It is hard for a young mother, who has not yet overcome the wayward tendencies of her own youthful nature to realize the influence she exerts over her little ones. She is constantly surrounded by critical imitators, who copy her morals and her manners. As the mother is, so are her sons and daughters. If a family of children are blessed with an intelligent mother, who is dainty and refined in her manners, and who does not consider it necessary to be one woman in the drawing-room and an entirely different person in every-day life, but who is a true mother, and who is always a tender, charming woman, you will invariably see her habits of speech and her perfect manners repeated in her children. Great, rough men, and noisy, busy boys, will always tone down their voices and step quietly, and try to be more mannerly, when she stops to give them a kind word and a pleasant smile; for a true woman will never fail to say and do all the kind, pleasant things she can that will any way help to lift up and cheer those whose lives are shaded with care and toil. The mother of to-day rules the world of to-morrow. Think of it, dear sisters, and guard well your home treasures.