The Ladies' Garland

Accomplishments--Young ladies are now taught in a class such a multiplicity of arts and accomplishments, that nothing which can add to the graces of mind and manner seems omitted or forgotten. Only one requisite is wanting to complete the system. It is that these intelligent and accomplished young ladies should be scrupulously instructed in the art of applying their knowledge and exhibiting their graces advantageously. Not that they must procure a good establishment, which, as the term is now understood, means a fine house, fine furniture, and a husband who has money in his purse: but that they may be fitted to discharge those important duties which can only make women useful, respectable, truly beloved, and consequently happy. The aim of female education, therefore, ought to be, not to exalt those who enjoy its advantages above their sphere, but to make them more capable of performing the part which the laws of society, and, indeed, the nature of things, allot as the peculiar province of the female. "She looketh well to the ways of her household," is a commendation which every lady, who is the mistress of a family, should be ambitious to deserve: and should she possess genius, and even talent, yet still let her remember, that to make a happy home for her husband and children, is far more praiseworthy than to make a book.

[Ladies' Magazine.