
THE LADIES' FRIEND.

AMERICAN LADIES.
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Perhaps there is no country in the world
where the women are more completely DO
mestic, than they are in our country; and
none where female influence is more gen
orally felt. This is the most happy. clrcum-
stance; and it affords a most powerful argu-
ment in favor of female education.


1t is trite ! know, but very important to
remark, that when ladies are distinguished
for domestic habits and virtues, their mu-
tual influence is very great


They mould the hearts, and to great
degree, from the understanding of the fu-
ture fathers and mothers in our country.
Now they who have in their hands so great
a part Of early education, certainly ought
to receive that cultivation of heart and mind
which would fit them for the discharge OF
the very important duties oftheir station
This is no easy work. 1t demands skiliand
Judgment as we'll as attention. surely prep
aration ought to be made for it, that 1T may
be done we'll. Look at the majority OF girls
of eighteen, in the country, and see what
are their qualifications for place at the
head of household.


But female influence IS felt not only in
domestic life; it reaches to every part o:
socity. Every where it ought to be intel
lectual as we'll as sensitive; intelligent as
we'll as affablc, good as we'll as pretty. NC
where indeed are they more pure and deli
cate than among ourselves; but II to those
graces of the female character were added
suitable mental improvement, the$ef on
the whole. community would be most happy
A higher spirit of literature woulds'pervade
our states; and young men would spend that
time in study, which they now waste in dis
sipation. A lofter tone or. moral feeling


would be awakened, and wegmight hope tt


witness the purity without the extravagan
/ ces of chivalry.