him if he is. After the most boisterous and tumultuous sittings at the Chamber, after being baited by the Opposition in the most savage manner—there is no milder expression for their excessive violence-he arrives at home, throws himself upon a couch, and sinks immediately into a profound sleep, from which he is undisturbed till midnight, when proofs of the Moniteur are brought to him for inspection.

The Westminster Review says:-It is an interesting fact-one that has come to us on high authority—that for many of the latter years of his life, Sir Robert Peel was in the invariable habit, at whatever hour he returned from Downing Street or the House of Commons, of reading for half an hour in some serious or religious book, before retiring to rest. It was only by this habit, he said, that he could keep his mind calm and clear after the distractions and irritations of the day.

There is no time spent more stupidly than that which some luxurious people pass in the morning between sleeping and waking, after nature has been fully satisfied. He who is awake may be doing something; he who is asleep is receiving the refreshment necessary to fit him for action, but the hours spent in dozing and slumbering can hardly be called existence.

APPEARANCE.

IN civilized society, external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

If you are in search of employment be sure to go well dressed. Employers do not like to see shabby persons about them. It looks as if they did not give adequate remuneration, and consequently employed an indifferent staff. It is a mistake to say you cannot afford it; you cannot afford to be shabby, for by it you may lose a hundred times the cost of a good suit of clothes.

If you are anxious to keep in a good situation, keep well dressed; for when a man in receipt of a good salary is ill-dressed

his employer is apt to think that he spends his money in a disreputable way. It excites suspicion as much as extravagance in his amusements and great display in dress. In one case he is suspected of spending his own money ill; in the other, of using that of his employer. If you want some one to assist you, go well-dressed. You will find it easier to borrow ten or twenty pounds in a good suit of clothes than five shillings in an old coat and shabby hat.

Alphonse Karr thus describes a magic ring and coat of darkness: "I know a man who is a brute and a clown by birth and education; clumsily made, and as great a fool as it is possible to be. Well! when this fellow puts on his finger a certain ring, decorated with a large pebble of the species they call diamond, he becomes witty, well-bred, handsome, and an amusing companion-at least some people would regard him as such. Whenever I wish to make myself invisible, I have a certain old hat, rusty and napless, which I put on as Prince Lutin put on his cap of roses; to this I add a certain seedy paletôt. Lo and behold! I become immediately invisible. Not a being in the street sees, recognises, or speaks to me."

HOW TO ADVERTISE.

Few of our readers, we believe, can be unacquainted with the name of Holloway, the greatest of all advertisers. It is not our purpose to make any allusions to the properties of his medicines, but rather to show how much can be done by energy, industry, and a judicious course of publicity. We are told that when he commenced the sale of medicines, some forty years ago, it was on the smallest possible scale, making his pills and ointment with his own hands—the latter in a small iron pot. We refer to this fact that some may not look at him as he now stands, and say to themselves, "Ah! but who could think of doing as he has done?" We reply that thousands might do almost as much in various ways, keeping in view Lord Chesterfield's advice that "Little barques should keep near shore, while larger ones may venture far." Let your beginning be on a small and progressive

scale, taking but one careful upward step at a time, and the higher you ascend the more careful you should be, or the greater may be your fall. We know that Holloway has given the following advice respecting advertising: "Commence," says he, "in one or two papers, not more; continue this course for a considerable time, the result will be, that you will be as well known in the end to the readers of those two papers as myself, then, if your wares be such as can be brought into universal repute, add another paper or two to your number, and so on gradually, taking care to pay the proprietors faithfully that they may not damage you by an unpleasant critique of their own; for, assuredly, if you don't keep on good terms with them, as you begin to rise in the world, you will have many envious of your success, and who may write damaging articles against you; but if you have no just cause for this, the editors will not insert the same to your prejudice."

TOO MUCH FOR THE WHISTLE.

WHEN I was a child about seven years of age, my friends on a holiday filled my pockets with half-pence. I went down directly towards a shop where toys were sold for children; and being charmed with the sound of a whistle, that I met by the way, in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered him all my money for it. I then came home and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth. This put me in mind what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money; and they laughed at me so much for my folly that I cried with vexation. My reflections on the subject gave me more chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure. This little event, however, was afterwards of use to me, the impression continuing on my mind; so that often, when I was tempted to buy some unnecessary thing, I said to myself: Do not give too much for the whistle; and so I saved my money.

As I grew up, came into the world, and observed the actions of men, I thought I met with many, very many, who gave too much for the whistle.

When I saw any one too ambitious of court favours, sacrificing his time in attendance on levées, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends to attain it, I said to myself: This man gives too much for his whistle.

When I saw another, fond of popularity, constantly employing himself in political bustles, neglecting his own affairs, and ruining them by that neglect: he pays, indeed, said I, too much for his whistle.

If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellowcitizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth: Poor man! said I, you indeed pay too much for your whistle.

When I met a man of pleasure, sacrificing every laudable improvement of mind, or of fortune, to mere sensual gratification : Mistaken man, said I, you are providing pain for yourself, instead of pleasure; you give too much for your whistle.

If I saw one fond of fine clothes, fine furniture, fine equipage, all above his fortune, for which he contracted debts, and ended his career in prison: Alas! said I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.

In short, I conceived that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimate they make of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistle. -DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

A GOOD WIFE.

SIR WALTER SCOTT and Daniel O'Connell, at a late period of their lives, ascribed their success in the world principally to their wives. Were the truth known, theirs is the history of thousands. "My wife has made my fortune," said a gentleman of great possessions, "by her thrift, prudence, and cheerfulness, when I was

just beginning." "And mine has lost my fortune," answered his companion, bitterly, "by useless extravagance, and repining when I was doing well.” What a world does this open of the influence which a wife possesses over the future prosperity of her family. Let the wife know her influence and try to use it wisely and well. If she unites in mutual endeavours, or rewards his labours with an endearing smile, with what confidence will he resort to his daily toil, meet difficulty, and encounter danger, if he knows that he is not spending his strength in vain, but that his labour will be rewarded by the sweets of home! Solicitude and disappointment enter the history of every man's life, and he is only half provided for his voyage who finds but an associate for happy hours, while for his months of darkness and distress no sympathising partner is prepared. A man's attachment to a woman who deserves it is the greatest possible safeguard to him in his dealings with the world; it keeps him from all those small vices which unfettered youth thinks little of, but which certainly, though slowly, undermine the foundations of better things, till in the end the whole fabric of right and wrong gives way under the assaults of temptation. Dr. Johnson says:-Marriage is the best state for a man in general; and every man is a worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the married state. Washington Irving says :—I have observed that a married man falling into misfortune is more apt to retrieve his situation in the world than a single one; partly because he is more stimulated to exertion by the necessities of the helpless and beloved beings who depend upon him for subsistence; but chiefly because his spirits are relieved by domestic endearments, and his self-respect kept alive by finding that, although all abroad is darkness and humiliation, yet there is still a little world of love at home, of which he is the monarch. Whereas a single man is apt to run to waste and self-neglect, to fancy himself lonely and abandoned, and his heart to fall to ruin, like some deserted mansion, for want of inhabitants.

If you intend to marry, be sure and look where you are going. Join yourself in union with no woman who is selfish, for she will sacrifice you; with no one who is fickle, for she will become es