Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-12-23

ment Of the comfort and conveniences Of
',fe, and 10 moral and intellectual attain
pents. What is fashionable, and what
is expensive, are the objects of many pa
r.nts. would not discard fashion, but
ecommend such q course of instruction,
as will teach our youth TO become rea-
,onable beings, and regard the present
,yslern no farther than to avoid the mark
Of oddity and singularity.
Early rising and constant industry are
Indispensable to health and business
both are too much neglected; and by this
neglect, the day is turned into night, and
the natural order Of things is reversed.
Then nothing can be expected TO pro-
ceed to substantial advantage. When
I, rannic fashion controls reason, the same
order of nature is equally violated, and
in This violation, an injury is sustained
to individuals and the public and |
shall hereafter attempt to show, that this
injury falls mos, heavily upon those who
disregard plain common sense, and III
dulre in the tide of despotic fashion.
Our fanphers generally are not well
ins,ru" ed II corre reading and spelling,
IA iome,c, geography, the history of
our country, lis constitution and usages,
our literary, moral, and humane insllu-
tons. II. ese subjects are not familiar
to one in thirty OF the young ladies of
the present day. hazard nothing in
saving that the Court Calendar of
Great Britain is better known to a ma
iori,y OF the present ladies, than the
| Constitution Of the United States Our
own history and condition is to be stud
led and understood before We attempt to
| know the history of other nations. Oar
own history is reduced to almost COM
plete certainty, while The history of the
eastern nations is involved in fable and
doubt. The political and moral stand
ing of our own country is of the most IN
terest to- us, and isnow the leading com.
try and nation in the world. Then why
should not our females turn their at'en-
ton with ardor to tins important subject
that they may treasure up wisdom, to bt
dispensed in the more cnuearing ant
tender relations oflile ?
After few elementary branches have
been parity learned, custom puts the ie'
male to various branches of study be-
VOID the comprehension of their teach
crs, and hey yond their means of instruc
tion. The little pupil steps along will
much >ell-comp' AGENCY, to recite deiinit
ions in chemistry, natural philosophy
astronomy, rhetoric, &C., as if she carried
the whole circle Of sciences in her bead
or had them well tied up in her reticule o
satchel. AL this amounts to nothing
She is no, taught 10 reason upon the sub
jeels of labor, and, in fact, ends in know
; mg nothing about them. In the frs
stages of labor, her mind is loaded Who'll
; lyw.th technicaiilies aud definitions whic
have never had any application to tn
branches of study.
There must be something for the min
to lean upon--something to renew an
revive associations of ideas, to make tn
, object IN pursuit useiul III the purposes G
; life. Tocommit to memory certain def
: nilions without absolute mental applica
ton. is as useless as to learn how TO cour
> M the Indian language, and even more Sc
because this enumeration would be aI
piled to numbers, and these numbers ar
y in gen raj m,elligibIe while the forme
!, are altogether mystery. ] reprobate III
n present system of teaching. Ii is Gale,
a lated to spunge the parents of their NIL
, ey and disappoint and ruin :he pupils
5 The mind aud all its noble powers al
= worth cultivaton; and he who can disp
d the present darkness, and cause a glea
y of iig ht where there was none before, wi
n do something of value to the time
= which he lives. DIX.
. THE ART OF HAPPINESS.
~ Arachne and Melissa are two friend
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