and connection, of the whole. After listening to an
interesting conversation, let her recall, and strive to impress on her
mind, every useful thought that was advanced. Indeed, her whole earthly
experience may be so improved as to be a continual seminary of
self-instruction and mental advancement. How infinitely better is it
thus to construct a firm bridge across the entire river of life, than to
trust to the frail bonds of ice, the work of a night, and to be
dissolved before the next meridian sun.

This leads me to say that female education should be of a Practical
description. The girl is destined to be a house-keeper, and yet she is,
perhaps, doing almost nothing to prepare herself for that station. She
thinks a knowledge of housewifery comes by instinct; and so it is that
she cares more for her French and her piano than for those studies which
would fit her for domestic duty. But in vain do this sex receive high
degrees of culture, if they are still unable to apply their knowledge to
any useful purpose. Why train the mind so sedulously, if it prove in
the end but a leaden instrument, too flexible for service? Every woman
should be trained for a variety of situations. Let her be educated for
self-subsistence. What a miserable creature is she, if incompetent to
obtain her own livelihood. That she is now placed in independent
circumstances, affords no assurance that she will be always thus
situated. Can any one forget the fearful reverses of fortune, especially
in this land of pecuniary adventure and adversity? A lady, who had once
rode in her own carriage, and lived in Eastern splendor, was seen, not
long since, seated in Broadway, New York, selling nuts to the
passengers. Talk we of independence! Who are free from bondage to
others, and slavery to time and circumstance, but those who cannot earn
their own subsistence?

Among the causes for gratitude, that woman now has, not the least is the
circumstance that new avenues for female industry are constantly opening
in this age. To some one at least of these, should every young lady
direct her attention. No one should be entirely unskilled as a teacher,
a housewife, and above all, in the use of the needle.

But let it not be imagined that I advocate the education of females for
any one station or class of circumstances. Let her who is prepared to
support herself by toil, either mental or manual, be also qualified,
should Providence elevate her in life, to grace the hig