Ido observe, however, that excepting shopping in a drapery or soft goods sense, they are not so often to be met with doing their own marketing ; worse, mothers display no anxiety to bring their daughters with them as yore, to teach them what, and how to buy ; the same change is observable in cookery knowledge. The late Empire made so many people so suddenly wealthy, by what means is not for me to discuss, that young ladies or wives conclude the highest test of respectability is to know, and to do nothing m connection with tho house. The fruit season is in, making preserves was ever considered a monopoly for a lady, now the fashion is, to order all jams and bottled fruit to be prepared by your grocer. The butcher not only supplies the moat, but in some cases will send it home cooked also. A traiteur will supply the vegetables ready cooked, and the baker the pastry as well as tho bread ; all poulterers " roast," for customers. As if these advantages were not in a sense •ocially dissolving, there is a tendenoy among families of late to get rid of the " bore " of meals at home, and contract with a restuarant to be fed by the month. Hard times, felt more or less by all, may account for those changes, but cer- , tainly ought not to justify them. The best and safest dinner is a plain one, and its best relish is derived from preparing aud eating it at home. It is said that M. Thiers was driven into matrimony os tensibly to escape tavorn life ; no man would remain a bachelor were he to meet with a partner like Madame Thiers. Those who are proverbiaily severe on mothers-in-law ought to remember that M. Thiers his in his palatial home, a chamber fitted up with all tho souvenirs of his mother-in-law, and it is well known, that in cUath they will not be divided, as a compartment is reserved in her vault for him. had the Monarchists their way, they would celebrate aTe Deum in honor of his becoming a tenant therein. Many porsons reduce the present political situation of France to a rivalry between Mesdames MacMahon and Thiers. 