L OCCUPATIONS. ET parents choose betimes the vocations and courses they mean their children should take, for then they are most flexible; and let them not too much apply themselves to the disposition of their children, as thinking they will take best to that which they have most mind to. Lord Bacon. IT ADVANTAGES OF UNION. T was thus, surely, that intellectual beings of different sexes were intended by their great Creator to go through the world together: thus united, not only in hand and heart, but in principles, in intellect, in views, and in dispositions; each pursuing one common and noble end their own improvement, and the happiness of those around them - by the different means appropriate to their situation; mutually correcting, sustaining, and strengthening each other; undegraded by all practices of tyranny on the one hand, and of deceit on the other; each finding a candid but severe judge in the under standing, and a warm and partial advocate in the heart, of their companion; secure of a refuge from the vexations, the follies, the misunderstandings, and the evils of the world, in the arms of each other, and in the inestimable enjoyments of undisturbed confidence and unrestrained intimacy. Lady Rachel Russell. WAITIN' SUPPER. VA barefit bairns are in the door, TWA A puss in ilka lap; A crawing babie's on the floor, The supper splutters on the fire, The mither, in her matron gown, Is sittin' by the winnock down, And aft she lifts her tender e'e, Gude keep her Johnnie on his way, Rankin. THERE HOME'S ADORNMENT. HERE may be no costly pictures on the walls; but they may be spared, where the living pictures of home joys and home affections are found, in the heart, in love's own natural and beautiful setting. Love, chastity, fidelity to marriage-vows, virtuous endeavors, the Christian view of life, the Christian faith, hope, spirit, and purpose, let the married pair have these, and they have a foundation for home that will not crumble. These will gild with peace and joy the lowliest circumstances, beautify the humblest home, sweeten daily toil, and make common duties, cares, and labors subserve a high and sacred purpose. These will give to competency a new value, as furnishing the means of making home outwardly as well as inwardly attractive, adding to its conveniences and comforts, gratifying a pure taste, and providing the means of intellectual, moral, and spiritual improvement and pleasure. These will impart to wealth a new power for good, by making it the ministering angel of pure and chaste affections; beautifying home, not for vanity and show, but for love and happy influence; multiplying its comforts, that its hospitalities may be multiplied; adding to its chaste elegances, that it may minister to refinement of thought and feeling; and going out on missions of love to bless with its benignant charities other homes less favored. Buds for Bridal Wreath. PARENTAL JOYS AND GRIEFS. THE joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other. Lord Bacon. A CHILDREN'S COURTSHIPS. NARROW cave ran in beneath the cliff: In this the children played at keeping house. Enoch was host one day, Philip the next, While Annie still was mistress; but, at times, Enoch would hold possession for a week. This is my house, and this my little wife.' Mine, too," said Philip; "turn and turn about." 66 When, if they quarrelled, Enoch, stronger made, Tennyson. WHAT ONLY IN THE LORD. HAT the world calls love and mutual inclination is very far from being able to secure the true happiness of the married pair. Not so with what the gospel calls love. Love |