OCTOBER.

I. "She's a good girl, Doctor Zay is, if she is cute. There isn't a horse in town, without it's mine, can make the miles that pony can. Look there! The creetur wants her dinner. She how she holds her? No blinders nor check rein on her horses. She drives 'em by lovin' 'em. There's woman clear through that girl's brains. You should see her in January. There ain't three men in Sherman I'd trust to drive that mare in January without a good life insurance before they set out. Now, Mr. Yorke, may be you don't feel as I do, but to my mind there's no prettier sight under heaven than a brave girl and a fine horse that understand each other."

ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS.

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. Self-command is the main elegance. "Keep cool and you can command everybody," said St. Just.

EMERSON.

2. Trust in that good Father in heaven, whose love sent you into the world, and gave you the priceless blessing of life; whose love sent his Son to show you the pattern of life, and to redeem you freely from all your sins; whose love sends his Spirit to give you the power of leading the everlasting life, and will raise you up again to that same everlasting life after death. Trust him, for he is your Father. Whatever else he is, he is that. He has bid you call him that, and he will hear you. If you forget that he is your Father, you forget him, and worship a false God of your own invention. CHARLES KINGSLEY.

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3. Since rooms can be made cosey and cheerful with very little money, I think it is right to say that it is every woman's duty to make her rooms cosey and cheerful. There is not one of my readers, I am sure, who does not have, in the course of the year, pocket-money enough to do a great deal toward making her room beautiful.

How much better to have a fine plaster cast of Apollo or Clytie than a gilt locket, for instance! How much better to have a heliotype picture of one of Raphael's or Correggio's Madonnas than seventy-five cents worth of candy! No! it is not a question of money; it is a question of taste; it is a question of choosing between good and beautiful things, and bad and ugly things.

HELEN HUNT.

4. If you are studying the natural sciences, so follow them that you may see more clearly the rocks, the sea, the sky, the verdure of the earth, the mountains, and the valleys, the rivers and the lakes,- all the creations upon the earth, as far as you have studied them,-so that a new heaven and a new earth shall be spread before you, and you shall learn to appreciate more fully the beneficence of God.

Are mathematics your choice? Then learn from them the value of stability, fixedness; the worth of accuracy in all studies and in all callings; the power of durability, especially as it refers to the durableness of right against wrong; the perfections of forms and symbols; the truths of reasoning; the necessity of discipline.

Stay at home in your mind,

Don't recite other peoples' opinions.

A. H. R.

EMERSON.

5.

I saw her upon nearer view,

A spirit, yet a woman too!
Her household motions light and free,
And steps of virgin-liberty;

A countenance in which did meet
Sweet records, promises as sweet;
A creature not too bright or good
For human nature's daily food,
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.

And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine;
A being breathing thoughtful breath,
A traveller betwixt life and death;
The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength and skill.
A perfect woman, nobly planned
To warn, to comfort, and command;
And yet a spirit still, and bright

With something of an angel light.

WORDSWORTH.

6. And to get peace, if you do want it, make for your. selves nests of pleasant thoughts. Those are nests on the sea, indeed, but safe beyond all others. Do you know what fairy palaces you may build of beautiful thought proof against all adversity? Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure-houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us; houses built without hands for our souls to live in.

RUSKIN.

7. As a girl is bound to do what she honestly feels she can do best, she should never question how her work may seem to another, provided it does not absolutely injure another. In many cases, much more good might be done by girls and women, if, instead of talking so much about the privileges they lack, they should confidently take the places they ought to fill.

I should not ask is this man's work or woman's work : but, rather, is it my work? But, in whatever I attempted I should repeatedly say to myself, Am I keeping my womanhood strong and real, as God intended it? am I working womanly? Sister Dora never questioned whether she ought to bind up the wounds of her crushed workmen : she laid them on the beds of her hospital, and calmly healed them. Caroline Herschel did not stop to ask whether her telescope were privileged to find new stars, but swept it across the heavens, and was the first discoverer of at least five comets. A. H. R.

8. The one serviceable, safe, certain, remunerative, attainable quality in every study and every pursuit is the quality of attention. My own invention, or imagination, such as it is, I can most truthfully assure you, would never have served me as it has but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention. DICKENS.

To have one favorite study and live in it with happy familiarity, and cultivate every portion of it diligently and lovingly, as a small yeoman proprietor cultivates his own land, this, as to study at least, is the most enviable intellectual life. HAMERTON.

9. Have we not sometimes seen persons on whom this ineffable Dove of Peace seemed always to brood,- some persons whom nothing could disturb, no accident, no disappointment, no disaster; who never seemed vexed, never discomposed, never sore, never out of temper; who were impregnable to all assaults of evil; who were like the rock in the sea, over which the great billows break and roar, but which stands unmoved, and emerges at last calm and firm as ever?

What produces the divine serenity, subject to no moods, clouded by no depression, this perpetual Sunday of the heart? It was not merely good-nature, not the accident of a happy organization. It was deeper than that. It was the perfect poise resulting from a Christian experience. It was the habit of looking to God in love and to man in love. JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE.

IO. The first essential for a cheerful room is Sunshine. Without this, money, labor, taste, are all thrown away. A dark room cannot be cheerful; and it is unwholesome as it is gloomy. Flowers will not blossom in it; neither will people.

Glorify the room! Glorify the room!" Sidney Smith used to say of a morning, when he ordered every blind thrown open, every shade drawn up to the top of the window. Whoever is fortunate enough to have a southeast or southwest corner room, may, if she chooses, live in such floods of sunny light that sickness will have hard work to get hold of her; and as for the blues, they will not dare to so much as knock at her door.

HELEN HUNT JACKSON.