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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Oct. 



"Peter, my boy," said my father, after hearing 

 my story, "I am glad you did not deny your guilt. 

 I regret you did not play the man when your mis- 

 fortune happened, by going to Mr. Comerford at 

 once. But I honor you for frankly and truth- 

 fully answering my question. I have paid for the 

 ■window. Go. Be more careful hereafter about 

 tossing old china in the street, and, above all, if 

 you ever should be unlucky or foolish enough to 

 meet with a similar accident don't run away like 

 a sneak. Act the part of a thoroughly honest 

 boy, and own your fault at once." 



I promised I would, and I tried to keep my 

 promise. The advice my father gave me I com- 

 mend to you, hoping that you will remember that 

 it is honest, noble, and manly to confess a fault, 

 ■while to conceal is to act the part of a coward. — 

 Sunday School Advocate. 



A KUIWED CHARACTEB. 



Not long since, in a certain neighborhood, a 

 man was wandering in search of employment. 

 He called at a respectable farmer's house, and 

 told his errand. 



"What is your name?" asked the man. 



"Jonathan Gilman," was the reply. 



"Jonathan Gilman, the same that lived near 

 here when a boy ?" 



"The same, sir." 



"I will not employ you then." 



Poor Jonathan, surprised at such a reply, 

 passed on to the next farmer's ; but the same re- 

 ply was given. He soon came in sight of an old 

 Bchool-house. 



"Ah !" said he, "I understand it now. I was 

 a 8chool-boy there once, but what kind of a 

 Bchool-boy ? Lazy and disobedient. Although 

 I am now in a measure reformed, they all think 

 me the same kind of a man as I was a boy. O, 

 that I had done my duty when at school — then 

 again could I dwell pleasantly in the land of my 

 birth." 



School-boys and school-girls, please remember 

 that your school-mates will be likely to look upon 

 you in manhood or womanhood as they did in 

 youth. Then, in your schooldays, prepare for no- 

 ble men and noble women. — The Gem. 



LADIES' DEPARTMENT. 



I CAN HARDLY KEEP MY BOY HOME 



EVENINGS. 



What will he do then when he is older? queried 

 we, as we heard a father speak thus of his little 

 son, only seven years old. Why can he not keep 

 him at home ? Ay ! here is the difficulty, he is 

 a very restless, active boy, and cannot sit still 

 five minutes unless his mind is diverted with 

 some childish amusement. He is very fond of 

 pictures, but his mother complains that he is too 

 much trouble when attending to them ; he wants 

 the table or wall covered with them, or if draw- 

 ing them, wants too much of her attention to en- 

 courage him. 



Poor boy, his mind is filled with none of the 

 perplexing cares and plans that employ the moth- 

 er's, but is in search of something to occupy it. 



Is it wise, mothers, to discourage the little 



ones from attending to innocent, fireside amuse- 

 ments, because that to encourage them requires 

 time and attention ? What mother would not 

 rather spend half an hour every evening in mak- 

 ing drawings or some other amusement agreeable 

 and attractive to her little boy, thereby cultiva- 

 ting a love of home and home pleasures, than in 

 after years to find him seeking entertainment and 

 companions abroad, most likely among the disso- 

 lute and degraded, because he has no love of 

 home, and can find no enjoyment there ? Do not 

 many mothers err in this matter, and afterwards 

 wonder why they cannot keep their children at 

 home ? — Mother's Journal. 



THE POWER OF LOVE. 



To the hearts of all us women, love is a neces- 

 sity ; and a man who understands that, has a 

 power in his hands. Many have neglected it and 

 many have grossly misused it. Where and how 

 your husbands have failed, it is not for me to de- 

 cide ; one thing only I will say to you. My late 

 husband told me one day of a King of Spain, on 

 whose foot a burning cinder fell out of the fire. 

 He would have thrown it off", but it occurred to 

 him that it was not seemly for a king to do so ; 

 he therefore called his minister. The minister 

 said that it was not his business, and gave the 

 command to one of the pages ; the page was of 

 noble birth, and therefore called a chamber- 

 lain ; but before he could come the cinder had 

 burnt the shoe through to the foot. Dear lady, 

 when a grief, like a red-hot cinder, falls upon your 

 heart, do not stop, thinking whose proper duty it 

 is to remove it, otherwise your heart may be burnt 

 through and through. Seize it boldly, with our 

 Lord's help, and throw it away, even though fin- 

 ger and thumb should be a little burnt ; that hurt 

 will soon heal. — Matrimonial Quarrels. 



Piy Money. — The origin of "pin money" was 

 as follows : Toward the close of the fifteenth cen- 

 tury, an epoch that makes a transition style in 

 the dress of ladies, pins were looked upon with 

 great favor as New Years' gifts. They displaced 

 the old wooden skewer, previously used to fasten 

 ladies' dresses, which no effort of skill, no bur- 

 nishing of embellishment, could convert into a 

 sightly appendage. Pins, in that simple age of 

 the world, were luxuries of high price, and the 

 gift was frequently compounded for in money, an 

 allowance that became so necessary to the wants 

 of ladies of quality, that it resolved itself at last 

 into a regular stipend, very properly called "pin 

 money." — N. Y. Ledger. 



Unmarried Ladies. — The single state is no 

 diminution of the beauties and the utilities of 

 the female character ; on the contrary, our pres- 

 ent life would lose many of the comforts, and 

 much, likewise, of what is absolutely essential to 

 the well-being of every part of society, and even 

 of the private home, without the unmarried fe- 

 male. The single woman is as important an ele- 

 ment of social and private happiness as the mar- 

 ried woman. The utilities of each are diff'erent ; 

 but it is vulgar nonsense, unworthy of manly 

 feeling, and discreditable to every just one, to de- 

 preciate the unmarried condition. 



