The Arkansas advocate., 1837-04-27

horse 1 eyer saw. His site, Mormon, by Virginia The blood of he dams of both Boone aud Indepen- dence are unknown.
 Shall give you an Arkansas preachers ideas Of te heat of the t4je1nal e9ioas?-"Aly brethren IS hot place, most tremendous hot place; there sits aE old grey-headed sinner; if lie there week and then brought back and thrown cauldron of boiling lead containing hundred gallons, and that seven times heated, why he would tresze to death n aa- atei"
 Enough ofmy nonsense. fyour proofrcader and devil can make out and one of your many readers is forced into hearty laugh, shall be satisfied, so good hight-3ruly yours, N
 What constitutes oa accomplished goang lad4.- There IS perhaps term which has become more pef- yerted from the original meaning than the word accom- ptishmem fsgnides completeness, perection,' and implies finish of character to which nothing can be added and which leaves nothing to be desired. Milton calls his heroine Accomplished IAve.' Now ii k morally certain that she could neither dance Chat is by system,1 play draw any other lan- gGage than her own. Where then were her ac. Accomplishments True, she Is n herst ofiahocenee, one of the most beautiful models of grace propriey, dignity and humility exhibited and therefore we must suppose that the author of Paradise Lost had view far different standard of female excellence than the fashionable one of our nes.-What then consii- tutes and accomplished female Ne answer, sa ft- ness for the sphere she IS to occupy whatever 1t may be, and faithful and conscientious discharge of te du- ties belonging that sphere.' She may as wife and mother have occasion for those a aonabIe acqais tions which situations of fe are both useful and ornamental but she may al lsfll lave higher opportunities for blessings and heisg Blessed She may be the suitable companan O. +5sensIhle man: the adieous mother of fisina asr 8 theasaat orderly, and frugal mistress of an exien&re hdssehod. She may be qualified to council her Husband in the atra- cacies of life soohe him in hiaSroubles: tighten his heart of half its load; and lander his home the of ,azt l,are dten in the path of pety iofm aen babits of yir- tue and thus bequea,h blessing to society when she has gone to her rest in Hsaven If this is low station and fit for nothing bAs vulgar qualifications where earth sfa find aSe that Is higher or use- Iful? We would not be unds Fstood 10 set no value whatever what usualYsaed accomplishments. Many of them elegant, end in certain stations in life, and where there Is dss ided taste for hem may be highly useful. But We deprecae the phrenzy' mplishment which rses among all classes, aAd induces them toss acrifiee@ @time and money, which if properly laid oatfnght haze made ornaments to ciety, pursuisworse thap useless. The young lady who spend but six months perhaps boarding school must, in comformW 10 custom, throw away two thirds of the whole of that precious lime in forcing taste for music or dancing, learning French, when 1t IS understood that at marriage these hardly learned acquisitions are 10 be laid aside never to be resumed There is something wrong here, and ii ssl never De remedied, until parents have good sense and indepen- dence enough to adopt tho means in the educatcn of their daughters to the end in view. If they desire them to be any thing than meFe puppets trained for display whose only aim is dress and be adnirod they must teach them by precept and example that what is useful is infinitely to be preferred 10 what is dazzling; and that virtuous excellence Is 10 be more ardeny coveted than fashionable accomplishments. If Soomons beautiful description of vriuous wo- man to be adopted as the model of female excel ence, what change would be at once produced in the moral aspect of the world! Some of the most
 
 charms, and modesy, industry and chastity, be once more what they should always have been --the sule- guards and the highest ornaments of woman.
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