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Is an object worthy of her highest ambition, and most 

 persevering effort, and we may add, a safe and honoraUe 

 passport to the pure and elevating relations of domestic 

 life. It is an old, and perhaps truthful maxim, that " a 

 smoking chimney makes a scolding wife," but we think 

 quite as ancient and apparent is the fact that poor bread 

 makes cross and fault-finding husbands. 



The tendency of the present age, seems to be toward 

 an intellectual d,nd ornamental education for our daughters, 

 to the neglect and almost utter exclusion of the domestic 

 and more practical duties to which nature and Provi- 

 dence have alike called them. While, therefore, we 

 would have our daughters polished, intelleciiialli/, after the 

 similitude of a palace, and adorned with all the graces 

 that science and art can confer, we would impress upon 

 them the importance of that higher, nobler training, 

 which shall qualify them for the practical duties of 

 domestic life, and the exalted sphere of a co-lalorer with 

 him with whom they may link their affections and earthly 

 destiny. 



The competitors in this department were not as num- 

 erous as could be desired, and yet, for the encouragement 

 of future exhibitions, we are happy to say, that all have 

 done well, and that our partiality has not been dictated 

 so much by principle as taste. Your Committee unani- 

 mously agreed upon the following awards: 

 For the best loaf of wheat bread, Miss Emily 



E. Eaton, of Fitchburg, 1st premium, $1,00 

 For the second best. Miss Lizzie II. Howard, 



of Fitchburg, 2d premium, , >50 



Also, would recommend a gratuity to Miss 

 Fanny Upton, of Fitchburg, of ;2^ 



