60 AMERICAN GARDENER. 





Of what use is money, that thing which every 

 one seeks to possess ? Of what use indeed, but 

 to be expended on things, which tend to make 

 life easy and pleasant:* Therefore, a green- 

 house comes fairly within the scope of useful- 

 ness ; for, from it the females of a family would 

 receive constant amusement and delight, during 

 a season when they are cut off from almost all 

 other recreation. 



101. Let me not, however, in using these ar- 

 guments, be supposed to doubt of the disposition 

 of American husbands to gratify their wives in 

 this respect ; for, many and striking as are the 

 traits, that distinguish the American character, 

 none is so striking, and none exalts it so much, 

 as the respect and deference of the male towards 

 the female sex. They talk to us about French 

 Politeness ; and we hear enough of the senti- 

 mental trash of romances, where Princes and 

 Nobles are the heroes. But, in no part of this 

 whole world are the women so kindly and so res- 

 pectfully treated by the men as in America. 

 Here women, in no state of life, are treated badly 

 or churlishly. To insure indulgence, assistance, 

 forbearance, from every man, and under any 

 circumstances, it is sufficient that the party is a 

 wo?nan. In this respect no country on earth will 

 bear a comparison with America. This is, too, 

 the natural bent of the human heart when un- 

 corrupted by vicious courses and underhanded 

 by penury. For, count our real pleasures ; count 

 the things that delight us through life ; and you 

 will find, that ninety-nine out of every hundred 

 are derived from women. To be the object of 

 ?io woman's care or good wishes is a sentence 



