The Literary Echo, And Pawcatuck Advertiser

Hints To Mothers.-If you wish to cultivate a gossipping, meddling, censorious spirit in your children, be sure when they come home from church, a visit, or any other place where you do not accompany them with questions concerning what every body wore, how they looked, and what every body said and did; and if you find any thing in this to censure, always do it in their hearing. You may rest assured, if you pursue a course of this kind, they will not return to you unladen with intelligence; and, rather than it should be uninteresting they will by degrees, learn to embellish in such a manner as shall not fail to call forth remarks and expressions of wonder from you. You will, by this course, render the spirit of curiosity-which is so early visible in children, and which, if rightly directed, may be made the instrument of enriching and enlarging their minds-a vehicle of mischief. which shall serve only to narrow them