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 which is not often the cae in any coniderable degree.

The marriage tate is too often a tate of dicord; it does not always happen that both parents are rational; and the weaket have it in their power to do mot michief.

How then are the tender minds of children to be cultivated?— Mamma is only anxious that they hould love her bet, and perhaps takes pains to ow thoe eeds, which have produced uch luxuriant weeds in her own mind. Or, what till more frequently occurs, the children are at firt made play-things of, and