t, circumstances cannot modify it; it ever remains the same to
sweeten existence, to purify the cup of life, on the rugged pathway to the
grave, and melt to moral pliability the brittle nature of man. It is the
ministering spirit of home, hovering in soothing caresses over the cradle,
and the death-bed of the household, and filling up the urn of all its
sacred memories.

7. A LADY'S COMPLEXION.--He who loves a lady's complexion, form and
features, loves not her true self, but her soul's old clothes. The love
that has nothing but beauty to sustain it, soon withers and dies. The love
that is fed with presents always requires feeding. Love, and love only, is
the loan for love. Love is of the nature of a burning glass, which, kept
still in one place, fireth; changed often, it doth nothing. The purest joy
we can experience in one we love, is to see that person a source of
happiness to others. When you are with the person loved, you have no sense
of being bored. This humble and trivial circumstance is the great test--the
only sure and abiding test of love.

8. TWO SOULS COME TOGETHER.--When two souls come together, each seeking to
magnify the other, each in subordinate sense worshiping the other, each
help the other; the two flying together so that each wing-beat of the one
helps each wing-beat of the other--when two souls come together thus, they
are lovers. They who unitedly move themselves away from grossness and from
earth, toward the throne of crystaline and the pavement golden, are,
indeed, true lovers.

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[Illustration: CUPID'S CAPTURED VICTIM.]

The Power and Peculiarities of Love.

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LOVE IS A TONIC AND A REMEDY FOR DISEASE, MAKES PEOPLE LOOK YOUNGER,
CREATES INDUSTRY, ETC.

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"All thoughts, all passions, all desires,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
Are ministers of Love,
And feed his sacred flame."

1. It is a physological fact long demonstrated that persons possessing a
loving disposition borrow less of the cares of life, and also live much
longer than persons with a strong, narrow and selfish nature. Persons who
love scenery, love domestic animals, show great attachment for all friends;
love their home dearly and find interest and enchantment in almost
everything have qualities of mind and heart which indicate good health and
a happy disposition.

2. Persons who love music and are constantly humming or