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ADVICE TO MOTHERS.

natcd with the perspirable matter, and, when foul,would not only prevent the escape of any more, butwould even have a part of what they had received re-absorbed by the skin, and thrown back into thesystem. The whole dress also should be loose, andas light as may be found consistent with due warmth,so as not to increase perspiration too much by itsheaviness, nor to check either that or the free circu-lation of the blood by its pressure."

On the necessity of cheerfulness, —Dr. Buchan says," Cheerfulness and good humour has the happiest in-fluence on the body and mind; it gives a salutary im-pulse to the circulation of the blood, keeps all the vitalorgans in easy and agreeable play, renders the outwarddeportment highly pleasing, while the perpetual sun-shine within spreads a fascinating loveliness over thecountenance. Its opposite, peevishness, or ill-humour,imbitters life, saps the constitution, and is more fatal tobeauty than the small-p ox, because its ravages are morecertain, more disgusting, and more permanent.

" Such are the chief points I wish to impress on theminds of women before marriage. Objects of so muchimportance in every stage or period of life are deservingof peculiar regard, when an union of the sexes is pro-posed. It is little short of intentional murder, on thepart of a weak, languid, nervous, or deformed woman,to approach the marriage-bed. Improper passions mayurge her to become a wife, but she is wholly unfit tobecome a mother. She risks her own life; she disap-points the natural wishes of her husband; and, shouldshe have children, her puny sickly offspring will havelittle cause to thank her for their wretched existence.The evil is not confined to her own family; society atlarge is materially injured; its well-being depends onthe vigour of the members that compose it; and uni-versal experience has fully proved, that the frame of ahusbandman or a hero is not to be moulded or cherishedin the womb of debility, and that the bold eagle willnever be brought forth by the timid dove."

The Doctor, on the choice of a husband, says,iC Having endeavoured to prove that health is so in-