52 AN EVENING AT HOME.

 

sent by the Author of all benefits to save
me.”

Like Helen Lindley, let every elder sis-
ter be thoughtful of her brothers at that
critical period in life, when the boy is
about passing up to the stage of manhood,
and she may save them from many a snare
set for their unwary feet by the evil one.
In closing this little sketch, we can say no-
thing better than has already been said by
an accomplished American authoress, Mrs.
Farrar :—

“So many temptations,” she remarks,
“beset young men, of which young women
know nothing, that it is of the utmost
importance that your brothers’ evenings
should be happily past at home, that
their friends should be your friends, that
their engagements should be the same as
yours, and that various innocent amuse-
ments should be provided for them in the
family circle. Music is an accomplishment
chiefly valuable as a home enjoyment, as
rallying round the piano the various mem-