Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1841-05-20

ly went out, and soon returned, lugging IN a
large pair of scales. They were such pair as
wholesale merchants for weighing bulky
commodity was now to be weighed in them.
"Daughter Betsey,' said the mint-master. :" 60
into one side of the scales
Miss Betsey-or Mrs Sewell, as must now
call her-did as she was bid, like dutiful child
without any questions of why and wherefore -
/ But what her father could mean unless to make
her husband pay for her by the pound, Gn which
case she would have been dear bargain she had
not the least idea
"And now, said honest John Hull to his SER
wants, +" bring that box hither"
The box, to which the mint-master pointed,
was huge, square, iron-bound, oaken chest it
was big enough, my children for all four of you
| to play hide-and seek in.
The servants tugged with might and main, but
could not lift this enormous receptacle, and We're
finally obliged to drag it across the floor.
Captain Hull then took key out of his girdle,
unlocked the chest, and lifted its ponderous lid.
Behold II was full to the brim of bright pine
shillings, fresh from the mint, and Samuel Sew
ell began to think that his lather-in-a had got
possession of all the money in the Massachusetts
Treasury. But it was only the mint-master's
share ofthe coinage
Then the servants, at Captain Hulfs COM
mand, heaped double handfulls of shllings into
one side of the scales, while Betsey remained in
the other. Jingle, jingle, went the shlings, as
handful after handful was thrown in, till, plump
and ponderous as she was, they fairly weighed
the young lady from the floor.
! "There, son Sewel !" cried the honest mint
master, resuming his seat in grandfather's chair
" take these shillngs for my daughters portion.
Use her kindly, and thank Heaven for her It's
not every wife that's worth her weight in silver.
| The children laughed heartily at this legend,
and would hardly be convinced but that GRANDPA
Their had made it out of his own head. He assur-
ed them faithfully, however, that he had found il
in the pages of grave historian, and had n.erely
tried to tell it in a somewhat funner style
Well, grandfather" remarked Clara, I" i
wedding portions nowadays were paid as Miss
| Betsey's was, young ladies would not pride them
selves upon an airy figure, as many of them do.
MENTAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MEN
AND WOMEN.
The difference of mental power between the
sexes is probably Just sufficient to make them di-
vide the duties of life benefcally 1t may be a
! good reason for not exacting from women the
| same mental exertions as from men, bnt very
bad one for not fully cultivating the powers that
they have. There has been good deal of fancl-
| full theory upon this sub jcct Sometimes it has
been pretended that the whole difference between
the minds of the two was the consequence
Of education at other times it has been contend
ed that though there was natural difference, it
was only dissimilarity; the male being just as
deficient in some respects as the female is in 9TH
ers !; but that she ought not on that account to
! be held inferior. Rousseau maintained that the
mind Of man was distinguished by the sole pos
session of genius, of which the mind of woman
was absolutely destitute in every degree. John
son thought there natural want Of precision
in womans ideas. An eminent man, lately dead,
| tried the capacities OF his daughter to ascertain
! the fact and came to the conclusion that the
minds of both sexes were equal, except in respect
to patience. Many other fanciful views might
be enumerated, were it worth the trouble. The
simple truth seems TO De, lllaL every tdculcy IN
! the minds Of the two sexes is the same, except
that there is less general vigorin those Of women.
| There is no mental exercise in which men have
| exceIled that women have not also succeeded in
! extremely well up to certain point. But when
ever the greatest efforts are required whether OF
! indictment, Imagination, attention, perseverance,
or anv other power, the superior vigor ofthe mas
cnline mind becomes evident. Hence, the
greater part of the business of life does not re-
ouire the utmost exertion Of even ordinary abili-
| tv. it is only in the more arduous pursuits that
! the constitutional superiority of the masculine
mind appears invariably In low stages ofcivili-
cation it occasionally happens that the advantage
! is observed to be on the side of the women; for
onv circumstance in their habits that imposes up
on them the necessity ofgreater exercise and OBJ
servaton and Judgment, turns the balance in their
favor. But in the complicated and laborious Of
fees of civilized societies, education would
give general superiority or even equality to the
female sex; the demand for laborious investiga-
ton and the highest powers of combination and
invention is too constant both in professions and
science TVoman's Rights and Duties.
Byron said that he would rather have nod