MR. fay's ADDRES?. 10 



daugliters of farmers. Your position is a responsible one, since no 

 farm can be Avell conducted, unless the house and the work within 

 it are managed with skill and economy. The dairy, the poultry 

 yard, the fruit and flower garden, should be under your superinten- 

 tendence. By your care they can be made productive of pleasure 

 as well as of profit, and will furnish a wide field for your intellectual 

 as well as physical powers. A wise and just observer has quaintly 

 said, " Let me cast my eyes about a house, however high or 

 however low the position of the occupants may be, and I can 

 measure with accuracy the amount of happinesss the abode 

 contains, by what 1 see there." Order, strict cleanliness, and a 

 comfortable and tasteful disposition of what the house contains, 

 mark the temper, disposition and character of its presiding genius — 

 woman ; and it is upon her that rests the happiness of the whole 

 household. 



God help you, my fair friends, in the performance of your mani- 

 fold and responsible duties. From you, from your example, from 

 your unobtrusive yet ever active virtues, but above all from that 

 deep religious feeling which tenants every woman's breast, man 

 imbibes while yet a child the best principles of his nature ; and to 

 you he is indebted in after life for his chiefest comfort and pleasure. 

 What then can be more appropriate and just, than on an occasion 

 like this that you should take your places amongst us, and, in the 

 conclusion of this discourse, receive this humble tribute of consid- 

 eration and respect. 



