be impossible and even to them in an ideal picture might not perhaps convey to the mind of the any adequate idea of their importance but as in painting a finished picture the skill of the artist is not only required in the general outline but is equally requisite in the so the perfection of the female character b not sufficiently indicated by saying she is possessed of every virtue unless we point out the individual instances upon which those virtues are brought to bear and the more minute and delicate their aspect if they are but frequently presented to our notice the stronger is our con that virtuous principle is the ground work of the whole with regard to the particular instance already described the case may perhaps be more clearly illustrated by adding picture of an opposite description in order to ascertain m i hat pf points the two cases habits ow for this purpose we will imagine a woman distinguished by no extreme of character receiving her guest under precisely the same circumstances as the one already described in this case the is permitted to see that her hostess has reluctantly laid down her book at the latest possible period of time which politeness would allow or her guest has remained twenty minutes in a vacant and by no means inviting parlour she comes toiling up from the kitchen with a countenance that makes it dreadful to be adding to her daily by placing at her table and she answers the usual inquiries of her friend as to her state of health with a minute detail of the various phenomena of a headache with which she has that morning been attacked the one domestic is then called up � and wo that family whose daily services by its individual members towards each other all from one domestic the one domestic then is ordered in the hearing of the guest to take all the luggage up stairs to bring hot water to turn the carpets � run for the best � and see that tea is ready by the time the friend comes down the party then a accompanied by the panting servant into a room upon which no kind care has been bestowed it may possibly be neat � so neat that the guest it never has been and is not yet intended to be used yes every thing is in its place but a general blank the whole and it is not the least of the disappointments experienced by our guest that she finds no water to refresh her aching temples the mistress of the house is angry at this neglect and rings the bell the servant of from the kitchen to the highest room to learn that she mast go down again and return before half the catalogue of her faults has been told on such errands as this she is employed until the party descend to the parlour where the bell is again rung more and tea is ordered to be brought in the mean time the fire has to the lowest bar the mistress looks for coals but the usual is empty she feels as if there were a conspiracy against her there is � there can be no one to blame but the servant and thus her is by complaints against servants in general and her own in particular with these complaints and often repeated apologies the time is occupied until the appearance of the long expected meal when the guest is pressed to partake of a not by the comments of her hostess or the harassed and forlorn appearance of an over worked domestic the mistress of this house may all the while be glad to see her guest and may really regard her as an intimate and valued friend but never having made it an object to practise the domestic virtue of making others happy she knows not how to convey any better idea of a welcome than by words she therefore sets deliberately to work to describe how h she herself in receiving so dear a friend � wishes some third party were at home � hopes to be able to amuse her � tells of the parties she has engaged for each successive evening � brings out a pile of fears her guest is weary � and lastly at a very early hour rings for the chamber that her would like to retire habits ov it needless to observe that the of do retire upon this hint and it is equally needless to add that the individual here described fails to exhibit the of the english whose peculiar charm is that of happiness without appearing as the agent in its it is from the unseen but active principle of disinterested love ever working at her heart that she enters with a perception as as might be supposed to belong to a angel into the peculiar feelings and tones of character those around her applying the key of sympathy to all they suffer or enjoy to all they fear or hope until she becomes identified as it were with their very being her own existence with theirs and makes her society essential to their highest earthly enjoyment if a heightened degree of earthly enjoyment were all we could expect to obtain by this line of conduct i should still be to think the effect produced would be richly worth our pains but i must again repeat that the great aim of a christian woman will always be so to make others happy that their feelings shall be to the reception of better thoughts than those which relate to mere personal enjoyment � so to make others happy as to win them over to a full perception of the loveliness of those christian virtues which her own life and conduct show forth the of chapter viii habits c n n and the subject of consideration might be continued to almost 