fford this aid to
their race. It is not petitioned by the writer referred to, that our
women may become all eloquent orators; or be fitted to bear the sword,
or sway the sceptre; nor yet that they may rival man in physical
achievements; nor even is the prayer that they may be renowned for
genius and intellect alone, or supremely. But to a far less conspicuous
and imposing sphere are our thoughts directed by the Psalmist. It is to
home, to "our daughters," and through them to the domestic relations in
general, that we are pointed for the elements of public prosperity.
"Happy is that people," among whom these are assiduously cherished.
Happy are they, because a people "whose God is the Lord."

What views are usually taken by the youthful female of her parental
home? It has various aspects. To one it appears pre-eminently as the
place in which she is to find the necessaries, comforts, and, perhaps,
luxuries, of life. The heads of the family are appointed to toil for
her. At her feet must brothers and sisters lay the daily tribute of
service. She exacts from each inmate all the attention that can be
rendered to one born to command. She is, in one word, a household
divinity.

Another regards her home as a scene for display. The furniture, the
style, the outline, and the filling up, must be all for the eye of the
visitor. If she consent to give her own hand to the work, the main
motive is for fireside decorations.

A third is alive to the natural ties which bind her to one and another;
but it is chiefly as a matter of sentiment, that she contemplates even
the nearest and most sacred relations. Has she been absent for a season,
how fervent are her salutations, on returning to her native spot. Does
sickness assail a parent or a brother, and life seem exposed, what
tears, what wringing of the hands, what uncontrolled wailings are heard.
But the test of true love is not here. It is the personal sacrifices we
make for another, the toil, self-denial, watchfulness and patient
service we bestow on him, that reveal the sincerity and depth of our
affection.

Still another class are those young women who esteem the great purpose
of their home to be the furnishing all possible facilities for their
literary instruction. If they attend school constantly and improve their
time there, then they have a claim on all their connections to wait
their bidding, and execute their mandates, in every interval of study.
The whole being is thus abs