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Architect ever known, an elegant ship for thee to sail in on the 

 boisterous sea of life. 'Tis the ship Matrimony ; and when well 

 man'd and laden with perfect love, cannot fail to make a safe and 

 prosperous voyage, etc., etc." 



Under " Chit-Chat with Readers " the editor discourses as 

 follows on the same subject: "Just now we wish to have a cozy 

 and familiar chat with the ladies. What do you think of the new- 

 fangled notions about ' Women's Rights ' ? . . . Do you believe 

 you would be happier, or the instruments of greater happiness to 

 others, if you should abandon the scenes of home that you make 

 blessed, and adopt the career of men? . . . Men sometimes get 

 queer notions, and among others they entertain the idea that the 

 great God of Nature adapted the sexes to different employments. 

 . . . Perhaps they are mistaken. Ladies will you give an 

 opinion ? " 



Apparently no opinions were offered for publication ; but sub- 

 sequently, in the issue of October, 1852, the editor speaks his 

 mind in no uncertain terms, viz., " The ' Strong Minded 

 Women ' have been holding a convention recently at Syracuse, 

 for the purpose of adopting measures to assert their ' rights ' and 

 the rights of their sex. . . . What a pity it is that every woman 

 will not think as they do on the subject! . . . We think that man 

 and woman should be assigned to duty on this terrestrial sphere 

 according to their several qualifications and temperaments, etc., 

 etc." 



Weather conditions are also occasionally commented upon and 

 we learn that "on Sunday morning, April 20th [1851], the New 

 Yorkers were called to breakfast in the midst of a thoroughbred 

 snowstorm." 



In " A Chapter of Beards " we are told that " beards are be- 

 coming more fashionable every day among us of modern times, 

 and though the various and fantastic styles which our young 

 blades adopt in their facial hirsute appendages may not yet be in 

 accord with the old fashioned taste which lingers among us, we 

 have no doubt another generation will be perfectly orthodox in 

 regard to these time-honored ornaments of manhood." 



