Around the tea-table . r washed butonce, and that just after their arrival on this planet,I cannot say. But sure I am that I never saw somany bright, healthy-faced people as of late. Our maidens have lost the languor they oncecultivated, and walk the street with stout step, andswing the croquet mallet with a force that sendsthe ball through two arches, cracking the opposing THE HOT AXLE. /I ball with great emphasis. Our daughters are notashamed to culture flower-beds, and while theyplant the rose in the ground a corresponding roseblooms in their own cheek. But we need another proclamation of e
Around the tea-table . r washed butonce, and that just after their arrival on this planet,I cannot say. But sure I am that I never saw somany bright, healthy-faced people as of late. Our maidens have lost the languor they oncecultivated, and walk the street with stout step, andswing the croquet mallet with a force that sendsthe ball through two arches, cracking the opposing THE HOT AXLE. /I ball with great emphasis. Our daughters are notashamed to culture flower-beds, and while theyplant the rose in the ground a corresponding roseblooms in their own cheek. But we need another proclamation of emancipa-tion. The human locomotive goes too fast. Cyl-inder, driving-boxes, rock-shaft, truck and valve-gear need to slow up. Oh that some stronghand would unloose the burdens from our over-tasked American life, that there might be fewerbent shoulders, and pale cheeks, and exhaustedlungs, and quenched eyes, the law, and medicine,and theology less frequently stopped in their glori-ous progress, because of the hot axle !. CHAPTER X. BEEFSTEAK FOR MINISTERS. THERE have been lately several elaboratearticles remarking upon what they call thelack of force and fire in the clerev. The worldwonders that, with such a rousing theme as thegospel, and with such a grand work as savingsouls, the ministry should ever be ascribe it to lack of piety, and some to tim-idity of temperament. We believe that in a greatnumber of cases it is from the lack of nourishingfood. Many of the clerical brotherhood are onlow diet. After jackets and sacks have been pro-vided for the eight or ten children of the parson-age, the father and mother must watch the tablewith severest economy. Coming in suddenlyupon the dinner-hour of the country clergyman,the housewife apologizes for what she calls apicked-up dinner, when, alas! it is nearly alwayspicked up. Congregations sometimes mourn over dullpreaching when themselves are to blame. Giveyour minister more beefsteak and he will havemore fire. Xext to
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