The Blessing Of Children

Do not pity yourself íor having a large family of children. The Jowish woman waü right in saying a bltssing comea with many sons aml daughters. Trials there are, and soaie that only moHieracan understand, but thesweetness of thc HUle baby face, the touch of the tiny hands, the inusic of the sweet voice compensates for all. Giren health and the means to feed and clothe the little tribp, you are tobe envied if yov, rear a good round dozon. Old bachelors, and faahionable vcmen wlio danco the niglit avvay, and leave tbeir single e we lainb to a care less nurse-maid, whilethey waste their t;_- ti! aam a4it " wYi mr iirAtiíli ïimr you endure ft, but you have a happinefls, of which they never dream, in youï nursery. You are happier when you have put your babies to bed, and watched the long lashes droop on the pink ctaeeks, and sit sewing or knitting for thei.i at your husband's sido, tlmn any rouged matron, i'ast growing passee, sho contests with another of her sort for the admiration of some worn man of the world, who in his soul despises any woman out of her teens and laughs at her amongst liis friends. In these years of early matronhood they bring you joy aml in oíd age they may roward you th.sefold for all your care. "When my boy oame." the mother of a well known clergyman eocè eald to me, "I was a wiiow of a week with Ihreo littie girls, and anotlier child seemod to make the burthon more tbftn I could bear. Uut what would life have been without him, to me or his sisters. He was our relíanos while he was yet a boy. lie has been every thing to U3 since. He waa the recompense God sent me for the loss of my husband, though I did not recognize it at flrst and thought it an added trial." And so man y a mother haa feit and spoken of her sou - yf?, and of hei daughters.