Show TO THE YOUNG LADIES 1 As individuals or communities pass ihorn from comparative poverty to comparative wealth very marked changes take place as a general thing in their habits education and mode of living some borne of these are highly beneficial in their tendency others are as positively injurious ki ur lous fous and produce evil results of a fl orious nature among other things there ia is a stron strong 0 disposition manifested lay nearly all who can amford afford it to refrain from manual labor and hire litre the tle the help of those who are compelled so to labor for a sustenance this is well enough it is right that those who have means should employ the labor of others that they too may live by honest toil but ai feeling grows out of this too often that looks upon manual labor as a mark of poverty and servitude as undignified and beneath those who are or wish to appear appear wealthy enough to lleo live 11 io without such labor this is where the tendency is injurious and where ovil evil results begin to creep in in in the world outside of us they have to a great extent lost those simple and correct ideas concerning labor that prevailed in this nation before the vast wealth which has im s flowed in upon the people was enjoyed by them and their fathers and the effects are more moro apparent and have taken deeper hold upon the women than upon the men hence women who aspire to be thought 0 ladies of oheans or who have wealth look upon libor labor with contempt and consider it beneath them to soil their fingers in performing any of those hd duties with which they should at least haye have sufficient practical acpal acquaintance nuance to know when ahen they are well veil and properly done instead their time is principally occupied when khen young in learning accomplishments which may be good enough in their way but should never be allowed to usurp the place of those duties which must necessarily be understood by a woman before she can be prepared to 4 direct a household and superintend its duties with dignity economy and wis aa a community eom we are aro becoming wealthy enough for what are termed accomplishments to be sought after and acquired as a part of womanly education and the tendency wo we have alluded I 1 to w will ill lii produce its usual results if not guarded against learning to play the piano to speak french to thrum the guitar to indulge in fancy needlework is right enough if mixed with a proper quantity of bf plain cookery acquiring a knowledge of the mysteries of washing ironing and clear starching making pies and puddings preserves and pickles and learning how to keep a house neat and plean with everything in its pro proper P er place household matters ca with wise economy and prudence the man who ho has hasa haba a wife that can make his home truly comfortable whose mells melis are weli well cooked and seasonably served whose linen is conspicuous for its whiteness and lustre and NV whose hose children are directed in his absence by a niria firm yet gentle hand has a treasure lire tire of inestimable worth even if ae oie cannot cheer his leisure hours with music from organ piano or guitar she has a hold hoid oh his a affections on his care and attention which will outweigh a thousand attractions outside his home young ladies ladles think of this and believe us when we say that thai no noi true man will hold a lebs lees opinion of a woman for knowing that she can do these things and seeing h her hen do them he will prize her the more and estimate her worth higher as he should do it is no detraction from worth to be seen with yourhanas your hands hi in the flour making pastry or bread or at any other household duty but increases that worth in the eyes devery of every man inan whose affections aro are worth baying having A most pitiable sight 0 of stunted powers and slid wasted time of helpless incapacity and utter uselessness is ahat of a woman whose education has been confined to these bac gac ac and who understands nothing of the household duties which the responsibilities of a difo wife and a mother has placed upon her unless her husband is rich enough to hire all the help she may fancy faney she sho needs and then she can caa neither direct how anything should be done nor tell when it is rightly done she is truly what some men cali call call cail women an incumbrance a lilo 1110 lovely ely incumbrance it may be a thing to toy with and amuse but neither fitted to be a wife nor a mother if you would have good husbands a 2 nd happy homes while making yourselves attractive looking to secure the good opinion of the first acquire a knowledge of those solid accomplishments of mind and habits which will confirm that good opinion and the tho second will follow good men will seek love you and und labor to make you happy a consummation which your own acquire ments of mind and hand hands swill will have a powerful influence in securing |