COUNTRY LIFE.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 267, 26 May 1888, Page 3

COUNTRY LIFE.

Tin city, we admit, ha- it- plea-iire- and atti actions. Hut what aie it- gleaming -phe-, its colos-al cdilice-, when compared with the beauties which, withala\i-h land, natuio ha- .-catteied o\er the country '! i)id you evei he on a mo^j bank be-ide a guigling streamlet, the giound around you co\eied with delicate fern-, and heie and tlicie a violet peeping horn yinid the leaves' and pnmroscs nodding as the gentle bice/c fan& them .' the Uee- peiehance interlocked then bianche- o\erhead, and beam- ot lun light glanced tin ough here and there, studding the emeiald carpet witii jewelled rays of light. Lilies of the valley, maidenhair fern, and bright rasturtiiun-s climbed amid the branches while the honeysuckle stooped as if to kin- the sweeibriar. The air was fiaught with the perfume of flow er.s, and rang with the \oice of ringing birds. Ueyond this lay Held* ol rioened giaio, the &oft winds -weeping over them, making them seem like a c-ea ot undulating of liquid gold. The gleaming riser too may wend its serpentine way through meadow and dell, now reflecting the sunlight in dazzling splendour, and then gloomily reflecting the outline of the majestic tiees upon its bank, as it sullenly murmurs through the woodland. This is beauty which pen cannot describe. Abo\o and within such beauty is a satisfying pcacefulness that fills the being with continuous delight. Turn it you will to another .scene of indescribable beauty — a summer sunset. The .sun, like a plate of burnished gold, is .sinking behind the mountain top, its parting beams lingering like a golden ha/c over hill-top and valley. Tho purple .shadows mingle with the parting golden light till the quiet ot twilight settles down o\er the face of nature. Could you wish to exchange such scenes ot glory and beauty for city palaces, though they dazzled in .shimmeiing grandeur like that of the temple of Solomon '! And memory turns to the old flowering orchard trees, as their tufts ot white and pink blossoms .sent an aroma on the distant air, or shower the green turf with their falling petals. Any one though having seen the Alpine glow on the mountains of Switzerland, and having seen summer's beauties as they glow over western prairies, or fountains and parks, might well wi&h to see an orchard in full bloom. It would be a scene in which a nature-loving woman might revel. But these are the most common scenes and sights to the country children, not to be fully appreciated till perhaps removed irom them. Love the old country home and its scene, boys ; no other can so burn into and .stamp itself upon your soul. In after years you "may sigh for the old plantation, no matter where you roam." — Home and Farm,

If you throw a man out of a window what does he fall against ? — Xncli nation.

need like opportunities to piovo thcm.->olvcs wise and faithful partnoi& in Clio Him of " Fanner and Wife.'' How many pro^poious fiU'tnoid aio there who, like -lohn (iraluun, only i\oed a niomem.\s raiuhd thou^lii to ni.ilvc them accoid to the wite the piivilo^o ot individual rights? and pu'teioncv^, and po-i-f-esftions, w hich have been earned au.un and n^ain by her un^clli^li toil and laithtid (icuuomy '! — *.lni( i << Xi/ lloi/x and b'mm.