The Plough, the loom and the anvil . ding, running, reading, thinking, trying to be helpful and useful,which we have commended, all tend to give you beauty—not a mereficitious beauty, which falls to few and may perish in an hour—butthe beauty of health, of intelligence, of ability to discharge aU of wo-mans duties. To say that women should be as reverent as man, as conciliating, askind-hearted, and as large-hearted, would sound strangely. In all thesethings and m whatever is polite, refined, tasteful, more is generallydemanded of her, though we think wrongfully. In reUgious sensibilityand mora
The Plough, the loom and the anvil . ding, running, reading, thinking, trying to be helpful and useful,which we have commended, all tend to give you beauty—not a mereficitious beauty, which falls to few and may perish in an hour—butthe beauty of health, of intelligence, of ability to discharge aU of wo-mans duties. To say that women should be as reverent as man, as conciliating, askind-hearted, and as large-hearted, would sound strangely. In all thesethings and m whatever is polite, refined, tasteful, more is generallydemanded of her, though we think wrongfully. In reUgious sensibilityand moral goodness, in benevolence and refinement, we are not to de-mand that the daughters of our country should be better than we ofthe other sex ought to be, but we may ask them to set their standardfor becoming much better than we are. n. Mistakes will happen. In our article last month on the Strawberry, the illustrationwhich should have been inserted on page 150, was imaccountably omitted. Here it is,perhaps better late than Fig. 1. Fig, 2. Fig. 3. Fig. 1 is a perfect flower, with stamens and pistils—Hermaphrodite—self-impreg-nating. Fig. 2 is a Staminate or male flower. Fig. 3 is a Pistilate or female flower. Benefits of Thorough Draining.—A friend writes us, that five years ago, he har-vested forty acres of wheat and produced two hundred bushels ; and in 1856, on thesame farm, he harvested from forty-four acres, over eleven hundred bushels of primewheat, weighing 63 pounds to the bushel. This was caused by good cultivation, basedon thorough drainage of the land. Who will hesitate, with the multitude of ficts press-ing upon the public, to attend to drainage where needed upon the farm ?—lotoa N. Ag. Soc. Prospects for the Exhibition of the N, Y. State Society at Watertown, AND Oct. 1, 2, and 3, 1856.—The Executive Committee feel assured that the Exhi-bition, in all its main departments, will compare favorably with their previous Exhi-bitions.
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