their Maker.

If we are not favored with sagacity sufficient to take the sharp competitions of the world, we should be cont a comfortable subsistence, which, by industry, we can make off of the occasions of others, if we have health temperate, and lay by something for infirmity and age. The art of acquiring property consists more in se and saving than in making money.

Persons in the subsidiary spheres of life are always fi the casualties of a busy and adventurous world, whe best qualified are ever failing in the pursuits of wea fame.

The imperious laws of self-government apply most ob with more force, to poor single females when throw their own resources, than to men.

It may be said, with certainty, that while women ren clusively in their own spheres, they hold their fortunes own hands.

This view of the subject is most strikingly illustra reference to the beautiful and dignified system of the whose women are educated with proud emulations for hold duty.

Look upon their clean chambers, plain and perfect wa the order, elegance, and quiet simplicity of all their movements; no noise, confusion, waste, or irregularity thing to admire, and nothing to criticise.

It has passed into a proverb, that no man can go a taking a wife from these excellent people; that no woman ever failed to make a good wife; that all their get married, make their husbands respectable, and th of them are indigent.

Their poor women are most cheerfully put upon a with the family they serve, because, in education an worth, they are all alike, eat at the same table, and gether on terms of equality and free intercourse, and with the relations and friends of the family, and thus ol elevated reputation for true and real worth, under the of which, the only safe and prudent preliminaries for an

to his decayed slave and beast of burden.

The woman that will bridle her licent abstain from lust and folly, and patientl paths of virtue, will never want a home.

Upon her death-bed she will frankly ledge that she has had the pure sympathi sons, and that her way has been smooth than her brightest hopes had looked for.

Honest poor women are not doomed to 1 need not struggle for food, or work and a pittance; these charges are false and altogether destitute of the least shadow o

They are, by the gallantry and courtesy in all their truant and visionary experime of his various employments, in which he prosper; and millions of them, under the as cousins, friends, and companions, by mea loaf on his hard earnings for life.

No decent woman is ever starved in, nursery or the kitchen, while she behaves

The house and the hearth-stone is man's he hopes, and to which he clings; her woman's throne.

It is here she may delicately refine and fascinations to win and keep his love.

Not on the stage nor in the workshop, her appropriate and honest labor, and in she was ordained.

Here she can achieve and wield the mag power, and translate all man's follies and superiority into thrilling ecstasies of volun

From these dedicated paths of prospe should never wander, and when the sad h from these realms of female happiness com strike upon the secret emotions of her con

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enough to fancy that they can become illustrious by ma that the occupations of patient and honest labor are insig and beneath their notice.

"The Women of Henry's Age.-Of the women in K ward's reign, we may judge and wonder, comparing the that sex in this present age, by observing what Nicol writ in his Epistle to Queen Katharine, before the Eng raphrase upon the Gospel of St. John. But now in cious and blissful time of knowledge, in which it hath God Almighty to reveal and show abroad the light of holy Gospel, what a number is there of noble women, es here in this realm of England; yea, and how many in t of tender virginity; not only as well seen, and as fa traded in the Latin and Greek tongues, as in their own language; but also both in all kinds of profane literat liberal arts, exacted, studied, and exercised; and in th Scripture and Theology so ripe, that they are able apt ningly, and with much grace, either to indite or to trans the vulgar tongue, for the public instruction and edifyin unlearned multitude? Neither is it now a strange thing gentlewomen, instead of vain communication about th shining in the water, to use grave and substantial talk i or Greek with their husbands, of godly matters. It is news in England, for young damsels in noble houses, an courts of princes, instead of cards and other instrument. trifling, to have continually in their hands either psalm lies, and other devout meditations, or else Paul's Epi some book of Holy Scripture matters; and as familiarly or reason thereof in Greek, Latin, French, or Italia English. It is now a common thing to see young vi nursed and trained in the study of letters, that they w set all other pastimes at naught for learning's sake. I no news at all to see queens and ladies of most high st progeny, instead of courtly dalliance, to embrace virtuo cises of reading and writing, and with most earnest stu early and late, to apply themselves to the acquiring o ledge as well in all other liberal arts and disciplines, most especially of God and his most holy Word."-S Life of Parker, p. 180.

a bouquet to Rebecca Rawdon, at the Dul at Brussels, which was held on the evenin Waterloo. This circumstance, together w and his marked attentions to Mrs. R. durin overwhelmed Mrs. O. with jealousy and de Captain Osborne was shot in battle; she gave birth to a son, upon whom she dote ness, and dedicated eighteen years in ferv husband's picture, and devotion to his nately persevered in rejecting the generou Major Dobbin.

"At length she was rebuked for the folly whom she loaded with reproaches, and cha hood and cruelty. Beckey dispelled the infatuation by flinging into her face the ba her to abandon her husband Col. Rawdon tain Osborne.

"Upon this disclosure, Amelia wiped he the letter, sent for Captain Dobbin, waited for his arrival in the steamer, leaped into 1 with kisses, crawled under his cloak, clung arm, devoured his hand with caresses, and off; forgot her sainted George, and with a ardently worshiped at another shrine."

For the purpose of the illustration, it is this tale be real or fictitious; for it is a com every day development of the mysterious ch temperament of man and woman both; proof of their surprising, selfish, impulsive, a

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The same author takes occasion to give so of the self-denial and incredible endurance The following are some of his sympa They are fraught with exquisite feeling and "What do men know about woman's should go mad had we to endure the hundi daily pains which are meekly borne by ma

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good word; all this how many of them have to bear i and appear abroad with cheerful faces, as if they felt "Tender slaves they are; they must be hypocrites an "How many thousands of women are there who cheerless duties by day, and sleep in gloomy cells at who watch by thankless sick beds, and suffer the har and tyranny of querulous and disappointed old age; doomed to endure the slavery of hospital nurses wages; sisters of charity, if you like, without the roma the sentiment of sacrifice, who strive, fast, watch, and su pitied, and fade away ignobly and unknown."-THACK

Notwithstanding these touching remarks upon the of woman, it must be remembered that the inscrutable of the same Providence who ordained her fate also pro for man his awful doom.

Whether his destiny is not more severe than ho whether its stings and agonies are not more poignant, is lation left for his cooler deliberation. On this subject, not reciprocated to his muse. From the constitution nature, she has not, perhaps, the same compassionate der sympathy for him that he has for her.

Her yearnings towards him are dependence and for ment; his for her are pity and protection. She exp succor, and he is ordained to yield it to her. He, tl appreciates her afflictions more than she can understan

She is eminently helpless and impulsive; he is more with judgment and firmness; her sensations are like who will desert the hand that feeds it; his are those of who but seldom forgets his offspring. In the heyday o without provocation, she will abandon the husband of love, and cast her babes from her bosom for sensual ence; he but rarely does this without some fierce and ling urgency.

But this is maintaining that the fate of man involve lations like those of woman, instead of showing that, f acute and peculiar character of woman's nature, she apt to hold, except by impulse, the concern for man does for her, and that, therefore, his lot in life is not a