Eye openers [electronic resource]: good things, immensely funny sayings and stories that will bring a smile upon the gruffest countenance . nfant, apparently asleep. Themother sat, as she supposed, unobserved, andlost in deep meditation. Richly robed, andsurrounded with all ths outward appearancesof wealth and station, wife and mother andmistress of a splendid mansion and gardenaround it, it would have seemed as if the heartthat could claim to be queen heie should be ahappy one. Alas ! appearances are not alwaysthe true guide, for That mother sat there like a statue awhile,When over her face b
Eye openers [electronic resource]: good things, immensely funny sayings and stories that will bring a smile upon the gruffest countenance . nfant, apparently asleep. Themother sat, as she supposed, unobserved, andlost in deep meditation. Richly robed, andsurrounded with all ths outward appearancesof wealth and station, wife and mother andmistress of a splendid mansion and gardenaround it, it would have seemed as if the heartthat could claim to be queen heie should be ahappy one. Alas ! appearances are not alwaysthe true guide, for That mother sat there like a statue awhile,When over her face beamed a sad, sad smile ;Then she started and shudderd as if terrible fearsWere crushing her spirit—then came the hot tears. And the wife and mother, with all that wasseemingly joyous around her, gave herself upto the full sweep of agonising sorrow. I gazedupon this picture for a little while only, formy own tears fell freely and without any con-trol : the lady was so truthful and innocent, toall outward appearances, that my own deepestsympathies went out instantly to her and be?sorrows. A Nations HealthIs a Nations Wealth. TC*-pB71EPS3CT!S-eF LLFESUGTc^pCA An Antiseptic &disinfectant. Life is not to liveBut to be well. Martial. LOSS OF WORK. How many houses have been broken up, how many women andchildren have been driven into the workhouse by this cause, who cancalculate ? To what extent our present death and disease rates are capable ofbeing lowered, we can judge best by looking for a moment at the statitticsof the prisons of our country. From these, strange to say, we learn aninvaluable lesson of what may be done in preventing disease. For years back, says Dr. George Wilson, the prisons of thiscountry have been proved by the most rigid statistics to be far healthierthan our homes, and so-called preventable disease of any kind is so rarewithin their walls, that when any isolated cases do appear they at once giverise to surprise and are sure to call for inquiry. Why
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