ing betrayed mutual affection; and soon after George wrote to her thus:

frankly acknowledge to you that I am ambitious, and had fully resolved never to marry a poor girl But I love you so well, I have no choice left And now, in the beautiful light that dawns upon me, I see how mean and selfish was that resolution, and how impolitic withal. For is it not happiness we all seek? And how happy it will make me to fulfil your long cherished dream of a tasteful home! I cannot help receiving from you more than I can give; for your na ture is richer than mine. But, I believe, dearest, it is always more blessed to give than to receive; and when two think so of each other, what more need of heaven?

and of higher intellectual cultivation; but none of them seemed so charmingly simple and true as Alice White. "Do not talk to me any more about a change in my feelings," he said: "I like your principles, I like your disposition, I like your thoughts, I like your ways; and I always shall like them." Thus assured, Alice joyfully dismissed her fears, and became his wife.

Rich beyond comparison is a man who is loved by an intelligent woman, so full of home affections, es pecially if she has learned humility, and gained strength, in the school of early hardship and privation. But it is only beautiful: ouls who learn such lessons in adversity. In lower natures it engenders discontent and envy, which change to pride and extravagance in "I am no flatterer, and I tell you frankly I was the hour of prosperity. Alice had always been made disappointed when I first saw you. Unconsciously to happy by the simplest means; and now, though her myself, I had fallen in love with your soul The trans-husband's income was a moderate one, her intuitive cript of it which I saw in the vines and the flowers taste and capable fingers made his home a little bower attracted me first; then a revelation of it from the of beauty. She seemed happy as a bird in her cozy marked book, the mosses and the ferns. I imagined nest; and so grateful, that George said, half in jest, you must be beautiful; and when I saw you were half in earnest, he believed women loved their husnot, I did not suppose I should ever think of you bands as the only means society left them of procurmore. But when I heard you talk, your soul attracting homes over which to preside. There was some ed me irresistibly again, and I wondered I ever thought you otherwise than beautiful. Rarely is a beautiful soul shr ned within a beautiful body. But loveliness of soul has one great advantage over its frail envelop-it need not decrease with time, but ought rather to increase.

truth in the remark; but it pained her sensitive and affectionate nature, because it intruded upon her the idea of selfishness mingled with her love. Thenceforth she said less about the external blessings of a home; but in her inrost soul she enjoyed it, like an earthly heaven. And George seemed to enjoy it al"Of oue thing rest assured, dear Alice, it is now most as much as herself. Again and again he said impossible for me ever to love another as I love you." he had never dreamed domestic companionship was When she read this letter, it seemed to her as if she so rich a blessing His wife, though far less educated were in a delightful dream. Was it indeed possible than himself, had a nature capable of the highest culthat the love of an intelligent, cultivated soul was of-ivation. She was always an intelligent listener; and fered to her, the poor unfriended one? How marvel- her quick intuitions often understood far more than he lous it seemed, that, when she was least expecting had expressed or thought. Poor as she was, she had such a blossom from Paradise, a stranger came and brought better furuiture for his home than mahogany laid it in the open book upon her desk, in that little chairs and marble tables. school-house, where she had toiled with patient hu Smoothly glided a year away, when a little daughter mility through so many hours! She kissed the dear came into the domestic circle. like a flower brought letter again and again; she kissed the initials he had by angels, George had often laughed at the credu written in the book before he had seen her. She knelt lous fondness of other parents, but he really thought down, and, weeping, thanked God that the great hun-his child was the most beautiful one he had ever seen. ger of her hear: for a happy home was now to be sa- In her countenance and movements he discovered all tisfied. But when she re-read the letter in calmer manner of rare gi'ts. He was sure she had an eye mood, the uprightness of her nature made her shrink from the proffered bliss. He said he was ambitious. Would he not repent marrying a poor girl, without beauty, and without social influence of any kind?Might he not find her soul far less lovely than he deemed it? Under the influence of these fears, she answered him:

"How happy your previous letter made me, I dare not say. My heart is like a garden when the morning sun shines on it, after a long cold storm. Ever since the day we gathered mosses in the wood, you have seemed so like the fairest dreams of my life, that I could not help loving you, though I had no hope of being beloved in return. Even now I fear that you are acting under a temp rary delusion, and that here after you may repent your choice. Wait long, and observe my faults. I will try not to conceal any of them from you. Seek the society of other women. You will find many superior to me, in all respects. Do not fear to give me pain by any change in your feelings. I love you with that disinterested love which would rejoice in your best happiness, though it should lead you away from me

for color, an eye for form, and an ear for music. She had her mother's deep eye, and would surely inherit her quick perceptions, her loving heart and her ear nestness of thought. His whole soul seemed bound up in her existence. Scarcely the mother herself was more devoted to all her infant wants and pleasures. Thus happy were they, with their simple treasures of love and thought, when in an evil hour a disturbing influence crossed their threshold. It came in the form of political excitement; that pestilence which is forever racing through our land, seeking whom it may devour; destroying happy homes, turning aside our intellectual strength from the calm and healthy pursuits of literature or science, blinding consciences, erbittering hearts, rasping the tempers of men, and blighting half the talent of our country with its feverish breath.

At that time our citizens were much excited for and against the election of General Harrisou. George Franklin threw himself into the melée, with firm and ho est conviction that the welfare of the country derended on his election. But the superior and inferior natures of man are forever mingling in all his thoughts This letter did not lower his estimate of the beauty and actiors; and this generous ardor for the nation's of her soul. He complied with her request to culti-good gradually opened into a pers; ective of flattering vate the acquaintance of other women. He saw many prospects for himself. By the study and industry of more beautiful, more graceful, more accomplished, years, he had laid a solid toundation in his profession

tears, sobbed out, "Oh, hush, hush, dear George!Our little Alice is dead!" Dead! and the last words he had spoken to his darling had been unkind. What would he not have given to recall them now? And his poor wife had passed through that agony without aid or consolation from him, alone in the silent midright. A terrible weight oppressed his heart He sank into a chair, drew the dear sufferer to his bosom, and wept aloud.

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and every year brought some increase of income and She threw herself on his bosom, and, bursting into influence. But he had the American impatience of slow growth. Distinguished in some way he had always wished to be; and no avenue to the desired ob ject seemed so short as the political race course. A neighbor, whose temperament was peculiarly prone to these excitements, came in often, and invited him to clubs and meetings. When Alice was seated at her evening work, with the hope of passing one of their old pleasant evenings, she had a nervous dread of hearing the door bell, lest this man should enter. It was not that she expected or wished her husband to This great misfortune sadly dimmed the glory of sacrifice ambition and enterprise, and views of patri- his eagerly-anticipated political triumph. When the otic duty, to her quiet habits. But the excitement tumult of grief subsided, he reviewed the events of seemed an unhealthy one. He lived in a species of his life, and weighed them in a balance. More and mental intoxication. He talked louder than formerly, more he doubted whether it were wise to leave the and doubled his fists in the vehemence of gesticula- slow certainties of his profession for chances which tion. He was restless for newspapers, and watched had in them the excitement and the risks of gambthe arrivals of mails as he would once have watchedling. More and more seriously he questioned whether over the life of his child. All calm pleasures became the absorption of his faculties in the keen conflicts of tame and insipid. He was more and more away from the hour, was the best way to serve the true interests home, and staid late in the night. Alice at first sat of his country. It is uncertain how the balance would up to wait for him, but, finding, that not conducive to have turned. had he not received an appointment to the comfort of their child, she gradually formed the office under the new Government. Perhaps the sud habit of retiring to rest before his return. She was den fall of the triumphal arch, occasioned by the always careful to leave a comfortable arrangement of death of General Harrison, might have given him a the fire, with his slippers in a warm place, and some lasting distaste for politics, as it did many others.slight refreshment prettily laid out on the table. The But the proffered income was more than double the first time he came home and saw these sileut prepa- sum he had ever received from his professiontions, instead of the affectionate face that usually Dazzled by this prospect. he did not sufficiently take greeted hiin, it made him very sad. The rusic school- into the account that it would necessarily involve him house, with its small belfry, and its brigh little garden in any additional expenses, political and social and plot, rose up in the perspective of memory, and he that he might lose it by the very next turn of the retraced one by one all the incidents of their love. -- wheel, without being able to return easily to his old Fair and serene came those angels of life out of the habits of expenditures Once in office the conviction paradise of the past. They smile upon him and that he was on the right side, combined with gratiasked: "Are there any like us in the troubled path tude and self-interest, to make him serve his party you have now chosen? With these retrospections with money and personal influence. The question of came some self-reproaches concerning little kind at another elecaon was soon agitated, and these motives tentions forgotten, and professional duties neglected, drew him into the new excitement. He was kind af under the influence of political excitement. He spoke home, but he speat little time there. He sometimes to Alice with unusual tenderness that night, and vo- smiled when he came in late, and saw the warni slipluntarily promised that, when this election was fairly pers by the tire, and a vase of flowers crowning Fis over, he would withdraw from active participation in supper on the table: but he did not think how Ionely politics. But this feeling soon passed away. The Alice must be, u or could he possibly dream what she nearer the re ult of the election approached, the mo:e was suffering in the slow martyrdom in her heart. He intensely was his whole being absorbed in it. One gave dinners and suppers often. Strangers went and morning, when he was reading the newspaper little came They ate, and drank, and smoked, and talked Alice fretted and cried. He said impatiently: "I wish loud. Alice was polite and attent.ve, but they had you would carry that child away; her noise disturbs nothing for her, and she had nothing for them. ~ How me." Tears came to the mother's eyes as she answer- out of place would have been her litle songs and her ed: "She is not well; poor little thing! She has taken fragrant flowers,amid their clamor and tobacco smoke! cold" "I am sorry for that," he replied; and hur- She was a pastoral poet living in a perpetual battle. ried to go out and exult with his neighbor concerning the political tidings

At night the child was unusually peevish and restless. She toddled up to her father's knees, and crie for him to rock her to sleep. He had just taken her in his arms, and laid her little head upon his bosom, when the neighbor came for him to go to a political supper. He said the mails that night must bring news that would decide the question. The company would wait for their arrival, and then have a jubilee in honor of Harrison's success. The child cried and screamed when George put her away in her mother's arms; and he said sternly, "Naughty girl!-father don't love her when she cries." She is not well," replied the mother, with a trembling voice. and hurried out of the

room.

It was two o'clock in the morning before George returned; but, late as it was, his wife was sitting by the fire. "Hurrah for the old coon!" he exclaimed. "Harrison is elected!"

The house was filled with visitors to see the long Whig procession pass by, with richly caparisoned horses, gay banners, flower arches, and promises of protection to everything. George bowed from his chariot and touched his hat to her, as he passed with he throng, and she waved her handkerchief. "How beautiful! How magnificent!" exclaimed a visitor, who stood by her. Clay will certainly be elected. The whole city seems to be in the procession. Sailors, printers, firemen, everything.'

"There are no women and children," replied Alice: and she turned away with a sigh. The only protection that interested her was a protection for homes.

Soon after came the evening procession of Demo. crats The army of horses; temples of liberty, with figures in women's dress to represent the goddess: raccoons hung, and guillotined, and swallowed by alligators; the lone star of Texas everywhere glimmering over their heads; the whole shadowy mass occasionally illuminated by the rush of fire-works, and the

SPHERE OF HUMAN INFLUENCE.

BY THE REV. THOMAS HILL.

Charles Babbage, in his "Ninth Bridgewater Trea tise," has a chapter concerning the permanent im pression of our words upon the air,-a chapter which none have ever read without a thrill of mingled admiration and fear; and which closes with an eloquence that is worthy the lips of an orator, though coming. from a mathematician's pen.

fitful glare of lurid torches; all this made a strange favor of the latter, he works diligently and lives ecoand wild impression on the mind of Alice, whose nomically, cheered by the hope that reason will again nervous system had suffered in the painful internal dawn in the beautiful soul that loved him so truly. conflicts of her life. It reminded her of the memor- His case may seem like an extreme one; but in able 10th of August, in Paris; and she had visions of truth he is only one of a thousand similar wrecks conhuman heads reared on poles before the windows, as tinually floating over the turbulent sea of American they had been before the palace of the unfortunate politics.--Union Magazine. Maria Antoinette. The visitors observed their watches, and said it took this procession an hour longer to pass than it had for the Whig procession. I guess Polk will beat, after all," said one. George was angry, and combated the opinion vehemently. Even after the company had all gone, and the street noises had long passed off in the distance, he continued remarkably moody and irritable. He had more cause for it than his wife was aware of. She supposed the worst that could happen would be defeat of his party and loss of office. But antagonists, long accustomed to calculate political games, with a view of gambling, had dared him to bet on the election, being perfectly aware of his sanguine temperament; and George stimulated solely by a wish to prove to the crowd that heard them, that he considered the success of Clay's party certain, allowed himself to be drawn into the snare to a ruinous extent. All his worldly possessions The motion of which Babbage speaks, in the chap-even his watch, his books, and his household fur-ter to which we refer, is undulatory, communicated riture -were at stake; and ultimately all were lost. by impulse, and requiring time for its transmission; Alice sympathized with his deep dejection, tried to and the startling result of his reasoning comes from forget her own sorrows, and said it would be easy for the never-dying character of the motion, keeping her to assist him, she was so accustomed to earn her forever a record of our words in the atmosphere itown living self; always audible to a finer sense than ours; reserved against the day of account, when perchance our own ears may be quickened to hear our own words ringing in the air

Would that Babbage had touched, in his fragmentary treatise, upon some of the inferences which may be drawn from the Newtonian law of gravity, inferences which would probably have been as new to most of his readers, as those which he, with so much acuteness, draws from the law of the equality of action and reaction.

Thus,

On their wedding-day, George had given her a landscape of the rustic school-house, embowered in vines, and shaded by its graceful elm. He asked to have this reserved from the wreck, and stated the But motion is not only enduring through all time, reason. No one had the heart to refuse it; for even it is simultaneous throughout all space. The apple amid the mad excitement of party triumph, every- that falls from the tree is met by the earth; not half body said, "I pity his poor wife " She left her cherished home before the final break-way, but at a distance fitly proportioned to their respective masses. The moon follows the movement ing up. It would have been too much for her wo-of the earth with instant obedience, and the sun with manly heart, to see those beloved house hold gods prompt humility bends his course to theirs. The siscarried away to the auction room. She lingered long ter planets with their moons are moved by sympathy by the astral lamp, and the little round table, where with the earth, and the stars and most distant clusters she and George used to read to each other, in the first of the universe obey the leading of the sun. happy year of their marriage. She did not weep-- throughout all the fields of space, wherever stars or it would have been well if she could. She took with suns are scattered, they move for the falling apple's her the little vase that used to stand on the desk in sake. Nor is the motion slowly taken up. The moon the old country school-house, and a curious wedge waits for no tardy moving impulse from the earth, wood pitcher George had given her on the day little but instantly obeys. The speed of light which reachAlice was born. She did not show them to him, it es the sun in a few minutes, would be too slow to would make him so sad. He was tender and selfcompare with this. Electricity itself, coursing round reproachful; and she tried to be very strong, that she the earth a thousand times an hour, can give us no might sustain him. But health had suffered in these conception of the perfectly simultaneous motions of storms, and her organization fitted her only for one gravity. There are stars visible to the telescopie mission in this world--that was, to make and adorn eye, whose light has been ages on its swift-winged a home. Through hard and lonely years she had course before it reached this distant part of space, longed for it. She had gained it, and thanked God but they move in instant accordance with the falling with the joyfulness of a happy heart. And now her fruit. vocation was gone.

In a few days, hers was pronounced a case of melancholy insanity. She was placed in the hospital, where her husband strives to surround her with every thing to heal the wounded soul. But she does not know him. When he visits her, she looks at him with strange eyes, and still clinging to the fond ideal of her life, she repeats mournfully, "I want my home. Why don't George come and take me home?"

True it is, that our senses refuse to bear witness to any motion other than the apple's fall, and our fingers tire if we attempt to untie the long list of figures, which our Arabic notation requires to express the movement thereby given to the sun. Yet that motion can be proved to exist and the algebraist's formula can represent its quantity. The position of every particle of matter at every instant of time, past, present, or to come, has been written in one short sentence which any man can read. And as each man Thus left adrift on the dark ocean of life, George can understand more or less of this formula of moFranklin hesitated whether to trust the chances of po- tion, according to his ability and his acquaintance litics for another office, or to start again in his profes-with mathematical learning, so we may conceive of sion, and slowly rebuild his shattered fortunes from intelligent beings, whose faculties are very far short the ruins of the past. Having wisely determined in of infinite perfection, who can read, in that sentence

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the motions not only of the sun, but of all bodies will move when thy hand moves, and all the tearful which our senses reveal to us. Nay, if the mind of prayers thy soul can utter will never restore those Newton has advanced in power since he entered hea- moving orbs to the path from which thy deed has ven with a speed at all proportioned to his intellec-drawn them.-Common School Journal. tual growth on earth, perhaps even he could now with great ease assign to every star in the wide universe of God the motion, which it received from the fall of that apple which led him to his immortal discoveries.

Every moving thing on the earth, from the least to the greatest, is accompanied its its motion by all the heavenly spheres. The rolling planets influence each other on their path, and each is influenced by the changes on its surface. The starry systems, wheel ing round their unknown center, move in harmony with each other's courses, and each is moved by the planets which accompany it in its mighty dance Thus does this law of motion bind all material bodies in one well-balanced system wherein not one particle can move, but all the uncounted series of worlds and sins must simultaneously move with it.

Thus may every deed on earth be instantly known in the farthest star, whose light, traveling with almost unbounded speed since creation's dawn, has not yet reached our eyes. It only needs, in that star, a sense quick enough to perceive the motion, infinitely too small for human sense, and an analysis far reaching enough to trace that motion to its cause. The cloud of witnesses that ever encompass this area of our mortal life, may need no near approach to earthly scenes, that they may scan our conduct. As they journey from star to star and roam through the unlimited glories of creation, they may read in the motions of the heavens about them the ever faithful report of the deeds of men.

This sympathetic movement of the planets, like the mechanical impulse given by our words to the air, is ever during.

PARENTS SHOULD VISIT THE SCHOOL.-There is perhaps no part of parental duty more sadly neglected than this. "Out of sight and out of mind," seems to be the maxim of too many parents as they send their children day after day to the school-room, to imbibe those principles form those habits, and receive that instruct on, which, as a beacon-light, shall guide their footsteps in the paths of virtue and usefulness, or lead them downward to ruin and disgrace.

To the intelligent and faithful parent, no place is dearer than the school-room He has deposited there his dea est treasure, compared with which the wealth of a thousand Indies is as dross; a treasure capable of infinite increase and improvement; a treasure infinite in its capabilities and immortal in its duration.

What parent would trust his cattle or sheep, or even his swine to the keeping of another, without visi ing them occasionally to see how they were thriving or fatting? What parent will lease his farm to another without well attested bonds that it shall be faithfully tilled, that the fences shall be kept in good repair, and that, in every respect, it shall be kept unimpaired? And yet how many entrust their children day after day, week after week, and year after year, to the hands of others, often entire strangers, without once visiting them, and in many cases, without even inquiring after their progress and welfare?

Parents should visit the school that they may be acquainted with the teacher of their children, and be better able to use their co-operative influence with his. Parents and teachers should work together as one. They should know the wishes and designs of each other, and labor mutually to carry them into effect.

The astronomer, from the present motion of the Parents should witness for themselves the managecomet, learns all its former path, traces it back on its ment of the school. Much of the difficulty that frelong round of many years, shows you when and quently exists between parents and teachers, is the where it was disturbed in its course by planets, and legitimate result of ignorance on the part of parents, points out to you the altered movement which it as-respecting the real management of the school-rcom. sumed from the interference of bodies unknowu by any other means to human science. He needs only a more subtle analysis and a wider grasp of mind to do for the planets and the stars what he has done for the comet. Nay it were a task easily done by a spirit less than infinite, to read in the present motion of any one star the past motions of every star in the universe, and thus of every planet that wheels round those stars, and of every moving thing upon those planets.

The teacher, perhaps, has occasion to chastise a scholar for some misdemeanor; the scholar goes home with a sad report of his wrongs, accompanied by one of his playmates to attest to his abuses from the teacher. The parent, not daring to doubt the veracity of his child, at once gives judgment against that teacher, and thus, though undesignedly, gives countenance to the repe tition of a similar, or greater offence on the part of his child.

virtues of their children, in nine cases out of ten, these little, petty difficulties, which so often mar the teacher's happiness, and many times impair his influence, would perish in their chrysalis state, or rather they could never exist.

Now, if parents were fully acquainted with the Thus considered, how strange a record does the teacher of their children, and with his management in star-gemmde vesture of the night present! There, the school; if they were as willing and frank to conin the seemingly fixed order of those blazing sap-verse with him respecting the errors as they are the phires, is a living dance, in whose track is written the record of all the motions that ever man or nature made. Had we the skill to read it, we should there find written every deed of kindness, every deed of guilt, together with the fall of the landslide, the play of the fountain, the sporting of the lamb, and the waving of the grass. Nay, when we behold the superhuman powers of calculation exhibited sometimes by sickly children long before they reach man's age, may we not believe that man, when hereafter freed from the load of this mortal clay, may be able, in the movement of the planets or the sun, to read the errors of his own past life?

Thou who hast raised thy hand to do a deed of wickedness, stay thine arm! The universe will be witness of thine act, and bear an everlasting testimony against thee; for every star in the remotest heavens

Parents, you should visit the school that you may witness whatever is praiseworthy or censurable on the part of your children, and thus be able to encour age them in the former, and deter them from a repetition of the latter. What teacher has not seen the countenances of his pupils brighten as they anticipa ted a visit from their parents, and witnessed with pleasure the laudable pride with which they resume their seats after the recitation of a well learned lesson in their presence. It seems to give a fresh impulse of the blood through their youthful and buoyant hearts, and to inspire them with increased fidelity to

You should visit the school that you may learn something of the teacher's duties, his labors and his trials, and that you may cheer his tired and drooping spirits amid the multiform and never-ending trials and perplexities of his profession.

teacher a participant of his plans, that he may be able to aid in their accomplishment; und that the teacher should aim to complete, or, at least, carry on any enterprise that has been intelligently begun at home-Hartford Courant.

As the faithful teacher labors week after week,spar- FEMALE CULTURE.-The great entertainments of all ing neither physical nor mental strength in whatever ages are reading, conversation, and thought. If our can benefit his pupils, as he feels himself careworn existence after middle life is not enriched by these, and weary, it is pleasant and encouraging to hear a it becomes meagre and dull indeed. And these will cheering word from those whose interests are so close- prove sources of pleasure just in proportion to pre ly allied to his own-from parents. It should be re-vious intellectual culture. How is that mind to have membered that teachers have natures and feelings subject matter of pleasurable thought during its solicommon to other men; and it is not strange if they tary hours, which has no knowledge of the treasures sometimes feel discouraged and disheartened as they of literature and science, which has made no extenwitness the apathy and indifference often manifested sive acquaintance with the present and the past? toward them, and toward their labors, by those from And what is conversation between those who know whom they have a right to expect the warmest sym- nothing? But on the other hand, what delight is that pathy and most hearty co-operation. mind able to receive and impart, which is able to disYou should visit the school as a duty to yourselves, cuss any topic that comes up with accuracy, copiousto the teacher, and your children; as a duty prescribed ness, eloquence and beauty? The woman who pos by your Creator, and one which you cannot neglect sesses this power, can never fail to render herself with impunity. He commands you to train up your agreeable and useful in any circle into which she children in the paths of usefulness and virtue, to train may be thrown, and when she is so, she cannot fail them up to love and serve Him, and the School is in- to be happy. A full mind, a large heart, and an elostituted as the most efficient auxiliary in carrying out quent tongue, are among the most precious of human this important requirement of the Creator; and pa- things. The young forsake their sports and gather rents cannot remain guiltless while ignorant of, or in- round, the old draw nigh to hear, and all involuntaridifferent to the interests of so important and indispen-ly bow down to the supremacy of mind. These ea sable a means for the education of their children. dowments add brilliancy to youth and beauty, and If you feel a desire to see your children improve, when all other charms are departed, they make old manifest that desire by visiting them at the SCHOOL-age sacred, venerable, beloved. ROOM. -Vermont School Journal.

THE TACHER'S ABILITY AND DUTY TO AID THE PA- VULGARITY OF LIFE.- Man is self-inclined to give RENT--The subject we are lamely discussing is as himself up to common pursuits. The mind becomes long as it is broad. We have considered parents' du- so easily dulled to impressions of the beautiful and ties and teachers' duties; and a captious observer will perfect, that one should take all possible means to find his hands full, if he sets about noting the delin-awaken one's perceptive faculty to such objects; for quences that may be seen in both classes. no one can entirely dispense with these pleasures; The parent's field is at home. Almost all the phy- and it is only the being unaccustomed to the enjoy sical and moral habits of a child begin at home.ment of anything good that causes many men to find The mind-the intellect may bear the impress of the teacher; but the body, the soul-the affections and moral nature-are marked by domestic influ

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The history of the internal state of a family may often be read in the children's clothing. A parent's faithfulness may be tested by a child's language and gestures. A father's beastiality is often revealed, only by the ridiculously faithful miniature, presented in the son. A mother's want of refinement shows itself, often, in hoydenish, boyish daughters. Epicurism at the family table is revealed by a family of fat gluttons. Sordid narrowness may be concealed by any man, so far as himself is concerned; but it will be read in his children by any one who will study them.

pleasure in tasteless and trivial objects, which have no recommendation but that of novelty. One ought, every day, to hear a little song, to read a little poetry, to see a good picture, and, if it is possible, to say a few reasonable words-Goethe.

FRIENDSHIP-That desecrated name belongs only to the attachment of the finer spirits-the rare and excellent among our race. A combination of quali ties, on both sides, is necessary to produce that precious and inestimable sentiment. Of real, sincere affection, many are not capable; they have, indeed, a sort of attachment to the things they live among,the people who fill their house and family; that is, they Now if the parent, conscious of all this influence do not very well like to do without them, when they over the physical and moral nature, undertakes syste- have been a customed to their presence, but that is matically to use it well, he has a right to claim aid alt. Take them away, and replace them by somefrom the teacher. The six hours that a child spends thing, or some person else, and you soon learn to at school, shou d not dissipate the work of the ten measure the strength of attachn ent in the ordinary hours of home education. If a parent labors to cor-human heart. As for confidence, that is not the attri rect a bad posture of the body at home, it should be told to the teacher, that he too may correct it at school.

If a child is unamiable at home, and a parent by kindness is trying to develop heart-then, at school, the teacher ought to know it and labor to attain the

same end.

In short, the simple idea we are now thinking of is, that an active educating parent should make the

bute of a little mind, especially if tinged with jeallusy of a mind more enlarged and noble than itself: it loves to keep its own frivolous plans and ideas a secret, for there seems, indeed, a sort of instinctive dread on the part of folly to come into contact with wisdom. Rely upon it, that the man who loves those htgher in the scale of intellect than himself, is a hero undisclosed by circumstances. Folly hates wisdom, eveni the gentlest wisdom.