Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-09-14

Things IN music, leL our young lauleS AVOID this
vulgar shrieking style.
CHRISTIANITY.
There is 10 me in this world no more horrible
sight than3a female inlidel or scorner at the
things of religion. have met three in the
course of my life-one of these committed sui
cide-both the others turned out badly-one
dying death of violence. Diyest woman Of
the holy attributes which religion gives her, and
what is she? Who wouldnot shudder at the
thought of having an infidel mother for his
children2 Take away religion and women sink
sink below men, Christianity says to all
women as it said to one in.partcnlar- Women
thou art loosed from thy infirmities!" Let our
women be christians. 1t is the highest style
the most beautiful type,of womanhood as it is
of manhood.
AuusEMESTs.
It is generally agreed that cock pit, a horse
race, bull batting, and the like are no places
for our mothers, sisters and wives. From the
days of Tacttus and Plato to tho present, l can
| bring abundant evidence to show that these re-
sorts are place for soomen ItisprcttY nearly as
well agreed that theatres, cards and dice are not
lit amusements for women wishi was as gene.
rally agreed that novels were not legitimate
amusements. Among what is called the better
classes of society, have seen more women.
| ruined by reading trashy; wishy .washy novels,
than by aught else. Young ladies in reading
novels are prone to pick outsome sort of charac-
ter at one time and try to identify themselves
whit, to slip on the character over that one
which nature gave them. At another reading
lof some other novel, she finds another character
which she wears and lays aside in the same
manner. Thus she goes, until by the time she
has read some 500 of these banefui things she
has no individuality ut all, and runs painful
risk of losing all the character she ever had
She is just nothing more than a piece of patch
work. Formy part can't conceive what better
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horse and good sioe saddle. 1t is both health
full and exciting.
Female education cannot be carried too far
l wish every woman in Ohio county had more
intellect and more cultivation than any man
in it has. Carry their education as far as ever
you can. Teach them that when they have gone
through the curriculum of the Academy or Semi
nary, that they have but begun their education.
There IRE in this country more women than men.
It is all important that this majority should be
educated. If not, their influence must be de-
moralizing. Where is the father who had ever
cause to regret the money spent in the education
OF his daughter? But how often do they have
cause to regret the money spent in educating
their sons. feel an interest in the cause Of
female education. I,remember that the mother
of our Savior was Woman, that your mother
and mine waS that a woman was the mother of
Washington. remember that when the apos-
ties forsake the Savior and fled woman stood
chTe on the morning of the resurrection. In
the ministry of the gospel, suppose, may
safely say that large proportion of men have
been induced to take upon them the sacred call
ing, through the agency of their mothers, either
directly or indirectly. might tell you of the
mother of Augustan, of John Bdnyan, of
Phillip Doddridge iof England. Every where
in the records Of sacred and profane history,
omen have honorable mention. Isay, blessed
be God, we have his sanction for doing all we
can in the cause of female education.
MALE EucAT1oN.
And now must say few words about the
education of your sons. And hero would Just
say to the patrons of this Academy that if your
sons haven't brains you need not delude your
selves into the idea Of making great men out of
them. Brains cannot be supplied to anybody.
In case your sons haven't much capacity the
best thing can recommend is to teach them
the rudiments andlet themthen follow the bent
of their inclnations in some useful way. 1
heard of an odd kind of genius who, when
anybody came to him to talk, always told them
to talk to him about leather-for that S my bus
mess and | profess to know something about it.
and not much about anything else. This was q
good idea. 1t was better to be great on leather
than little on Latin. Take and put your
boys to studying our language-Its grammar,
&C., well and thoroughly before you put them
at anything else. The object of study is to ex-
kPiAIuO Ouk strengthen luS powers OF
the mind. We don't study the Classics for their
literature. And here will say THAT am the
fast friend of the classics, and when say this
l don't mean to disparage other learning, for
am friend to 't-Nrtheto- Mates" and all his
kindred sciences. | never knc8 of but one
man of much account who had studied the
classics that ever disparaged them. We hadiin
this country patricia sigper of the Declara-
ton of IndePendcncc-no less person than
tho accomplished Dr. Rush, who wrote and
talked against the classics n great deal lie
said that the only object gained was to learn
men to use big words-to talk learnedly aud
blindly to those not equally educated. Heius-
trated it By citing the case of the woman who
was SO tickled with tho preacher because he
talked about 'pamphylia and amphlygia," and
the case of the physician who prescribed an
"emollient cataplastn,'h instead of saying u
poultice There was no necessity for people
making learned fools out of themselves. There
was no occasion for disturbing the b,eyity and
simplicity of the proXerb "that people who live
| in glass houses shouldn't throw stones,n by
putting it into such hifalutin as theman didwho
said that .people who domesticate insvitreons
edifces should not project lopidony fragments"
Did you ever reflect my hearers, that but for
the study of tue classics the world would never
have been able to burst the bonds of Popery--
Martin Luther was a devotee of the classics. So
was Melancthon, Who wrote that we shall never.
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