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possibly could. Every year brings us improvements in fabrics suited 

 to clothing the human body ; but facilities in the art of feeding it 

 are little better now than they were a hundred years ago. Capi- 

 talists, and brain-workers, find themselves well paid for their labors 

 in the former line — compassion for woman claims their efforts in the 

 latter. If immigration should happen to cease, the condition of all 

 American women would soon be one of "waiting upon themselves,'"' 

 most literally. And since husband and children will probably always 

 need considerable additional service, improvements in the art of 

 serving cannot commence, for the benefit of all classes, too soon. 



And in conclusion, we "will state, that the design of this essay has 

 been to prove that the best means of supplying the intellectual 

 wants of farmers, will be found in removing those objections to the 

 farmer's life, which now shut out the cultivated classes from his 

 vocation. 



