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tion with many, whose tastes lead them in that direction. 

 They have no fondness for rural scenes. The green fields, the 

 winding streams, the waving trees, the flowers of spring, hill 

 and dale, and all the majesty and beauty of nature, have no 

 charms in their eyes equal to the crowded streets, and build- 

 ings of lofty and costly proportions, and glow, and bustle, and 

 gaiety, and splendor and fashion, and social enjoyments of a 

 populous city. 



The wish to escape the manual labor of the field is a strong 

 passion. Work there, is work ; it is disagreeable on account 

 of its severity, its uncleanliness, its exposure to the sun and 

 air, and those various influences which are inconsistent with 

 the desired grace, niceness and delicacy of personal appearance. 

 There are many young men who have feminine propensities. 

 They have that inclination for the pretty, ornamental, and 

 showy in person and dress, which nature intended should be the 

 exclusive property of the other sex. They interfere with the 

 female prerogatives, as much as some of those whose domain 

 they invade, do in their aspirations after a more gentlemanly 

 appearance. Since the ladies have begun to wear working 

 jackets and pantaloons, and have exchanged the bonnet for the 

 hat, I am greatly in hopes, as the only advantage which is like- 

 ly to grow out of such a metamorphosis, that those young men 

 who have such pretty tastes will permit them to take a more 

 rational direction, and that in their endeavors to imitate the 

 ladies, they will become as manly as they are. 



Agricultural labor has not, in the view of some, the requisite 

 dignity and rank to satisfy their ambition. The fact that the 

 mere practical operations of farming demand so little training 

 and skill to conduct them, places the occupation in a lower 

 grade than the arts which require long apprenticeship, and 

 much tuition to practise them, with the necessary degree of 

 success and profit. The skill associated with the exercise of 

 the craft gives it higher association and a loftier position. 

 When, as in some mechanical employments, you have great 

 expenditure in preparation, fine and costly material, extreme 

 nicety of workmanship, and rich and valuable products des- 

 tined for ornament and elegant use, you see an employment 



