Port Gibson Herald

FEMALE EDUCATION.

Female education is of immense importance, as connected with domestic life. It is at home where man generally passes the largest portion of his time; where he seeks the refuge from the vexations and embarrassments of business, an enchanting repose from exertion, a relaxation from care by the interchange of affection; where some of his finest sympathies, tastes, and moral religious feelings are formed and nourished; where is the treasure of pure disinterested love, such as is seldom found in the busy walks of a selfish and calculating world. Nothing can be more desirable than to make ones domestic abode to be the highest object of his attachment and satisfaction.

Well ordered home, man's best delight to make,
And by submissive wisdom, modest skill,
With every gentle, care-eluding art,
To raise her virtues, animate the bliss,
And sweeten all the toils of human life—
This be the female dignity and praise.

Neither rank, nor splendid mansions, nor expensively furnished apartments, nor luxurious repasts, can accomplish these actions. They are to be obtained only from the riches of elevated principles, from the nobility of virtue from the splendor of religious and moral beauty, from the banquet of refined taste, affectionate deportment, and intellectual pleasures. Intelligence and piety throw the brightest sunshine over the dwellings of private life, and these are the results of female education.

Female education is extremely valuable from its imparting an elevated and improved character to domestic discourse. Conversation is one of the greatest joys of existence; and the more perfect it is made by the resources of learning, enlarged views of morality, refinement of language, and the splendors of imagery, the more exquisite is the joy. It is from education that discourse collects all its original drapery, its clothing of wrought gold, music, and all its magical influence over the soul. Intelligent and animated discourse exalt the dignity, and multiply the charms of every female that can excel in it.

A sober certainty of waking bliss,
It is a sacred and homefelt delight,
She who can sustain an elevated course of conversation, whose mind soars above the trifles and common things of time and sense, who is distinguished for well digested opinions, sensible remarks, habits of thinking and observation, good judgment, and a well disciplined temper, is a perpetual source of blessing and exhilaration to all within her circle. She will make home all that is desirable, so that none of her household will need or wish to seek elsewhere for happiness. They will be able to drink waters out of their own cisterns, and running waters out of their own well.