, 1855-06-08
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON TERRITORY FRIDAY, JUNE s, 1855

these are not times when man stands still
Though school and college should lag be
hind, the world-the great university, il
which man must graduate, with or withou
honors--mOves on swiftly and surely. Wht
does not see the vast advance of every sue
ceeding generation in extent Of knowledge
and depth of thought? The man of mod
crate educational standing now, would have
made scientific or literary reputation somC
half a century ago. If then, while maj
advances woman stands still or even moves
less slowly the relation between them il
not the same as before the distance
lengthens, the disparity increases, and what
are the results I Want Of sympathy alien
alton, misunderstanding, petty strifes and
jealouses, which eat, like rust, into the
soul or worse, Indifference which freezes
its genial currents with thawless frost
As sister, daughter, wife, but especially
in the last capacity, it is needful that wo.
man should be, not alone the se-keepcr,
or seamstress, Or cook, or drawiug-room or
nament, but truly the compOnion--the sec
ond-self of man.
A German writer well dclneatcs the
miserics Of an i'll assorted marriage, be-
tween a meditOtiye, cultivated aud aspiring
man, aud a eare-bound, thrifty, ornamental,
but unintellectual and unsymPathising wo-
man. Little disputes before marriage y
says The writer, becomes great ones after
it" as northery winds which are warm in
summer, blow keen and cold in winter
The zephyr breeze from married lungs re-
semblcs the zephyr in Homer, about tie
cutting cold Of which that poet sings SO
much. .............. ...
The whole Of this lady's library consisted
Of two hooks--the cookery Look and her
husbands essays, which latter, however, she
never read. lie could never inspire her
with lyrical enthusiasm, in which she could
forget heaven ard Garth, and every thing
else. She could count the strokes of the
clock between his sublime passages, -nnd
could still listen and run of to the sauce
pan which was boiling over-still having
the big tears in her eyes which he had
pressed out Of her heart by some touching
story. In some high poetic fight of his,
she would interWeaye the ,prosaic question
---"my dear, Whit shall warm for sup
PER- But one instance more, and which
the poor man could never banish from his
memory. When she seemed quite touched,
and listening to q solemn discourse on death
and eternity, she was looking at him
thoughtinlly, but it was towards bis feet,
and at length said Don't, my dear, put
on that left stocking tomorrow; Imust first
darn II. 81 .. Iar
But the most highly cultivated man
would DO content il one fell to his lot who
was less gifted than himself, but who could
occasionally ay with him as fur as he wenfj
into whose expanded eye aud henrt the
blooming earth and bright heavens Go not
enter ih6nitesimaly, but in sublime masses;
for whom the universe is something more
than a nIrsery and ballroom, and who
with feeling that is at ouce lender and
delicate; and with heart that is at once
pious and large, continually improves and
halloWs the man she weds 1t is enough
here TO allude to the educational influence
Of mothers. i know the confusion so fre-
quently made between the constitutional
and educational Influences of the mother,
but the latter is of vast, If of secondary
Importance, and both are here alike con-
cerned. Strangers may iRstfEct the child
--the mother must educate its early years,
and education eomprehends instruction.
The child thirsis for knowledge and teens
with questions. The mother should be pre-
pared with prompt replies. Foolish an
swers or petulant evasions, or stern dscour-
agements, crush the spring Of the young
intellect and go far to induce listless, self
eohcoited ignorance through life. Nor is
it in parts that the mind can be formed, as
pins are made by subdivision of labor.
She who rightly teaches the elements, must
know the highest applications. The for
nation of character; the building mp Of
intelligence can have no unity or breadth
Of purpose without conprehensiveness Of
view, in her in whose hands is mainly, this
vital and solemn tasks soH.s9.ro .,a,
And it is the children of both sexes, not
girls only, but boys also, whom the mother
chiefly must train. To her the boy turns
in all his troubles and perplexities, and little
griefs. Happy is he whose own mother