that will not perish, and that all men most admire, shine from
the heart through this life. God has made it our highest, holiest duty, to
dress the soul he has given us. It is wicked to waste it in frivolity. It
is a beautiful, undying, precious thing. If every young woman would think
of her soul when she looks in the glass, would hear the cry of her naked
mind when she dallies away her precious hours at her toilet, would listen
to the sad moaning of her hollow heart, as it wails through her idle,
useless life, something would be done for the elevation of womanhood.

8. DRESSING UP.--Compare a well-dressed body with a well-dressed mind.
Compare a taste for dress with a taste for knowledge, culture, virtue, and
piety. Dress up an ignorant young woman in the "height of fashion"; put on
plumes and flowers, diamonds and gewgaws; paint her face, girt up her
waist, and I ask you, if this side of a painted and feathered savage you
can find anything more unpleasant to behold. And yet such young women we
meet by the hundred every day on the street and in all our public places.
It is awful to think of.

9. DRESS AFFECTS OUR MANNERS.--A man who is badly dressed, feels chilly,
sweaty, and prickly. He stammers, and does not always tell the truth. He
means to, perhaps, but he can't. He is half distracted about his
pantaloons, which are much to short, and are constantly hitching up; or his
frayed jacket and crumpled linen harrow his soul, and quite unman him. He
treads on the train of a lady's dress, and says, "Thank you", sits down on
his hat, and wishes the "desert were his dwelling place."

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Beauty.

"She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies:
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet her in aspect and in her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies."--BYRON.

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1. THE HIGHEST STYLE OF BEAUTY.--The highest style of beauty to be found in
nature pertains to the human form, as animated and lighted up by the
intelligence within. It is the expression of the soul that constitutes this
superior beauty. It is that which looks out of the eye, which sits in calm
majesty on the brow, lurks on the lip, smiles on the cheek, is set forth in
the chiselled lines and features of the countenance, in the general contour
of figure and form, in the movement, and gesture, and tone; it is this
lookin