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acquainted with the good which has by this means been effected. 

 Increased industry, taste, refinement in manners, and order in 

 the management of domestic concerns, in many families, have 

 been the happy result. Many a man has found his table more 

 genteelly spread, furnished with better butter and cheese, his 

 floors covered with good and substantial and in some instances 

 quite elegant carpets, a handsome rug spread before the fire 

 place, ornaments upon the mantelpiece, his armed chair furnished 

 with a comfortable cushion, and many other neat and pleasant 

 things, and has ever since loved his wife and daughters and 

 home better, worked with increased animation, felt a generous 

 pride in exhibiting these things to his neighbors and friends when 

 they called, and he is always careful to add that nothing was 

 taken from the granary or stall to foot an alarming merchant's 

 bill. They have all sprung up like magic. 



Industry, taste, and refinement, always easily communicated 

 in the female sex, have been powerfully and extensively pro- 

 moted here ; and as might be expected, contentment, virtue, 

 love, and manliness, have followed in the train. If such have 

 been the fruits, when as yet we have had but limited specimens 

 of the taste, industry, and invention of the fair, I would ask 

 what may not be expected should we be favored with a full ex- 

 hibition of what taste and industry have in this county accom- 

 plished. 1 feel perfectly convinced that those females whose 

 means of improvement have been good, could in no way, with 

 as little sacrifice of time and labor consult better the advance- 

 ment of their sex in the above and other like excellences, than 

 by exhibiting on these anniversaries specimens of their own 

 works. Knowledge would be thus communicated to those who 

 have a desire but not the best opportunities to improve ; a spirit 

 of generous emulation be awakened ; neatness, order, enterprise, 

 and comfort would be introduced into many families of the less- 

 instructed and uncultivated parts of society. 



I was about to add a few remarks on another subject, but am 



admonished by the passing of time that I must close. Before I 



do this however I must be permitted to call to recollection the 



remark, in which at the opening of this address I spoke of the 



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