ich our young people of moderate
fortune furnish their houses.

A few weeks since, I called upon a farmer's daughter, who had lately
married a young physician of moderate talents, and destitute of
fortune. Her father had given her, at her marriage, all he ever
expected to give her: viz. two thousand dollars. Yet the lower part of
her house was furnished with as much splendor as we usually find among
the wealthiest. The whole two thousand had been expended upon Brussels
carpets, alabaster vases, mahogany chairs, and marble tables. I
afterwards learned that the more useful household utensils had been
forgotten; and that, a few weeks after her wedding, she was actually
obliged to apply to her husband for money to purchase baskets, iron
spoons, clothes-lines, &c.; and her husband, made irritable by the
want of money, pettishly demanded why she had bought so many things
they did not want. Did the doctor gain any patients, or she a single
friend, by offering their visiters water in richly-cut glass tumblers,
or serving them with costly damask napkins, instead of plain soft
towels? No; their foolish vanity made them less happy, and no more
respectable.

Had the young lady been content with Kidderminster carpets, and
tasteful vases of her own making, she might have put _one_ thousand
dollars at interest; and had she obtained six per cent., it would have
clothed her as well as the wife of any man, who depends merely upon
his own industry, ought to be clothed. This would have saved much
domestic disquiet; for, after all, human nature is human nature; and a
wife is never better beloved, because she teases for money.

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EDUCATION OF DAUGHTERS.

There is no subject so much connected with individual happiness and
national prosperity as the education of daughters. It is a true, and
therefore an old remark, that the situation and prospects of a country
may be justly estimated by the character of its women; and we all
know how hard it is to engraft upon a woman's character habits and
principles to which she was unaccustomed in her girlish days. It is
always extremely difficult, and sometimes utterly impossible. Is the
present education of young ladies likely to contribute to their own
ultimate happiness, or to the welfare of the country? There are many
honorable exceptions; but we do think the general tone of female
education is bad. The greatest and most universal error is, teaching
gi