tractive habiliments of mind and person. French
ladies will see their affianced only when arrayed in their best
toilet. Yet mental charms vastly surpass millinery. Neither can render
yourselves too lovely.

Express affectionate fondness in your visits and letters; the more the
better, so that you keep it a sentiment, not debase it by animal
passion. It is still establishing its rootlets, like young corn,
instead of growing. Allow no amatory excitement, no frenzied,
delirious intoxication with it; for its violence, like every other,
must react only to exhaust and paralyze itself by its own excesses.

Affianced young man, life has its epochs, which revolutionize it for
good or bad. You are now in one. You have heretofore affiliated much
with men; formed habits of smoking or chewing tobacco; indulged in
late suppers; abused yourself in various ways; perhaps been on sprees.
Now is your time to take a new departure from whatever is evil to all
that is good and pure. Break up most of your masculine associations;
and affiliate chiefly with your affianced. Be out no more nights. Let
your new responsibilities and relations brace you up against their
temptations; and, if these are not sufficient, your prospective spouse
will help. No other aid in resisting temptation and inspiring to good
equals that of a loving, loved woman.

Break off from your cronyisms, clubs, societies, all engagements
except such as mean imperative, cold-blooded business. Your new ties
furnish an excellent excuse. All your spare time and small change are
wanted for _her_. To give to bad habits the time and money due to her
and setting up in life, is outrageous. Bend everything to your new
relations, them to nothing. Now's your time to turn over a new leaf,
and turn all the angles, corners and right-about faces needed.

Affianced maiden, you have some departures to take and corners to
turn. Your life has till now been frivolous, but has now become
serious. You have no more need of toilet fineries; for "your market is
made," and you have work on hand far more important, namely, fitting
yourself for your new duties. Find out what they demand of you, and
set right about making a premium wife and mother. Both begin life
anew. Forgetting the past, plant and sow now what you would gather and
become always.

The Best of all Possessions.

Woman is man's choicest treasure. That is the most precious which
confers the most happiness. She is adapted to render h