the scriptures, she often found an advocate in her master. The miller would say :

"Do let the girl alone, can't ye, Betsey? she don't harm us by her methodist ways. The child does her work better than ever, and I deem she arn't so dull nor so sulky as formerly. Sure, learning her bible can't do Anne much mischief; and, as to the good on't, why, that is none of our business. So Anne, my dear, always mind your work first; attend to our orders above every thing, and then, if you please to fill up odd times with reading your bible instead of playing, why, you've master's leave-and mistress must give hers." So he went away, laughing at his own jocular discrimination of authority.

(To be continued.)

THE BENEFIT OF LISTENING TO ADVICE.

THERE is a great inn in one of our principal counties, where every customer seems pleased with his fare, and where the charges are reasonable, the landlord, civil, and all the servants active and obliging. It is the attention of Mr. Wentworth, the landlord, to his customers, and his diligence and regularity in all his business, which makes every body in the house active and attentive too, so that every thing goes on prosperously and well; and the landlord is said, by his civility to have gained the good will of all the gentry in the neighbourhood, as well as all the travellers, and, by his care and good management, to have realized a very good property for himself, which will enable him to provide for a young family, which he is bringing up in the same steady and careful manner, that his own experience has taught him to

be the way to do well.-One day, a lady, travelling, stopped at Mr. Wentworth's inn, and was glad to find such excellent accommodation, and to see so civil and respectable a landlord. She thought there was something in his face which she had seen before, and Mr. Wentworth had no difficulty in finding out that the lady was a person with whom he had lived as a servant, when he was quite a boy. This led to some conversation, and Mr. Wentworth seemed to have a pleasure in relating some of the circumstances of his life; and the lady was much pleased to see that he appeared to be not only a diligent and prosperous landlord, but a man of religious principle and upright honesty.

He then told her, that, after she left the country, and he was obliged to seek for another place, he got a service as a waiter at an inn. In this place, his gains were considerable, but his temptations were great. He told the lady that he there felt the advantage of the instructions which she had given him, as to waiting at table, and as to his behaviour towards those who were his superiors in station. He often had occasion, too, to think of the advice which she had given him, of attending strictly to what was just and honest; of carefully avoiding a habit of drinking; of setting his face against all gaming; and, after he had earned his money honestly, of using it carefully ;and, to enable him to act in this manner, he had particular reason to be thankful for the religious education and instruction which he had received in the early part of his life. Whilst Thomas was a waiter, he was able to be a great assistance to an aged mother, and a sick sister, and still to lay by a considerable portion of his savings. These savings, together with the interest upon them, enabled him, in time, to take

the egg, and garnish the top of the salad with it. Let the sauce remain at the bottom of the bowl, and do not stir up the salad till it is to be eaten ;-we recommend the eaters to be mindful of the duty of mastication,-without the due performance of which, all undressed vegetables are troublesome company for the principal viscera, and some are even dangerously indigestible.

Mustard.-Mix (by degrees, by rubbing together in a mortar) the best Durham flour of mustard, with vinegarwhite wine-or cold water, in which scraped horseradish has been boiled; rub it well together for at least Ten minutes, till it is perfectly smooth; it will keep in a stone jar closely stopped, for a fortnight;-only put as much into the mustardpot as will be used in a day or two.

Mustard is the best of all the stimulants that are employed to give energy to the digestive organs. It was in high favour with our forefathers; in the Northumberland household book for 1512, page 18, is an order for an annual supply of 160 gallons of mustard.

Headache arises either from acidity or from accumulation of bile. In the first case, half a tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda, or a dessert spoonful of magnesia, may be administered in a little water. In the second case, a pill of from two to five grains of calomel is a better remedy. Half an ounce of salts in a tumbler of water should be taken next morning. Persons troubled with an habitual headache should wash their heads with cold water every morning.

Colds and Coughs.-Hyssop tea is good for sudden colds, and disorders on the lungs.

Tea made of colts-foot and flax-seed, sweetened with honey, is good for a cough. Consumptions have been prevented by it.

The following has been found useful in colds:

Take a large tea-cup full of linseed, two-pennyworth of stick liquorice, and a quarter of a pound of sun raisins. Simmer them in two quarts of soft water till it is reduced to one; then add a quarter of a pound of brown sugar-candy, pounded, a table-spoonful of old rum, and one of the best vinegar. The rum and vinegar are best to be added only to that quantity you are going immediately to take. Drink halfa-pint at going to bed, and a little when the cough is trouble

some.

It is truly delightful when those who are best acquainted with the internal arrangements of a dwelling, can point at it as they pass and pronounce it to be a happy home.

Such we may truly say was Annerley House, the seat of Sir John Denton, whose constant aim, in unison with his beloved lady, was to diffuse happiness around him.

The visitor, who entered the nursery of that beauti

ful abode, never departed from it without a full conviction that the little ones who gambolled up and down with such healthy frames and joyous countenances, were alike strangers to those silly indulgences which engender disease and fretfulness, and to those needless crosses and restraints, which check the natural expression of childish joys, and embitter the days of infancy which a loving heart would rather illumine with unclouded sunshine, and strew profusely with fragrant flowers!

Lady Denton's nursery was not like many, a domestic prison house, in which the helpless members of a family are incarcerated with a keeper who has no soul to sympathise with the thoughts and feelings, the wants and capabilities of the dear babes entrusted to her care. No; so far from being such a place, it was the children's happy home; the place of joyous freedom, where instruction, blended with amusement, made them feel as if no home could be like theirs.

The Christian kindness and affection which distinguished the conduct of the parents and their elder children towards one another, was equally delightful; each strove to make the others happy, and in so doing contributed to form that atmosphere of love in which they seemed to "live and move and have their being."

But our present object has more especial reference to the kitchen, where the same spirit of affectionate sympathy, regard, and kindness constantly prevailed. Jane, Mary, and Eliza, the cook and housemaids, were orphan sisters, whom Lady Denton had successively taken into her employment, and it has never been the lot of any one to have three more modest, industrious, careful, pious servants than they were,

So systematic were they in their plans, and so punctual in the execution of them, that nothing ever