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I nuvor .-aw i parmcnt too une í'or uian or maid ; tUern ncver was a chair too guod for a coopor or a cobior or a king to sit io ; uevcr a house too fine to shelter a human head. Theso elementa about us, the gloriou.s sky, the imperial sun, are not too good for tha human race. Jileganoe fits man. Butdowenot valué these toiols for the housekeeping a littlo more than they are worth, and sometimea mortsage a house for the inahogany we would bring into it? I had rather eat iuy dinner off the head of a barrel, or dress after the fashion of John the Baptist in tho wilderness, or Bit on a block all uiy lile, than conauiue all mysolf before I got to a home, and take so muoh pains witli the ouuide that the insidc wa as hollow as an empty nut. Beauty ia a great thing, but beauty of a garment, house, and furniture, are tawdry ornamenta compared with domestic love. All the eleganeo of tho world will not make a home, and I would give moro for a spoonful of real, hearty love than for whole shiploads ot' furnituro and all the gorgeousness that all the uphoisterers in the world eould