, 1869-04-09
MATERNAL INSTRUCTION.


In this cold and hollow world fount
OF deep, strong, destbless love, save that within
A mothers heart.-ArS. HemGns
1t takes long time for the world to grow
wise. Men have been busying themselves
these SIX thousand years nearly to improve
society. They have framed systems OF phi>
losophy aud government, and conferred on
their own sex all the advantages which pow
er, wealth aud knowledge could bestow.
They have founded colleges aud institutions
of learning without number, and provided
.od, ger ali, the.aa.ssof msnkipd ateyery
-i,tnersst- snd very wicked. Wherefore is
this }? Because the mother, whom God con
stituted the fret teacher of every human be.
ing, has been degraded by men from her
high office; or, what is the same thing, been
denied those privileges of education which
only eau enable her to discharge her duty to
her children with discretion aud effect God
created the Eoman As a help-nleet for man in
every situation aud while he in his pride,
rejects her resistance in his intellectual aud
moral career, he never will succeed to im>
prove bis pstnre and reach that perfection
iu knowledge, virtue and happiness, which
his faculties are constituted to attain.
If halt the effort and expense had been
directed to enlighten aud improve the minds
of feusles which have been lAvished on the
other sex, we should nov have q very differ
cut state of society. Wherever a woman is
found excelling in judgment and knowledge,
either by natural genius or from better OPP
portuniiies, do we not see her children also
excel Search the records Of history, and
see if it can be found that great and wise
man ever descended from weak aud foolish
mether. SO sure and apparent b this ma
ternal influence that it has passed Into an
axiom Of philosophy it is acknowledged by
the greatest aud wiscst Of men and yet,
strange to say, the inference which ought TO
follow, namely, that in attempting to improve
society, the irst, most careful and continued
efforts should be TO raise the standard of fe-
male education, and qualify woman 10 be-
come the educator Of her children, has never
ye' been acted upon by any legislators, or
acknowledged aud tested byauy phlanthro-
pists What is true of maternal influence re-
specting sons, is, perhaps, more important In
the training of daughters. The fashionable
schools are a poor substitute for such exam.
ple and instruction as thoroughly educated
and right principled mother would bestow
on her daughters. The best schools in the
world will not, in and Of themselves, make
.6ne women. The tone Of family education
and of society needs to be raised. This can
never be done till greater value ia set on the
cultivated female intellect. Young ladies
must be inspired with high moral principles
noble aims, and spirit of self-improEement
to become what they ought to be. Maternal
instruction is;the purest and safest means o.
opening the fountain of the young mind.
MONARCH OF TREEs.-The Eucalyptus, I
remarkable Australian tree, attsins heigh
of nearly five hundred feet, and exceeds IL
this respect the far famed "big trees " o
California. Attention has recently been di
rected to the great economic value of thu
tree. its extreme rapidity of growth, tn
Ecoupactness of its fiber and its adaptation t
the arid and waterless regions Of the 'varme
portions of the globe The Italian Govern
< ment is at present engaged in introducing l
into that kingdom, hoping thereby.tc restot
a forest vegetation to the denuded summit
and ridges Of the mountain chains. 1t ha
already been tried in Aigiers, where tire
6fty wears old shows the volume and all tn
qualities of an oak of one hundred and
seed planted three years ago has now furn
, isbed tree four feet in circumference at tn
base. The leaves exhale = delightful irs
GRANGE, and are said TO exercise decided
snti-miasmatic effect. The bark Of the tre
is hard. and very rich in tannin.