. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock shake out the wrinkles. The entire pro- cess should be gone through quickly,and ahviiys on bright, drying days. This is my phiu. and the best I hiive over tried. THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE. BY MRS. LILLIBKIDGE. The necessities of life, such as food, raiment, shelter, warmth, etc., are so in- dispensable to life and comfort that where we see the lack or want of them,it arouses our sympathy and thrills our hearts with
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock shake out the wrinkles. The entire pro- cess should be gone through quickly,and ahviiys on bright, drying days. This is my phiu. and the best I hiive over tried. THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE. BY MRS. LILLIBKIDGE. The necessities of life, such as food, raiment, shelter, warmth, etc., are so in- dispensable to life and comfort that where we see the lack or want of them,it arouses our sympathy and thrills our hearts with pity. The horrors of slow starvation, or the death by exposure, as the cast-away upon the ocean, or the still more frequently met homeless, house- less wanderer, the foot-sore, friendless outcast, who meets no smile, no joy on earth—these vibrate each sympathizing chord of our natures, and we give of our abundance, or even share our scanty means with them. This is well. Sur- face sorrow strikes the eye and awakes the pitying spirit, which seeks to relieve. Would that this feeling were more gen- eral. But how few think of the soul needs— the heart hunger—the slow starvation of the affections—the more than blight of all that renders life happj'or desirable! How many maidens, forced to barter themselves for a home and find they ai-e only unhappy wives and unwilling moth- ers, can attest this truth. There is an atmosphere of coldness in a loveless home—Oh! so cruel, so hard to bear. It freezes all the life-springs of endeavor, and sets a hopeless seal of discourage- ment upon the brow of youth, causing a poverty of spirit worse by far than the tattered garb of the street beggar. There is a sorrowing widowhood in unmated hearts and an orphanhood of soul in the ofTspring of such uncongenial parents. There is loneliness and desolation for those who yearn love and companion- ship. There is death—death by keenest of starvation. Many possessed of wealth and fame, are writhin
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