Put Flowers On Your Table

but flowers on your table - a wbole nosegay if you can get it, r a single flower ; a rose, a pink - nay, a daisy. - jiriiig a fcw daisies and buttereups irom your lust field walk, and keep them alive in a little water; aye, preserve but a ! -iiiicli of ciover, or a bandful of floweriii grass- one of' the most elegant, as wcll as chcapest, of Nature's produetions - ai.d you have sonielhing on your table that rcuiinds you of tbe beauties of God's ereation, and gives you a linie with the poets and sages tbat have done it most honor. Fut but a rose, or a lily, ora violet,' on your table, and you and Lord ]3acou have a eustom in couimon ; for thift great and wise man wns iu the habit of h:ing flowers in season upon bis table - inorning, we beheve. noon, and ïiigbt ; that is to say, at all bis meals, for uinner, in his time, was taken at noon. - ífpw iiere is a fashion tbat shall last you forever, if you please - never cbanging with silks, and velvets, and silver forks, nor dependent upon caprice and cbange to give tliem importance and a sensation. T!,o fashion of the gannents of beaven and earth endures forever, and you may adorn your tables with specimens of tbeir drapery - with flowers out of the fields, and gouden beams out of the blus ether. Flowers on a morning table nre especially suiuble to the time. They look like the happy vyakejiing of the ereation; they bring the perfumes of the breath of Natui'e into your room ; they seem tbe ropresentatives and etnbodimeuts of tbe very smiles of your home, Ihe grace oi ita good-morrow - proofs that some iutelleetua! beauty is in ourselves, or those about us ; some home Aurora (if we are po lUcky as to have a compauiou), helping to strew our life with sweets, or in ourselvés some masculine mildness not unwoi'thy to possess such a companion, or unlikely to gain her.