The ladies' garland. [volume] (Harpers-Ferry, Va. [W. Va.]) 1824-1828, 1825-02-19

SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 1926
s5x Persons becoming subscribers to the Gar
land, can be furnished with complete copies from
its commencement
TO THE EDITOR OF THE GARLAND.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE GARLAND.
SIR: The Garland being almost exclusive
ly devoted to the ladies' | have been much sur
prlsed not to see more of the illusions of their
fascinating pens in its columns. Certainly there
is female talent enough in your vicinity to con-
tribute largely to the interest and real usefulness
OF such paper. Can you devise no plan to
arouse the slumbering energies of female genius
about you, and enlist them in your cause-nay,
let ME add their oUn cause for it is in their
cause you have embarked In works Of imagi-
nation they are acknowledged to be our supe-
rlors Can you not, then, induce them, by any
soft persuasive argument, to enrich the Garland
with the sweet illusions of their fertile magma
tons The grand, the majestic scenery that
surrounds you, is so admirably calculated to
awaken the livelest visions of fancy and to steal
softly into the soul of sensibility, that one would
suppose II was pointed out by the finger of Ma
ture tor the special abode of the MUSES. as we'll as
the chosen seat Of the Graces The high and
lofty mountain-the gently swelling hill-the
awful precipice-the dark and gloomy forest
the rich, the verdant and variegated vaie-the
tremendous cataract-the meandering stream
the murmuTlng ryulet-the humble cot-the
splendid mansion, and all the etceteras so essen
tial in the establishment of modern moral hc-
ton, and which form the bold imagery of poet
ry; these grand materials, in pursuit of which
most writers obliged to wander through the
visionary fields of fancy, actually present them
selves to the natural vision of your fair readers
on the banks of the Potomac and Shenandoah
Very little, therefore, is left for the ina guation
to do. The foot of Pegasus has pressed the
ground at their door, and the fountains of Bno-
tia flow on either hand The mountains Of Pho
els arise before them. where Apollo with his Tyre
presldes. How can your sylvan nymphs behold
all that is sublime and beautiful in Nature in SUI
len silence? ., We fair Daughters of Science
Pluck from your Native Hills those Literary
Laurels that
Bloom in eternal verdure there"
and place them in that Garland which is formed,
not for the purpose of ornamenting the brow, or
decorating the exterior of those charms, which
'When unadorn'd, IS alorn'd the most
but proiessedy to enrich the female mind with
those moral reflections which so pre-eminently
abound IL the works Of Nature and Art by which
they are surrounded
But, sir, have digressed--my pen has gone
wild from the subject for which took it unit
beng SIMPLY to extract the following chaste re-
marks on Female Education, from the school
exercise OF young lady at boarding school in
Washington CITY. They were written in haste,
as an exercise III composition, without the au-
thor's dreaming of their appearing in print
They We're handed me by friend of her and
without her knowledge, have taken the liberty
OF communicating them for the Garland, hoping
the TAR one Will pardon the presumption Of one
VINO nolds IN high estimation, the rapid advan-
ces OF female intellect the paths of literature
RAssELAs. !