Show I 1 J 1 i F female emale accomplishments ve tal take e the he following very pleasing para grada from the he andrees of C P holcomb esq bae tle die marylind maryland state society of which we hay bar before 47 yen ven some notice 1 js showing z the interest rest english ladies ladie stake take in I 1 atut I 1 cannot but relate delaie a casual in deview I 1 chanced 10 lo haw with an english lady ingoing 0 going up in the train from london to york her husband had bought a book at the stand as wa we were about gt starling artin 91 and ra remarked to her that it was one of her favorite I 1 american authors hawthorne ia 11 casually observed 11 1 I was waa pleased to see young american ali authors thors found admirers with english ladies when the conversation turned on books and authors but I 1 said to myself pretty soon this is a literary lady probably her husband is an editor tor or reviewer and she handles the scissors for him him at all events I 1 must retreat from this discussion about authors modern poets and poetry what should a firmer farmer know critically of such things if I 1 was only in those fields if the nn Mild bp made mad g to turn on crops or cattle then I 1 should feel quite atheme at home 1 J finally pointed outa out a field of wheat and remarked C it was wa 11 very fine find the Iad lady car carefully 1 obi observing erving it said sir I 1 think it is too thin a common lault this season is hs the seeding was late those drills she added turning boher to her for foi his hia confirmation cannot be more th than n ten inches apart and you see sir air the ground is not completely covered twelve and even fifteen inches is ia pow now preferred for alii ane width of f drills and two bushels orsted of seed to the he bushels lacre will ill then ihen antiel entirely y c over cover t the e ground around on glod go od land so can hardly distinguish the I 1 drills f if the he goddess addes of cers had appeared I 1 with her sheaf f or r her cornucopia cornn copia I 1 could not have teen been taken more by surprise A lady des ranting on the width I 1 of wheat drills and the vantie of sedal I 1 I 1 41 1 will bill try hw her again said 1 this may be a halce chot and remarked in reference to a l lelch as f sloughed ploughed hed ground we were passing that I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 it broke up in in grent great lumps and could hardly be put in good we have much mach tjay land like this she replied and formerly it wa was a biffi ault to cultivate it in in a tillage cr crop op but since the in introduction of Cro skills patent clod crush er they will make the most beautiful on these lands and which are now regarded as among our best wheat lands the conversation turned on ce cattle lttie she spoke po ae of df the best breeds of cows cowa for the pail I 1 tie Ayr shires and devour devons told me where the best cheese was made cheshire the he best but ter ireland Irelan dJ where the best beat milkmaids milk maids were tu tp be found wales oha baid 1 I 1 I was mia mis I 1 taken this charming intelligent woman acting so natural and unaffected dress d so neat and so very plain must mast be a farmers farmer s wife and what a helpmate help mate he has in her she is is not an extravagant i trava gant wife either not an ornament about her yes a single bracelet clasps a fair ro rounded U arm arm all I 1 the tram train stopped at york no sooner had my my tra velling eom companions stepped upon afre platform than I 1 noticed they were surrounded by half a dohm servants me men n and maids maida the men in in full livery it turned iut but to be sir john and lady H this gentleman I 1 learned basone was one oath of the largest landed an proprietors in berkshire and in of his lady the daughter of a nobleman a peeress in in her own right but her title added no thing to her she was a noble woman om ait with T I 1 I 1 out it I 1 it is is a part of our task to excel in in horticulture in in which abich female taste and skill must aid ui us we must embellish our homes we must make them thein sweet and pleasant the arve old oaks brust be there the spacious law a att 1 t 1 b its g grecu ree ia sward and the fruit or orchard ehard 1 i i e shrubbery and the roses reses the vines fie festooned festoon ed ol 01 and trained about the walls and balconies even even the cibiras birds will think that a sweethome swee bleet home thome and will come and sin dirig 9 and make melody as tho though they would teach the art to imitative man suell sueh a home will vili be entailed ta our children and to their children not by statute laws if f en tail but by a higher law the law of nature t h the force 0 ace of sympathy the associations I 1 11 the orchard the meadow the deep tan tangled glei wild w wood 0 od I 1 and aid every loved spot which our infancy knew these will hold them to it se early me memo ino ries nes winch which we should take care to deepen with a binding and indissoluble tie talk not then 0 ye fathers and mothers to your sons of forensic fumes famed of senatorial halls of the distinction of professional life or of f the gains and emolument a of oe commerce it is not for 0 our ur class surely to furnish more recruits to this hazardous erilee cyin in which so many of the youth orthe of the country have bave been lost lost to any use f ful u I 1 p purpose of living themselves miserable from that hope deferred thi that at makes the heart sick ar or disappointed of the objects of life have been overwhelmed by bankruptcy cy and aid ruin ruin give to your sons the pursuit of washington who gloried in in being a farmer the field and the council chamber he son sought 9 lit from froin duty but his farm at mount vernon vemon where he wisely directed edthe the plough from choice and pleasure I 1 I 1 wide wide may the world feer power of the plough and yield to the sickle i a fullness fuH nest delighting I 1 my may this hi be bi our conquest the e earth irth to subdue till all join the song of the harvest inviting I 1 the he swo sword rd and the spear I 1 I 1 are re only known here I 1 i I 1 r I 1 As we w e plow or we prune or we toll toil void of fear and the fruit and tile the flower ale all sin smile de in in their birth all AH greeting greetin th the bariner fa far riner ner the lie prince 1 of the earth plough leom and anvil I 1 I 1 |