on the
Earth--Shakspeare--How Character is Built Up--Good Example--Father and
Son--Starting the Boys and the Girls--The Daughter--Do not Blight Her
Life--Happy Wives and Mothers--"Thanking Death"--Education of the
Young--The Power and Beauty of the Bible--Bible, Shakspeare, and
Geography More Necessary than Grammar, Botany, and Latin--Worship--A
Suspicious Parent--The School-Master Experience--Try and Cut Down the
Extent of His Services in the Education of Your Child. Page 42.

Brother and Sister.

The Noble Brother Will Have a Noble Sister--The Young Man of High Tone
Will See to It that His Sister is Treated with Respect--He Sets the
Example to All Others--Utter Selfishness of a Young Man Who Drags Down
His Sister by Falling into Bad Society Himself--The Summer Vacation--Why
a "Crooked Stick" Has Been Picked up By the Sister--Your Sister Your
Other Half--Watch Her and Mend Your Weak Places--A Quick Temper--Scene
in a Field Near Stone River Battle-field--The Sister's Influence on Your
Fortunes--Brother and Sister as the Two Heads of One Home. Page 53.

Youth.

"Heaven Lies About Us in Our Infancy"--The Great History Written by
Thiers, and Its Central Thought--The Impressibility of Youth--Much Can
Be Accomplished in Youth--Alexander, Caesar, Pompey, Hannibal, Scipio,
Napoleon, Charles XII, Alexander Hamilton, Shelley, Keats, Bryant--Youth
Our Italy and Greece, full of Gods and Temples--Edmund Burke--Rochefoucauld
--Chesterfield--Lord Lytton's Love of Youth--Shortness of Youthful Griefs
--Hannah More--Sir Walter Raleigh's Wise Remark--The Extraordinary
Expectations of Youth--Dr. Watts--Story of the Alpena--Lord Bacon's
Summing up of the Differences Between Youth and Age--Introduction to
the Hard-Pan Series. Page 62.

Prudence in Speech.

Need of Money--Difficulty of Getting It--Testimony of the Closest
Mouthed Man Who Perhaps Ever Lived--"No Man Can Be Happy or Even Honest
Without a Moderate Independence"--You Find Yourself Behind a
Counter--The Little Boy's Shoes Wear Out at the Toe--They are
Therefore Copper-plated--The Young Man's Common Sense Gives Way at the
Tip of His Tongue--Difficulties in the Way of a Boy Who "Blabs"--A Man
Who Is "Pumped" Like the Secretary of the Treasury Must Have Practiced
Silence All His Life--Story of the Barber of King Midas--Beware of the
First Error--How Things Leak out--Put a Copper-Toe on Your Tongue. Page
74.

Courtesy.

Courtesy Rests on a Deep Foundation--He Who i