To smooth the bed Of pain, to calm the ear With music, and to melt the soul with love-"

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 One of best criterions by which the civilized and enlightened state IS dis tinguished from the uncivlized, is the rank and influence which womanis per mltted to hold and exert in society. In the one she is made the partner and c. qual with the man in all the social and domestic relations. In the other she is considered the inferior, the slave-in- deed, only to administer to his necessi- ties, while he sleeps away his existence in idleness, orriots uncontrolled in wan tonness and pleasure. In the former, she is the moulder of the public man. ners-gives order and symmetry and beauty to the public character, and in the station of mother, by the education andmanagementofhe herchildreE becomes the source of immense good or evil to the nation. And 1t IS a remark, as uni versaily true as the extent of the hu- man race, that in proportion as female influence and character are lightly es- teemeds in the same degree are sunk public taste and morals and manners.- Certainly nothing speaks louder in fa- vor of the dignity of the sex, than for woman to hold her proper station in so- ciety where she can impart her refine ment and taste and delieacy of feeling to those around her-giye high, nor al and enlightened tone to public senti- ment, and smooth off the coarse edges of character contracted by man in his mingling with the rough-and-tumble of the world.

 To maintain with suitable dignity the rank and influence to which she is just y entitled, something more must occu- py the attention of man than mere fash ion and dress and outside show. Of all "God's last best giits,n pretty. del- icate, fashionable, ,overrefned lady, with out taste and mental culture is. to man of judgment and cultivated understand ing, the least acceptable. Nothing is great and lasting and will endure when the fashion of the world passes away and the pleasures of time sicken, that is not connected with mind. Mind, as 1t is themost valuable object in the u- inverse, so it is the most durable; and as | its cultivation is neglected orimproyed. becomes an exhaustlcss source of pleas ures and inst uctions to it's possessor when all other attractions fail, CT a bar ren and bleak waste ogerhung by DOT tentous clouds of gloom and swept by the whirlWinds Of passion. The follow ing remarks on the means of uniting a. musement with instruction, communities