoweth on them who
make a wise choice of a wife."

"Ev'n in the happiest choice, where fav'ring Heaven
Has equal love and easy fortune given,
Think not, the husband gained, that all is done,
The prize of happiness must still be won;
And oft, the careless find it to their cost,
The lover in the husband may be lost;
The graces might alone his heart allure;
They and the virtues meeting, must secure."

NEAR AND FAR.

BY VIOLET FULLER.

So near, and yet so far apart!

No silver link of common speech
To bridge the shadowy space across
That separates us each from each.
We move on lines that never meet,

We never touch each other's life;
Unknown, unread in tone or look-
The token of a hidden strife.

Maybe, hereafter, when our tongues
Have learnt the speech of Fatherland,
The depths we seal in silence now,

We utter then and understand.
What Life has set so far apart,

Death joins forever. Patience, friend-
For we are friends in heart and truth
Though unacknowledged till the end-
And then, among the joys that wait

The coming home of tired feet,
There shines a little spot of light,

That I shall know thee when we meet,
Shall know thee-with no yearning sense
Of dumb, blank wondering, as here,
For, in the clearness of God's throne,
The deeps of human souls are clear!

BENEVOLENCE and prudence, says Doctor Johnson, may make marriage happy; but what can be expected but disappointment and repentance from a choice made in the immaturity of youth, in the ardor of desire, without judgment, without foresight, without inquiry into conformity of opinions, similarity of manners, rectitude of judgment, or purity of sentiment? Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home and dream of one another; and, having but little INCREDULITY is not wisdom, but the worst to divert attention or diversify thought, they kind of folly. It is folly, because it causes ignofind themselves uneasy when they are apart, rance and mistake, with all the consequents of and therefore conclude they shall be happy these; and it is very bad, as being accompanied together. They marry, and discover what with disingenuousness, obstinacy, rudeness, nothing but voluntary blindness before had uncharitableness, and the like bad disposi concealed. They wear out life with alterca- tions, from which credulity itself, the other tions, and charge nature with cruelty. "De-extreme sort of folly, is exempt.

TRUST not the man who promises with an oath.

WORK DEPARTMENT.

ORNAMENTAL WORK-BASKET. ing satin stitch, the blossoms with white silk THE basket is made of wood and card-board, in satin and knotted stitches. The wheat-ears covered with a light straw, lined with red satin, are worked in chain stitch, with maize-colored and fitted up with pockets of the same mate-filoselle and gold thread. The stems are gold

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twenty-one inches from top of point, to the top of front. The back wall is sloped five inches on each side. The sides are cut eight inches deep to join to the back, and seven inches to join the front wall. They are three and a half inches wide at the top, and sloped gradually to a point at the bottom. The walls are all lined with silk, and covered with velvet, and sewn together at the edges. The sides are laced with cord, pnt to and fro over the velvet cord and tassels, ornament the point of the top, and the sides (see p. 468). The pocket is also ornamented all around with a plaited ruche of ribbon. The embroidery and tatting may be in white or écru. The embroidery is worked to imitate tatting. It is all in buttonhole stitch, and may be worked over point lace cord lain on, or thickly run under with darning-cotton. The edge is worked separately in tatting. Begin with 1 closed eye of 8 double knots, 1 picot, 8 double knots, close. With 2 threads work 3 double knots, 4 picots separated by 2 double knots, and 3 double knots. With single thread, work 8 double knots, join to picot of first closed

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