he very same crime as to divorce her from all that
she holds dear on earth--to root up and pull out her imbedded affections,
and to tear her from her rightful husband. First love is always constant.
The second love brings uncertainty--too often desertions before marriage
and divorces after marriage.

8. THE COQUET.--The young woman to play the coquet, and sport with the
sincere affections of an honest and devoted young man, is one of the
highest crimes that human nature can commit. Better murder him in body too,
as she does in soul and morals, and it is the result of previous
disappointment, never the outcome of a sincere first love.

9. ONE MARRIAGE. One evidence that second marriages are contrary to the
laws of our social nature, is the fact that almost all step-parents and
step-children disagree. Now, what law has been broken, to induce this
penalty? The law of marriage; and this is one of the ways in which the
breach punishes itself. It is much more in accordance with our natural
feelings, especially those of mothers, that children should be brought up
by their own parent.

10. SECOND MARRIAGE.--Another proof of this point is, that second marriage
is more a matter of business. "I'll give you a home, if you'll take care of
my children." "It's a bargain," is the way most second matches are made.
There is little of the poetry of first-love, and little of the coyness and
shrinking diffidence which characterize the first attachment. Still these
remarks apply almost equally to a second attachment, as to second marriage.

11. THE CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE MATTER.--Let this portion be read and
pondered, and also the one entitled, "Marry your First Love if possible,"
which assigns the cause, and points out the only remedy, of licentiousness.
As long as the main cause of this vice exists, and is aggravated by
purse-proud, high-born, aristocratic parents and friends, and even by the
virtuous and religious, just so long, and exactly in the same ratio will
this blighting Sirocco blast the fairest flowers of female innocence and
lovliness, and blight our noblest specimens of manliness. No sin of our
land is greater.

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{189} [Illustration: CUPID'S CHARM.]

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Flirting and Its Dangers.

[Illustration: HOW MANY YOUNG GIRLS ARE RUINED.]

1. NO EXCUSE.--In this country there is no excuse for the young man who
seeks the society of the loose and the dissolute. The