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New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 649, 11 December 1865, Page 5

A young mamma, on the important occasion of making her littlo boy >is firet piiir of trousers, conceived the idea that it wou d be mo-o economical to make tliemof the same dimensi ns behind ant beforo, so t'iat they might be changed about and wear more evenly. Their effect, when donned hy the little fellow, was very ridiculous. Papa, at first night of the biggy garment, burst into a roar of 1 mghter, and exclaimed, " Oh, my dear, how could you have the hiait to do it? Why, the poor little fellow won't know whether he's going to poaool or coming home."

Idle (Jikls: a Subject.—The number of id!e, useless girls in nli our large cities seems %j be steadily in. leasing. They lounge or sleep through their mornings, parade the streets during the afternoon, and assemble i:t frivolous compai.ifs <f"their own and the other sex to p iss away thoir evoning*. What a store of unhappiness for themselves «nd others aie they laving up for the cominir time, when real duties and lig'i re-ponsibiliiies shall be thoughtlessly assumed ! fhey are skilled in no domestio duties—nay, they despise them ; have no habit of industry, nor tasto for the useful. What will they bo as wives ant mothers ? Alna ! for the husbands and children, and nlu*! for tlum<elvcs! Who can wonder if domestio unhappiness tt domestic ruin f.llnws? It is one of the world's oldest maxim* that idleness is tho mi the.- of all evil and w'retohedno.<s. llow s:i'lly straugo is it tlut so m>tny parent* i mothers e-pecially) forget this, and bring u" then children iu dainty "idl-nets. They are but sowing the , Srir/d f6 r*a# fti* WbMrirtcT.— J.M#t(«i &s#.