The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1825-09-29
TEzE rEMALEys 1NoNxroR.
FEMALE EDUCATION.
Translated from the French.

Education may very properly be compar
ed to the operation of grating fruit trees. |
The graft renders sweet and savoury that
fruit WHICH would have received from ma
ture nothing but asperty and Bitterness
But the trees, on which we produce ex
ceIIent pears, can never, with all our care,
be made to bear peaches or cherries; nei-
ther can all children arrive at the same
kind, or the same degree OF perfection. The
proper business of education, therefore is to
excite in the mind, not that which nature has
denied to it, but all the gifts she has bestow-
ed.
The whole system OF tuition, then, Con-
ssts in observing the natural aptitude and
disposition OF the mind, and directing it III
fits proper course. Every being on tue face
of the earth, has certain career 4 lotted'to
it, destiny to fill and every child mas, in
its own bosom, something winch may be
called the vocation ofnature, which itls the
business OF Education to elicit, perfect and
correct. Nature will not be turned out OF
her course with impunity; therefore, it is
important that she should not be misappre-
| bended; for
'Chassez lie naturel, iIreyent au galop.'
La fW,taine
But, on the other hand, we should avoid
4
| do, but to direct child in the path which
nature has pointed out, and make it advance
asnear as possible to perfection in the line
which she has traced, Education would
h, comparatively easy. But society, as well
as nature asserts her claim. The child, o
parent, which you are called upon to pre-
pare for future usefulness, is Cast into a
/ sphere, and in that sphere, most probably,
it will continue to circulate during life
Here then our duty becomes more COM
p'ex iuasmuch as it is necessary to recon-
cile all that which nature claims, with
what society and adyentitious circumstances
demand.
Society, which requires of men each ac-
corIling Co what lie has received, the vari-
GUS gifts he has distributed. seems to de-
I mand of zpomaa a tribute nearly uniform
i It IS hers to be the comfort and ornament Of
tthe domestic habitation, to render herself
hrloyed and useful, and scatter here and
there the flowers of life under the feet of
those who surround her. 1t is hers TO cheer,
to bess, and to console; to brighten the
hoursqf jov, sweetcn the draught Of plea
ure, ana aid ip drinking the cup Of PAIN
To her, the avenues of power and grandeur
are shut, but she can establish an empire
of affectiona and confidence. of which she
y may be her 'tthe centre; and euthroned
c in the hearts those to whom her virtues
r have endeart' her, 1t is hers to dispense
those inesti -lexgifts, which, increase
,f the happiness, and Huis~asn the psssassse o
life.
S Cast often by this duty into tempest o
cares and business, man is assailed by thu
N fpassions Of his nature, which find, unhappi
Eiy, thousand ways todeprave him. Train
J. ed from his infancy, to the hustle and activ
ity Of his business, he s drawn into whir
pool of schemes projects, and speculations
n of hopes which are destroyed and renew
10 ed without cessation and he precipitate
himself, rather than advances, towards thu
termination OF his career, and attains, with
&c out perceiving it, the passage to IA more per
manent state. He consumes his life in anx
iety; he calculates his years with sorrow
and demands with bitterness, Uhat then
is the shace 7phich should sehardte chiLdhoo
OF from dotage2"
Devoted to occupations more peaceful
III more sweet, more uniforn, spoman can tran
,iquilly number l.er days, and signalize then
lo by a thousand acts of virtue. In truth, he
virtues must be exercised in the shade, an
in silence. Fame will not speak of then
nor will posterity regard them; but hoE
cherish es their remembrance, for the gres
dav of reward. Docs she not reesmbl
those flowers, whose hues are brighter b
tn aid of favorable obscurity, than whe
- they are exposed to the rays of burnin
sum- The hope of finding a diamond, ma
! inauog a man often to growel in the dirt; bl
a zromaa cal. preserve unsulied, the bordt
Id of her. '1leht.
Finally. to- love all that is worthy, uselu
dis good, aud vrtuous. and to fly all that is oI
posed to it---tAis is zvhat society demands
S. syoMcN.