Year: 1878

fdence and love of the tender family
affections, and every heart is open to the
truth, like the unfolded rose, to receive
the gathering dews. The ties of love
between parents and children, and bro
theirs and sisters, are thus cemented
more and more, and varied charms and
pleasures are constantly open through
this medium to make home very par
adise. If the parents would introduce
this exercise in their families, they
would soon see the levity and giddiness
that make up the conversation of too
many circles giving away to refinement
and chaste dignity. Read to your chill
dren, and encourage them to read to you,
instead Of reading your papers and books
in silence and laying them away.


DON'T STIMULATE THE YoUNG.-If
you give to healthy man of twenty,
who has never tasted it, either a cup of
tea or coffee, it will keep him awake all
night. If you give to one who has new
er drank fermented or distilled liquors
glass of beer, wine. or weak whiskey
and water, it will make him more or less
dizzy, and perhaps give him a headache.
If you persuade one who has never smok-
ed to try cigar. it will probably nau-
seate him, and for a time make him Sc
verely sick Now, what is the conclu-
sion from these facts Simply that tea,
coffee, fermented and. distilled liquors
and tobacco are in their nature medici-
nal i; are, in brief, drugs, and that, at
least while the body is growing, while
he still has superabundance of vital
force, it does not need either the preser-
vative properties of tea or coffee, or the
digestive and tonic ones of wine, beer
or brandy, or the soothing one of tobac-
co, to keep it in health and well-being !;
but that, on the contrary, when the
youthful system is in its natural state
, and either is offered it, disturbance, more
or less pronounced, is the result. What
terrible responsibility, then, do not mo-
theirs and fathers incur who from boy
hood allow their little children to drink
tea and coffee-nay, before the little
things think of asking for it tempt them
to sip it out of their own teaspoon!


GOLDEN HAIR AT THE CHANoEL.-A
friend living in Philadelphia has sweet,
golden-haired little daughter, aged three
years, who is devoted to her father, and
endeavors, after her baby fashion, to
govern her actions by his own. This
habit causes much amusement in the
family, though the little one seems quite
unconscious that she is the cause of il
all. Not long ago the child attended
divine service for the first time with her
father, and sat quietly and gravely in
the pew until the close of the sermon
1t chanced to be communion Sunday
and Mr.. -, being a communicate
went with others toward the chancel
unconscious that his little daughter was
following him. As he knelt and bowed
his head, the baby of three years beside
him also knelt and bowed her sweet fac,
upon her tiny hands. Those who saw
the touching sight were affected almos
to tears, and nobody attempted to re
move the small communicate. Not unit
my friend rose to return to his seat die
he discover the child, who also rose, anG
slipping her little hand in his. walked
gravely toward the pew. The clergyman
speaking of it afterward, said it was, il
his opinion, the most beautiful sight b,
had ever seen.-Huper's Magazine.