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To do the thing I ought! Then let me try, with all my might,

To mind what I am taught.

Wherever I am told to go,

I'll cheerfully obey;

Nor will I mind it much, although

I leave a pretty play.

When I am bid, I'll freely bring

Whatever I have got;

Nor will I touch a pretty thing,

If mother tells me not,

When she permits me, I may tell
About my pretty toys;

But if she's busy, or unwell,

I must not make a noise.

For God looks down from heaven on high,
Our actions to behold;

And He is pleased when children try

To do as they are told.

A WISE SON MAKETH A GLAD

FATHER; BUT A FOOLISH SON IS THE

HEAVINESS OF HIS MOTHER.

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HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.

FEVERS.

A rash upon the skin attends almost all the fevers from which children suffer, and a different rash attends each different kind of fever. That of measles appears as a number of dark red spots, in many places running into each other, and usually seen first about the hair and on the forehead, while it is usually preceded by running at the eyes and nose and all the signs of severe cold.

The rash of scarlet fever does not appear in separate spots, but shows itself more in a general bright red colour of the skin, not unlike that of a boiled lobster; it is usually accompanied by sore throat.

The eruption of chicken-pox is attended by fever, but not by so much running at the eyes and nose as measles, nor with the same frequent cough; the spots are small separate pimples which come out generally all over the body. In a day or two they turn into little bladders of water.

In measles the great risk is of inflammation of the lungs ; in scarlet fever of ulcerated sore throat; in small-pox the danger is in proportion to the quantity of the eruption; and in remittent fever the danger arises from the strength giving way in the second or third week, or from the brain becoming seriously affected. The danger of measles is either just as the eruption comes out, or else about the fifth or sixth day. The chief danger of small pox does not occur till the seventh or eighth day. Another thing to

bear in mind is, that fevers, unlike most diseases, have a certain course to run, even if they are ever so mild, and that no skill of the doctor can cut them short; while, further, the danger which attends them, though greatest at certain periods, may at once be brought on by acts of imprudence at any period.

There are days of waiting and watching, and doing nothing, when to sponge the parched skin with lukewarm water, to give drink to relieve thirst, to keep the room. well aired, the child's clothes sweet and clean, are all that can be done. To do this well, by gentleness and cheerfulness, to quiet the child's fretfulness, these are your duties; and they are not

easy ones.

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The linen should be changed more frequently in fevers than in almost any other diseases. groundless objection is often raised to allowing cold drinks to the patient, though they are most refreshing; and lukewarm water, or toast-water, or barley-water, afford a poor substitute for the cold water for which the patient longs. The quantity given at one time should not exceed one or two tablespoonfuls, but that may be given quite cold, and almost as often as it is asked for. No more should be given to a child than it may be safely allowed to take at once; it will be content with a tiny cup if quite full, when it would fret at being obliged to set down a large one unemptied.—Dr. West.

BOOKS RECEIVED.

Children's Treasury-Illustrated Leaflets for Mothers (Book Society). Clarie's Little Charge (Shaw & Co.). The Converted Family (Nisbet & Co.). Family Friend (Partridge & Co.). Child's Companion (Religious Tract Society). Friendly Visitor (Seeley & Co.).

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THERE are few sadder things in our times than the dulness and wretchedness of the homes of our poor. Nine-tenths of the drinking in bright, warm, gay taverns and gin palaces comes from this source.

is cheerfulness and fellowship which men seek, and not the mere exhilaration of drink. And there is a moral dulness and squalor, quite as ghastly, to be seen constantly in rich and cultivated homes. It drives the men out for a little society and cheerfulness, and lays the foundation of habits which end in many a terrible wreck. Remember, you girls and mothers, the brightness of the home is your charge. You sweep up the hearth mechanically when the hour of the husband's, the brother's, return draws near. Sweep out too the dust and the grit of the day's work and care, the cobwebs of domestic industry, the spent ashes of evil tempers and contentions-sweep them out. Have the face, the eye, the brow, the heart, clear and smiling as the hearth; and remember that, while the men are responsible for winning the bread, you are responsible for the beauty and brightness of the home. Cultivate your faculties sedulously, and perfect your accomplishments. Let the men of your households find nowhere such good, bright, enjoyable society as by your fireside. And if things go wrong-and they cannot go long without frets

VOL. VIII. No. 7.

[JULY, 1871.

and jars in such a world as this-be you the one to recover most swiftly, and set things right again by a wise, kindly, and patient word. Make your home, in a word, the scene of your constant, patient, and cheerful duty. Sing to your home tasks; they are truly musical. Home is a fairer and goodlier field to work in than the noisy, dusty, storm-vexed field of battle in which so many of us have to spend our weary days.

Above all, have done with shams. Let the home-life, and all over which you rule, be honest. Let all that shows be real. There is a vain and sinful show in which the world loves to walk at present, which fills us with dreary apprehension as to the form in which the shattering shock will come to tear our hypocrisies to tatters, and set us sternly face to face with realities once more. That it is coming, that it must come, none can question, I think, who look with keen eye on the signs of these times, and who read aright the lessons of history. And the chief leaders in the vain show are our young maidens, the wives and the mothers of our future. False hair, false figure, false height, false dress,so much that is false, that sensible people ask themselves, How much is there that is real beneath? And it runs through the whole scale. There is much that is ominously like the luxury of the first age of the Roman Empire in the luxury of our times. The frightful head-dresses of our women may find their originals in the busts of the empresses and courtesans who made that the most infamous age of the world's history. We have fallen into the basest habit, short of open vice, into which a society can fall ; we surround ourselves in our daily lives with things which it is understood on all hands are simply for show, and not for use or delight. I was at a fruiterer's the other day buying a modest modicum of fruit. I saw a remarkable basket of pears in the window. I was curious enough to ask the price. "£12 12s. the dozen," was the answer. "And who is fool enough to buy them?" Oh, we do not sell them; we let them out." This, I thought to myself, caps the whole! The very fruit on what looks like a hospitable table a cheat! And there is something radically vicious-yes, and dangerous-in the condition of a people which loves to have it thus. We are full of pious reflections on the judgment which has fallen on Paris. Precisely the same mind is in us; though, thank God, there are noble restraining influences at work. And such judgment as has fallen on Paris is inevitably our doom, if we cannot apply the tonic of simplicity, sobriety, and honesty to our lives. It rests with you, young people, mainly. Be real, at any rate. Hate shows of all sorts that have no commensurate substance behind them; and let your homes have honest reality legible everywhere. Let all the surroundings and belongings of your being ring true to the hammer-strokes with which a stern critic is ever testing our lives.-From "Young Men and Maidens, a Pastoral for the Times."

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PERSEVERANCE REWARDED.

HE following striking illustration, from real life, of the blessed effects of looking to the Lord in and for education, is given in the Home Visitor:-A young Christian woman, in household service, in which she had peculiarly adorned the Gospel which she professed, had the most intense craving for cultivation of in

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