destine, precipitate, perhaps a fatal marriag Unconscious of wrong, she flies back, anguish upon the bosom of her beloved spurns her, but, woman-like, sobs in mour averts her timid eye from the angry br haughty father, at whose feet she kneels, cast out with scorn.

Still she is in solemn earnest; nothing b her unextinguishable love for her husband fer her presence, and give her one-half grudgingly given to a common house-dog, round the world, and cling to him, throug disease, infamy, and death; and sacrifice soul, totally regardless of the odium and world.

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Her destiny and her doom were thy husband," and "he shall rule over thee."

Even with "the suffering sorrow of he and inherent instinct is to seek for, to le unto man; she always believes him to hav and naturally converts slight attentions in riage.

It is the predominant thought of her e cheerful dream; a secret, thrilling impulse fanned into hope, and then to love.

The surrender she makes in marriage i would be idolatry but with her; it is not is God's command.

To her, marriage is a rapturous, lasting bright and dazzling star of love and homag This is but a faint coloring of the pictur love for man.

Her pride, her destiny, begins with j glorious usefulness, or anguish, sorrow, an The instances in which women do not h lence and charms peculiar to their sex are unusual that, when they are without then

ner, they are destitute of the soft and innocent which so eminently belongs to woman; they have an markable promptness and self-possession in their sp deportment which cannot be concealed; the distinction them and a timid, gentle, true woman, is so obvious, seem to be another class of beings. Such women ha craft and cunning of man, combined with the worst ties of their own sex. They get this from their father number are few. Woe to the husband that gets suc It were better for him to have a millstone tied about and to be cast into the sea.

There is no unkindness or discourtesy intended by and natural portrait of woman.

No tongue can speak, no words can express, the i sphere of thought, passion, and piety, which is exclusi up by her wonderful faculties.

Her coming forth into the world is hailed with ecstasies of true delight. In infancy, she is a sweet c childhood, she is bright and angelic; at maturity, she blooms in fragrant glory; and seems as if she was a all to kneel and worship at.

When a wife, she gladly quits the world; and the its habitations, from the whitened cot to the gorgeo point to the empire of her proud and glorious sway. As a mother, she fills her destiny with blameless holy piety; and, as a conscientious believer, she is t mother, as she was the silent sentinel, at the tomb loved Saviour.

She has the seraphic purity of the angels in heaver celestial sympathy and thrilling passions of her s were mysteriously and exclusively bestowed by God final and triumphant work of his Almighty creation. The foregoing remarks flow from the spontaneous every man's heart, and he mourns to have them tes ality.

The instinctive impulses of his soul are rebuked by ing certainty that, with all the fascinations of woma is imperfect; that she is ruled by the same iron scep

sion and nuído that holds domini

over him and

Women appear to be almost insensible ties of men; and men, from their evil sy much notice each other's depravities, unl

But the moral imperfections of wom from their delicate nature; at this point, v terrible changes produced by man's expul The sequel develops, with women, mos of this catastrophe.

From her previous purity, and her sub fections the mind is charmed with the nove and reluctantly, and not until late in life, delusion.

However ungallant it may seem to w born truths, it is but an act of justice th fully performed, to guard man and wom dangerous consequences of trusting too m pearances, and the excitements of passion

All general results are made up of minut an accurate knowledge of the latter, howe nificant may be the task of their delibera is no other true process for the philosop proposition.

Bearing in mind these suggestions, it v objects detected behind the first bright sh picture are the shadows of her inherent fo

By the fall, her pure and holy nature its calm and heavenly elements were inve

Making all just exceptions and allowa are resolute in resisting bad propensities, described, a reference to the first practical of those not included in the first named cl tifying truth that she has an ungoverna sonal display, for gaudy, dashing dress, fo and for frivolous company.

For curls, laces, dashing shawls, hats and flounces; brilliants, dangling chains, w

beauty.

She will not believe that plain dress, industry, d unpretending simplicity of deportment and conversa an unblemished reputation-these good old-fashione virtues, so largely held and modestly practiced by pure of her sex only-will command the esteem of persons, and extort the respect even of the bad.

And that the only persons attracted by perspicuous behavior are fops and libertines, who track out, and such women, married or single, an equivocal position, fr they never escape.

Such women, when married, if they can make a pr keeping servants, wholly neglect their house-work and and denounce them as filthy and vulgar. In this v husbands never have wholesome food, or decent acc tions, and their expenses are doubled in waste, and fe vants and visitors.

Single women of this character maintain an im aversion to house-work, and openly abhor and utterly d However ignorant, low-born, and unfit for anyt drudgery, they obstinately shun work, although ther can always obtain good wages, comfortable homes, and way of obtaining reputable marriages.

The result is that they lead vagrant lives, are alw spend everything they can get in fine clothes, never good reputation; no one can depend on them, nor can pend on themselves.

They lounge about home as long as they can, put th on others, and, when finally compelled to go to work of going into the employment of reputable families, tu riders, supernumeraries, dancers, singers, and actors at and do anything but work, and become loose and aba

Thousands of families, public houses, hotels, steam steamships and packets, are obliged to employ men the cooking, chamber-work, and waiting, at which w do more, and do it better, and make better wages th and more than they, the women, can make at men's

The most absurd and disgusting incongruities are by thus inverting all the occupations of life

Women are most aptly fit for all sort teaching all the primary branches of lear ing, nursing, manufacturing all kinds of cept mens' hats, boots, and shoes; ke dockets, records, and every kind of shops, ing all sorts of light wares and merchandis signs for and the manufactory of silks, goods, and for everything appurtenant to y which they can exercise superior taste and In all this wide range of honorable a far excel the men. For all these pursuits adequately educated and generously rev should be allowed to compete with them.

There are thousands of men and wome cities are not up to the level of convention are, therefore, not adequate to the perform ments above subservient and subordinate judgment, and are but barely able to do a

There is no end to the abortive efforts both, even to keep house, or to carry on suit, upon the strength of their own judg

When they discover that they labor un they should abandon the experiment, and the safe and quiet irresponsibilities of serv free from care, and their wants are suppli without being exposed to the risks of ex prise.

It is absurd to answer these positions b all equal, and that a poor person has a rig house, and to live as well as a rich person every one has an undoubted right to live of the result of his own earning, or off of n heritance or devise; but he has no right live by trick and fraud; and, if he is poor according to his means.

If he has to work for his living, he sh