course there
is a mouth orifice. These creatures live on the sweat glands or pores of
the human face, and owing to the appearance that they give to the infested
pores, they are usually known as "black-heads." It is not at all uncommon
to see an otherwise pretty face disfigured by these ugly creatures,
although the insects themselves are nearly transparent white. The black
appearance is really due the accumulation of dirt which gets under the
edges of the skin of the enlarged sweat glands and cannot be removed in the
ordinary way by washing, because the abnormal, hardened secretion of the
gland itself becomes stained. These insects are so lowly organized that it
is almost impossible to satisfactorily deal with them. {113} and they
sometimes cause the continual festering of the skin which they inhabit.

REMEDY.--Press them out with a hollow key or with the thumb and fingers,
and apply a mixture of sulphur and cream every evening. Wash every morning
with the best toilet soap, or wash the face with hot water with a soft
flannel at bedtime.

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Love.

But there's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.--MOORE.

All love is sweet,
Given or returned. Common as light is love,
And its familiar voice wearies not ever.--SHELLEY.

Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love.--SHAKESPEARE.

Let those love now who never loved before,
Let those that always loved now love the more.--PARNELL.

[Illustration: LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM.]

1. LOVE BLENDS YOUNG HEARTS.--Love blends young hearts in blissful unity,
and, for the time, so ignores past ties and affections, as to make willing
separation of the son from his father's house, and the daughter from all
the sweet endearments of her childhood's home, to go out together, and rear
for themselves an altar, around which shall cluster all the cares and
delights, the anxieties and sympathies, of the family relationship; this
love, if pure, unselfish, and discreet, constitutes the chief usefulness
and happiness of human life.

2. WITHOUT LOVE.--Without love there would be no organized households, and,
consequently, none of that earnest endeavor for competence and
respectability, which is the mainspring to human effort; none of those
sweet, softening, restraining and elevating influences of domestic life,
which can alone