"Right!" I responded, warmly. "Right! thank Heaven, my friend, for giving you a true woman for a wife. There is some hope now of your finding the comfort you sought so vainly in the beginning."

And he has found it—found it in a wise appropriation, of the good gifts of Providence according to his means.

CHILDREN—A FAMILY SCENE.

"MOTHER!"

"As I was saying"—

"Mother!"

"Miss Jones wore a white figured satin"—

"Oh! mother!"

"With short sleeves"—