LESSON CXXVII. The Soldier's Widow.-WILLIS. To! for my vine-clad home! It should ever be so dark to me, ts bright threshold, and its whispering tree! 'hat I should ever come, g the lonely echo of a tread, th the roof-tree of my glorious dead! ead on, my orphan boy; come is not so desolate to thee, he low shiver in the linden tree May bring to thee a joy ; h! how dark is the bright home before thee, r who with a joyous spirit bore thee! ead on; for thou art now le remaining helper. God hath spoken, he strong heart I leaned upon is broken; And I have seen his brow, Forehead of my upright one and just, by the hoof of battle to the dust. He will not meet thee there, blessed thee at the eventide, my son; when the shadows of the night steal on, He will not call to prayer. ips that melted, giving thee to God, n the icy keeping of the sod! Ay, my own boy, thy sire ch the sleepers of the valley cast, the proud glory of my life hath past, With his high glance of fire. that the linden and the vine should bloom, a just man be gathered to the tomb! Why, bear them proudly, boy,— And shall we have no joy? For thy green vales, O Switzerland, he died; Extract from LESSON CXXVIII. Suggestions on Education." MISS C. E. BEECHER. WOMAN has been but little aware of the high incitements, hat should stimulate to the cultivation of her noblest powers. The world is no longer to be governed by physical force, but y the influence which mind exerts over mind. How are he great springs of action, in the political world, put in moion? Often by the secret workings of a single mind, that n retirement plans its schemes, and comes forth to execute hem only by presenting motives of prejudice, passion, selfnterest or pride, to operate on other minds. Now, the world is chiefly governed by motives that men re ashamed to own. When do we find mankind acknowldging, that their efforts in political life are the offspring of pride, and the desire of self-aggrandizement? And yet who esitates to believe that this is true? But there is a class of motives, that men are not only willng, but proud to own. Man does not willingly yield to orce; he is ashamed to own he can yield to fear; he will not acknowledge his motives of pride, prejudice, or passion. But none are unwilling to own they can be governed by eason; even the worst will boast of being regulated by concience; and where is the person who is ashamed to own he influence of the kind and generous emotions of the eart. Here, then, is the only lawful field for the ambition of our ex. Woman, in all her relations, is bound to "honor and bey" those, on whom she depends for protection and support; e truly feminine mind desire to exceed this limitaaven. But where the dictates of authority may rol, the voice of reason and affection may ever nd persuade; and while others govern by motives, nd are ashamed to own, the dominion of woman sed on influence, that the heart is proud to ac t is indeed the truth, that reason and conscience e only path of happiness, and if affection will gain these powerful principles, which can be attained way, what high and holy motives are presented to cultivating her noblest powers! The develope reasoning faculties, the fascinations of a purified a, the charms of a cultivated taste, the quick perf an active mind, the power of exhibiting truth , by perspicuous and animated conversation and all these can be employed by woman as much as by d with these attainable facilities for gaining influan has already received, from the hand of her ose warm affections and quick susceptibilities, most surely gain the empire of the heart. has never wakened to her highest destinies and bes. She has yet to learn the purifying and blessed she may gain and maintain over the intellect and of the human mind. Though she may not teach ortico, nor thunder from the forum, in her secret s she may form and send forth the sages that shall d renovate the world. Though she may not gird bloody conflict, nor sound the trumpet of war, nwrap herself in the panoply of Heaven, and send of benevolence through a thousand youthful hearts. he may not enter the lists in legal collision, nor er intellect amid the passions and conflicts of men, each the law of kindness, and hush up the discords cts of life. Though she may not be clothed as the or of Heaven, nor minister at the altar of God, et angel of mercy, she may teach its will, and cause the humble, but most accepted sacrifice. elieved that the time is coming, when educated males will not be satisfied with the present objects of their w ambition. When a woman now leaves the immediate asiness of her own education, how often, how generally, do e find her sinking down into almost useless inactivity! To joy the social circle, to accomplish a little sewing, a little ading, a little domestic duty, to while away her hours in lf-indulgence, or to enjoy the pleasures of domestic life,ese are the highest objects at which many a woman of eleated mind and accomplished education aims. And what pes she find of sufficient interest or importance to call forth er cultivated energies and warm affections? But when the cultivation and development of the immor1 mind shall be presented to woman as her especial and elightful duty, and that, too, whatever be her relations in e; when, by example, and by experience, she shall have arned her power over the intellect and the affections; when e enthusiasm, that wakens energy and interest in all other rofessions, shall animate in this; then we shall not find woan returning from the precincts of learning and wisdom, erely to pass lightly away the bright hours of her maturing outh. We shall not so often find her seeking the light evice, to embroider on muslin and lace; but we shall see er, with the delighted glow of benevolence, seeking for mortal minds, whereon she may fasten durable and holy pressions, that shall never be effaced nor wear away. LESSON CXXIX. Female Accomplishments.—HANNAH MORE. A YOUNG lady may excel in speaking French and Italian; ay repeat a few passages from a volume of extracts; play ke a professor, and sing like a siren; have her dressing-room corated with her own drawing, tables, stands, flower-pots, reens and cabinets; nay, she may dance like Sempronia erself, and yet we shall insist, that she may have been very ted. I am far from meaning to set no value any or all of these qualifications; they are all egant, and many of them properly tend to the of a polite education. These things, in their d degree, may be done; but there are others, d not be left undone. Many things are becoming, ing is needful." Besides, as the world seems to rized of the value of whatever tends to embellish = less occasion here to insist on its importance. agh a well-bred young lady may lawfully learn fashionable arts; yet, let me ask, does it seem to e end of education, to make women of fashion, ngers, players, painters, actresses, sculptors. gildners, engravers and embroiderers? Most men ly destined to some profession, and their minds ently turned each to its respective object. Would trange, if they were called out to exercise their or to set up their trade, with only a little general of the trades and professions of all other men, at any previous definite application to their own lling? fession of ladies, to which the bent of their inhould be turned, is that of daughters, wives, mothistresses of families. They should be, therefore, h a view to these several conditions, and be fura stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, ready to be applied and appropriated, as occasion nd, to each of these respective situations. For arts, which merely embellish life, must claim adyet, when a man of sense comes to marry, it is a whom he wants, and not an artist. It is not creature who can paint, and play, and sing, and dress, and dance; it is a being who can comfort el him; one who can reason, and reflect, and feel, , and discourse, and discriminate; one who can in his affairs, lighten his cares, soothe his sorrows, joys, strengthen his principles, and educate his |