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The Mother and her Child. —Some mothers make 
it a practice to go themselves to fetch the candle 
when the children are in bed; and then, if wanted, 
they stay a few minutes and hear any confessions or 
difficulties, and receive any disclosures of which the 
little mind may wish to disburden itself before the 
hour of sleep. Whether then, or at any other time, it 
is well worth pondering what a few minutes of serious 
How to Economize. —Ladies who wish to modern¬ 
ize plain basques, or change cuirasses into the new 
fashion, can now do so by adding to the lower part 
of the two middle forms a straight piece of silk, laid 
in from twenty to twenty-five fine plaits. Breast 
pockets are again in vogue, and there are also reticule 
pockets made to bulge out as if the oval pouch was 
nearly filled. 
The Girl 
^ at the 
I have had Canaries for over eleven years. Have 
two singers now; one ten, one eleven years old. They 
are very fine singers; healthy and happy. I judge by 
their actions. 
I have never | 
had any sick 
(except once, l||||jl|ljjj . 
they got their 
i in [' ‘ : 
led one cold Ipf JjlipK Kin^ 
snap, and 
were trouble- 
some for a |||jpj|^lp r _ ___ 
I washed off 
and the cage 
every day— 
not in salt 
water, tho’. %, 
I give them 
fresh water 
for bathing 
and drinking, 
and canary- 
seed and a bit 
of a cracker K£||& s5®( $*1 V ' 
s o a k e d i n 
milk, every HHg|H|Hr'' 
day. They \"Vit 1 ■_ '*%t 
have some 
dry cracker in 
their cage to 
pick, and 
some cuttle- pplpi§§|pil f-v > 
fish. It takes 
me about ten 
minutes a day ^ kfi&ffB g a g 
to attend to 
them, and 
they give me 
no further 
s racft 
piano and the 
& wa s h b o a rd, 
will spin more 
ifMl ml 
ikri'tfr'J, r yarn for the 
house than for 
gpR/'l tiicstrc ‘ (,t >' vii1 
darn her old 
stockings and 
know how to 
» ^M BpBK^jwBBB8l^aH|3p8ww8l make dough- 
ka a|HBpB§ ^^p^^^M HiWBH n u t s. t h e 
Cy cominsr uirl 
M d> r ./'’.W*' 1 ' ■ *’ „*t > KBiSpii will walk five 
^ miles a day, if 
MflaBPBPBlP need he, to 
keep he r 
skby •• JWaB ' cheeks in 
agBEsSsK .'- *: a glow; will 
mind her 
^MmBaB^^Sg pSafa f-. healih. her 
»-j£s*iSS®ai!affig^iEa£;i56t**^a^ias^Bi physical de¬ 
velopment, 
and her aged 
mother; will adopt a costume both sensible and con¬ 
ducive to health, will not confound hypocrisy with 
politeness, will have the courage to cut an unwelcome 
acquaintance, will not think that refinement is French 
duplicity, that assumed politeness, where hate dwells 
in the heart, is better than outspoken condemnation, 
and will not regard the end of her very being to have 
a beau.— Ex. 
care ! 1 have 
never seen 
any mites, 
lice, or other 
vermin about 
them. I give 
them hemp- 
seed only as a 
treat, as it is 
too heating, 
and birds are 
healthier, I 
think, with¬ 
out it; hut if 
they have 
been 
tomed to it, I am told, will not live when deprived of 
it. I give green stuff—chickweed, plantain-seed, 
lettuce, and sometimes cabbage, in the summer, or 
whenever I have them; now and then, a bit of sponge¬ 
cake and apple ; but these latter are treats for which, 
The Pumpkin Effigy. 
accuS' 
consultation may do in enlightening and rousing, or 
calming, the conscience ; in rectifying and cherishing 
the moral life. It may be Swing to such moments as 
these that humiliation is raised into humility, apathy 
into moral enterprise, pride into awe, and scornful 
blame into Christian piety. Happy is the mother 
who can use such moments as she ought, and put to 
good account the lessons derived therefrom. 
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