weak and silly persons of the other sex, whom a little knowledge puffeth up; who have yet to learn the first step to true wisdom, their own ignorance? But let paltry distinctions and disputations cease, as happily they daily do. God created Man male and female. While their duties and their occupations are, and must be, from the very differences which nature has made between them, essentially different, these distinctions are the foundation of order, and harmony, and happiness. Surely there should be no contention where the interests must ever be the same. The power which created man created also a mind capable indeed of soaring infinitely beyond the bounds of the narrow space which he occupies here, yet at the same time adapted to the station and the duties here assigned him. In the term man, woman is included. One star differeth from another star in glory: yet each in its order and in its course contributes to the beauty and the glory of the

material world. The glory of a man constitutes not the glory of a woman; let both shine in their proper sphere, that order and harmony may reign likewise in the intellectual and moral world.

CHAP. II.

AS the proper sphere of a female is home, so instruction in domestic employments should form a chief part of her education. On this subject I shall avail myself of the observations and experience of à friend, furnished in a conversation held with her. On requesting her opinions, she addressed me as follows:

"You know that the world has given mé credit for great literary attainments, arising from a belief of my being educated by a father, held in public respect for talents and for learning. If the world will think me possessed of great learning, be it so: any

assertion on my part to the contrary would be called affected humility; I am therefore silent. I was brought up at home, and there acquired a knowledge of domestic occupations. My father, like most literary men, was far from rich; he had a numerous family, and but few, sometimes no servants. Do not doubt the truth of what I say, when I tell you, that notwithstanding the station in life which he occupied, and that he associated both at home and abroad with almost the first company, I, his daughter, at an age when other children are pursuing childish amusements, was accustomed to perform the offices even of domestic drudgery in his house. There was no part of a servant's work which I was not called on to do, and which I did not do. I record this as any thing but a reproach to the memory of my parents, for I look back with grateful recollection to the laborious employments of my early years: they taught me many useful lessons, the benefit of which I have derived in my journey through life thus far. They prevented me

from becoming proud and haughty: Called at this period clever in point of intellect, I might have been puffed up; but summoned to assist at a washing or ironing, or to prepare dinner, my lofty ideas were restrained; I was taught humility: I fulfilled the duties of a servant, and hence learned not to despise servants. Having a father and many brothers, needle-work was acquired as a matter of course. the labours of my hands commended: it is pleasant to work for those we love, and a tribute of praise on this account is relished peculiarly by the young mind. One of a numerous family, the duties attendant on sickness fell to my lot also: the power of soothing pain was, too, a delightful one: I learned independence: I had no occasion to solicit the aid of servants, for their occupations were no hardship to me. In after life, when their labours seemed heavy, I have cheerfully shared them, and thus they have been lightened. There results from my apparently severe discipline in early youth

I was gratified to hear