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have saved us much national scandal. In families of good ancestry, 

 where good manners have been transmitted, we find always the mother a 

 prominent feature in society. In families of no antecedents, those who 

 must make a family, certainly this rule should be even more vigorously 

 followed. We would have no reproach of " fast girls " if dignified mothers 

 watched over their daughters' amusements. 



If parents wish their children to be loving, appreciative, and grateful, 

 they should teach them to reverence and to obey. If they wish them to 

 be graceful, accomplished, refined, they must surround them with these ad- 

 vantages at home. They must teach them not only those principles of 

 good-breeding which spring from the heart, but they must tell them of 

 the immense force which lies in social good-breeding and in pleasant 

 manners. 



And if we could compress into one golden sentence the nearest approach 

 to a formula for home happiness, it would be this : Be as polite to one an- 

 other as if all were strangers. Do not let the intimacy of home break 

 down a single barrier of self-control. Let every member of the family 

 studiously respect the rights moral, intellectual, and physical of every 

 other member. Let each one refrain from attacking the convictions of the 

 other. We should not so treat a stranger. Why our own ? 



" Still in thy right baud carry gentle peace, 

 To silence envious tongues. " 



XIV. 

 ON THE MANAGEMENT OF MONEY. 



BY LORD LYTTON. 



(Addressed chiefly to the Young.) 



I x a work of fiction I once wrote this sentence, which, perhaps, may be 

 found, if considered, suggestive of some practical truths " Money is 

 character," 



In tin- humbler ^rale> of lif.-, certainly character is money. The 

 who gives me his labour in return for the wages which the labour i> 

 worth, plcdiT'^ t-> me something more than his labour he pledges to me 

 certain qualities of his moral being, such as honesty, sobriety, and dili- 

 gence. If. in tl IK- maintain his character, he will have- my 



ibour ; and when 1 want his labour n.. 

 longer, his i.> money's worth to him for somebody else. If, in 



