A Little Good Advice.

ness and goodness , and IIOAV amiable and useful our girls can be and are to society , and to their surroundings . Many a village Sunday School owes much of its attractiveness to those Avho in the prime of youth and gracedo not think it

, beneath them to look after that little flock . Manyaldndlydistrictvisitor can , Avith a smiling face and gentle Avoids , find an avenue to hearts cold and careless .

AVhat is really then a happier time for us all , for a family , or a neighbourhood , and for this cold-creamy , shallowfeeling society of ours just IIOAV , than the bright looks , Avarm hearts , tender sympathies , and guileless innocence of

our young Avomen . Old folks are sometimes apt to groAv hard , egotistical , and sneering , selfish and domineering . They have enjoyed life ( or they think they have ) , to its veriest dregs even , and

now that to them existence is Availing , and their powers are weakening , they are notunfrequently someAvhat impatient of the more vivid hopes of life ' s young morn . They seem at times disposed to believe that young people are more

gay , a good deal " faster " ( to use a slang Avord ) , and not so obedient as they Avere ; Avhereas in truth Avhen they themselves Avere young , their seniors made exactly the same complaint of them . It is in

fact the repetition of the old grievance of all passing generations . Avhich , as they fleet and flit from us , hardly care to realize the stubborn fact , that , another getierationyounger and stronger , more hale and more active , is already

treading on their heels . So runs the Avorld , however , away ; and depend upon it , clear old " laudator temporis acti , " the same faults are found by the old people now with their children , as their children will find

some fine clay with their children . I am therefore going to give a little sound advice , and a little bit of my old mind , to some young and charming friends of mine . Adopt , in the first place , the good old saying , "hurry no man ' s cattle ; " and

don t , m the second place , expedite too rashly that hour Avhich casts the little bark on the untried ocean of matrimony , and Avhich too often exchanges the liberty of life for the slavery of society , and the free charter of a social

or family circle for the colder bondage of the Avorld . More ill-assorted unions , and more ill-matched couples , and more unhappy after-lives , arise out of precipitate and ill-considered marriagesin which old

, folks and young folks are equally blameable than , perhaps , socially from any other given cause . George meets Dinorah at an evening party . He is delighted Avith her , she knoAvs

something about him . Deep are the sympathy of music , the charm of conversation , and the language of the eyes . George is delighted , Dinorah is confiding ; Dinorah gets animated , and

George goes home " spooney . " They meet next day ; and the next day , and the next clay , they see each other in the park or at a ball . He soon betrays to his observant military friend " the Colonel" that he

, is done for , AVIIO repeats it at his club , Avith decided emphasis . At last George plucks up courage , confronts the stem " paler , " is remitted to the " Damosel , " and rises from his knees , happy and enjoyed .

" Oh fortunati minium ! " Then come friendly congratulations , Avedding presents , the awful day , a " plain gold ring , the parson , and St . George ' s ;" " the marriage breakfast , the speeches , the old shoes , the travelling carriage , the honeymoon .

It probably will not be the lot of this happy couple , as once happened to a joyous pair I saw aligh t from the nuptial carriage at the AVaterlooIiailway Station . The bridegroom , a thin young man of 24 Avith a somewhat " beery" look

, about him , jumped out , and " pulled out , " literally , not handed out , a stout , good natured young Avoman of some years his senior . He was full of haste and iniperiousness , and shewed little