L DECEMBER I N Q II CoNTENTS F TH S N PAGE General Articles Tea and Tippling Healthy Homes What our Children Eat Health and Ill Health in Women The Hygiene of the lair Temperance and Miscellany Influence poetry One Woman apos s Way Simplicity of Attire The Stitches apos Story poetry Samantha Allen apos s Visit to Mrs Blodgetts Home First Popular Science The Dust in the Air Nat
VoL BATTLE CREEK MICH DECEMBER THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS HE melancholy days are come the saddest of the year e Of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sere Heap apos d in the hollows of the grove the autumn leaves lie dead They rustle to the eddying gust and to the rabbit apos s tread The robin and the wren are flown and from the shrubs the Jay And from the wood top calls the crow through all the gloomy day Where are the flower