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THE LAD/ES' REPOSITOReY.
on some facts which occurred under the ministry of
Rev. Newman Hall. It shows the mischievous influence of skepticism on the character and peace of
men; it portrays some of the effects of drinking
habits; and it also brings out in bold and beautiful
relief the delightful experiences produced by a geinlinle faith in Christ. "The Heroine of the WAhite
INile " is a record of the remarkable travels and exl)el-iences of MIiss Alexina TinnY, an adventurous
female explorer of the wilds and deserts of Africa.
Its truth is more thrilling than fiction, and its simple
story stranger than romance. No woman before
Mliss Tiinn ever undertook this great task, and her
life is full of romance, courage, and self-sacrifice.
Like many others she died a martyr to her heroic
purpose. A portrait and sketch of this heroine may
be found in the Repository of November, 1870.
"Gustavus Adolphus" was the military hero of the
MIRS. HARMIONY CARY GARDNER.-The readers
of the Repository will be glad to receive in the present month a portrait of Mrs. H. C. Gardner. For
many years she has been a most acceptable contributor to the pages of this magazine, and to the
present day we are sure no contributor is more welcomed in the productions of her pen. Alwxays fresh,
original, racy, instructive, and entertaining, we are
sure of a good article when it is indorsed by her
name. It is not our design to give "the life " of this
estimable lady and writer here; it is our earnest
hope that her "life" is far yet from being completed,
and that many years, multitudes of good deeds, and
many productions of her pen -%ill yet be added to
her earthly record.
Her life in itself considered has in it nothing extraordinary; it has been rich in experience, both
of joy and of sorrow; it has been an earnest, real
human life, and we might say womanly life. She is
of genuine Puritan stock, born of pious and intelligent parents, and raised under strict New England
discipline. Her parents were not rich, but were the
owners of the homestead; the children were all early
put to work, so early that Mrs. Gardner says she
can scarcely remember when she began to earn her
own living. Her school days ended at thirteen years,
and even at that early age real life began. She has
been through all her life a voracious reader, devourinig every thing that came before her, fiction, history,
poetry, travels, and biography, often, in her earlier
years, reading all night, after working all day, and
eating her meals with an open book on the table.
For this folly and extravagance she has dearly paid
in years of suffering. At best she was a slenderbuilt, delicate girl, more spirit than body; in her
girlish years she was one of those airy, sprightly,
mirthful girls, full of talk, that seem made rather for
Reformation, and is one of the grandest characters of
nmodern history. lie was, at the same time, an excellent king, a famous general, and a model Christian.
THE PICTORIAL FAMILY REGISTER. By A. H.
P'att, Ai. D. Cizciizilti: E. /Ilziitaford &' Co.
Sold on S&lbscription.
This is a very beautifully prepared register for the
preservation of a full record of all interesting and
important events of the family. There is room here
for the name, birth-place, nativity, descent, names of
parents, number of brothers and sisters, education,
occupation, politics, religion, marriage, stature, weight,
habit, complexion, color of eyes and hair, health,
time and place of death, disease, age, and place of
interment of each member of the family. It has also
suitable leaves for photographs. It is a book for every
family-a treasury of home comfort and information.
a joy in the world, than for any particular utility.
She was blessed with a most retentive memory, retaiiiiiig lessons, poems, facts, etc., after a single readling. The over-use of her rich brain endowments
soon exhausted her slight physical powers, and laid
the foundation of a life-long invalidism. In very
early Iife she began to write compositions, even before she was able to form the letters, having to
"print" them out. In this exercise she exchanged
with the other school children, she writing their
compositions, and they doing her sutms in arithmetic.
But the best part of her education w"as received
after her marriage. This took place at the age of
twenty years. Her husband was Rev. Abel Gardner, of the Rhode Island Conference, a man of
education and culture, and of association with men
and women of education at Wilbraham Academy
and the Wesleyan University at Middletown. He
was seven years the senior of his sprightly young
wife. Mrs. G. very naively says, "You will wonder
at his choosing a wife so uneducated. I wonder at
it, too, but I think the match was made in heaven.
li-e needed me quite as much as I needed him. He
had naturally a desponding temperament, and mine
was like the unclouded sunshine. Hie richly enjoyed
the brighter side of life, but was totally unable to
furnish the article. I knew how to dispel the darkness and scatter his despondency to the winds. A
little before his death he told me that he never could
have met the trials of the itinerancy if it had not
been for my cheerful disposition. He said I had
made the light of his life. Ah, I can never tell how
the brightness went out of mine when he died."
This is true marriage, when husband and wife are
the real complements of each other, and together
make one complete, joyous, successful human life.
Mrs. Gardner had but little experience in the life
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