The Wheel Horse

There is a wheel horse in every family; some one who takes the load on all occasions.lt may be the older daughter, possibly the fatlier, but generally it is the mother. Extra company, sickness, give her a heavy increase of the burelen she is always carrying. Even siimmer vacations bring less rest and recreation to her than to others of the family. The city house must be put in order to leave; the clothing for herself and children which a country sojoum demands seeins never to be tinished; and the excursions and picnics which delight the heart of the young people are wholly a delight to the "provider." I once heard a husband say, "Mv wife takes her sewing-machine into the country and lias a good time doing up the fall sewing." At the time I did not appreciate the enoiinity of the thing; but it has rankled in my meniory and appettn tome now au outrage, How would it be for a merchant to take his books into the country with him to go over his accounts for a little amusement? 8uppose the minister writes up a few extra sermona, and the teacher carries a Hebrew grammar and perfects himself in a new language, ready for opening in the Fall? Woman's work is never done. She wouldnever have it done. Ministeringto father and mother, cherishing her husband, nourishing lier children - no true woman wants to see her work done. But because it is never done she needs resting times. Every night the heavy truck is turned up, the wheel norse is put up into the stable, and labor and care are dismissed till the morrow. The thills of the household van cannot be turned up at night, and the tired housemother cannot go into a quiet stall for repose. She goes to sleep to-night feeding the pressure of to-morrow. She must have had "an eye" over all until everyone was in bed, and must keep an eye ready to open at any moment to answer the need of children, and open both eyea bright and early to see the machinery well started for a new day. The French Academy of Sciences have appointed a comiuission, ander the Presidency of M. Dumas, to ïnake the necessary arrangements for observiiii the transit of Venus in 1882. It is thought that Mr. R. A. Proctor will be Lntrusted with the superrntendenee of the English arrangement. The sweet orb of üfe - the honeymoon.