Spirit Of The Age

Education of Daughters.

When a young lady is seventeen years of age, if she enjoys good health, she is beginning to have that vigor of mind which enables her to make intellectual acquisitions. Two or three years then devoted energetically to study, will store her mind with treasures more valuable to her than gold. She will be thus able to command a husband's respect and retain his love. Her children will feel that they have indeed a mother. Her home will be one worthy the name, where a mother's accomplished mind and a glowing heart will diffuse their heavenly influence. An angel might covet the mission which is assigned to a mother.

Your child, who thinks of finishing her education at sixteen, may soon have entrusted to her keeping a son, in whose soul may glow the energies of Milton, or of Newton, or of Washington. God did not make her to play a waltz or dance a polka. She is created a little lower than the angels. When the waning stars expire, she is still to go careering on in immortality, till she reaches that happiness—in the presence of God. Appreciate the exaltation of her nature, her duties, and her destiny. Let not the noble intellect, where dwells her immortality, be unheeded. The years of youth are soon gone. The moments in which a young lady can attract attention by a few superficial accomplishments, are as transient as the morning dew. But there are life-long cares and responsibilities which will weigh upon her. And when she has passed through her three score years and ten, and, venerable in age, she sits by the fireside with her children and grand-children around her, accomplished scholars and honorable statesmen may be among their number, who shall assemble in her chamber of death with emotions of love and reverence.