CLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 55, 19 October 1878, Page 3

CLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

The following appeared in print twontv two years ago : —\\ hat a Man should DO Alphabetically.—Affectionate, Bold, Candid, Daring. Enterprising, Faithful, Grateful, Honourable, Indefatigable, Just, Kind, Loving, Moril, Noble, Obliging, l'olite, Quick, Religious, Social, Truthful, Upright, Valiant, Watohful, 'Xainpliuy, Y s, and Zealous. What a Woman should lio Alphabetically. Amiable, Benevolent, Charitable, Domestic, Economical, Forgiving, Generous Honest, Industrious, JudMou ■ fCii c); | ■ \ \ng, M di I '■■ •■ plary, and Zealpua

Horns should not only bo Riled with love and affection, but should !»• beautiful In every way that taste and means I will allow. Aii. light, and iun»hine should be Brat among the unitary conditions. Pictures, birds, and tiowei ill aid each have a welcome place; overy room should have its attractions in little ad irn- ! meats that give the cozy home-look ive love. They uueousciously cultivate ,in tiif> rhild a love for the beau- , titul ami the retinementa of life. Books, too, should be household idols, and their beauties aud value gradually taught If the hj ly has a taste for reading or literature, furnish him a good selection of authors, not beyond his comprehension, lest von clog instead of advance his ideas. It' he display a taste or talent for music, give it all the auxiliaries your moans can secure. Whatever the predominant trait of the building mind, gave it all the fasI filiating aid that suggests itself to you. i Let your boys feel that you are in ! sympathy with their pursuits, and thus ' stimulate a noble ambition that will make them desirous to excel for the sake of the loved ones at home, and whose praise will be worth more than that of all others, for they feel it is sincere. Thus this freedom, congeniality, and sweet in- | tluence will " keep the hoys at home," and it will iiuluod be to them the ;'• dearest spot on earth," the love of which the fret and turmoil of after life will not be able to erase. —" Virginia Judson," in Jedburgh Chronicle. It would seem (says Chamber's Journal) that it is a much easier task to set ; an entire house on fire than it is, with ; deliberate intention and with proper . combustibles, to light a stove for the puri pose of boiling a kettle. This latter I operation is not so simple as it appears to I be, as any one may prove who lias not ! already tried his or her hand at it; in ] fact, an efficient or bad house servant ! may be almost at once detected by the ease or difficulty with which she lights her fires. The inefficient servant will place some crumbled paper in the grate, and will throw the best part of a bundle of wood on the top of it, crowning the j whole with a smothering mass of coal; 1 and will expect the fire to burn. The good servant will, on the other hand, first clear her grate, so as to insure a gcnd draught; she will then place the wood above the paper, crossing the sticks again aud again ; then the coals are put in d'-i'tly one by one, affording interstices ! threugh whieh the flames will love to linger; a light is applied-;.-and the kettle I will soon sing acknowledgments of the warm ardour with which it has been wooed. Contrast this with the other picture, where double the fuel has b:-oii wasted, and when' smoke and dirt make their appearance in lieu of- tea and toast. We venture to say that a bodly managed 'kitchen fire, with its train of unpunctua! ii ■■,"!., leads to more geuerel loss of temjper ill in all toe otiier minor domestic I troubles put together. The stove is usually i.ie sea .egoat ou which the offending servant lavs Her incompetence (the cat clearly could establish an alibi) ; but the most perfect of ranges could not remedy the fault. The only real reason for such a stale of things is the prevalence of sheer stupidity. Molly's mother was taught | by -Molly's grandmother to light a fire in la certain way, and Molly's descendant's will, from persistence of habit, continue to light hies in that manner, be it good or evil, until the end of time.