Time Endears. A Poem

A TALK ON NATURE'S REMEDIES. 27

begun to be appreciated. Members of the exclusive "four hundred" of New York may ridicule the high-neck dresses, loose waists, short skirts, and solid, warm, shoes of the lady members of these medical reformers, but the latter are perfectly contented to enjoy good health, and let them laugh. Even the conservative medicos of the older schools of medicine realize that a change is coming, and the rule of the drug store among many sensible people is passing away. The people every- where may adopt these health ideas in their homes without sanita- riums; and the Latter-day Saints, in the Word of Wisdom, have all the knowledge needful to make life a long day of health and happiness.

TIME ENDEARS. [For the Improvement Era.]

We have been friends, and shall we part ? Nay ! friends forever must be true; Here on the altar of my heart, Still burns my love the same for you.

We have been friends — together trod Fair fancy's realm— the poet's dream; Our hearts have bowed before our God When sorrow's vale lay dark between. We'll e'er be friends ! and cold Distrust, Change thou not the love of years; Love, rise again e'en from the dust, Discard thy seeming doubts and fears.

The touch of hands and love's caress, The soft words breathed through falling tears; The happy smiles, fond kisses' press, Bind heart to heart; for time endears. Lydia D. Alder.