Neither are they found among young girls alone, for many females of rank and age have been so weak. It is said that Queen Elizabeth, with all her learning, was very much troubled on account of her homely face. At one time she became so nervous and mortified by looking into the mirrors, that she ordered her maids of honor to remove them, and for a long period she did not look into a glass. Once she issued a proclamation, ordering all portraits of herself to be destroyed, and forbiding artists, save "especial cunning painters (flatterers) to draw her likeness." This is an extreme case, we grant, but it nevertheless illustrates the foolishness of some females in regard to an attractive face.

Beauty is never of particular value to a girl, in performing her mission, except when it is held subordinate to other more substantial qualities. A mere belle, however beautiful she may be, possessing no higher qualities than commonly belong to this class, does not leave the world better than she found it. Her aim is akin to that of Arabian females, who paint their eyebrows black, and their lips blue; or those of Greenland, who color their cheeks blue and yellow; or the ladies of Japan, who gild their teeth and pluck their eyebrows in order to appear beautiful. We admire a Greenland lady painting her cheeks yellow, as much as

an American belle painting hers vermilion. The aim of both is the same; and their influence is not very dissimilar. The case is still worse with the coquette, whose purity of heart is always to be suspected. If she possesses charms of countenance sufficient to win admirers, she becomes a character to be shunned. Girls should never sacrifice their modesty by making their beauty the occasion of a belle's folly or a coquette's sin.

The counsel of a certain father to his son and daughter, the former of whom was handsome, and the latter very plain, presents this subject in a pleasant light. The son boasted of his beauty in the presence of his sister, who construed his words into a reflection upon her plainness, and entered complaint against him to her father. The father called them both aside, and counselled them as follows: "I would have you both look in the glass every day; you, my son, that you may be reminded never to dishonor the beauty of your face by the deformity of your actions; and you, my daughter, that you may take care to hide the plainness of your person by the superior lustre your virtuous and amiable conduct."

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We would impress the excellent counsel of this father upon the reader's mind. If God has given you a beautiful face, express your gratitude by cultivating the purest graces of the heart; for

personal beauty is far more attactive when exalted virtue accompanies it. On the other hand, if this gift of nature is not yours, it is more necessary that mental and moral acquisitions should be made, that you may be agreeable and admired.

But, after all that can be said in favor of a Beautiful Face, it must be conceded that a Beautiful Soul, which is the subject of the next chapter, is a far higher acquisition.

CHAPTER XVIII.

A BEAUTIFUL SOUL.

MARY LYON'S HEART-QUALITIES - HER SYMPATHY AND BENEVOLENCE AIDED HER GIRLS IN GETTING EDUCATION -THE COLLEGE STUDENT - HER TEACHINGS ON BENEVOLENCE THE GIRL'S SPENDING-MONEY- THE FARM IN NEW YORK-BENEVOLENCE OF GOSPEL HER CONTROLLING PRINCIPLE FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE IN THE CRIMEAN WAR-EDUCATED BY HER PARENTS IN BENEVOLENCE - WIFE OF JOHN HOWARD A LADY'S PAINTINGS GIVEN TO CHARITY-QUEEN ANNE BOLEYN — TWO SISTERS WHO EARNED ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR MISS LYON DORCAS -ALL HAD BEAUTIFUL SOULS ORNAMENTS OF THE SPIRIT -WAYS OF DOING GOOD-RELIEVING THE POOR IN SABBATH SCHOOL-THE SEWING CIRCLE-TEMPERANCE CAUSEMISSIONARY WORK SUCH EFFORTS WIN CONFIDENCE THE HERMIT AND HIS WELL.

ALTHOUGH Mary Lyon had a homely face, yet she had a BEAUTIFUL SOUL. She possessed those fine heart-qualities which are a richer ornament to female character than beauty or jewels. We have spoken hitherto of some of these qualities, and need not refer to them again. We refer now to that sympathy with the suffering and needy; that ever-living kindness and generosity; that desire to do good, and to make others happy; in a word, that spirit of true benevolence, that

was the motive-power of her self-denying efforts. In this regard, few were her equals

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Her own struggles for an education made her understand the struggles of others in like circumstances, so that she deeply sympathized with them. Many poor girls were aided from her own purse. One day a young man, who was making an effort to get through college, defraying his own expenses, called upon her for acquaintance or relations sake, and, as he was leaving, she slipped a five-dollar bill into his hand, remarking, at the same time, "that he would need it in paying his college bills." This is only one of many similar instances, where the kindness and generosity of her heart appeared. Self-denial was a pleasure to her; and she was accustomed to impress the duty of practising it upon her pupils. She would often say, "Some people think that no one is any poorer for giving to the Lord. If they mean poorer in a spiritual point of view, I agree with them, but not when they say poorer in property; for I do believe the Christian ought to give to the Lord, so as really to feel the need of what he gives a precious reward to suffer for Christ." When she commenced her collections in Ipswich, in behalf of the new Female Seminary, she would say to the females of whom she solicited aid, "If