There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.

Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.

Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those libels on civilized cookery, called DUMPLINGS! One might about as well eat, with the hope of digesting, a brick from the ruins of Babylon, as one of the hard, heavy masses of boiled dough which usually pass under this name.

This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.