I MUTUAL FORGIVENESS. SUPPOSE the brides are few who have not wept once over the hasty words of a husband not six months married; and I suppose there are few husbands, who, in the early part of their married life, have not felt that perhaps their choice was not a wise one. Breaches of harmony will occur between imperfect men and women: but all evil results may be avoided by a resolution, well kept on both sides, to ask forgiveness for the hasty word, the peevish complaint, the unshared pleasure; and, if there is a frank and worthy nature, a quarrel is impossible. Holland. TENDERNESS. THE less tenderness one has in his nature, the more he requires from others. Rahel. TAKING THINGS BY THE RIGHT HANDLE. AL LL persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle. Cervantes. THE CARNELIAN. THE WIFE AN EQUAL. As the wife should be willing to help the hus band in matters of business, he should be willing to share with her the burden of domestic anxieties and fatigue. Some go too far, and utterly degrade the female head of the family by treating her as if her honesty or ability could not be trusted in the management of the domestic economy. They keep the money, and dole it out as if they were parting with their life's blood, grudging every shilling they dispense, and requiring an account as rigid as they would from a suspected servant: they take charge of every thing, give out every thing, interfere in every thing. This is to despoil a woman of her authority, to thrust her from her proper place, to insult and degrade her before her children and servants. John Angell James. SACRIFICES. THOSE who completely sacrifice themselves are praised and admired; and that is the sort of character men like to find in others. Rahel. SWEET INTERPRETATIONS. THERE HERE is no more sunshiny inmate of any home than the genial, happy-tempered one who has the art of putting all things in a pleasant light, from the great misfortunes of life, down to a broken carriage-spring, a servant's failings, a child's salts or senna. Boyd. L LOVE FOR ONE. OVE one human being purely and warmly, and you will love all. The heart in this heaven, like the wandering sun, sees nothing, from the dewdrop to the ocean, but a mirror, which it warms and fills. Jean Paul. FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE. FRIENDSHIP requires actions. Love requires not so much proofs as expression of love. Love demands little else than the power to feel and to requite love. Jean Paul. X. THE ENHYDROUS. SYMPATHY. As from full sources gush the rapid rills, Obscure the cause; for, if the substance flows, |