by congenial souls till their health is and their spirits broken by discontent how then can the great art of pleasing be such a necessary study it is only useful to a mistress the wife and serious mother should only consider her power to please as the polish of her virtues and the affection of her husband as one of the comforts that render her task less difficult and her life happier but whether she be loved or neglected her first wish should be to make herself respectable and not to rely for all her happiness on a being subject to like with herself the worthy dr fell into a similar error i respect his heart but entirely of his celebrated to his daughters he them to cultivate a fondness for dress because a fondness for dress he is natural to them i am unable to comprehend what either he or mean when they frequently use this indefinite term if they told us that in a pre state the soul was fond of dress and brought this inclination with it into a new body i should listen to them with a half smile as i often do when i hear a about innate elegance but if he only meant to say that the exercise of the faculties will produce this fondness i deny it it is not natural but arises like false ambition in men from a love of power dr goes much further he actually and an innocent girl to give the lie to her feelings and not dance with spirit when of heart would make her feet eloquent without making her gestures in the name of truth and common sense why should not one by mary woman acknowledge that she can take more exercise than another or in other words that she has a sound constitution and why to damp innocent vivacity is she darkly to be told that men will draw conclusions which she little thinks of let the draw what he pleases but i hope that no sensible mother will restrain the natural frankness of youth by such out of the abundance of the heart the mouth and a wiser than solomon hath said that the heart should be made clean and not trivial ceremonies observed which it is not very difficult to with scrupulous when vice in the heart women ought to endeavor to their heart but can they do so when their make them entirely dependent on their senses for employment and amusement when no noble pursuit sets them above the little of the day or them to the wild emotions that a reed over which every passing breeze has power to gain the affections of a virtuous man is affection necessary nature has given woman a weaker frame than man but to her husband s must a wife who by the exercise of her mind and body whilst she was the duties of a daughter wife and mother has allowed her constitution to retain its natural strength and her nerves a healthy tone � is she i say to condescend to u e art and a sickly delicacy in order to secure her husband s affection weakness may excite tenderness and gratify the pride of man but the caresses of a protector will not gratify a noble mind that for and deserves to be respected fondness is a poor substitute for friendship in a i grant that all these arts are necessary the must have his or he will sink into but have women so little ambition as to be satisfied with such a condition can they dream life away in the lap of pleasure or the languor of weariness rather than assert their claim to pursue reasonable pleasures and render themselves conspicuous by the virtues which mankind surely she has not an immortal soul who can life away merely employed to adorn her person that she may amuse the languid hours and soften the cares of a fellow creature who is willing to be by her smiles and tricks when the serious business of life is over by x x mary besides the woman who her body and exercises her mind will by managing her family and various virtues become the friend and not the humble dependent of her husband and if she by possessing such substantial qualities merit his regard she will not find it necessary to conceal her affection nor to pretend to an unnatural coldness of constitution to excite her husband s passions in fact if we to history we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex nature � or to speak with strict propriety god � has made all things right but man has sought him out many inventions to mar the work i now allude to that part of dr s where he a wife never to let her husband know the extent of her sensibility or affection precaution and as ineffectual as absurd love from its very nature must be to seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as for the philosopher s stone or the grand and the discovery would be equally useless or rather to mankind the most holy band of society is friendship it has been well said by a shrewd that rare as true love is true friendship is still by i i george edward a volume of verse entitled the north shore watch and other poems was printed in for private circulation it was recognized by those who chanced to see it as work of exceptional merit the which named the book was felt to be one of the most artistic and beautiful composed by an american the high spiritual quality of the song was as marked as its dignity of and depth of feeling there were noble in the little collection � the two on for example 