Gems.

Clutha Leader, Volume III, Issue 127, 15 December 1876, Page 7

Gems.

_ The Best physicians aie Di* Diet, Dr Merry man, and Dr Quiet. Economy is rib disgrace ; it is better living o n a little, than outliving a great deal. The more delicate and tender the blossoms oijby* the purer must be the hand that will cull them. It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. A ship starids out to sea in a storm to escape shipwreck. The richer a man is, the more iie is apt to dread poverty 1 ; thus 'poverty looks most frightful at a 'distance. If we do not reason, we are bigots ; if we cannot reason, we are fools*; if we dare not reason, we are slaves.— Dr Black. No preacher is listened to but Tinie, which gives us the same tram and turn of thought that elder pebple have tried iii vain to put into our heads befdre, If the spring: puts forth no blossoms, in summer there will be no beauty, and in autumn no fVuit. So, if youth be trifled away without improvement, riper years will be contemptible, and old age miserable. . To make home pleasant tb all thereto belonging should be a prime object of every man, woman, and child, who has a home. Nothing conduces to 'this end more entirely than a friendly, equal, after-dinner intercourse. I Three things priricipallv determine I the quality of men — the leading object | which he 'proposes tb himself throup:h I life, the manner in which he. sets about ' accomplishing it, and the effect which ! success bi* failure has 'upon him. I Religion. — As the 'snowdrop cbnies amid srib'w and "sleet, appearing as the herald of tbe rSse, so religion comes amid the blight 'of affectum, to remind iis of a perpetual summer, where the brio*ht stiu nev.r retires behind awihtercloud. Just Try It. — Do not be afraid of 'diminishing your own happines. by promoting that of others.. He/wholabours wholly for the benefit of others, and, as it were, forgets hiinselfj it far happier than the man who makes himself the sole object of all his affections and exertions. ) Keep up the Fires.— Did you ever iiotice the frost i on the window-panes ? It is the congealed vapotir ofyour'bnce warm room ; arid if you warm the room the frost will disappear, and ybu can see out into the world again. Let. your heart grow cold, and the frost bf distrust and bitterness will gather around it, blinding the. soul and "shutting out the light*; but kindle up the fire's of love, and the windows of 'the soul willbecome as clear as crystal, transmitting the light of Heaven, knii -giving you glimpses of Paradise. The Duties ot Youth."— The 'first years of 'man must make prbvisibn for the last. He that never 'thinks 'never can be wise. Perpetual levity ends in ignorance- "and intemnerance, though _t may fire the spirits for "'an hour, will make life short arid miserable. Let us consider that youth is of ho long duration, and that in rriatiire age, when the enchantments of fancy shall cease, and' phantoms of delight dance no more about usj'we shall have nb'comfbrts but the esteem of wise men, and the riieans; of doing good ; let us therefore; stop, whiie to "stop is in our power; let us live as irien who are sdinetime to grow old, and to whorri it will be the most dreadfurbf all to cbiint their past years by follies, and tb be reminded 'of their former luxuriance of health only by the maladies which riot has produced. A Life Thought. — I heard a man who had failed in business, and whose furniture was sold at auction, say; that, when the cradle, and the crib, and the, piano went, tears would come, and he had to leave the house. to be a man, ; Now there are thousands of men 'who have lost their pianos, but have, found j better music in the sound .of their children's 'voices feoiri-a* cheer'wllv dbWn with them to poverty, than any , har'mony'of chorded 'instruriiei/t. On !: how blessed is indigence when it saves ; a man's children! Many rich nien ; put the knife, of .indolence and luxury-: fo their children's energies, and they J grow up fit for nothing, at twenty-five,' but to drink deep and squander , wide. How blessed, then, is the, stroke, of" disaster which sets the children free,; ahd gives them over to the hard but kind bosom pf Poverty, who says to them, "Work!" and working,- makes them men ! —^Beecher. .. _ ' I( . The True Woman.— -The 'true wor^ph, for whose, .ambition a husband's love and her children's- adoration are suffic ient, who. applies her military instincts to the .discipline of her household, and whose legislative faculties exercise themselves in making laws for her nur.se ; ■whose intellect has field enough fbi* ber in communion with her husband, . and whose heart asks no other honours than bis love and admiration. ; a woman who 'does not think it a weakness to .attend to her toilet, -and who doe's nbt disdain to be beautiful, who believes in the virtue of glossy hair, and 'well-fitting gowns, and who esch.ws rents and ravelled edges, slip-shod shoes and audacious make-ups; a woman; who speaks 1 low, .and does not speak much ; who is patient and gentle, intellectual and -industrious ; who .loves more than /she ■ reason.; and yet does 'not love blindly; who never. scolds and rarely argues, but adjusts with; a smile ; siich In womany-' j the wife we have all dreamed of once in [ our lives, and is the mother we all wor- ' ship in the backward distance;