ords to express." "There is, however, an unkind measure by which
a few persons strive to avoid living by themselves in their old age.
They selfishly prevent their children (principally their daughters) from
marrying, in order to retain them around them at home. Certainly matches
are now and then projected which it is the duty of a parent to oppose;
but there are two kinds of opposition, a conscientious and sorrowful
opposition, and an egotistical and captious opposition, and men and
women, in their self-deception, may sometimes mistake the one for the
other. 'Marry your daughters lest they marry themselves, and run off
with the ploughman or the groom' is an axiom of worldly wisdom. Marry
your daughters, if you can do so satisfactorily, that they may become

HAPPY WIVES AND MOTHERS,

fulfilling the destiny allotted to them by their Great Creator. Marry
them, if worthy suitors offer, lest they remain single and unprotected
after your departure. Marry them, lest they say, in their bitter
disappointment and loneliness, 'Our parents thought only of their own
comfort and convenience. We now find that our welfare and settlement in
life was disregarded!' But I am sure my hard-hearted comrade in years,"
continues this aged writer, "that you are more generous to your own dear
girls than to dream of preventing the completion of their own little
romance in order to keep them at home, pining as your waiting minds."

THANKING DEATH.

One of the most learned observations to parents has been made by Lord
Burleigh. "Bring thy children up," said he, in "learning and obedience,
yet without outward austerity. Give them good countenance and convenient
maintenance, according to thy ability; otherwise thy life will seem
their bondage, and what portion thou shalt leave them at thy death, they
will thank death for it, and not thee!"

EDUCATION.

"I suppose it never occurs to parents," says John Foster, in his
Journal, "that to throw vilely-educated young people on the world is,
independently of the injury to the young people themselves, a positive
_crime_, and of very great magnitude; as great, for instance, as
burning their neighbor's house, or poisoning the water in his well. In
pointing out to them what is wrong, even if they acknowledge the
justness of the statement, one cannot make them feel a sense of guilt,
as in other proved charges. That they love their children extenuates to
their consciences every parental folly that may