ven by me."

esented their watches to each other; he in an 1, she in a reproachful, attitude.

er think you are too fast, my dear," said the gen

ery sure you are too slow, my dear," said the lady. tch never loses a minute in the four-and-twenty d he.

ine a second," said she.

reason to believe I am right, my love," said the mildly.

n!" exclaimed the wife, astonished.

"What rea

u possibly have to believe you are right, when I am morally certain you are wrong, my love." ly reason for doubting it is, that I set my watch to-day."

un must be wrong then," cried the lady, hastily.d not laugh; for I know what I am saying; the the declination, must be allowed for, in computing e clock. Now you know perfectly well what I ugh you will not explain it for me, because you are I am in the right."

my dear, if you are conscious of it, that is sufWe will not dispute any more about such a trifle. bringing up dinner?"

ey know that you are come in; but I am sure I canmether they do or not.-Pray, my dear Mrs. Nettlethe lady, turning to a female friend, and still er watch in hand, "what o'clock is it by you? nobody in the world hates disputing about trifles so I do; but I own I do love to convince people that I right."

ettleby's watch had stopped. How provoking! Vexng no immediate means of convincing people that in the right, our heroine consoled herself by proto criminate her husband, not in this particular where he pleaded guilty, but upon the general being always late for dinner, which he strenuously

is something in the species of reproach, which

dvances thus triumphantly from particulars to generals, eculiarly offensive to every reasonable and susceptible mind; nd there is something in the general charge of being always ate for dinner, which the punctuality of man's nature cannot asily endure, especially if he be hungry. We should humly advise our female friends to forbear exposing a husband's patience to this trial, or, at least, to temper it with much ondness, else mischief will infallibly ensue.

LESSON CXVIII.

Female Economy.-HANNAH MORE.

LADIES, whose natural vanity has been aggravated by a alse education, may look down on economy as a vulgar atainment, unworthy of the attention of a highly cultivated ntellect; but this is the false estimate of a shallow mind. Economy, such as a woman of fortune is called on to pracise, is not merely the petty detail of small daily expenses, he shabby curtailments and stinted parsimony of a little nind, operating on little concerns; but it is the exercise of sound judgment, exerted in the comprehensive outline of rder, of arrangement, of distribution, of regulations, by which, alone, well governed societies, great and small, subsist She, who has the best regulated mind, will, other things -eing equal, have the best regulated family.

As, in the superintendence of the universe, wisdom is seen its effects; and as, in the visible works of Providence, hat, which goes on with such beautiful regularity, is the esult, not of chance, but of design; so that management, which seems the most easy, is commonly the consequence of he best concerted plan; and a well concerted plan is seldom he offspring of an ordinary mind. A sound economy is a ound understanding brought into action; it is calculation ealized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; is foreseeing consequences, and guarding against them; is expecting contingencies, and being prepared for them. The difference is, that, to a narrow-minded, vulgar econo

ails are continually present; she is overwhelmed ght, and is perpetually bespeaking your pity for and your praise for her exertions; she is afraid see how much she is harassed. She is not satthe machine moves harmoniously, unless she is exposing every secret spring to observation. Litand trivial operations engross her whole soul; nan of sense, having provided for their probable guards against the inconveniences, without being 1 by the casual obstructions, which they offer to scheme. Subordinate expenses, and inconsiderchments, should not swallow up that attention, tter bestowed on regulating the general scale of rrecting and reducing an overgrown establisheforming radical and growing excesses.

LESSON CXIX.

Maternal Influence.-MRS. SIGOURNEY.

education has great power in the establishment abits, which ultimately stamp the character for 1. Under its jurisdiction, the Protean forms of re best detected and eradicated. It is insepara› well-being of woman, that she be disinterested. ht of youth and beauty, she may inhale incense s; but a time will come for nectar and ambrosia the food of mortals. Then the essence of her will be found to consist in imparting it.

ek to intrench herself in solitary indifference, her ndence comes over her, from sources where it is ed, convincing her that the true excellence of her confer rather than to monopolize felicity. When et that her prescribed sphere mingles, with its tness, seasons of deep endurance, anxieties which art can participate, and sorrows for which earth edy, we would earnestly incite those, who gird her

r the warfare of life, to confirm habits of fortitude, selfnunciation, and calm reliance on an Invisible Supporter. We are not willing to dismiss this subject, without induigg a few thoughts on maternal influence. - Its agency, in the lture of the affections, those springs which put in motion e human machine, has been long conceded. That it might so bear directly upon the development of intellect, and the owth of the sterner virtues of manhood, is proved by the bligations of the great Bacon to his studious mother, and e acknowledged indebtedness of Washington to the decisn, to the almost Lacedemonian culture, of his maternal ide.

The immense force of first impressions is on the side of e mother. An engine of uncomputed power is committed her hand. If she fix her lever judiciously, though she ay not, like Archimedes,* aspire to move the earth, she may ope to raise one of the habitants of earth to heaven. Her anger will arise from delay in the commencement of her perations, as well as from doing too little, or too much, after e has engaged in the work. In early education, the inertess which undertakes nothing, and the impatience which tempts all things at once, may be equally indiscreet and tal.

The mental fountain is unsealed to the eye of a mother, e it has chosen a channel, or breathed a murmur. She ay tinge with sweetness or bitterness the whole stream of ture life. Other teachers have to contend with unhappy ombinations of ideas; she rules the simple and plastic eleents. Of her, we may say, she hath "entered into the agazines of snow, and seen the treasures of the hail."

In the moral field, she is a privileged laborer. Ere the ews of morning begin to exhale, she is there. She breaks o a soil, which the root of error and the thorns of prejuce have not preöccupied. She plants germs whose fruit is r eternity. While she feels that she is required to educate, ot merely a virtuous member of society, but a Christian, an gel, a servant of the Most High, how does so holy a charge icken piety, by teaching the heart its own insufficiency! The soul of her infant is uncovered before her. She

* Pronounced Ar-ki-me'-dės.

the images, which she enshrines in that unpollut'y, must rise before her at the bar of doom. it such tremendous responsibility, she teaches the whose life is her dearest care, of the God who and who can measure the extent of a mother's piety, unless his hand might remove the veil, es terrestrial from celestial things?

was a little child," said a good man, "my mother me kneel beside her, and place her hand upon hile she prayed. Ere I was old enough to know she died, and I was left too much to my own Like others, I was inclined to evil passions, but yself checked, and, as it were, drawn back, by a >on my head.

ɩ young man, I travelled in foreign lands, and was many temptations. But when I would have yielde hand was upon my head, and I was saved. 1 eel its pressure, as in the days of my happy infannetimes there came with it a voice, in my heart,-a nust be obeyed-Oh! do not this wickedness, - sin against thy God.''

LESSON CXX.

Knickerbocker's Description of Tea-Parties in New York.-W. IRVING.

pany commonly assembled at three o'clock, and about six; unless it was in winter time, when the hours were a little earlier, that the ladies might get e dark. The tea-table was crowned with a huge h, well stored with slices of fat pork, fried brown, morsels, and swimming in gravy. The company, ed around the genial board, and each furnished , evinced their dexterity in lanching at the fattest his mighty dish;—in much the same manner as -oon porpoises at sea, or our Indians spear salmon 5. Sometimes the table was graced with immense