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representatives of an aggreptiop of your pen-
nies and mine. Primarily, as the result of in-
dustry, secondly, through soonomy comes the
possibility of wealth. The men of the North,
save some exceptional few, are certainly not
making more money than in the past, while
the expenses of almost e'erything brought in-
to the famlly are largely increased, to which is
added a large amount of direct tax and gener-
al charity.

  Those who find themselves thus situated are
a large proportion of the men still at home,
and upon whom the burden of the war fairly
rests. Most of these may, by extraordinary
efforts, meet the unusual expenditures and keep
up family luxuries and style as of old. But
does a true woman wish to see husband, father
or son putting forth such effort? Would she
net rather have aU the time and energy that
may be spared from the regular duties of busi-
ness life given to an intelligent acquaintance
with the condition of our affairs as a people?
There is not a more mortifying sight to me,
than to observe how the time and energies of
many really good men and women are so ab-
sorbed in the business of just living, getting
along, that scarcely scraps are left to read
about, or think of, the great issues of the day.
By retrenchment women can, at least, lift from
the hands of their natural protectors much of
the goading burthen of those expenses that
may be curtailed, leaving them more at ease in
the meeting of those that cannot.
                               Mas. HOYT.


  THE DINNzR HouR.-There are few changes
in social customs more interesting th n those
relating to the hours of repast.  In an old
manuscript, treating of Henry VIII's house-
hold, dinner is ordered at ten o'clock, A. M.,
and supper at four o'clock, P. M. The Duke
of Northumberland's household book shows
that the dinner hour, in the middle of the 17th
century, was eleven o'clock. A hundred years
later, we fiuid the members of the Royal Socie-
ty Club dining at one o'clock, and the hour
was subeequently periodically altqred to two,
three, four and five o'elock Thislast hour
continued in force from 1818 to 1868, when it
was ordered that dinner, be put on tb. table st
six o'clock precisely, without wa iting for fur-
ther orders.-Notea and Quaut.



          Be Gedtle with thy Wife.
      Be gentle far you little know
        bow man tisa rim I
      AMlhsub to g*e hoy twa be oaolL
        To her of giant the.
      Be gentleI thmgh pm.almce that up
        iWy pauk a mtmdmgf t-r,
      The heart may beat with kindness yet,
        And Jo, I* be Wooevm
      Bet 114! wVI 1   1 Oftpia
        a woman's l3t to bear;
      Then yield her what support thou cans.
        And all her sorrows share.
      Be gentle ! for the noblest hearts
        At ties may have some Erief,
      And even in a pettish word
        UV seek to find relief.
      Be gentle ! for unkladness now
        aV rouse an angry storm.
      That all the after ears of Ufe
        In valn may strve to calm.
      Be gentle! non, are peehct-
        Tbea'rt dearer far than life;
      Then, husband, beat mni still forbear-
        se gentle to thy wile.

          The Bachelor's Warning.

  A friend, vwho for some ten years has endar-
ed with great fortitude the reproaches and sor-
rows incident to bachelor existence, was at
last admitted to the joys of wedded life, on the
13th of last October, and now, like a true
friend to his former forlorn associates, lifts up
this voice in solemn warning. Hear him, ye
wayward, blind young men!
   "Be careful, young man, in the prime of your hfe,
     NO  fO your existence away
   Theb   thing for you Is to hunt you a wife,
     And many her right away I
   A baehebr's lUe Is a horible strife,
   Of arthly existene alone.
   And when he Is dead, and ad hm been chid,
   There's no one can tell where bes gone.


              American Babies.
  I must protest that American Babies are an
unhappy race.    They eat and drink just as
they please; they are never punished: they
are never banished, snubbed and kept in the
back ground as children are kept with us; and
yet are wretched and uncomfortable. My heart
has bled for them as I have heard them squall-
ing by the hour together in agonies of discon.
tent and dyspepsia. Can it be, I wonder, that
children are happier when they are made to
obey orders, and are sent to bed at six o'clock,
than when allowed to regulae their own con-
ductwt that bread and milk is more favorable
to laughter and soft, childish ways, than beef-
steak and pickles three times a day; that an
occasional whipping, even, will condtice to rosy
cheeks ?  It is an idea which -I should never
dare to broach to an American mother, but I



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