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Editorial.

COQUETRY. There is nothing more disgusting to a delicate and sensible mind, than the miserable amorousness of a coquette. While its external developements are nauseating, its indications of the men tal character are equally hateful and repulsive. What is the secret spring of coquetry? Vanity!-excessive, abominable vanity, that courts admiration and adulation at almost any sacrifice. But who admires a coquette? Look at the bevy of beaux that crowd around her in the social circle. What are they? Are the sensible, the intellectual, the common sense youth of the neighborhood there? Nay!-it is a congregation of fashionable loafers, brainless soaplocks and the like. These are the worshipers at the coquette's shrine. The modest, the refined stand aloof from her society with sentiments of pity for her mental imbecility, and of ill-concealed dislike for her folly.

What is the result? Let real life find a tongue and disclose the facts. What is its testimony? Does it not show us the coquette of seventeen and twenty the wife of some idle, dissipated being, who by a glaring misnomer retains the name of man, or else an unwilling subject of unfelicitous celibacy? Such, we believe, is, ordinarily, the fate of the coquette.

We hope, therefore, our young lady readers will avoid it with abhorrence. As they have no wish to have their own af fections trifled with, so let them abstain from like trifling with those of the other

sex.

A SOVEREIGN ANTIDOTE.- -We opine that the author of the following delicious effusion was some cross-grained, ill-tempered, sour-minded professor of the ancient doctrine of the 'celibate.' We should like to see him given over to the ladies for condign punishment, but we will let him speak:

"If a man feels very much like getting married, yet imagines he ought not to, the remedy is, to help one of his neighbors to move a housefull of furniture--borrow about nine of his children and hear them cry. If that fail, build up a fire of damp wood,

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and when the smoke in the room is thickest, hire a woman to scold him about four hours."

TO SPOIL YOUR HUSBAND.-If a woman wishes to spoil her husband, sour his temper and transform the domestic hearth into a miniature of bedlam, let her grumble at him incessantly; load him with abuse because he wont submit to be her servant of all work' to the neglect of his profession, and treat him with various other items of disagreeable manufacture, and she will succeed, without fail, in the shortest time imaginable. For this recipe, we chargenothing!

BOSTON WEEKLY MAGAZINE.-We have noticed this superior magazine before. It continues to be the same racy, spirited, high-toned work it has ever been. We consider it one of the best, cheapest and neatest papers in the country. Messrs. Ela & Hall, 37 Cornhill, Boston.

LADIES LITERARY REPOSITORY.-This paper is published semi-monthly, in Lowell. It is devoted to literature, news, &e. It is conducted with ability.

TO OUR EXCHANGES.-Our exchanges will oblige us by transferring us to their Lowell list, as it is desirable hereafter to receive all our papers at the publishing office.

CORRESPONDENTS will please direct their communications, in future, to the Ladies' Pearl, Lowell, Ms.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.-L.'s article is neither rhyme nor reason, and is therefore consigned to the care of Hecate:

The Triumph of Truth' is too long for the Pearl, and we therefore write rejected upon it-though unwillingly.

'L. C.'s Evening Walk' bespeaks poetic talent, but needs an application from the pen of old Uncle Prosody, and hence its appearance in our columns is indefinitely postponed.

'Lines for an Album' and 'The Pursuit of Happiness' are sent in pursuit of the foregoing doomed ones, under the table.We guess they will drive away the whole heap, and lose themselves in the chase, and of course the Pearl' will lose their presence.

Those correspondents whose articles have found a place in the Pearl, are respectfully invited to continue their correspondence; and all our fair readers who use the pen are desired to lend their aid for the interest of the forthcoming volume.