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benefit which would result in every way from this encourage- 

 ment. Industry is the great preventive of poverty and crime. 

 "Were it universally inculcated and fostered in youth, there 

 would be much less need of doctors and lawyers, and, as we 

 think, of ministers. 



Sons and daughters ! strive to be useful. Let it be your 

 pride in after years that you lent a willing hand to lessen the 

 cares of the parental home. 



And finally, man is an admirer of all that is beautiful in 

 nature ; and in the last manifestation of creative power and 

 divine skill, there is a display of beauty unrivalled in any por- 

 tion of God's works, and in that countenance in which are 

 commingled beams of kindness, purity, good humor and modest 

 blushes, going and returning like flashes of heat lightning in 

 the summer twilight of a western sky, with the flashes of genius 

 sparkling in the eye with a splendor which the brilliancy of no 

 diamond can equal — transparent windows to the soul of intelli- 

 gence and noble thought — such to man, is gentle, modest, pure, 

 heroic and loving woman, reflecting her loveliness upon all 

 around, like as the setting sun upon a world made richer and 

 more glorious by the lingering radiance, casting reflecting rays 

 of unwonted gorgeousness and splendor upon azure skies and 

 gold-tint clouds. And for what did the Creator make objects 

 so beautiful but to be admired, and for what has he endowed 

 man with an exquisite sense of beauty, but that he may 

 cultivate it and find therein a source of pleasure and delight. 



It may be well that married men should speak their general 

 admiration in modest tones, for who shall advocate the cause of 

 that woman who is jealous without cause ? 



Modesty and beauty are woman's greatest adornments ; but 

 I am not sure that these always go together ; and beauty with- 

 out modesty may be repulsive, while modesty in woman is 

 never repulsive to man. And for the benefit of those who may 

 think themselves not handsome, I will say, " Handsome is that 

 handsome does." 



