d was convinced, or not, I cannot say; but I saw her
daughters in Cornhill, the next week, with new French hats and blonde
veils.

It is really melancholy to see how this fever of extravagance rages,
and how it is sapping the strength of our happy country. It has no
bounds; it pervades all ranks, and characterizes all ages.

I know the wife of a pavier, who spends her three hundred a year
in 'outward adorning,' and who will not condescend to speak to her
husband, while engaged in his honest calling.

Mechanics, who should have too high a sense of their own
respectability to resort to such pitiful competition, will indulge
their daughters in dressing like the wealthiest; and a domestic would
certainly leave you, should you dare advise her to lay up one cent of
her wages.

'These things ought not to be.' Every man and every woman should
lay up some portion of their income, whether that income be great or
small.

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HOW TO ENDURE POVERTY.

That a thorough, religious, _useful_ education is the best security
against misfortune, disgrace and poverty, is universally believed
and acknowledged; and to this we add the firm conviction, that,
when poverty comes (as it sometimes will) upon the prudent, the
industrious, and the well-informed, a judicious education is
all-powerful in enabling them to _endure_ the evils it cannot always
_prevent_. A mind full of piety and knowledge is always rich; it is a
bank that never fails; it yields a perpetual dividend of happiness.

In a late visit to the alms-house at ----, we saw a remarkable
evidence of the truth of this doctrine. Mrs. ---- was early left
an orphan. She was educated by an uncle and aunt, both of whom
had attained the middle age of life. Theirs was an industrious,
well-ordered, and cheerful family. Her uncle was a man of sound
judgment, liberal feelings, and great knowledge of human nature. This
he showed by the education of the young people under his care. He
allowed them to waste no time; every moment must be spent in learning
something, or in doing something. He encouraged an entertaining,
lively style of conversation, but discountenanced all remarks about
persons, families, dress, and engagements; he used to say, parents
were not aware how such topics frittered away the minds of young
people, and what inordinate importance they learned to attach to them,
when they heard them constantly talked about.

In his family