treated with a familiarity which should only be allowed to him whom she has vowed to "love, honour, and obey." The mother of a family, in particular, should never dance in public; such an exhibition being very contrary to the dignity that ought to be preserved, in the matronly character.

As the management of the household is entirely entrusted with you, pay a constant attention to the proper regulation of your family. Economy is highly commendable in every station of life, and you must not, by a silly pride, strive to keep pace with your more opulent neighbours, but let your expenditure be regulated by the amount of your income.

Behave always to your husband's relations and visitors with kindness and affability;

this he will consider a mark of attention to himself. Let your female friends be such

as reason approves; persons of an excellent understanding, and enemies to slander and defamation,—the blackest, yet the most fashionable of all vices.

A warm regard, my dear young friend, for your happiness in life, has induced me to give you a few advices, founded on experience, to which, if you attend, you will most assuredly participate in all the happiness which the connubial state is capable of affording. That the Giver of all goodness may bestow on you every blessing!—is the fervent prayer of

Your sincere friend.

LETTER V.

FROM A MOTHER TO HER SON.

My dear Henry,

Several weeks are now e

lapsed since you were united to your amiable Felicia. It gives me pleasure to know that your conjugal partner is distinguished by the agreeable appellation of a domestic female, who prefers the peaceful delights of home, and the promotion of her husband's felicity, to all the fluttering scenes of gaiety abroad.

Marriage is doubtless productive of the greatest happiness we can enjoy in this

transitory state, but fatal experience proves that it is often attended with the utmost misery, which is entirely owing to the imprudence of the parties themselves.

The man who meets, in the object of his affections, the agreeable companion, the tender friend, the soother of his cares and. partner of his joys, must, (unless he wilfully destroy his domestic peace by irregular conduct or a peevish temper,) be raised to the highest pitch of human felicity. Never let passion triumph over reason, as it may be attended with consequences which may cause you the deepest regret, by destroying your domestic happiness. It is impossible that the fervor of love can continue, when a woman sees her husband frequently out of temper, or violently angry at every trivial occurrence; you must then guard against

this foible. A man of sense will ever be kind and affectionate to the object of his love; he will value and esteem her above all the world; he will delight in her conversation, and ever treat her with esteem and respect. Let the authority of the husband always be tempered with the tenderness of the lover. Thus you will experience the felicity that flows from an union of souls, and your only strife will be, who will most contribute to the happiness of the other.

Your Felicia, my dear son, is of a religious disposition; you must, by your example, confirm her in the practice of piety, and secure to both of you, that peace and tranquillity of soul which cannot otherwise be acquired. Join then with her, my dear Henry, in thanking the Supreme Ruler of the universe, for all the blessings you have