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This work contains a lucid explanation of the science of accounts, a new concise and common sense method of BOOK KEEPING BY SINGLE ENTRY, and various forms. receipts. orders, notes, bonds, mortgages, and other instruments necessary for the transaction of business. Accompanied with next time? Who would expect such a result? Noth Le published monthly, and is devoted exclusively to the promption of ing has been done to produce a love of order, and a Popular Education. er. [From the Mother's Magazine] TWO WAYS OF CORRECTING A FAULT MRS. B. was an energetic and thorough housekeep "A place for every thing, and every thing in its place," was the practical maxim upon which she acted in perforining her domestic duties But, unfortunately, her little daughter Mary seemed not to inherit her mother's love of order, and bid fair, notwithstanding the good example of her mother, to become a very untidy girl. This fault of her daughter was a source of continual disquiet to Mrs. B. To cure or endure," says one, should be the motto f life-by which, no doubt, is meant that all the evils of life may be divided into two classes: those which may and should be cured, and those which being incurable should be impatiently endured Bnt although Mrs. B. certainly regarded Mary's careless habits as a serious evil, she never pursued any course calculated to effect a cure; neither did she adopt the latter alternative, and patiently endure. She never expended much thought upon the subject, except when some flagrant instance of her daughter's careless habits met her eye, or caused her inconvenience; on which occasions something like the following scene would take place : "Mary, here are your bonnet and shawl lying in the chair. I never saw so careless a girl in all my life. You keep me running from morning till night to put things up after you. Here, come put them away this minute, and don't let me see them there again Mary, thus addressed, found certain discordant notes in "the harp of thousand strings" set in motion, and with sour looks, and reluctant steps, proceeded to obey her mother's commands. But will she do better conviction of its indispensableness to comfort and hap⚫ piness; therefore, nothing has been gained, but something has been lost. The idea of neatness and order has, by this and similar scenes, been indelibly associated with harsh tones and angry words and thus the whole subject has been rendered repulsive. Were Mary sure of a scolding every time she transgressed, perhaps the dread of it might have some effect But there is no uniformity even here. The next time Mrs. B. finds the bounet and shawl in the chair, she will probably put them away herself, either because Mary does not happen, at the moment, to be within hearing, or she may be in haste, and think it will consume less time to do it herself than to see that it is done by the proper person. Mrs. S., another mother, possessing similar habits of neatness and order, sees with regret that her little daughter Ellen is becoming very careless and untidy. She says to herself, I must adopt some systematic plan to cure my little daughter of this sad fault; but my engagements will be particularly numerous and pressing for a week or two to come, and it will be impossible for me to give the subject proper attention. I will, therefore, for the present, pat ently endure whatever inconveniences this fault may occasion me, bearing in mind to embrace the earliest opportunity for entering upon my plan to effect a cure. Meanwhile she is very careful not to reproach her daughter with her fault, or say any thing that shall prejudice her mind against the subject; for she remembers that she is a thinking, rational, and voluntary being; and that she can correct her faults only by inciting her to vigorous efforts for her own improvement. But as her heart is set upon her daughter's improvement, in whatsoever things are lovely, she soon finds a place for the commencement of her plan. S One day as they were sitting together sewing, Mrs. began the conversation by saying, Ellen, your success in overcoming the habit of speaking so impatiently to your little brother, has given me great pleasure, for it has made you, I think, much more useful and happy; and that we may be useful and happy is the great end for which life is given." Ellen's eyes glistened with grateful pleasure as she listened to her mother's commendation. She did not forget how very hard it had sometimes been to repress the rising feeling of vevation, and speak kindly when her little brother had annoyed her, but she felt amply repaid by her mother's approbation. "I know, dear mother," said she, "i! has made me more happy, but how has made me more useful?" "In many ways, my dear; for instance, it has made little Willie more fond of you, and you have in consequence been able to take more care of him, and thus relieve me of much anxiety and care. Every bad habit you overcome, my dear child, will increase your happiness and usefulness." it 66 Let mothers who peruse this simple sketch of domestic life, decide which of the two ways of correcting a fault, here described, is the better way. Ellen's moral courage began to rise as she listened becoming a neat little girl: but you know I have often to her mother's words, and she felt like girding on her told you that it requires a great deal of patience and armor for some new victory in the noble war of self-perseverance to overcome a bad habit.” conquest Her mother's penetrating eye read some- A few days after, Ellen's bonnet and shawl were thing of the workings of her mind in her expressive thrown into a chair as she came in. Her mother said countenance, and she waited for Ellen to break the si- to her, "Ellen, my dear, do you know where you left lence, which she did, by saying, "Mother can you not your bonnet and shawl?" Ellen slightly blushed as tell me of some other fault to correct?" The mother she hastened to put them away; but no feelings were smiled and said, "I think I can. You would be a re excited toward her mother except those of gratitude markable little girl, indeed, if you had not some faults for assisting her to put her good resolution in practice. left which affect your usefulness and happiness. If I"I am afraid,” said her mother to her, as she saw her remember right, things did not go very smoothly with leave her thimble upon the table, after she had finishyou yesterday, and you did not enjoy the day much." ed her work, you will have another day of misforแ Yes, I remember," said Ellen, "that every thing tunes if that thimble is not put in its place." Thus, went wrong yesterday; it was what the girls at school by constant watchfulness, and by encouraging all her would call an unlucky day." "Well, let us analyze own efforts to overcome the habit, a love of order was some of the vexatious events of the day, and see if instilled into the mind of Ellen, and habits of neatthere was any uncontrolable fate which involved you ness and order were rapidly formed. in trouble; for this, I suppose, is what the girls at school mean by unlucky, if indeed they ever stop to inquire into the meaning of the term. What was the first thing that went wrong?", 'My sewing, mother; don't you remember how every thing did act?" From Dr. Mainzer's "Music and Education." remember you could not find your thimble, because MORAL INFLUENCE OF MUSIC. you did not leave it in its place, and you spent so much time looking for it, that when you were finally seated That music has a great power over man, and is rato your work you felt in too great haste to do any thing pable of producing deep emotions, we all know, and properly. This, I think, explains the secret of that we all have, once in our life at least, experienced: how part of your day's misfortunes. But what occurred subline are the effects of a simple tune played on an "Cousin Jane agreed to show me how to instrument, or the solemn peal of the organ: and can make an apron for my doll, but she had hardly com- it be believed that the human voice, the most impres menced when she was called away, and I spoiled it in sive of all musical sounds when joined to words, which attempting to do it without her assistance." "But af-speak at once to our feelings and our reason, does not, ter she was ready, if you had not been obliged to look when thus adorned and rendered more significant, exso long for the silk I gave you for the purpose, and the ert a greater and more bene cial influence upon our other materials, she would have had plenty of time to whole being than any other excitement? and must not have given you all necessary assistance before she this influence be materially increased, if we are ourwas called away. But go on. my dear Eilen, with the selves the performers? history of the day," said Mrs S., in a cheerful tone, as she saw the cloud beginning to gather on Ellen's brow: "Don't be discouraged, even if you should discover that all your yesterday's misfortunes were occasioned by a certain fault. If you find this to be the case, you can set yourself to correct the fault, and perhaps by this means save yourself very many unhappy days Come, let us have the next unpleasant occurrence. You took a walk after tea with your friends Mary and Sarah: did you have a pleasant time?" next?" It is useless, however, to adduce further proofs, when thousands are ready to bear testimony to the vivid, the sublime, the powerful sentiments which song has often awakened within them, and to the beneficial and enduring impressions it has left behind. If such effeets are felt by persons unprepared, perhaps, to receive high impressions, or in whom the gentler sensibilities have been blunted by the common drudgeries and troubles of life, how powerfully must the practice of singing, carefully adapted to this end, act upon the hearts and minds of children, whom the ills of existence have never reached, and whose soul is so innocently and defencelessly open and sensitive to impressions imparted from without. It must, therefore, be of great importance to every friend of youth, and every promoter of the interests of society, to know exactly the poetical and moral character of the compositions in which the youth of a country, the future nation, and in whose hearts the impressions received at such a tender age, will undoubtedly never be effaced. In this point consists the touch-stone of this question; here lies its public usefulness and its importance. "Not very, mother." "I think I can tell you the reason again. You detained them so long to look for your gloves, that they quite lost patience, and so you all started with minds much less placid than the summer evening you might have enjoyed. Now you can see very plainly that all your troubles originated in the careless habit of not putting things in their place If this habit can occasion you so much inconvenience in one day, now you are a little girl, and have the care of but few things, what will it do when you are a woman grown, and have very many things committed to your care? Suppose you were in my place, and should leave every thing you had to do with around Juvenile poetry is in form and thought, we mean in the house in the same way, do you not think we should the choice of the subject as well as that of the words have a sorry-looking dwelling?" "I think we should, employed to express it, of a peculiar kind. As soon mother. I never should be willing to be an untidy as words are to be introduced into the exercises, too ousekeeper, and have my house look like Mrs M's, great care cannot be bestowed on their selection. Songs who cannot ask you to sit down till she has first clear-intended for children, should, in every respect, be ed a chair" I suppose such housekeepers, Ellen, adapted to the narrow limits of their understanding. were once little girls who never put any thing in its They should present nothing abstract or inanimate, but place; so if you would not be one, you cannot begin should be full of life and action. The words of chiltoo soon to correct the fault." dren's songs should treat of such innocent subjects as "I will, mother, begin at once You will remind are suited to their years and feelings, if we desire that me of it, will you not, when I leave things out of their effect upon them should be permanent and salu place?" "I will give you what assistance I can inary. From songs of this character alone, the indi vidual may derive benefit during his whole life, and may find in them aid to his moral and religious advancement. The child should receive from them such lessons as will add to the worthiness of the adult -lessons on all the duties he will have to perform, whether as a man, a citizen, or a link of that mighty chain called society. The world appears to a child in a light totally dif ferent from that in which a grown-up persou beholds it; his vivid imagination invests every object with life; in the buildings which his little hands raise out of sand, his creative fancy aiscovers cities, villages, and flowery fields; cards are converted into a palace, a fragment of grass furnishes a sun a soap bubble is to him a world. The man of riper years, on the contrary, sees all his illusions vanish one by one; and as his feelings become hardened in the school of suffering and adversity, he gradually retires from the sphere of active existence, into a more abstract world of thought and recollection. He lives in the past. whilst the child, a butterfly, courting every flower, sucks its honied juice, and inhales its perfumes-knows and enjoys the present alone. In the rules by which our choice of songs destined for children shonld be made, we should be guided by the nature of the infant mind itself, and should remember that the science of the child extends not further than its hand, and that the horizon of its mind closes with that of its eye. Though there is a general dearth of songs for children, the materials for such songs are by no means limited as may be supposed. All nature, as it lives around us, and spreads its charms and wonders out before our eyes nature, with its hills and dales, its brooks, trees, birds, butterflies and flowers affords a varied choice of subjects, fitted to attract and interest the young mind. Beside songs of this description, of whose importance in schools no one can doubt, there are also songs intended to promote social and domestic virtues, order, cleanliness, obedience, unity, humanity, temperance, &c.; thus impressing, not the letter of the laws of charity on immature minds, but the spirit of them in the memory, and so identifying them with the very fibres * of the heart. In all this we do not prescribe only vague theories, the execution of which exists but in the brain of an enthusiast, or belongs to future ages; we have seen them practically applied to the fullest extent. Juvenile compositions of that poetical and moral character which we recommend, already live in the mouths of thousands of children, and are heard in many a school, and many a hun ble dwelling. In thus calling the attention of the young to nature in all its marvellous manifestations, we cannot fail to impress them with due respect for every object of the animate as well as the inanimate creation. This has been overlooked in schools. Much is done for the intellect, but little for the heart, the main-spring of human actions in the social intercourse of life. How often are we forced to witness, in grief and indignation, the cruel pleasure that children (often intelligent and clever children in all that concerns the usual branches of instruction,) take in persecuting and uselessly tor- We should never cease, were we to tell of all the menting animals, even those upon whose daily labors effects which, to our knowledge, the songs of children their own master's and tormentor's livelihood depends. produced; they act upon the idle singers, and re-act General school instruction, as it is, is inadequate to upon their parents. We know many families, in which develop the higher, better feelings in children; and in the children unite in the evening and sing their little trying to make them more learned, has utterly failed duets, and through them che and captivate those to make them more humane Societies have been who hitherto sought recreation elsewhere than at their formed in all parts of Great Britain for the protection own hearth, in the soiety of their wives and children. of animals Prizes have been awarded, punishments Music gives, as may easily be seen from this, to the inflicted. If, on one side, this proves that something home of the poorer classes, an additional attraction, is wanted in the education of the people, on the other and it is powerful, at the same time elavating and noble we can see at a glance the inefficiency of such socie-substitute for those grosser pleasures which lead so ties. Unless man has learned to respect the inferior many families into ruin and destitution: and if what beings in the scale of creation, and is moved by higher has been stated before parliament be true, that the disconsiderations than those of reward or punishment, sipated habits of the humbler classes have, for the most such societies are of no avail, and however well in part, their source in the utter want of any rational entended, do not attain the object of their foundation. joyment, especially in the total intellectual destitution The children of our schools will never forget the les-of the female part of the population, it must becom sons in songs, which charmed their years of infancy; they ever will remember the songs on the Lark, the Bird's Nest, the Butterfly, &c &c. In showing to them in a few touching lines, the wondrous instinct of the sparrow, the aut, the bee, &c, we cultivate in them that feeling of respect for all nature's children, which will follow them through life, and which will be their guide of conduct in all circumstances, when seen or when in solitude. Or can a song which delighted us a matter of considrable importance to see an innocent and elevating recreation like vocal music, associated with sacred and moral poetry, become a part of the education of the people. We pity those who know music only as a luxury, and who look with a jealous eye upon this art when taught to children who are not born in and for the drawing-room, and who, therefore, have no right to claim their share of the drawing room education. Music is no luxury, but something for |