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and of that^ it shall be said in Heaven, He had a faith- 

 ful., a pious mother ! 



In this age, characterized by so many benevolent ef- 

 forts ; I have wondered that mothers have not associa- 

 ted ; for the improvement of their daughters ; in the do- 

 mestic and social relations and duties. Such an association, 

 though more humble in its pretensions, would not be less 

 useful in its fruits ; than the most imposing unions. 



Half the wretchedness^ and 7nisery, in families, arising 

 from the temper^ or want of economy in the wife ; has 

 not been told. Not even the bestial habit of drunken- 

 ness in the husband produces more disastrous conse- 

 quences. To this cause, also, may be attributed many 

 of the vices of the husband. He will not love home ; 

 if his f reside is rendered uncomfortable or unpleasant. 

 And when the love of home is gone ; the man is lost. 

 There is no redemption. Better that he had not been ! 



The appearance of the husband ; and the condition 

 of the children, faithfully express the character of the 

 wife. If she be the neat, prudent, modest, and dignified 

 woman; her husband will proclaim it, wherever he 

 goes ; in his countenance, in his apparel, in his whole 

 demeanour : it is inscribed on every thing about him. 

 The children, also, will be modest and manly ; in clean 

 and whole apparel. If she chance to possess the oppo- 

 site qualities -, her husband will be uneasy, and fretful, 

 and gloomy, he knows not why : and her children, impu- 

 dent and ugly ; their apparel, unmended and unwashed. 



These appearances ; and they are not images of fan- 

 cy ;' as surely foretel the ruin of a family as does the 

 thunder cloud, the rain ; or, the rumbling of the moun- 

 tain, the bursting of a volcano. 



How important then, that every husbandman should 



