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Plata Talks to American Women.--No.13, 



toLLowiNn, or accompanying, in a course o 

 mental culture, the acquirement of the art of read 

 ing, we should advise thai of penmanship. By the 

 use of the pen, much knowledgo which might oth- 

 erwise be lost, may be permanently secured. In e 



to make frequent abstracts of the author's senti- 

 ments, and of the instruction conveyed in his work. 

 Blank books should be furnished them for preser- 

 vation, and in which they may be allowed to write 



concerning, the subject which has engaged their 

 attention. They may thus becomo accustomed, 

 very pleasantly, to composition. And, as aiding 

 further the easy acquisition of the latter very useful 

 art, they should be pormitted and encouraged to 

 frequent letter-writing, and to the keeping of a 

 journal of their daily life. This latter employment 

 may also become the means, if conducted under the 

 direction of a judicious mother, of exerting a pow- 

 erful moral influence. Tbe child's diary should 

 ever be open to the maternal eye. How pleasantly 

 might she spend a half hour eacb evening with her 

 children, recalling the incidents of the day, the 

 sources of their enjoyment, the lessons they havo 

 learned, whether physical, mental or moral, and 

 assisting them in classifying and arranging all for 

 an entry into their diaries. And it has occurred 

 to us that a family journal, kept perhaps by so 

 older member, might bo useful. Here, on oppo: 

 pages, might be recorded the plciistinl and the i 

 pleasant incidents which have taken place, t 

 memoranda made of everything worthy of special 

 notice, as new ideas, moral sentiments illustrated 

 Ac. In the moral discipline of the family, this 

 saight be made a powerful instrument for I 

 accomplishment of good. And how pleasant, 

 after years, for ihe children to be able to look oi 

 these records of the past, to trace the growth of 

 their own minds, and the advancement of 



thy the information you would convey of his error 

 show him that although his conclusion is wrong 

 yet he has done nobly in his search, and by furtbei 

 trial may very likely succeed, — if necessary pu 1 

 him upon the right track, and his ambition will l« 

 likely to remain unquciubed, and he be ready for 

 renewed effort. 



But, while nothing discouraging should 1 

 and a great deal of encouragement given 

 child, theff is a limit to the praise which should 

 be bestowed. He should he made to feci that 

 his duty to do the best he can, and to look for bis 

 greatest reward in the approbation of Goo, and tli 

 consciousness of baring done right. His rncnli 

 attainments should not often be spoken of in con 

 pany, and tbe parent should he watchful of the let 

 dency to self-conceit, lie should be made to fei 

 how very little he knows or what is to be knowr 

 how very little the wisest of mankind have teamed 

 of the mysteries of Nature. Thus may his desire 

 to learn be kept brightly burning, while his heart 

 is humble. Thus will he occupy a teachable posi- 

 tion, and there may be anticipated a rapid advance - 

 ment in knowledge. But if the idea obtains with 

 him that he already " knows a little more than any- 

 body else," he will see little necessity of further 

 exertion, and be likely to content himself with very 

 imperfect culture. 



Each mother should try to stimulate within her 

 children the laudable ambition of " true nobleness" 

 — the ambition tooVsonn-MiVioin the world. They 

 should bo reminded of their indebtedness to society, 

 mid of their duty to pay up that indebtedness with 

 II usury; and this they should be taught it will 

 ■ impossible for them to do if they lay away in 

 napkin the talent with which they have been 

 intrusted, and repose iu "imbecile idleness." Ac- 

 tion, action, should be taught them as tbe watch- 

 word of the true life. They should learn to look upon 

 labor as tbe wise ordination of (loo, without which 



less of beings. The pearls upon tbe temples of the 

 humble laborer in the field should be in their eyes 

 gems of the purest lustre — the silver threads that 

 gleam out among the locks of the noble thought- 

 toiler, as but the record of the lines of light which 

 have radiated from his brain its sunbeams in 



THE SONG OF OCEAN. 



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tmg, spelling 



In connection with rending and 

 and defining will naturally bo ti 

 cewivcly will the child be introduced to other 

 studies. In everything there should be an aim at 

 thoroughness — at mtnUil discipline. The child 

 should learn to think. It is thinking which con- 

 stitutes the great difference between Ihe intellec- 

 tual giant, and the mental Lilliputian. The one 

 may have had greater opportunities, but thinking 

 alone has caused those opportunities t© benefit 

 him. It «a* thought that led Galileo to the con- 

 clusion thai the world moved, that led Harvey to 

 ascertain the fact of the circulation of the blood, 

 that led COLtninns to the discovery of America. 

 that led Nkwtox to adopt the theory of grav italion, 

 that led Franklin to identify lightning with elec- 

 tricity, and Moast to the invention of the Electric 

 Telegraph. Thought has been the parent of all tbe 

 noble works which fill our libraries,— third. r> hove 

 been the individuals whose names have been writ- 

 ten upon " the walls of fame," and live in the 

 hearts of a grateful posterity. Teach, then, the 

 child to thinl— to reason— to invalidate/ When 

 informed how an effect results from a certain cause 

 lead him to inquire also why H is so. This little 

 word "why," — frame it iu gilt and hang it up in 

 your school-room, a motto for each day's practice ! 

 For the exercise of tho reasoning and investigat- 

 ing faculties of her children, it would be well for 

 the mother to have at hand a list of scientific and 

 Other questions, from which she may occasionallv 

 Beleetf-Bij .>nce a week,— one for their oxamina- 

 tion. This will add varietr and interest to their 

 •Indies. Care should be taken that the questions 

 M acted he adapted to the degree of advancement 

 "" l UjWlMtu.il discipline which the child has 

 ■niau.e.i n lll( he may not be disheartened by 



jeiaa edly Ming of ^^ ^ ^ ^^ ^ ^ 



Ul . " ltMl b« such questions as ho can 



Mt W bTUuE , 't« W,d Vh * mke mi * l * lk «. d ° 



g "gat litem, discourage him from try- 

 ing igun. ftLow him kindly, Md carefully, how 

 and why he is wrong, . Qd be surc 

 credit tor ill he deserve,. , n Uie ., .. M ,"" dl,t 

 (ulncss.and thoroughness of h laiQT0Mj „, lt]ons k \ 

 word of encouragement from the mother howtik 

 •nelocWcthriUwiUit give new Hr, !ollH : il( . 'J 

 ing spirit! The child has. perhaps, labored hard 

 has become all Bushed with excitement at tl ' 

 thought that he has achieved a triumph — bow like 

 a chill will come over bis heart the idea that *i] L j s 



i avail ! But guard v 



There is in the world too much of the pride of 

 iselessness. It may not assume in any mil 

 ,etly tliii phase of appearance to him who cherishes 

 t, but what else is that aristocracy which sa; 

 ,m greater thau thou," because of Ihe wealth which 

 eleases my hands and my head from toil, becalm 

 tmf "lily bands'" and unbrowDed face? Oh, let 

 is feel, let our children feel, that Goo made labor 

 honorable when he created the world,— that Jbsds 

 CnuisT dignified it when ho worked at the humble 

 trade of the carpenter ! Have not the truly noble 

 ages had respect to this ordinance ? Did not 

 nxatus, after having toiled in the cause of his 

 country, return to his toil at the plow? Did not 

 Washington, ofler the most arduous labors as the 

 Father of his Country, retire fo his Mount Vernon, 

 that he might labor on in the humbler avocation of 

 rmorr Why did not these heroes of patri- 

 having seated themselves on the pinnacle of 

 honor, fold their hands, and repose iu the luxury of 

 iwnfamc? They were too much mm to doit. 

 Never let us be guilty of giving to the world chil- 

 dren who shall shrink from bearing their part 

 faithfully, whether their duty lie in tbe field of 



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lint something more than the </...■;>,: to be, and to 

 do, something more than a willingness to under- 

 take duties which arc "thrust upon them," must 

 exist in the miods of those who would become 

 truly great and wise. "The louger I live," re- 

 marks Ga-THE, "the more certain I am that the 

 great difference between men, the great and the in- 

 significant, is energy— invincible determination— 

 an honest purpose once fixed— and then victory." 

 We must arouse our children's energies. Tbe 

 genuine Yankee " go-a-headitiveness " should be 

 stirred up within them; they must feel that to 

 accomplish anything great, there must be grea 

 effort, and that the reward is worthy the toil 

 Point out to them how great have beeri the exer- 

 tions of the Hcubolots, tho Wilsons, the Kanes 

 the Millers, who have so indelibly written their 

 names upon the temples of science ; of the Wasr- 

 inotons, the Jbtfebso.vs, the Aoams, and the Frank- 

 lins, who have engraven theirs so deeply in tht 

 hearts of their countrymen ; of the Fails, the Lu 



, the Weslbys, the Chalmers, the Whitb- 



s, who have done so much for religion ; of the 

 Howards, tbe Fnis, the Nightingales, whose 



j will never be forgotten while human hearts 

 bleed, and the angel of Philanthropy finds a dwel- 

 ling-place in human souls. 



in order that the requisite energy be devel- 

 oped, physical health is almost indispensable. How 



mind dependent from childhood upon a poor, 



weakly body, be expected to arouse itself to 

 great endeavor? And how cau a frame borne 

 down by disease, sustain long the additional bur- 

 den of laborious exertion ? But let the vital forces 

 be strong, let health bound like a mountaiu stream 

 through the arteries, and then, with a mind prop- 



isciplined, and a heart governed by Gospel 

 principles, we may took for something worthy of 



nily— of beings created in the image of Goi 



: Chilli's Answer.— Little Nellie L., bad lost 

 it her, and her mother was poor. Her sweet 

 ■r and her winning ways gained her many 

 friends. Among them was an excellent lady, Miss 

 A glimpse of Nellie's bright face peeping in at 

 door alwoys brought a smile of peculiar tender- 

 is over Miss N.'s placid features. She loved to 

 by the child, softly stroking lit-r Lair, and while 

 gazing thoughtfully into her smiling eyes, would 

 often say, "Poor, poorNclliel " 



When Nellie shook her head, with o heart too 



happy to forbodc evil, her friend would caress her 



ill more fondly, and then say, " Poor little Nellie!" 



The child's bcurl seemed troubled by these pity- 



g words, tor she asked oue day,—" Why do you 



11 mo poor? Please don't, MissN. I'm not poor; 



why, I've got twenty-five cents and a good mother I" 



Rich little Nellie," S3td her friend. "A good 



mother I Ah, how long I was in learning whai this 



one already knows." "A good mother" — 



any carthlv treasure hare made her so trulv 



riel 



THOROUGHNESS. 



Thoroughness is a quality indispensable tojSrtl- 

 rate success in any business or pursuit. It is the 

 product of energy, patience, and perseverance — 

 difficulties and perform the 

 itience to wait for slow results, and 

 xatious that arise from losses and 

 s; and perseverance to keep the 

 ;re, in the harness, when every in- 

 o divert it from its proposed object. 

 93 in the sales-room gives an aspect 

 and order; gets rid of the rubbish 

 on the shelves, and lades them with salable goods ; 

 attends with alertness 

 dispatches duties with Deatness and precision, and 

 gives a business character to the establishment 

 In the counting-room it keeps with accuracy 



any hour he may know whether he is on the safe 

 waters of success, or hovering near the shoals of 

 bankruptcy. 



Iu the work-shop it produces the beat specimens 

 of art, and finds reputation abroad for the quality 

 of its manufactures. It finds for the mechanic 

 ready employment, and insures him the highest 

 wages, while, at the same time, it adds to the cor- 

 rectness of his eye and the skill of his hand. It 

 from the condition of ap- 

 prentice to that of employer, while his careless aud 

 less thorough fellow-workman remains, in truth a 

 t/rney-man, journeying from place to place in 

 ut ili of employment. 



In the school-room it may not always distinguish 



c scholar who takes the prises, or the lead in his 



isses, but it will not be found wanting in the one 



lio is to make the man of strongest, soundest 



ind, or the one most lilJely to he "heard of" in 



the future. It is the thorough scholar, be that 



labors with a determined will to know all witbiu 



his reach upon the subject he is studying, and not 



2 that is ambitious to get over the greatest amouut 



'ttxt, who gets the discipline. 



Thoroughness on the farm is the precursor if not 



the attendant of fertility aud profit. It turns up 



the unemployed subsoil, converts the low-lands 



and swamps into fertile meadows and grain-fields, 



seed while it increases the produc- 



THE CHAJJGESG SEASONS. 



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ltd thick showers an 







n tho poles and blazing tone* eon lined 







teaveo aligned. 







ne obliquely ruu, 



And" 



ar the figured belt ih 



[Sothtt/i/'t FlrffU, 



Toe 



contemplation of 



he changing year is to 







lling interest, perhaps 



rendered more so by th 



e beautiful poetry of a 







. a GOWEBB. A thomo 







id Sp'hm f;n, and Shaks 



PUHI 





passion. Spring, Sum 



heed them not as we should. .Spring points to the 

 seed-time, to the singing of birds, the hamming 

 of insects, the blooming of flowers, the gi 

 grassy meadows. The scar and yellow heath puts 

 on a new garb, beautiful and eofl as the velvet 

 down of other years. In reflecting on the beauties 

 of spring, we are led to say with How in. in his 

 Book of tht Seasons: — " Oh, that I could but 

 touch a thousand bosoms with that melancholy 

 which often visits mine wheu I behold little chil- 

 dren endeavoring to extract amusement from the 

 dust, and straws, and pebbles of squallid 

 alleys, shut out from tho free and glorious counte- 

 of Nature, and think how differently the 

 children of the peasantry are passing the goldeu 

 hours of childhood, wandering with bare heads 

 md unshod feet, perhaps, but singing a childish, 

 wordless melody through vernal lanes, or prying 

 thousand sylvan, leafy nooks by tho liquid 

 of running waters, amidst the fragrant 

 heath, or on the flowery lap of tho meadows, oc- 

 1 with winged wonders without end. Oh, 

 that I could but baptize every heart with the 

 tympathetic feeling of what the city-pent child is 

 condemned to lose; how blank, and poor, and joy- 

 ■s must bo tho images that fill its infant bosom 

 that of tho country one, whose mind 



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ill, and surrounds the farm-house 



tivcncssoftl 



with choice orchards i 



In connection with any useful oi 

 suit it is a quality which never fa 

 respect. The thorough teacher is 

 pupils and by his patrons; ihethoi 

 by his employers and those who r 

 wares; the thorough business m 

 whom he transacts business j audi 

 oughness is an evidence of good ser 

 endowments of character. 



Spring time is the loveliest of the year, all things 

 art anew, all life is full of animation. The swal- 

 low skims the placid lakes and sings to his nest 

 the wall. Tbe glow-worm emits a tiny spark 

 nightfall to guide him in the shades of night. 

 The robin builds her nest in the apple tree by the 

 door; sings us sweet notes of i 

 of day, and hops upon the old 

 pick her scanty meal. Tbe innocent Iamb skips 

 .nd jumps by its mother's side, while the shepherd 

 pipes his horn to call his flocks from the neighbor- 

 ing hills, and leads them away to the fold. We 

 talk of Spring, we read of Spring, and poets sing 

 of Spring. Yes. our hearts grow glad at tbe ap- 

 proach of Spring when we read what has been 

 written by our loved poetess, I-. II.Sioocrnby: 



GOD'S PROMISES. 



Win 



1 griei'iiis pre 



n the Loan, promises that apply 



those who trust i 



to every case, that moe 



sweet promises ! what could wo do wilhou 



What u statT to lea 



through the steep i 



what an anchor to stay the s __ 



adversity rushes in upon us— and what a light to 



illumine our hearts in the deeper than midnight 



gloom of affliction's darkneis, 



" He maketh me to He down in green pastures ; 

 He leadeth mo beside the still waters." Oh, hap- 

 less wanderer, led by the syren's voice over track- 

 weury from following the mirage of 



t for the green pastui 



wing 1 





llU'l.' sale n 

 111 



i the desert ph 



. but be 

 reach out for tho 

 'and quickly bring 





( of 



ingv, 



There is a happiness, there is a "pcaco that 

 passeth understanding," that may be experienced, 

 - , but that 

 hallowed peace oftcner folds its wings in the straw- 

 thatched cottage— in the haunts or poverty— than 

 : t the stately homes of affluence. 

 In tho round of earthly pleasure 



Trodden by tho young and gay, 

 Long I sought tho priceless treasnro 



Rise, t 





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"THE SHADOWS WE CAST." 



In this great world of sunshine and shadow, 



we are constantly castingsbadowson those around 

 us, and receiving shadows from them in return. 

 There is no pathway in life w Inch is not sometimes 

 in the shade, and there is no one who walks ovei 

 which way they tend 





nd then, 



often do wc, by 



careless act, cast a shadow 



i is longing for sunlight. 



md, by a cold greeting, 



Tue Dying Nsvm Wear.— It is a striking fact 

 —the dying never weep. The circle of sobbing, 

 agonizing hearts around produces not one tear. 

 Is it that he is insensible and stiff already in the 

 chill dissolution* That cannot be; for he asks for 

 Ins lather's huod.a-. if to gain strtngthiu the mor- 

 tal struggle, and leans on tbe breast of mother, 

 brother, or sister, with still conscious affection; 

 and just before expiring, at eve, after a long day's 

 converse with the Angel of Summons, he says to 

 his oldest brother— the last audible good night 

 of earth— " Kiss me, kiss me!" It must bo be- 



our earthly crying aud weeping. They are face 

 to face with higher and holier beings, with the 

 Father iu heaven, and his angel throng, led on by 

 the Sun himself; and n but are griefs of a morning, 

 of a dying farewell— be it that they are shed 

 by the dearest on earth— in that vision bright of 

 nmortal life and everlasting reunion ! 



It- a man all his lifelong should do no other good 

 ling than educate his child right in the fear of 

 od, then I thiuk this, may be an ntouenn ut for bis 

 neglects. The greatest winch thou canst do is 

 this — that thou educated thy child well,— 



I LtOM 



with tbe rest. LI 

 thoughtless word c 



Ihuv often does th 



cast a gloom over the happy, trusting 

 young wife, who, it may be, has waited anxiously 

 for tbe first souud of his footsteps to give him a 

 joyous welcome to his home. How often has the 

 parent, by a harsh reproof, chilled the ever-flowing 

 spring of confidence and love which is bubbling 

 up from the fountains of the heart oi the innocent 

 prattler at his knee. How often are tho bright 

 rays of hope torn from the clinging grasp of the 

 ;ls of those Wirn out by poverty and by the 

 iding conflict of life, by the stinging 



ridicule, or the sordid i; 

 world honors — aye, loves 



dues Hie child -even after i 



< honor. How often 

 has grown to the full 

 bloom of manhood, and is clad in garments of 

 strength nnd beauty — bring sorrow to the parent 

 already tottering ou the brink of eternity. Then 

 beware, lest you cast a deeper shadow over those 

 which are already darkening Ins happiness. The 

 shadows wo cast — can we escape them? Can 

 look buck, as we walk on in life's journey, and 

 no shndowy marks about our footprints? 



r gross tsaprineing 



it living waters 



oul'l tumultuous Bow; 



rtb's sons anil daughter* 



of murder. At the conclusion of the trial, I asked 

 him what could induce him to stain his bands with 

 the blood of a follow being. Turning his blood- 

 shot eyes full upon me, he replied, in a voice of 

 despair, 'Mr. Webster, in my youth I spent the 

 holy Sabbath in evil amusements, instead of fre- 

 quenting the house of prayer and praise.' Could 

 we go back to the early years of all hardened 

 criminals, I believe, firmly believe, that their first 

 departure from the path of morality, was when 

 they abandoned the Sabbath School, and their sub- 

 sequent crimes might thus be traced back to the 

 neglect of youthful religious instruction. 



"Many years ago I spent a Sahbath with Thomas 

 Jefl'erBou, at bis residence in Virginia. It was in 



ie month of June, and the weather was delight- 

 ft" " 



al. I remarked, 



Ho 



r sweetlv, bow very sw 





ounds 



hal Sabbath 



jell !' 



That distingu 



shed 











ed lost in tho 



Jfht, 



nd thee 



replied 



— ■' 





dear Webster, 





melts 



the hca 







our passions, 





okesu 



boys oga 



a.' 









Sidney Smith on Esjo 

 ways happier for having 

 you make them happy noi 

 twenty years hence by tht 

 hood passed with a due m 

 geiu-e, under fond and wi 

 the whole of life a feeling 

 extreme old age is the very last 

 time can erase from the 

 meat, however inconsiderable, 

 present moment. A man is th 

 from having once made an agree 

 for any length of time with pleai 

 joyed any considerable interval 

 which contributes to rendci 

 ivo to the scenes before them 

 back to a world that is past, an 

 newed again. 



vent.— -Mankind 

 icen huppy — so that if 

 , you make them happy 

 memory of it. A child- 

 xture uf rational indul 

 e parents, ditluses ovei 

 calm pli 



d i.i 



happier for life 

 detour, or lived 



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tple. 



aves- — Sacred places for pure tho'ts 

 dilation are the little graves in tho 

 church-yard. They arc the depositories of tho 

 mother's sweetest joy, half unfolded buds of inno- 

 cence, humanity by the frost of time, etc vet a 

 singlo canker worm of corruption bad nestled 

 among its embryo petals. Callous, indeed, must 

 bo the heart of him who can stand by a little grave- 

 side a ' 



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belongs alono to God and hea' 

 preacher at his feet tells him of life began and life 

 ended, without a stain ; and surely this bo the 

 spirit-laud, enlightened by the sun of infinite g"»d- 

 ness whence emanated the soul of that brief So- 

 journer among us. How swells tbe heart of tho 

 parents, with mournful joy, while standing by the 

 cold earth-bed of lost little odmI— moornfid be- 

 a sweet treasure is taken away— joyful, bo- 

 that precious jewel glitters iu tho diadem of 

 the Itedeemer. 



It,., ,i, 



;b the hand of the friendless; smile on thesad well _ 



and dejected ; sympathize with those in trouble; the ubyss of 



■ive everywhere to diffuse around you sunshine pli 

 d joy. If you do this you wdl be 



9 be be- seek a place of repose 



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