BEST THINGS. I have a horror of " best " things, come they in the shape of shoes, garments, bon nets, or rooms. In such a harness my soul peers restlessly out, asking "if Ibe I." I'm puzzled to find myself. I become stiff and formal, and artificial as my sur roundings. But of all the beat things, spare me the infliction of a "best room." Out upon a carpet too fine to tread upon, books too dainty to handle, sofas that but mock yonr weary limbs, and curtains that dare not face a ray of sunlight !

Had I a house, there should be no "best room" in it. No upholsterer should exorcise comfort, or children, from my door-Bill. The free, fresh air should be welcome to play through it ; the bright glad sunshine to lighten and warm it ; while fresh mantle-flowers should woo us visits from hnmming-bird and drowsy bee

For pictures, I'd look out from my win dows uponalandscape painted by the Great — ever fresh, ever varied, and never marred by envious " cross lights ;" now, wreathed in morning's silvery mist ; now, basking in noon's broad beam ; now, flashed with, sunset's golden gbw ; now sleeping in dreamy moonlight. For statuary, fill my house with chil dren—rosy, dimpled, laughing children ; now, tossing their sunny ringlets from open brows ; now, veiling their raerr}' eyes in slumberous dreams, 'neath snow white lids ; now, sweetly grave, on bend ing knee, with clasped hands, and lisped words of holy prayer. Did I say I'd have nothing " best?' Pardon me. Sunday should be the best day of all the sexen — not ushered in with acetic form, or lengthened face, or stiff and rigid manners. Sweetly upon the still Sabbath air should float the matin hymn of happy childhood ; blending with early song of birds, and wafted upward, with flowers' incense, to Him whose very name is Love. It should be no day for puzzling the half»developed brain of childhood with gloomy creeds, to shake the simple faith that prompts the inno cent lips to say " Our Father." Ift should be no day to sit upright on stiff-backed chairs, till the golden sun should set. 