Year: 1871

would say to the young wife, do not
imagine that because you have obtained
husband, that your attention to personal
neatness and department may be relaxed
Now, in reality, is the time for you to ex-
hibit superior taste and excellence in the
cultivation of your address, and the be.
comiug elegance of your appearance. If
it required some little care to foster the
admiration of lover, how much more is
requisite to keep yourself lovely in the
eyes of him to whom there is no privacy
or disguise-your hourly companion I?
And if it was due to your lover that you
should always present to him, who pro-
posed to wed and cherish you, neat and
lady-like aspect, how much more is he
entitled to similar mark Of respect, who
has kept his promise with honorable ideli.
ty, and linked all his hopes of future hap
piness with yours? If you can manage
these matters without appearing to study
them,s much the better. Some husbands
are impatient at the routine of the toilette,
and not unreasonably so they possess
active and energetic spirits, sorely dis
turbed by any waste time. Some wives
have discovered an admirable facility in
dealing with this difficulty; and it is a
secret which, having been discovered by
some, may be known to all, and is we'll
worth the finding out.


New PUBLIcATIoNs.-The Appletons
have issued this week batch of books of
unusual value and variety. Foremost
among them is Darwin sThe Descent of
Man,and Selection IN Relation to Ser, the
most elaborate presentation yet made of
the Darwinian theory of development,
and as interesting as novel. This vol
ume Of four hundred pages is the first
half ofthe work only the other is speed
lily to follow. Westward By rail is the
last book on America by British tourist,
in this case a Scotchman, Mr.. w. f.
Rae. - The good-natured and generally
sensible character of the work, which first
appeared in the form ofletters to the Lon
don Neacs, has already been noted in our
columns. Thirty pages take Mr.. Rea as
far west as Chicago, so that the main body
of the book is given to the western half OF
this continent. The Recorery of Jerusa-
lam isan English work mot ofprophecy but
of exploration, excavation and discovery
in the Holy Land, by engineer officers
sent out by British enterprise. The Dean
of Westminster supplies an introduction.
The volume is large octave, abundantly
illustrated. Last of all is new edition
of the ever popular Heir Of Redclife, in
two volumes, each of which has fronts.
piece.


A New "LIrrLE GAME."-The latest
thieving operation, which it is presumed
had its origin in New York, was tried
successfully in Boston Wednesday, when
about noon small, keen looking man,
whose only special distinction was pair
of very dirty hands, came up into the
upper part of the Post building, and
wanted to look at vacant rooms. He was
directed to the counting room for that
business, and went down. 1t appeared
that he had stopped the driver of one of
Messrs. Brown d Chicks teams and en-.
gagged him to carry bundle to the Phil.
delphia boat. He told him the bundle
was in the Post building, and got him to
60 in moment with him. He took him
to the third story and left him outside
one of the editorial rooms while he went
in and made the inquiry mentioned above,
which of course was "blind." He came
out hurriedly and told the driver to wait
moment" and went down stairs. The
driver waited several moments and the
man did not appeas and he finally went
to where he left his team, and neither man
nor team was there, and the circumstan-
tial evidence was very strong that both
left at the same time. The team had on
it two cases of dry goods, one belonging
to Barnes a. Ward, and the other to
March Brothers d Co. and w. b. Thorn.
as e. Co., Philadelphia. The goods were
valued at about $500. The team was
found in Chelsea in the evening" and a
case of paper collars and cuffs were found
with it, but at last accounts the other
property had not been recovered.