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so apportioned the labors of life, that, whilst the outward affairs, 

 the rough and hard work should fall upon the man, the domes- 

 tic employments are .peculiarly the province of the woman, and 

 sufficiently engrossing to preclude her from a desire to travel 

 beyond their limits ; and consequently our females present that 

 delicacy of manners and appearance, and strangers would not 

 find it difficult, as among the Esquimaux, to distinguish the 

 woman from the man. Of course exceptions occasionally form 

 the rule, and we discern, yoked together, specimens of human- 

 ity showing sexual differences by the garb ; tout the grey mare is 

 the better horse, and the domestic carriage, with its entire load, 

 is carried along by the more spirited animal. 



" The fact is," said one of these superior beings, " a man 

 does not know how to straighten up things. He does not know 

 where to commence. I don't wonder that when God made 

 Adam, he went right to work and made a woman to tell him 

 what to do !" 



Physiology demonstrates that woman is not so constituted as 

 to compete with man in physical labor, and the history of 

 woman in all ages forces us to the conclusion that the qualities 

 of her mind are different from that of man, leading her to rea- 

 son intuitively, instead of plodding through logical arguments ; 

 consequently she is rarely a constructor or inventor, but her 

 faculties are especially adapted to arranging and beautifying 

 what is constructed, in assisting man in his improvements, but 

 preserving in all she does her sexual significance, and her 

 equality and independence, as neither sex can dispense with the 

 other. 



Will the education of women in agriculture and horticulture 

 in any way interfere with this divine adjustment of the sexes ? 

 I trow not, for various reasons ; the chief of which is, that the 

 mere education in the theory of any employment, or even such 

 practical application as may elucidate the theories, does not im- 

 ply that the hard work, or actual labor, is to be performed by 

 the neophyte. The vast businesses of our country are directed 

 in the closet or the counting-room, and many of our successful 

 agriculturists carry on a thriving employment without put- 

 ting hand to plough, or any where except in the pocket ; and 

 the luxury of farming is not considered inconsistent with the 



