herself and her sex a great moral victory! Is he right?-it were a great error to oppose him. Is he wrong?he will soon discover it, and applaud the self-command which bore unvexed his pertinacity. And gradually there will spring up such a happy fusion of feelings and ideas, that there will be no" last word" to contend about, but a steady and unruffled flow of generous sentiment. Model Mothers. Models are of the first importance in moulding the nature of a child; and if we would have fine characters, we must necessarily present before them fine models. Now the model most constantly before every child's eye is the mother. "One good mother," said George Herbert, is worth a hundred schoolmasters. In the home she is loadstone to all hearts and loadstar to all eyes." Imitation of her is constant- imitation which Bacon likens to a "globe of precepts." It is instruction. It is teaching without words, often exemplifying more than tongue can teach. In the face of bad example the best precepts are of but little avail. The example is followed, not the precepts. Indeed, precept at variance with practice is worse than useless, inasmuch as it only serves to teach that most cowardly of vices-hypocrisy. Even children are judges of hypocrisy, and the lessons of the parent who says one thing and does the opposite are quickly seen through. Tired Mothers. A little elbow leans upon your knees, Your tired knee, that has so much to bear; A child's dear eyes are looking lovingly From underneath a thatch of tangled hair. Perhaps you do not heed the velvet touch Of warm, moist fingers, folding yours so tight; You do not prize this blessing over-much; You almost are too tired to pray to-night. But it is blessedness! A year ago The little child that brought me only good. And if, some night, when you sit down to rest, You miss this elbow from your tired knee, This restless, curling head from off your breast, This lisping tongue that chatters constantly; If I from your own the dimpled hands have slipped, And ne'er would nestle in your palm again; If the white feet into their grave had trippedI could not blame you for your heartache then wonder so that mothers ever fret At little children clinging to their gowns; Or that the footprints, when the days are wet, Are ever black enough to make them frown. If I could find a little muddy boot, Or cap, or jacket, on my chamber floor; If I could kiss a rosy, restless foot, And hear its patter in my house once more; If I could mend a broken cart to-day, To-morrow make a kite to reach the sky- The little boy I used to kiss is doad! WE LEARN FROM DAILY EXPERIENCE that children who have been the least indulged thrive much better, unfold all their faculties quicker, and acquire more muscular strength and vigor of mind, than those who have been constantly favored, and treated by their parents with the most solicitous attention; bodily weakness and mental imbecility are the usual attributes of the latter. THE FIRST AND PRINCIPAL RULE of education ought never to be forgotten-that man is intended to be a free and independent agent; that his moral and physical powers ought to be spontaneously developed; that he should, as soon as possible, be made acquainted with the nature and uses of all his faculties, in order to attain that degree of perfection which is consistent with the structure of his organs; and that he was not originally designed for what we endeavor to make of him by artificial aid. THE GREATEST ART in educating children consists in a continued vigilance over all their actions, without ever giving them an opportunity of discovering that they are guided and watched. CHILDREN should not be allowed to ask for the same thing twice. This may be accomplished by parents, teacher, or whoever may happen to have the management of them, pay- by another, till you have compassed ing attention to their little wants, if your end. By little and little, great proper, at once, when possible. Chil- things are completed; and repeated dren should be instructed to under-kindness will soften the heart of stone. stand that when they are not answered Whatever you do, do it willingly. A immediately, it is because it is not con- boy that is whipped to school never venient. Let them learn patience by learns his lessons well. A man who waiting. is compelled to work cares not how badly it is performed. He that pulls off his coat cheerfully, strips up his sleeves in earnest, and sings while he works, is the man of action. TO AWAKEN CHILDREN from their sleep with a noise, or in an impetuous manner, is extremely injudicious and hurtful; nor is it proper to carry them from a dark room immediately into a glaring light, or against a dazzling wall; for the sudden impression of light debilitates the organs of vision, and lays the foundation of weak eyes, from early infancy. Biting the Nails. This is a habit that should be immediately corrected in children, as, if persisted in for any length of time, it permanently deforms the nails. Dipping the finger-ends in some bitter tincture will generally prevent children from putting them in their mouth; but if this fails, as it sometimes will, each finger-end ought to be encased in a stall until the propensity is eradicated. Counsels for the Young. Never be cast down by trifles. If a spider break his thread twenty times, twenty times will he mend it again. Make up your mind to do a thing, and you will do it. Fear not if a trouble comes upon you; keep up your spirits, though the day be a dark one. If the sun is going down, look up to the stars. If the earth is dark, keep your eye on heaven. With God's promises, a man or a child may be cheerful. Mind what you run after. Never be content with a bubble that will burst, firewood that will end in smoke and darkness. Get that which you can keep, and which is worth keeping. Fight hard against a hasty temper. Anger will come, but resist it strongly. A fit of passion may give you cause to mourn all the days of your life. Never revenge an injury. If you have an enemy, act kindly to him and make him your friend. You may not win him over at once, but try again. Let one kindness be followed If Advice to Young Ladies. you have blue eyes you need not languish. If black eyes you need not stare. If you have pretty feet there is no occasion to wear short petticoats. If you are doubtful as to that point, there can be no harm in letting the petticoats be long. If you have good teeth, do not laugh for the purpose of showing them. If you have bad ones, do not laugh less than the occasion may justify. If you have pretty hands and arms, there can be no objection to your play ing on the harp, if you play well. If they are disposed to be clumsy, work tapestry. If you have a bad voice, rather speak in a low tone. If you have the finest voice in the world, never speak in a high tone. If you dance well, dance but seldom. If you dance ill, never dance at all. If you sing well, make no previous excuses. If you sing indifferently, hesitate not a moment when you are asked, for few people are judges of singing, but every one is sensible of a desire to please. If you would preserve beauty, rise early. If you would preserve esteem, be gentle. If you would obtain power, be condescending, If you would live happily, endeavor to promote the happiness of others. DAUGHTERS.—Mothers who wish not only to discharge well their own duties in the domestic circle, but to train up their daughters for a later day to make happy and comfortable firesides for their families, should watch well, and guard well, the notions which they imbibe and with which they grow up. There will be so many persons ready to fill their young heads with false and vain fancies, and there is so much always afloat in society opposed to duty and common sense, that if mothers do not watch well their children may contract ideas very fatal to their future happiness and usefulness, and hold them till they grow into habits of thought or feeling. A wise mother will have her eyes open, and be ready for every emergency. A few words of common, downright practical sense, timely uttered by her, may be enough to counteract some foolish idea or belief put into her daughter's head by others, while if it be left unchecked, it may take such possession of the mind that it cannot be corrected at a later time. One falsity abroad in this age is the notion that women, unless compelled to it by absolute poverty, are out of place when engaged in domestic affairs. Now mothers should have a care lest their daughters get hold of this conviction as regards themselves-there is danger of it; the fashion of the day engenders it, and the care that an affectionate family take to keep a girl, during the time of her education, free from other occupations than those of her tasks or her recreations, also endangers it. It is possible that affection may err in pushing this care too far; for as education means a fitting for life, and as a woman's life is much connected with domestic and family affairs or ought to be so-if the indulgent consideration of parents abstain from all demands upon the young pupil of the school not connected with her books or her play, will she not naturally infer that the matters with which she is never asked to concern herself are, in fact, no concern to her, and that any attention she ever may bestow on them is not a matter of simple duty, but of grace, or concession, or stooping, on her part? Let mothers avoid such danger. If they would do so, they must bring up their daughters from the first with the idea that in this world it is required to give as well as to receive, to minister as well as to enjoy; that every person is bound to be useful-practically, literally useful in his own sphere, and that a woman's first sphere is the house, and its concerns and demands. Once really imbued with this belief, and taught to see how much the comfort and happiness of woman herself, as well as of her family, depends on this part of her discharge of duty, a young girl will usually be anxious to learn all that her mother is disposed to teach, and will be proud and happy to aid in any domestic occupations assigned to her. These need never be made so heavy as to interfere with the peculiar duties or enjoyments of her age. If a mother wishes to see her daughter become a good, happy, and rational woman, never let there be contempt for domestic occupations, or suffer them to be deemed secondary. BOYS.What to do with boys is a question which sometimes troubles wise heads. We know some people consider them a sort of nuisance, capable of making any amount of noise, and always ready for mischief, whether it be pulling the cat's tail, teasing little sisters, or playing with powder and matches in the barn; but, with all their pranks and capers, we like them, and consider them a very much misused portion of society. Boys are very much what we make them by our treatment of them. Girls are nice little bodies, so we dress them nicely, make birthday parties for them -- but a boy's birthday party, who ever heard of such a thing? and as to fixing them up, why that is altogether out of the question. But never mind, boys; while the girls are confined indoors to prevent their clothes from becoming soiled, you can climb trees, fish, build dams, and have more real fun than could be gotten out of the most splendid suit of clothes in town, besides building up a strong con- | constitute the business part of the comstitution in your already robust little munity-those who make our great body. and useful men were taught to be industrious. Boys must have amusement and recreation after their day's labor. If they cannot find it at home, they will be apt to seek it away from home; hence it becomes parents to provide entertainment at home. If fond of music, furnish them an instrument, if your means permit, whether it be violin, guitar, or piano; if games interest them, provide innocent ones; if fond of reading, by all means supply the best of literature, and endeavor to cultivate that taste where it is deficient, although plain clothes must be worn in order to incur the necessary expense of purchasing suitable books and papers. Amusements are not the only things necessary to make boys feel an interest in home affairs. If they can claim something as their own, it will be a stimulus to them. If they like bees, let them have a swarm all their own, the avails of which go into their | own pockets; or let them manage some of the poultry, raise a calf or pig for their own--not theirs until killing or selling time comes, when it belongs to father. Few boys have the right idea of courage. It is often possessed by quiet and gentle boys, who are looked upon by their mates as the least courageous, The boy who will not quarrel when he is abused; the boy who keeps himself pure in speech and act when others are rough and wicked; the boy who defends the weak against the strong; the boy who loves God, and is not afraid to show it he is the brave boy, and makes the noble man, Don't forget, dear boy. A lazy boy makes a lazy man, just as sure as a crooked sapling makes a crooked tree. Who ever yet saw a boy grow up in idleness, that did not make a shiftless vagabond when he became a man, unless he had a fortune left him to keep up appearances? The great mass of thieves, paupers, and criminals have come to what they are by being brought up in idleness, Those who Boys, Learn Trades! The annual report of Hon. J. P.Wickersham, State Superintendent of Common Schools for 1872, contains the following significant paragraph, pointing parents to the importance of having their children learn some useful mechanical trade. The statistics given are brief and startling, Mr. Wickersham says: "There are multitudes idly waiting for vacant clerkships and unfilled offices, while mechanical work, more honorable and more remunerative, invites on all sides the efforts of willing hands. It is a fact as startling as it is significant that of seventeen thousand criminals in the Unitud States in 1868, ninety-seven per cent, of them had never learned a trade. Out of two hundred and forty convicts received at the Eastern Penitentiary (Pennsylvania) last year, only twelve had been apprenticed and served their time," Wanted an Honest, Industrious, Steady Boy,We lately saw an advertisement headed as above. It conveys to every boy an impressive moral lesson. "An honest, industrious boy," is always wanted. He will be sought for; his services will be in demand; he will be respected and loved; he will be spoken of in terms of high commendation; he will always have a home; will grow up to be a man of known worth and established character. He will be wanted. The merchant will want him for a salesman or clerk; the master mechanic will want him for an apprentice or foreman; those with a job to let will want him for a contractor; clients will want him for a lawyer; patients for a physician; religious congregations for a pastor; parents for a teacher of their children; and the people for an officer. He will be wanted-townsmen will want him for a citizen; acquaintance as a neighbor; neighbors as a friend; families as a visitor; the world as an acquaintance; nay, girls will want him as a beau, and finally, for a husband! An honest, industrious boy! Just think of it, boys; will you answer this description? Can you apply for this situation? Are you sure that you will be wanted? You may be smart and active, but that does not fill the requisition - are you honest? You may be capable-are you industrious? You may be well dressed, and create a favorable impression at first sight, but are you honest, steady, and industrious? You may apply for a good situation- are you sure that your friends, teachers, and acquaintances can recommend you for these qualities? Nothing else will make up for a lack of them; no readiness or aptness for business will do it. You must be honest, steady, and industrious! SERVANTS.-There are frequent complaints in these days, that servants are bad, and apprentices are bad, and dependants and aiding hands generally are bad. It may be so. But if it is so, what is the inference? In the working of the machine of society, class moves pretty much with class; that is, one class moves pretty much with its equals in the community (equals so far as social station is concerned), and apart from other classes, as much those below as those above itself; but there is one grand exception to this general rule, and that is, in the case of domestic servants. The same holds, though in less degree, with apprentices and assistant hands; and in less degree only, because in this last case, the difference of grade is slighter. Domestic servants, and assistants in business and trade, come most closely and continually into contact with their employers; they are about them from morning till night, and see them in every phase of character, in every style of humor, in every act of life. How powerful is the force of example! Rectitude is promoted, not only by precept but by example, and, so to speak, by contact it is increased more widely. Kindness is communicated in the same way. Virtue of every kind acts like an electric shock. Those who come under its influence imbibe its principles. The same with qualities and tempers that do no honor to our nature. If servants come to you bad, you may at least improve them; possibly almost change their nature. Here follows, then, a receipt to that effect: - Receipt for obtaining good servants. - Let them observe in your conduct to others just the qualities and virtues that you would desire they should possess and practice as respects you. Be uniformly kind and gentle. If you reprove, do so with reason and with temper. Be respectable, and you will be respected by them. Be kind, and you will meet kindness from them. Consider their interests, and they will consider yours. A friend in a servant is no contemptible thing. Be to every servant a friend; and heartless, indeed, will be the servant who does not warm in love to you. FANCY NEEDLEWORK. — Instructions in Crochet. — Perhaps no kind of work has ever attained such popularity as Crochet. Whether as a simple trimming, as an elaborate quilt, or as a fabric, almost rivalling point lace, it is popular with every woman who has any time at all for fancy work, since it is only needful to understand the stitches, and the terms and contractions used in writing the descriptions of the different designs, to be enabled to work with ease the most beautiful pattern that ever appeared in crochet. The crochet hook should be very smooth, made of fine steel, and fixed in handles. The "Tapered Indented" hook, which has the size engraved on the handle, will be found convenient, from its quality, and saving trouble of referring to a gauge. The marks used in our crochet recipes are simple, consisting chiefly of printers' marks, such as crosses, daggers, asterisks, etc. They are used to mark repetitions. It will be seen that wherever a mark is used, another similar one is sure to be found; the repetition occurring between the two. Sometimes one repetition occurs with |