New Hampshire Statesman

MISCELLANY.
BACHELORS.

'Tis yours unmoved to sever and to meet:
No pledge is sacred and no home is sweet. Campbell.

I frequently see advertisements for board "where there are no children."—If I had the right kind of talents I should like to laugh at such young men, for young I will suppose them to be. I think if I were to advertise for board, a new thing would be seen under the sun.

It should run thus: Board wanted in a genteel family where there are 9 or 10 children! Such a shift always stirs my blood agreeably; and even though the lively little rogues may not always look tidy, and behave like men, I am not at once disgusted with them, but amuse myself with testing and comparing their talents and various inclinations; anticipating the day when they shall come forward upon the busy theatre of life, to add to the renown of the country, and contribute to the sum of human enjoyment.

In such a family, if I were a bachelor, I think I could occasionally spend an hour that would keep my heart warm—smooth the rough points of my temper and simplify my feelings; for it is no small part of my philosophy to follow nature, and cultivate the genuine and spontaneous sensibilities of humanity.

These young men who lose the joys and benefits of home, and are early separated from the sanctity of the family board, very soon manifest the privation in ungentle and unaccommodating temper a disrelish for children, and a contempt of the thousand little enchantments made on purpose for social life, and which constitute the bliss, and lighten the care of the domestic man But this contempt of family joys, and this sickly disgust, which secludes men from the appropriate duties and pleasures of manhood is all flummery. What more noble object of ambition can fill the mind, than the education of a family? Is it not an elevated purpose, worthy of the purest heart and brightest talents? To the discreet and virtuous of the female sex we must look for the moral excellence of mankind. Let such women despise and reject the "lily-livered" dandies, whose hearts feel no generous throb, and whose cares are bounded by the cravings of their own distempered fancies. The man whose leisure hours have been spent at the Porter's house and Theatre, will not long be charmed with the novelty and bliss of a woman's. He will soon leave the refinements and seclusion of her parlour, for the bustle and variety of the Coffee-House; and even the lisping cherubs who assail his ear with the melting title of "FATHER" will not secure his attention, and fix his love of home. But, it is consolatory to know, that when men are degenerate and neglect their offspring, the tender and assiduous mother still keeps her watch over the infant's slumbers; instils the first lessons of religion and virtue: guides and corrects the waywardness of youth; and with increased concern and exhaustless love, follows her immortal charge into manhood, and commends it to heaven.—And it is also a consoling truth, that women form the characters of men and exert a powerful influence upon the virtue and elevation of the human mind, through every stage of existence from the cradle to the tomb.—N. Y. American