The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-10-28

skeptics to the truth OF the Bible They had broker
loose, not alone from the restraints and customs OF
cey but they had severed the golden chain which bound
them to the throne OF God Female skepcism is shock
ing TO the public taste once heard proiane thank
God he was not 10 be linked he said, to female in
nde who had questioned the truth Of the Bible IN his
presence Lord Chesterfield, an unbeeyer advised his
son TO seek wife OF pious tendencies
II we would secure OF conjuga, maternal, and
hlal obligation in the female hearf we would hx prin.
cples and habits OF elevated and mmutabe ecttuieii
would open sources OF domestic Joy and peacef we
would nourish the graces OF geneness patience indus
try. and charyif we would make female life lovely and
death q transition 10 glory, we must make the Bible
classic in our female seminsries. Mary, of Bethany as
pupil. is g model for the youth Of her Whoever
else may and p the WORK hey should begin and prose-
Unbsiief and immoraay, like Millions Sin and Death,
always odous but in female character they
than this-they are an abomination. wasp hid in a
rose bud will find opportunity to sting because the
victim is attracted by the beauty and fragrance of its
habitaton The screech of owl is not very musical
but we can bear H. because expect 10 hear in the
still forest and lonely night; but should be horror
stricken TO hear the boot OF owl from the bill of
nightingale II our watches should begin to click like
sawmills, we should start TO our feet In amaZement So
woman, without faith or moral principle is a moral
monster in the world which she was designed to adorn
Religion is the proper source Of the feminine graces
The sweetness OF department which enoins is but bad
ly initiated By rules OF artificial courtesy and poteness
Amiabity OF department must proceed from the heart
ART II must arise from NE impulse Of Christian charity
Christian charity organized into character, and seeking
grateful modes OF development You perceive that by
poeness do not mean what with an ignorant and AFRO
CANT class Of people, passes under that name Some
gard refined manners consisting IN certain attitudes and
modes OF address. | have known some who thought,
themselves models of refinement, but who, in the est-
mate OF really refined persons, were coarse, rude, and
vulgar
dress carefully made up by French taors and mil
liners, mode OF address that is borrowed from French
dancing masters-an OF that amounts reck
lessness OF the feelings or opinions OF othersa shipper
ing attery OF certain fashionable clique, and
bearing and superclious department towards society at
age the language of courtesy with the bearing of heart
lessnessths, associated with wealth. sel6shness pre-
tense, and excusveness is the poleness of who
imagine themselves refined and exqusitely cultivated
The impuden stare-the contelnpuous expressions to-
wards those whom they regard inferorshe perfect
indifference 10 the comfort and happiness OF those
clated with them in and stealnboatsthe wise fore
cast to seize the best places and occupy them in spite Of
the claims OF age or inrmityhe sneer, the boiserous
menment, at the expense OF plain uneducated people,
who have the misfortune not to meet their tase-a this,
BY certain class among U.S. is supposed TO harmonic
with poleness. Ii they can dress and bow, and cour.
tesy Ia m0def they understand the science OF position
and attitude, motion and address, in the ball room and
partyit they Know the current compliments Of good
cety and admitted within pale, they Imagine them
| They make grand mistake. We should regard such
persons as social hypocrites coarse, and rude and
unfeeng natures, garnlshed Tor certain times and cir
ces and set OCCASIONS robes of preence but develop
ing in ordinary life odous sefshness and vugarity
We desire our young female friends 10 be- not SEEM
hned, and hence we enjon religion as tho fountain oil
Another requisite of female education is the science oil
good domestic management and economy No wife ever
sunk in her husbands estimation by developing thor
ough knowledge OF tidy house keeping, culinary skill
and a saving economy IN her house arrangement.
A well educated lady would never think it becoming
to faun in the streets, while the arrangement OF her
house and her husbands dinner were left 10 the mercy
some domestic OF the last Importation from old Ireland We
must either educate our own daughters to domestic skill
industry, thrift and economy, or else send special mis-
better them whom the
fort and happiness OF families to be dependent
young wife, ignorant Of household duties is as really un
MT for her place and Office shoemaker would be &c
! navigate "a across the Atlantic.
We hear much OF the rights OF woman. insist upon
that they have the right like their blessed New Eng
land Mothers 10 be released from srolng over the
Try public ecturers-from wasting their time in
gossip and novel reading, and TO make their homes It'd,
Finally, subject to the limitations which have before
specified, we are TO aim al giving TO young females
thorough sesnfe rGining They TO study first and
is part OF their practical duty 10 furnish their own
minds with the materials OF pleasant reflection Ii is
part OF their practical duty TO elevate by their influence
direct INDIRECT not only the moral but the intellectual
tone OF society II is part OF their practical duty tc
give the well sifted elements of knowledge TO III,
rising generation u may be part Of their duty to g
inaries OF education in the wide West 1t is part Of
their constant duy and should be their highest pleas
10 be able by the exercise OF intelligent and various
cooqual powers 10 give freshness and viyacy TO FAM
ly conversation.
Ii is part OF their duty to seek the accomplishment
which will enable them TO throw the radiance OF Joy owe
the solitude OF home
The beautiful pictures in parlors hung ther,
with great satisfaction, but seldom notice them now
True they have bright eyes, but soul beam through
them. They have wen turned lips, but never speal
words OF wit or wisdom Our admiration Of their smp,
beauty is exhausted They like gathered dew drops
The elements there, but the sparkling gone. Their
are fipng pictures IN pdTfors.
We have also muse boxes OF the sweetest tones bu
we seldom give ourselves the trouble TO wind them up
for they Arrays play The same proper type of
family where intellectual training has not impaired
sources Tor mutual interest and improvement Not Il
draw them from their sphere, not 10 make literature
end OF LIE, but means. we may all desire TO mpart
the females OF our land thorough intellectual framing.
My knowledge OF this splendid institution warrants
in saying that II aims at the noble ends which hay,
specified Impressions traced on your mountain rock
will perish under the canker OF time and the OF th
eemens but the truths inscribed on these young heart
and intelligent minds eternal as their Great Author
once led young missionary TO the top OF Grard Col
lege, city. lie gazed with admiration ed
ihce which has absorbed two millions OF money. Blu
suddenly checking his enthusiasm, he said "Sephen "a
rdrd put his life INTO marble; tciH put iato ~
hearts Of men" II was a noble sentiment
The immortal minds OF her youth, inscribed with th'
mens OF New England Those who minister TO TIM
end will live. not perhaps idle canvass, senseles
marble, but in the augmented light and purity Of comRi
generations
is not for TO attempt 10 lure men 10 Heaven b,
appeals 10 sensualty, TO idolze even the last AM
fares object of creation But, of the power
female influence, urged 10 repose this power
der the control OF cultivated intellect and purife'
heart.
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