TWILIGHT.

THERE is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion waves are lull'd to rest, And the eye sees life's fairy scenes depart,

As fades the daybeam in the rosy west. 'Tis with a nameless feeling of regret

We gaze upon them as they melt away, And fondly would we bid them linger yet, But Hope is round us with her angel lay, Hailing afar some happier moonlight hour; Dear are her whispers still, though lost their early power.

ENTERING HEAVEN. SOFTLY part away the tresses From her forehead of pale clay, And across her quiet bosom

Let her pale hands lightly lay; Never idle in her lifetime

Were they folded thus away. She hath lived a life of labour,

She hath done with toil and care, She hath lived a life of sorrow,

She hath nothing more to bearAnd the lips that never murmur'd Never more shall move in prayer. You who watch'd with me beside her, As her last of nights went by, Know how calmly she assured us

That her hour was drawing nigh; How she told us, sweetly smiling,

She was glad that she could die.
Many times, from off the pillow

Lifting up her face to hear,
She had seem'd to watch and listen,
Half in hope, and half in fear,
Often asking those about her

If the day were drawing near.
Till, at last, as one aweary,

To herself she murmur'd low, "Could I see him, could I bless him Only once before I go!

If he knew that I was dying

He would come to me, I know."
Drawing then my head down gently,
Till it lay beside her own,
Said she, "Tell him in his anguish,
When he finds that I am gone,
That the bitterness of dying

Was to leave him here alone.

"Leave me now, my dear ones, leave me, You are wearied all, I know; You have been so kind and watchful, You can do no more belowAnd if none I love are near me, "T will be easier to go.

"Let your warm hands chill not, slipping From my fingers' icy tips,

Be there not the touch of kisses
On my uncaressing lips,
Let no kindness see the darkening
Of my eye's last, long eclipse.
"Never think of me as lying

By the dismal mould o'erspread,
But about the soft, white pillow
Folded underneath my head;
And of summer flowers weaving
A rich broidery o'er my bed.

"Think of the immortal spirit
Living up above the sky,
And of how my face, there wearing
Light of immortality,

Looking earthward, is o'erlaving
The white bastions of the sky."
Stilling then, with one last effort,
All her weakness and her woe,
She seem'd wrapp'd in pleasant visions
But to wait her time to go;
For she never, after midnight,
Spoke of anything below;

But kept murmuring very softly,

Of cool streams and pleasant bowers,

Of a path going up brightly,

Where the fields were white with flowers; And at daybreak she had enter'd

On a better life than ours.

MUSIC OF OCEAN.

LONELY and wild it rose.

That strain of solemn music from the sea,
As though the bright air trembled to disclose
An ocean mystery.

Again a low, sweet tone,

Fainting in murmurs on the listening day, Just bade the excited thought its presence own, Then died away.

Once more the gush of sound, Struggling and swelling from the heaving plain, Thrill'd a rich peal triumphantly around, And fled again.

O, boundless deep! we know Thou hast strange wonders in thy gloom conceal'd,

Gems, flashing gems, from whose unearthly glow

Sunlight is seal'd

And an eternal spring

Showers her rich colours with unsparing hand,
Where coral trees their graceful branches fling
O'er golden sand.

But tell, O, restless main!
Who are the dwellers in thy world beneath,
That thus the watery realm cannot contain
The joy they breathe?

Emblem of glorious might!
Are thy wild children like thyself array'd,
Strong in immortal and uncheck'd delight,
Which cannot fade!

THE WORK-TABLE FRIEND.

BERLIN TRAVELLING BAG.

(à mille soies).

Materials-Penelope canvass, No, 6, 1 yard, and the following wools and silks: Wool-black, 2 ozs.; light blueish green, 3 ozs.; scarlet, 1oz.;

4 shades lilac, oz. each; 5 shades scarlet, oz. each; 5 shades crimson, oz. each; 5 shades yellow. oz. each. Floss-1 lilac, 1 crimson, 1 scarlet; all lighter than the lightest wool.Price 4s. 6d.

In writing the receipt for this bag, I shall distinguish the shades of each colour by numbers, from 1 to 5, No 1 being the darkest.

By referring to the engraving it will be seen that the bag has 4 broad stripes, and three narrow ones, intervening, with a half stripe at each edge. These narrow stripes are in black and scarlet, the scarlet part being marked in the centre stripe.

2. The ground, (marked 3) is in light green wool. Work entirely with double wool.

Each side of the bag is 140 squares (or stitches) wide, and proportionably long, a narrow stripe goes up the centre occupying 12 stitches, and is worked thus.

1st Row.-2 black, 8 scarlet, 2 black. 2nd Row.-2 black, 2 scarlet, 1 black, 2 scarlet, 1 black, 2 scarlet, black. 3rd Row.-2 black, 1 scarlet, 2 black, 2 scarlet, 2 black, 1 scarlet, 2 black.

4th Row.-5 black, 2 scarlet, 5 black. 5th Row.-Like 4th.

6th Row.-2 black, miss 1, 2 black, 2 scarlet, 2 black, miss 1, 2 black. 7th Row.-1 black, miss 2, 2 black, 2 scarlet, 2 black, miss 2, 1 black.

8th, 9th, and 10th Rows.-Miss 3, 2 black on black, 2 scarlet on scarlet, 2 black on black, miss 3.

11th Row.- Like 7th. 12th Row.-Like 6th.

13th and 14th Rows.-Like 4th. 15th Row.-Like 3rd.

16th Row.-Like 2nd. 17th and 18th Row.-Like 1st. Repeat these eighteen rows up to the top: miss 22 squares on each side, and

*To enable ladies in the country to obtain, without difficulty, the proper materials for the Work-Table designs in the Family Friend, Mrs. PULLAN will, in future, append to every article the prices, on receipt of which, by stamps or Postoffice order, the articles will be forwarded by post.

repeat the stripes: miss 22 more, and repeat as much of the stripe as you can, which will be 7 stitches of the twelve, and allow a single row of black all round.

C.

In the directions for the broad stripe, I shall use the initials of the colours. crimson, S. scarlet, L. lilac, Y. yellow: Work from left to right.

1st Row.-Miss 3, 1 s 1, 1 floss, miss 3, 1 s 2, 1 floss, miss 3, 1 s 3, 1 floss, miss 3, 1 y 3, 1 y 5, miss 2.

2nd Row.-Miss 3, 2 s 1, 1 floss, miss 2, 2 s 2, 1 floss, miss 2, 2 s 3, 1 floss, miss 3, 1 y 5, miss 2.

3rd Row.-Miss 3, 2 s 1, 1 s 3, 1 floss, miss 1, 2 s 2, 1 s 4, 1 floss, miss 1, 2 s 3, 1 s 5, 1 floss, miss 5.

5th Row.-Miss 3, 2 s 1, 3 s 3, 2 s 2, 3 s 4, 2 s 3, 3 s 5, 1 floss, miss 3.

6th Row.-Miss 3, 2 s 1, 3 s 3, 1 s 2, 4 s 4, 1 s 3, 5 s 5, 1 floss, miss 2.

7th Row.-Miss 3, 2 s 1, 3 s 3, 5 s 4, 6 s 5, 1 floss, miss 2.

8th Row.-Miss 3, 2 s 1, 3 s 3, 1 s 2, 4 s 4, 1 s 3, 5 s 5, miss 3.

9th Row.-Miss 3, 2 s 1, 3 s 3, 2 s 2, 3 s 4, 2 s 3, 3 s 5, miss 4.

10th Row.-Miss 3, 2 s 1, 2 s 3, miss 1, 2 s 2, 2 s 4, miss 1, 2 s 3, 2 s 5, miss 2, 1

lilac floss, miss 2.

11th Row.-Miss 3, 2 s 1, 1 s 3, miss 1, 1 lilac floss, 2 s 2, 1 s 4, miss 2, 2 s 3, 1 s 5, miss 2, 2 lilac floss.

12th Row.-Miss 3, 2 s 1, miss 1, 1 lilac

floss, 2 1 2, 2 s 2, miss 3, 2 s 3, miss 2, 1 1 floss, 114, 1 1 floss, miss 2.

(Observe lilac 4 is the lightest shade of that colour, black being taken for the darkest.)

13th Row.-Miss 3, 1 s 1, miss 1, 1 1 floss, 2 1 2, 1 s 2, miss 3, 1 1 floss, 1 s 3, miss 2, 1 1 floss, 2 1 4, 11 floss, miss 2.

14th Row.-Miss 4, 1 floss, 312, 1 1 floss, miss 2, 1 1 floss, 113, 11 floss, miss 1, 1 lfloss, 314, 1 1 floss, miss 2.

15th Row.-Miss 3, 11 floss, 1 black, 212, 11 floss, miss 1, 1 1 floss, 2 13, 2 1 floss, 4 1 4, 11 floss, miss 2.

16th Row.-Miss 3, 2 black, 3 1 2, 1 1 floss, 1 1 1, 313, 11 floss, 5 15, 11 floss, miss 2.

17th Row.-Miss 3, 2 black, 3 12, 21 1, 3 1 3, 112, 5 1 5, 1 1 floss, miss 2.

18th Row.-Miss 3, 2 black, 312, 211, 313, 212, 4 1 5, 1 1 floss, miss 2.

19th Row-Miss 3, 2 black, 312,2 11, 313, miss 1, 212, 3 1 5, 1 floss, miss 2. Begin crimson floss.

20th Row.-Miss 4, 2 black, 2 12, 21 1, 31 3, miss 1, 2 1 2, 3 1 5, 1 crimson floss, miss 2.

21st Row.-Miss 5, 2 black, 112, 21 1, 313, miss 1, 212, 215, 2 e floss, miss 2. 22nd Row. Miss 6, 2 black, 2 11,313, 1 c 4, 212, 115, 1 c floss, 1 c 3, 1 c floss, miss 2.

23rd Row-Miss 7, 1 black, 211, 213, 2 c 4, 2 1 2, 1 c floss, 2 e 3, 1 c floss, miss 2.

24th Row. Miss 8, 2 1 1, 113, 3 c 4, 1 12, 1 c floss, 3 c 3, 1 c floss, miss 2.

25th Row.-Miss 9, 111, (the last lilae,) 3 c 4, 1 c floss, 4 c 3, 1 c floss, miss 2. 26th Row.-Miss 6, 1 c 3, miss 2, 5 c 4, 5 c 3, 1 c floss, miss 2.

27th Row.-Miss 5, 2 c 3, 1 c 2, 5 c 4, 1 c 2, 5 c 3, 1 c floss, miss 2.

28th Row. Miss 4, 1 c 1, 2 c 3, 2 c2, 3 c 4, 1 c 2, 1 c 1, 5 c 3, 1 c floss, miss 2.

29th Row.-Miss 3, 2. c 1, 2. c 3, I c 4, 2 c 2, 1 c 4, 1 c 2, 2 c 1, 5 c 3, 1 c floss, miss 2.

30th Row.-Miss 3, 2 c 1, 2 c 3, 2 c 4, 3 c 2, 2 c 1, 5 c 2, 1 c floss, miss 2.

31st Row,-Miss 3, 2 c 1, 2 c 3, I c 2, 2 c 4, 1 c 2, 1 c 4, 2c 1, 5 c 3, I c floss,

miss 2.

32nd Row.-Miss 3, 2 c 1, 2 c 3, 2 e 2, 3 c 4, 2 c 1, 5 c 3, miss 3.

33rd Row.-Miss 3, 2 c 1, 3 c 3, 2 c 2, 3 c 4, 2 c 1, 3 c 3, miss 1, 1 c floss, miss 2.

34th Row. Miss 4, 2 c 1, 2 c 3, miss 1, 2 c 2, 2 c 4, 1 e 5, 2 c 1, 1 c 3, miss 1, 2 c floss, miss 2.

35th Row.-Miss 5, 2 c 1, 1 c 3, miss 2,

in the narrow stripes. The yellow is shaded into a sort of olive-brown, both scarlet and crimson into brown.

The second stripe should be begun at the 15th row of the first, and after the 53rd you should go on from the 1st. The third stripe may begin at the 29th row, and the fourth at the 44th row. By this arrangement the brilliancy of the pattern is much increased, the colours falling in different parts of the stripe, instead of in the same line across the bag.

The grounding should be done last. One row of black is to be worked completely round each side of the bag. The sides may have leather, as in an ordinary carpet bag, or be simply sewed together.

THE JESSAMINE.

Materials. A reel of white cannetille; a little coarser wire: a skein of pure white floss silk; a small skein of yellow ditto; green Berlin wool of three shades:-rather a yellow green is required, and the shades must not be very light.

FOR THE FLOWER. With the white floss silk, make a chain of eight stitches; take a piece of cannetille a nail long, and place it under the last chain. Crochet down the chain, working over the wire doubled, 7 Sc. Draw the silk through the last loop, and fasten off. This makes one petal, and five will be required for each flower. To make up the flower, take a finger-length of the coarser wire, bend the end of it down closely in the form of a hook, and wind round the top a piece of yellow floss silk, two or three times. Then pinch the wire close together, and wind the silk round both sides of the wire, a little way. Round this head arrange the petals one by one, winding a little white silk round each. Continue to wind the white silk round, for about of an inch, and then cover the remainder of the stem with a light green wool. Do every flower in the same manner. About five will be required for a small spray.

THE FOLIAGE.-The leaves of the jessamine grow in sets; each small branch has a leaf at the point, and six others, placed in twos, at the sides. Several of these sets, made of the various shades of green, are arranged on a spray, care being taken that the lightest shall always be the

highest, and the darkest at the end of the

stem.

1st Leaf. (For the points of the set.) Make 16 Ch, fold a bit of wire in the form of a hook. Slip the end in the last chain, and work down it 6 Sc, 2 Sdc, 5 Dc, 1 Sde, 2 Sc; draw the wool through, and fasten off.

2nd Leaf. (Two required). 13 Ch, bend a bit of wire, and work over it, down the chain, 4 Sc, 3 Sdc, 5 Dc, 1 Sc. Fasten off.

3rd Leaf. (Four required). 10 Ch; bend the wire as before; work on it, 3 Sc, 3 Sdc, 2 Cc, 1 Sdc, 1Sc; fasten off.

When the seven leaves are made, take a piece of the coarser wire, three inches long; slip the point in the end of the first leaf, fasten it to the fine wire stem of the leaf, by winding some wool of the same shade round it very evenly; place the next two leaves a little way down the stem, opposite each other, and continue winding, covering in the ends of their stems; place the other four leaves in pairs in the same way, and wind round the wool, to the end of the wire.

Several of these sets of leaves should be made, and then flowers and leaves are to be arranged in a tasteful manner, on a coarse wire.

OUR MOTHER.-Children ought to love, obey, and honour their parents. Let your mother, in particular, who in your tender years has the more immediate charge of you, be on earth the most sacred object of your affections. Let her be your friend and chief confidant. Conceal nothing from her, but make her acquainted with the company which you keep, the books which you read. and even the faults which you commit. Happy is the son and particularly the daughter, who are not afraid to communicate to their mother their more secret thoughts. While they remain thus artless and undisguised, they are free from danger. Children, obey your parents in youth; but whenever you are no longer under their care, let not your reverence abate. If by the providence of God you should rise above them in the world, grow not ashamed of them. While they are bending under the infirmities of old age, still continue to treat them with respect as well as affection.