kindness, whom every principle should teach you to avoid, although received in what is called respectable society. The general idea of what a woman ought to be, is usually sufficient to guide you, with a little care in the application. Prize your privilege, however, should you meet with a few intelligent, agreeable, and respectable of the sex, to whose society you can have frequent access. It must be your own fault if you do not reap much advantage. But should your lot be cast near any who, with good natural abilities, have a judicious education, who may approximate to what is called an elegant mind, we think we need not urge you highly to esteem your opportunity. As this advice is to young men, perhaps in their teens, it will be supposed that what is now to be said must refer to the latter end of that term. We scruple not to say, keep matrimony in view. Should parents, guardians, and elder sisters, say, Hear! hear! we repeat it distinctly, as our advice to every young man, Keep matrimony in view. Never conceive yourself complete without the other half of your self. The fashion among some young men of the present day is, to make up their minds to do without it; an unnatural and therefore an unwise system. AMUSEMENTS. YOUNG men need not lack for proper amusements. By an enlightened discrimination, they can find an abundant supply from sources not only innocent, but instructive. Recreations in the open air, for those whose occupations are sedentary-the perusal of interesting books and other publications-the frequenting of well conducted readingrooms, and an attendance at lyceums and other meetings for public lectures -all afford amusement combined with useful instruction. Social parties, and a frequent entrance into the various family circles of your friends, are prolific sources of innocent recreation. And we cannot forbear urging young men (if, indeed, it is necessary to urge them) to frequent, in their leisure hours, the company of intelligent and virtuous females of the class with whom they associate. Nothing tends more to polish a young man, and to refine his tastes and his manners, than the society of the virtuous of the other sex. In such company a guard will be placed upon the lip and the actions, that cannot but exercise a salutary tendency. Deeply fix the resolution in your mind, to indulge in no recreation that is not of an innocent nature, and of a strict moral tendency, and you will exhibit a wisdom productive of immense benefits. CONVERSATION ON DANCING. "WHAT can be the possible harm," it is said, “in going to a ball? We go to a brightly illuminated hall. We have pleasant music to gratify the ear. In graceful measures, we beat time to its cadences in the exhilarating dance. After having thus passed a few hours of heartfelt hilarity, we retire unharmed to our homes. Now what real objection can there be to this amusement,' it is asked, "which is not founded on ignorance and superstition ?" This is a very important question, and it deserves a serious answer. To explain my views on this subject, let me suppose that you have a brother about nineteen years of age, a very amiable, correct, and promising young man. He is attentive to his parents, kind to his sisters; you all love him with your whole hearts. He is a clerk in a store, and highly respected by his employers. He has so little of selfishness in his nature, and is so willing to sacrifice his own inclinations to oblige others, that while he thus promises to be one of the best and most useful of men, he is consequently much exposed to be led away by temptation. Like an affectionate and dutiful son as he is, he comes to his father some day, and says to him, "Father, there is to be a celebrated ball to-night. All my acquaintance are going, and, if you have no objection, I should like to go also." 66 Well, my son," says your father, "what time does the ball commence ?" "Between eight and nine in the evening," he replies. 66 And at what hour will it close ?" your father asks. 66 They tell me," your brother answers, that they will probably go |