Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1849-05-24

of appreclatlng genius in others, which is in
itself great source Of enjoyment. Your
mind requires to be strengthened by dill
gent and judicious study and training; 9TH
erwise. however desirous you may be of
doing well, you will be found characterless
and insufficient when called upon to act.
If fortune SO favors you, aud no necessity
for active exertion arises, this study and
training will be still required; for what is
the young girls obvious destiny? When
she leaves the home of her childhood, where
it was her right 10 be cherished with shell
.ering love-where she has stood as guar
dian angel in the path Of brother tempted
to sin, or cheered and soothed and blessed
the hearts of beloved parents, she goes TO a
home Of her own, where her presence is to
create happiness. Her husband looks to
her for the charm which is TO brighten his
him, and disappointment presses like an in
cubus on the active mind, is not the wi(e's
privilege TO sympathize with or cheer her
husband a most precious right.
Would any true-minded woman intermed-
die with public affairs, or voluntarily devote
herself to pursuits in which she can only
acquire excellence by relinquishing her do
mestic avocations and privileges !? Who is
willing TO forego even her enjoyment Of the
graceful refnements Of life, in a quiet and
intelligent home circie-refenmenls, which
are perfectly consistent with my theory Of
usefulness-for the eclat attending life of
publicity? If woman pursue only the
more accessible paths of literature she need
not forfeit the advantages Of home shell
tered from the public eye; but desire for
fame is often aroused, which deafens the
ear 10 the music of love, and hardens the
heart TO its influence, which renders her un-
able 10 discern distinctly her allotted task
and its rewards, while it presents to her Wis
ion of decei,ful beauty in the crown to be
won by intellectual achievements. Iwould
beg of any woman, however we'll qualified
she may be for public sphere, to consider
if she is willing to resign her peculiar charms
and her usefulness as woman.
Iepity the delusion of those who see no
beauty in domestic li(e-who regard with
contempt those whose time~is frequently
occupied in attending totheir households.
They forget that contributing 10 the happi-
ness and we'll beng Of those they love en-
MOBILES the most menlal services, and that
unselfsh devotion to such purpose, when
1t is requited, eleva,es, rather than degrades.
1t is true, much more time is often devoted
10 such employmenls than is necessary
with some housekeepeIs excessive nealness
ceases TO be virtue, when the time devoted
to its attainment is taken from more ianpor-
tant pursuits.
Others, again, do great wrong to their
families, as we'll as themselves, by spending
their time in preparations that pamper the
appe,ite-degrading them to level with the
brute creation, by making such sensuality
their highest pleasure - enleebling their
minds and running their health. Those who
thus waste their precious hours of life, are
truly deserving of censure; but not ",he
woman who a,tende.h diligently to the
ways Of her household.''
The noblest right of woman claims our
attention last. To the mother is committed
a trust for Immortality. Look at the young
child-lovely il may be in person, in devel-
opemen,s Of heart, in the gleamings of a
brilliant intellect.
What higher trust can there be, than to
watch over that beautiful being, and to shield
her from the evil with which the wide world
abounds, that her spirit may be returned to
its Maker, nnobled and made more glorious
by the mothers judicious care-by her ear
nest and we'll directed love. Is it not a
holy right to guard that little heart till it
becomes we'll spring of all pure and faith
ful affection ], is your light to teach your
child to know and recognize the hand of
God in every event of his Providence, to
show her, in the exquisite delicacy Of the
smalles, flower, the handiwork o. the same
Being who hurls the thunder, and directs
the lightning's fash-to explain to her the
wonderful mechanism of her own little
frame-,o make familiar to her delighted
gaze the stars of heaven in their nightly
course-to point ou. before her the glori-
Gus path her spirit may pursue.
The proudest right Of our sex are vested
in the wife and mother. She who is help
mate in all good deeds TO her husband be-
comes his "crown'' of happiness and glo,y.
She who ''teaches her son to be good'-
who trains up high-minded daughters to ex-
ert their vivifying influence over the world,
ful6ls her mission as a woman, exercises her
highest right, and "her children shall rise
up and call her blessed"
THE LOVE OF PRAIsE.-The love Of dis
tinc.ion pervades every class Of sociely-
The lines of the poet Young are beautifully
expressive of this universal passion:
The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,
CLOVIS more or less, and regns in every heart.
The proud, to gain it, tolls on tolls endure
The modest shun it, but to make it sure.
1t aids the dancers skill, the writer's head
And heaps the plain with mo untains of the dead.
Nor ends it here; it mods with sable plume
Shines OH our hearse, and glitters on our tomb.