eighteen students there from our own fair Utah, who have built up a record for ability and honest endeavor, and who are respected for these qualities by teachers and fellow-students, and the case becomes one of unusual in terest to those who desire to enter such an institution, for the purpose of fitting themselves for positions of usefulness among their fellow-men, as well as to all who are interested in higher education. Cactus. I HOUSE AND HOME. THE HOME LIFE. JEALOUSY. M. A. Y, GREENHALGH. HAVE been led to make a few re marks upon the green-eyed monster from a terrible case that has very recently come under my personal observation, where a foolish fit of jealous temper, for which there was not the slightest cause, broke up one of the happiest homes among my acquaint ances and rendered miserable for life a most lovable and loving couple. If there is one passion worse than another in its evil consequences, it is, I believe, jealousy. Once permit it to take root in the heart, and good-by to happiness. On the first symptoms of its appearance fight it as you would a fire, drive it away as you would a demon. If there is cause for jealousy, the one who gives the cause is not worth the effect. If there is only a fancied cause, do not let it find a place in the sacred precincts of home. We find in public as in private life, the feeling ever making itself seen and felt. People are jealous of others' talents, of their popularity, of their home or their wealth. Why should this be? If you think you are equally deserving of the good things others possess, make it manifest, and the world will soon come to appreciate your efforts. It has been stated by some that women are more jealous in their natures than men; that, I think, is not a just view of the case, although women are not so well able to conceal the feeling as the sterner sex, and that perhaps is the cause of the opinions formed of them. Could we trace to its source the cause of many estrangements and separations, we should fine the true cause to be jealousy and its twin passion, envy. All of us are not alike gifted, either with heaven-bestowed talents or worldly goods and position, but why should we envy them theirs? Not one of us but what has some God-given talent, and perhaps while we are making our lives miserably unhappy by the jealous feelings we are indulging in, we are neglecting to cultivate those talents, letting them lie dormant until we can no longer call them our own, when it is more than probable they would have rivalled and eclipsed those of the people we so envied. Happy indeed will those be who in their early years strive to overcome the fiends of jealousy and envy, and learn to look with an admiring eye emulate and attain to all that is great, upon others' gifts, doing their best to good and noble in others. Dear Sister Greenhalgh: THINK myself, dear sister, that there should be some interest taken in your department, for nearly every home has some distinguishing feature that is worth giving others the benefit of. So here is a description of some home made furniture that helps to make my wilderness here more home like. We were short of chairs. Well, what can I arrange to add to our quota of sitting room? There is the big food chest, called in our western style "grub stake" box; some bits of woolen cloth pieced neatly together, with an old woolen dress ruffle for a curtain, and an old bed quilt washed clean, some tacks and a bit of braid. The quilt is put in for stuffing, the top neatly tacked over, with the braid for a finish; all this on the lid. Now box pleat your ruffle below the lid close to the edge of the box. "Ah!" exclaims a good brother as he sinks down on my bran new sofa (?), "that beats a box all to pieces." Oh, for some place to put our shoes! As I have some square dry goods boxes I get a rough lid made, which I cover with some bits of carpet, a piece of bright cretonne around the sides, some cloth or braid quilled all around the lid, and a couple of blocks covered and nailed on opposite sides, and I have a good place for husband's and son's slippers, shoes, etc., besides the convenience of two pretty ottomans added to our list of furniture. How can our hats and hoods be taken care of and clothes kept from dust? Result: four soap boxes of equal size, papered inside and nailed at a convenient height; these serve as hat boxes. The clothes are hung on nails underneath, and a pretty cretonne curtain suspended from the top of the boxes to the floor. All this behind the door next the wall. How bare my windows look, yet lace is too expensive. Well, I can get cheese cloth at six cents a yard and a package of diamond dye for ten cents. So the curtains are cut, threads drawn back of hem and a vine stitch for heading. These are colored a pale pink and hung at my bedroom windows, look pretty, are cheap, and wash well. One more article and I will close. My little cupboard would get so dirty, it has doors lined with wire such as we put on our screens, so I got ten cents of burnt umber, a pint bottle of best vinegar, put the umber in an old can, poured the vinegar on it, and with a paint brush thoroughly stained my little cupboard all but the shelves. When dry, which will only take a few hours, then rinse your brush, have some cheap varnish ready; now varnish your cupboard carefully, line your wire with some dark cloth, and all your friends will wonder where you got your expensive (?) cupboard from, and you will feel so proud of your own handiwork, especially if your husband has not seen you at work and you surprise him into a compliment for your taste and skill in making such a decided improvement. ALBERTA. GENIUS AND HOME. - Men do not make their homes unhappy because they have genius, but because they have not enough genius; a mind and sentiments of a heigher order would render them capable of seeing and feeling all the beauty of domestic ties. T FASHION. MAGGIE BRANDLEY. DRESS. HE desire to appear in a pleasing, attractive manner seems to be one of the natural instincts of the human breast. And it is both proper and right that we should respect ourselves and others enough to be cleanly, neat and tidy in person, and also that we should endeavor by cheery smiles and words to shed rays of sunshine about us. We have read somewhere that "A cheerful spirit gets on quick, And we may add, that a cheerful spirit helps others to get on. While there is nothing wrong in a desire to be well dressed and attractive in appearance, providing it is not carried to excess, it is clearly plain that to set one's heart or desires upon the perishable things of this earth would undoubtedly lead to serious evil. Not only does a too close application to the study of fashion dwarf the intellectual forces of the mind, but it is also apt to starve the soul and deaden the ially around the most vital parts of the body. Steels, bones and heavy skirts should not compress the waist, and all the clothing should be suspended from the shoulders. The limbs and extremities should be dressed as warmly as any part of the body. The health, the vitality, the vigor of mind and body, the intelligence and the intellectual capacity of future generations depend in a great measure upon you. Study the laws of nature and of health, and the pleasures of maidenhood will not be lessened but increased many fold by such a course. What is there of more importance to the human race than strong bodies and well developed minds, minds pure and free for the companionship of the Holy Ghost? "Oh," one will say, "I would rather have less health than be so straightjacketed." But, my dear friends, you do not realize the extent of the suffering and misery that that assertion might carry you to. What is real beauty? Let me see. Throughout all time it has been the highest ambition of skilled and learned ennobling, self-sacrificing qualities, such as generosity, benevolence, etc. It is therefore necessary that our daughters in Zion guard themselves | Creator has endowed mankind, they that they do not allow the desire to dress to excess to take possession of their minds thereby pandering to public opinion and depraved taste. Let them have courage to assert the right of true womanhood in the mode and fashion of their dress. Let them take the example of their brothers and dress in a manner at once tidy, comfortable and healthful. men and women to imitate nature. But with all the talent with which the have failed to master nature's plan. We see flowers, leaves, fruit painted on prints, dishes, furniture; artificial flowers of every variety and description worked, painted and embroidered, but how insignificant is every attempt when we compare all this beauty to the living, natural flower and leaf! All the former is indeed insignificant in comparison to the fragrance and The clothing should be loose, espec- | beauty of the latter. Artists who have by skill and perseverance been able to draw out on canvas those expressions of form and feature that would cause tears or laughter from the lookers-on, have always received the plaudits and the fame. Sculptors who can chisel out of marble the best and most perfect mold of the human form are considered the successful ones. We have false We must admit, then, that the human form is perfect in its organization and development. And therein lies the truly beautiful. ideas and notions of beauty. For instance, the person with a slender, com. pressed waist is by some considered beautiful. To me it is a picture of misery, and what can be beautiful in the appearance of suffering? Some will say, "I would die without my corset." Try it, and see if you cannot live better, breathe more freely and enjoy life. Or if you cannot at the present abandon them entirely, at least wear them very loosely. Make a snug-fitting waist out of thick material, such as cotton flannel, and change occasionally until you become used to the change. There is nothing more agreeable and pleasant to my sight than a large, Cannot comfortable-looking waist. "Her 'prentice hand she tried on man, Since man has acknowledged so much, should it not be the highest ambition of every daughter of Eve to seek nature's arts alone for their adornment? Never resort to artifice to beautify the complexion. It is said that "paint to beauty is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve." There is also a fashion or custom with some of our girls of affectation in speech. Let us be real; let us be ourselves. Excess in dancing is hurtful in the extreme. Dear girls, avoid all excesses. Fashion, like habit, often becomes a strong iron chain, and she is capable of stooping to many unwise if not positively wrong measures to please her vanity. Let us extricate ourselves from her miry marshes, and in order to do so it is not necessary to appear eccentric or unbecoming. CURRENT ISSUES. A VALUABLE DOCUMENT. Mrs. Susa Y. Gates: MY DEAR SISTER: -Agreeable to your suggestion, in a recent communication, that I might have something in my collection of relics which wouldor might be interesting to the readers of the YOUNG WOMAN'S JOURNAL, I take the liberty of forwarding you, to begin with, a letter written by my ever beloved mother, when she was a young lady, some time before I was born, and at a very trying period of the history of the Church. The letter is unfortunately without date, was written to her sister, Mercy R. Thompson, who was with her husband, R. B. Thompson, on a mission in Canada, and the circumstances referred to therein, occurred sometime in October or November, 1837. While people are generally most concerned about the present, and are looking with expectation to the future, they will not be unmindful that the past has played an important part in making the present what it is, and it will also contribute its quota in the shaping of the events of the future. From history we gather the great lessons of importance and profit to mankind, which the present affords us the opportunity to work out and improve upon for ourselves; while the future has nothing to offer but hope or despair. The present is the child of the past. Knowing something of the pains and sorrows, tribulations and sufferings, as well as the hopes and fears, joys and pleasures out of which the present, with its improved and advanced conditions has emerged, will enable one the better to appreciate the blessings now enjoyed, and to form ideas as to what the present will bring forth and the future may be. In this light, anything of the past, however humble in its character, which adds to knowledge, or confirms the knowledge we have, of the events which have occurred in connection with the early history of the people of God, will not be devoid of interest to the present generation. our The writer of the following letter embraced the gospel in her youth. She was an orphan girl and came of goodly parents. She gathered to the Church in its infancy, and she passed through all the trying scenes through which it passed in Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, crossing the plains and the early settlement of the Mountain valleys. Rocky Through it all she never flinched nor faltered, but evinced a faith and purpose as fixed and unalterable as the truth itself, and proved beyond the possibility of a doubt, the sterling qualities of a Saint of God in very deed. Her virtues as a girl, a wife, a mother, her love for the truth, her integrity to the cause of God, her patience in the midst of trials and persecutions, her endurance in toil and poverty, consequent upon mobbings and drivings, her charity and forgiveness towards the persecutors of the Saints, her fidelity to her husband and his numerous family, her liberality to the poor, and her Christlike humility and confidence in the divine Father, all contributed to stamp her as the child of God, that she was, and, in the language of President Heber C. Kimball, "distinguished her as one of the few among thousands." During more than eight years of widowhood, she kept her family together, provided for them by her own energies and personal management of affairs, without aid from any human source, except that she repaid to the uttermost farthing, and gathered them to Utah, where she arrived near midnight, on the 23rd of September, 1848; having been driven from her home and household goods in Nauvoo, in the fall of 1846, almost at the point of the bayonet and muzzles of muskets and cannon. She returned not to take anything out. She died faithful of September, 1852, in Salt Lake and true, as she had lived, on the 21st City, her only desire for life being her oft-expressed anxiety for the welfare of her children and her hus band's family, the entire care of whom fell solely upon her at his untimely death, on the 27th of June, 1844. As evidence of her worth, her children and the children of her husband's |