THE MOTHER'S ASSISTAN A N D YOUNG LADY’S FRIEND. WILLIAM C. BROWN, EDITOR. rs Our babes shall richest comforts bring ; Whence pleasures ever rise; Dr. Nathaniel Cotton. to When her little party of friends were somewhat fatigued, and my sister was at a loss to p Bent them with fresh amusement, she sat down in the midst of them, and spontaneously beg talking about the goodness of Jesus Christ. She touched on the most prominent events in life with such simplicity and animation of countenance, as interested all her visiters and likewise.”-Martha, by Rev. Andrew Reed. VOL. III. BOSTON: WILLIAM WHITE, PRINTER, SPRING LANE. CONTENTS. 2 2 A Warning to Prosperous Tradesmen, Advice to a Wire, 57 The Religious Teaching of Children, 57 The Wife, a Being to Come Home to, A Child's First Lessons in Falsehood, 80 Touching Sketch of Parental Sorrow, A Word with Mothers, (Prize Essay,) ] 45 A Mother's Faithfulness and her Reward, 153 Advantages of Maternal Associations, 197 | Things Good and Bad in Family Manage- Constitution for Maternal Associations, Conversion of a Family of Skeptics, 249 Dr. Chalmer's Lectures on Romans, 11 10 Holloway's First Lessons in Vocal Music, 36 Life of Washington, 36, 59, 84, 118, 14 Essentials to Right Government, (Prize Life and Writings of E, P. Mason, 5 Works of Usefulness, or Reminiscences 32 27 How to make Home Pleasant to Children, 217 Scripture Prints, Influence of a Man's Wife on his Character The Mother's Medical Guide, 176 The Boys and Girls' Magazino, Maternal Association of N. Wilbraham, 77 The Pictorial Bible, 155, 203,251, 272 My Early Home, (Prize Essay:) 97 154 POETRY. 228 268 6 60 223 14 118 152 Remarkable Conversion of an Infidel, 49 The Blind Boy, Rules for Conjugaland Donjestic Happi. To the Angel Child of Mount Auburn, 76 Something for Ilustands and Wives, 90 The Scotchman's Advice to his Daughter, 216 A Daughter's Love, 233 238 282 253 64 Westminster Court of Requests, Beauty and Power of Frankness, Lessons on the Book of Proverbs, 143 Cultivation of the Female Mind, The School and the School-master, 143 Ellen, or the visit of the Rod, 283 Duty of the Christian to Cultivate the la- Ellen, or the visit of the Rod, 239 131 17 Broken Ties, 24 Female Culture, 213 235 276 94 279 280 211 229 [Written for the Mother's Assistant.] BY DR. WILLIAM A. ALCOTT. THERE is no school like the Family School. This declaration is in strict accordance with truth, whether the comparison be made with reference to comfort and health, the instruments or character of its instruction, or the moral influence which it exerts. Frequent complaint has been made, within a few years, with regard to our school-rooms, especially those of the primary or common school. The seats are said to be often too high, the backs of the pupils without support, or the desks or tables inconvenient or intolerable. But in the family school, we find not only the comfortable chair, adapted to the size and height of the occupant, but, in some instances, the luxurious sofa and ottoman. Some of our schools are crowded almost to/suffocation with pupils, while they are but poorly supplied with teachers. Sixty, eighty, or a hundred of the former to one of the latter, and only a single room, of moderate size, are quite common. With the family school , of course, it is otherwise. The number of pupils is never large; and there are, from the nature of the case, usually two teachers. Not a few of our school-rooms are as destitute of furniture, properly so called, as a barn. A fireplace, or more frequently, in these days, a closed stove, with a few dull benches and desks, and a tolerable supply of books, slates, and writing-books, are nearly all. But it is otherwise in the family school-room. It has seldom the naked floor or wall. The monotony of the latter is at least broken * See frontispiece. |
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