Year: 1867

she is the first to smile; if they be sor-
rowful she is the first to weep. When
company have assembled, when all is un-
broken silence, aud the men seem not to
know what to say, nor how to say it,
her animated tongue is the first to relieve
the embarrassment, enliven the scene, and
set all other tongues in motion. What
ever may be the ceremony, she is the first
to enter into the spirit of the occasion.
In the moment of danger she is the most
conscious, yet the most selfpossessed,
while she most skillfully parties the i'm
pending blow. Iu love, she is the most
ardent, yet the most modest.


Amid the domestic trials of her house
hold, hers are the first and deepest psngs
yet she is the most patient under them
In the Affections of others, her warmer
heart is the first to sympathize while
her kinder hand is first extended to bless,
to solace, and to save. However evil os-
sociation may sometimes pervert her ma
tare, these traits are her instructive, pri-
meval virtues, which, while they elicit
the profound respect of man, claim for her
his sympathy and prompt assistance,
under all the trying circumstances of life,
whether he happen to be a brother,
neighbor, or stranger. The Americans
are noted for their civility to the ladies,
above the people of all other nations yet
more kindness would be still better, and
more just as we'll as more natural.


Woman is the first to befriend and the
last to desert. Like Mary, "she is last
at the cross and first at the grave" The
greater mans misfortunes, the deeper
his disgrace, the more he is forsaken by
the world, the closer she clings to him,
even more eager to share his sorrows than
his joys, Though his path lead through
aowery plains of pleasure, or the shadowy
vale of sorrow, yet to the very brink Of
the grave is she found close by his side,
and though barren and dreary be their
journey Of life, she gathersas she goes the
few isolated flowers that grow by the way,
with which she tries to comfort him, and
though her heart be breaking cheers hin,
Nth her smiles. AS the meteor shines
brighter with the increasing darkness, so
her benign spirit sheds its brightest lustre
upon his darkest HOURS.


When mans path in life is beset with
troubles on every hand--when his spirit
is borne down to the earth--when none
else will heed his cries, and he is about
to faint by the way-when life is bur-
den, and relief can nowhere be found but
in death-then woman flies to his rescue,
and with that sweetest balm for wound
ed spirit--vith her words of consolation,
she revives the courage that is about to
falter, soothes the heart that is ready to
break, and, as blessed convoy, by her
smile and song. leads him gently and
safely through all the bleak deserts Of
life.


When man looks back upon the troub
led sea of life-when he beholds its
mountain surges about to overwhelm him
and when, as he starts forward, he
secs the Jordan of Death lying before him
when he is about to sink down in des
pair and die, woman comes as his deliver.
er, aud by her tears and prayers, opens o
way for his. escape.


AS the lily is borne down beneath the
w4ters by the rapid current, and yet rises
again to adorn the surface Of the stream
--as the rose Is crushed to the earth, and
yet rises again with an elastic spring to
gladden. with its beauty the eye of'him
who had humblcd it--so woman, like the
lily, is submerged beneath the waves o.
the troubled waters Of life, yet her buoy
ant spirit rises again above them---so wo
man like the rose, is crushed beneath the
iron heel of the tyrant man (made ty'
rant by the intoxicating draughD, yet
she rises again to resume the duties d
her household, as II nothing had happen.
ed-to feed and clothe the man who had
robbed both her and her helpless offspring
Of their own food and raiment-daily tc
forgive his daily crimes and to kiss thu
lips that cursed her, and press the hand
that smote herl


She not only binds up the wounds Of
her own household, but waDdera forth in
to the world to seek other objects Of char
ity. She foregoes 5her own comfort tt
promote the comfort Of others, and perili
her own life to rescue others--as did th'
woman shot dead on the battle field, al
she carried water between the two con
tending armies, with which she moiatenec
the parched lips Of the wounded and dy
ing. Thus did the mercy Of woman cop
with the cruelty Of men, by striving (
. soothe the wounds Of both parties. Will,