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In ttis country, the sphere of woman's usefulness is much too im- 

 portant, her influence much too great, to pass them by in silence. No 

 where in the world are woman's rights so fully understood, or so care- 

 fully and faithfully guarded as in our own country. Under circumstan- 

 ces favorable to the development of her intellect, and those numberless 

 good qualities which find a lodgment in her heart, she has proven her- 

 self, in every vicissitude of life, worthy of the high esteem in which 

 she is held by her chivalrous countrymen. Their self-denial and suf- 

 fering in the early settlement of America, their patriotic devotion to 

 liberty in the days of the revolution, the self-sacrificing spirit exhibited 

 by them in a pioneer hfe in the great west, their intellectual superiority 

 when compared with the women of other countries make them fit com- 

 panions and advisers for the hardy end energetic Republicans of the 

 New World. It is not only while dispensing charities to the needy, admin- 

 istering consolation to the sick and afiiicted, or pursuing the quiet labors 

 incident to household life, that her worth is learned, or her usefulness felt. 

 She shines brightest and purest when, with herhttle ones clustered around 

 her, she drops into their tender nainds those wholesome and invaluable 

 truths, which are to protect them in childhood, and guide them to hap- 

 piness and honor in after years. It is when she imprints upon their sus- 

 ceptible hearts, those correct ideas of right and wrong, of good and bad, which 

 a mother's solicitude for her ofispring, should never fail to suggest. It is 

 when she urges upon them in later years-as they are about to launch out 

 into the busy scenes of hfe — those salutaiy maxims which the inspiration 

 of a mother's love alone can impart, and which if observed, conducts to 

 happiness and prosperity. It is upon such occasions that the mothers 

 of America appear most advantageously, and it is for this they deserve 

 the Nation's thanks. 



The tiller of the soil, the mechanic, the professional man, and the 

 statesman of our country, owe their prosperity and success in life to the 

 gentle counsels of the faithful wife, or the kind admonitions of the anx- 

 ious mother. In view then, of the important position which the women 

 of America have occupied, and in view of the responsibiUties which 

 must continue to rest upon them, it would be well for our young ladies 

 to look over the field of their future labors, and prepare to acquit them- 

 selves well of the duties which may fall to their lot. Educate the body 

 by healthy and useful exercise; rise at the early break of day ; fly from 



