that induces him to inform us "Mr. Monroe has got something which is new." In another document however he says: "Direct your communications to A. L. Baldwin." After all he must have some finger in the pie. It seems that Mr. Monroe "has got something" and Mr. Baldwin wishes to get something. So the reader, if he is green enough, will be sure to direct his two dollars to Mr. Baldwin! But here is the advertisement which the Editor of the Guardian is to "insert for three months." Hear, ye poor who are out of employment, how it jingles! Why the very first blast, is like music in one's pocket. Hear! Hear! MONEY! MONEY! MONEY! WHY BE WITHOUT MONEY? when it is just as easy for any one to be around with a pocket full as not, if they only think so. I have got a new article, from which from five to twenty dollars a day can be made, either by male or female. It is highly respectable business, and an artice which is wanted in every family in the United States. Enclose me two dollars by mail, at my risk, and I will forward by return mail a Circular with full instructions in the art. The business is very easy.-Try it, if you are out of employment, and you will never regret it; for it will be better for you to pay the above sum, and insure a good business, than to pay twenty-five cents for a spurious advertisement. This is no bumbug. TRY IT! TRY IT! TRY IT! DWIGHT MONROE, New York. I sent one of my Circulars to an Editor in Georgia, and he gave me a notice in his paper like the following: "Mr. Monroe sent me one of his Circulars, and I will just say to my readers that whoever of you are out of employment that Mr. Monroe's business is a good business and money can be made out of it by any one who engages in it, for it is no humbug." His grammar is a little bad. It is as easy for "any one" to be "around" with a pocket full of money as not, if only "they think so." This "they" must mean Messrs. Baldwin & Monroe. "I have got an article" is decidedly unrhetorical. "It"-that is this article that he "has got" -"is" a "highly respectable business." "Enclose me two dollars by mail" he evidently means in the mail. Otherwise the direction is clear enough. The closing sentence is decidedly emphathic: "Try it! Try it! Try it!" But the direction says, "Address your letters to Dwight Monroe, New York." This is a puzzle; for does not the other document say: "Direct to A. L. Baldwin?" Now I have it. The letter is for the Editors alone, sub rosa— -We ought not to have published it. The advertisement is for you, gentle reader. The whole means: Mr. Editor send your bill for advertising to "A. L. Baldwin," and if there is such a man in existence you will get your money. Mr. Reader, send your $2 to me, for I "have got something" for you. We forgot to inform the reader that the precious budget also contained two cards; on one of which Mr Baldwin is said to be "Proprietor of the Literary Journal," and on the other "Agent of the Mausoleum Daguerreotype Company." He says of this part of the business: "I inclose cards that you may know that I am good for the amount" Now, a Philadelphia lawyer may perhaps be able to tell how these cards prove that he is "good for the amount;" but it is too great a problem for us. Besides, if the grammar and rhetoric of the advertisement are from Mr. Baldwin, then we would love to see a copy of "The Literary Journal.” Wonder what is the name of that Editor in Georgia, or, the name of his paper. Poor lone voice from the sunny land! Why do not other Editors join in, to tell the world "that Mr. Monroe has got something." Especially now, as winter is setting in and employment scarce. "Why be without money? when it is just as easy for any one to be around with a pocket full as not, if he only thinks so." O, reader, why do you go about moneyless, sometimes even pondering in your heart whether you can afford to take your old friend The Guardian another year. Why do you not "just think so," send on $2, and have your pockets full? The editor in Georgia, says "Mr. Monroe's business is a good business." We have no doubt of it, as there are no doubt many persons foolish enough to send him two dollars. It is perfectly easy for him to "be around with a pocket full," if there are only enough $2 victims to "think so." He hopes Editors "will charge him a moderate price." As he is generous enough to leave the charge to us, we are generous enough to charge him nothing for this insertion, and our comments also shall be gratis. Any man that can fill the pockets of our readers with money. "just as well as not," ought to be aided. It is our interest to do so. For when the Circular is recived, and pockets are full, our list of subscribers will certainly increase. The intelligent reader may suppose it almost impossible that any one could be humbugged by such schemes; be assured there are many who are drawn into the trick in the vain hope of making "from five to twenty dollars a-day." At this period of the year, when work is scarce in many places, how strong the temptation to one who lives retired in the country, and is himself too honest and innocent to believe that any one could be depraved enough to publish such a falsehood. Besides, is not the advertisement in "our newspaper?" The Editor is a "nice man," and he would not publish it if there was not something in it. We must again ask, how can an honorable editor, for the paltry price of an advertisement-which he may never get-aid these schemes of shameless imposition? 714 FEMALE CHARACTER. DAUGHTERS should thoroughly acquaint themselves with the business and cares of a family. These are among the first objects of a woman's creation; they ought to be among the first branches of her education. They should learn neatness, economy, industry, and sobriety. These will constitute their ornaments. Nature will appear in all her loveliness of proportion, of beauty; and modesty, unaffected gentleness of manner, will render them amiable in the kitchen and dining-room, and ornaments in the sitting-room and parlor. Everything, domestic or social, depends on female character. As daughters and sisters, they decide the character of the family. As wives, they emphatically decide the character of their husbands, and their condition also, It has been not unmeaningly said, that the husband may ask the wife whether he may be respected. He certainly must inquire at the altar whether he may be prosperous and happy. As mothers, they decide the character of their children. Nature has constructed them the early guardians and instructor of their children, and clothed them with sympathies suited to this end. "I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong VOL. VI. JANUARY, 1855. No. 1. THE CUARDIAN: A Monthly Magazine, DEVOTED TO THE SOCIAL, LITERARY AND RELIGIOUS INTERESTS OF YOUNG MEN AND LADIES. Rev. H. HARBAUGH, Editor. LANCASTER, Pa: JOHN H. PEARSOL, PUBLISHER, "God is Love." She that liveth in Pleasure is dead while she liveth." HOME STEEL PLATE EMBELLISHMENT. The Attractions of Home-Marriage at Home-Music at Home-Making a Pleasant Home-- 3. TO YOUNG MEN. Hon. THEO. FRELINGHUYSEN 4. THE TREES OF THE BIBLE. Rev. H. HARBAUGH Introductory Remarks-No. 1. The Almond Tree. .... 14 Mary Magdalene at the Cross-She evinces her strong Faith in Christ-The Purity of her 12. SUMMER IN THE HEART. CARLOS D. STUART. 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