as necessary for other spheres might be well employed here. No one of them would be found useless. We have few, very few, really happy homes, because so few wives and mothers have been trained for the important places they fill. Home is man's Ark, when trouble springs, His olive-leaf, o'er floods of sorrow." It may be said that if a girl prepares herself for one of the spheres indicated, Providence may introduce her into another. Very true. But she will lose nothing by the attainments made. They will serve her a good purpose wherever her lot may be cast. If she qualifies herself for a teacher, and her labors are closed in that sphere by entering into matrimony, her qualifications to instruct will render her a more efficient mistress of a family. Mary Lyon studied for the teacher's office; but, at the same time, she made herself familiar with domestic affairs, and such other duties as every woman needs to understand. In consequence she would have presided with dignity and success over a household of her own. As the wife of a farmer or a merchant, of a legislator or a minister, she would have excelled. Such attainments as we have men tioned enable a woman to adapt herself to circum stances. It is more necessary that girls understand what their mission is at the present day, on account of the preposterous claims set up for what are called "Women's Rights." The female character appears to advantage only in its appropriate sphere. Who can respect Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans, who buckled on the soldier's armor, and went to the tented field? Her remarkable prowess and brilliant victories do not atone for her breach of female delicacy, in the reader's view. So it is with such modern female reformers as Abby Kelley Foster. She has unsexed herself, clamoring for "Women's Rights" on the public rostrum. Curiosity may induce many to listen once or more to her harangues, but few there are who can respect her on account of her unwomanly career. Contrast with either of these characters Mary Lyon, the humble girl and gifted teacher. Follow her from year to year in her noiseless way of doing good, content to perform a woman's mission in the humblest walks of life. How noble and queenly she appears in the contrast! Gradually and surely her life assumes importance and grandeur, until the good and true on every hand pay her generous tributes of respect. She is dead; but her memory is fresh and fragrant as a summer flower. "But this is fixed As are the roots of earth and base of all Man for the sword, and for the needle she: Man with the head and woman with the heart; Man to command, and woman to obey; All else confusion." CHAPTER VI. A GOOD DAUGHTER. CONNECTION BETWEEN A GOOD DAUGHTER AND TRUE WOMANMARY LYON AN EXAMPLE OF FILIAL LOVE AND OBEDIENCELETTERS TO HER MOTHER-THE SAME WHEN HIGHLY DISTINGUISHED SOME CHILDREN ASHAMED OF HUMBLE PARENTS WHEN THEY THEMSELVES BECOME RICH OR FAMED CONFIDENCE IN HER MOTHER'S PRAYERS-ADDISON'S REMARK-DISOBEDIENT DAUGHTERS MAKE UNLOVELY WOMEN THE ROMAN TULLIA-SOME MEN UNDUTIFUL-DAUGHTER TURNING MOTHER OUT OF DOORS—A ROMAN MOTHER NURSED IN PRISON BY HER DAUGHTER-THE DAUGHTER OF CAZOTTE-LATE MARRIAGE OF VICTORIA'S DAUGHTER-GIRL IN NEW YORK WHO OFFERED TO DISPOSE OF HER TEETH TO AID PARENTS-INCIDENT RELATED BY REV. MR. JAMES-LINES. WE have noticed that all women of much eminence were distinguished in early life for fidelity to parents. There are so few exceptions to this rule, that we may safely assert that there is some connection between a good daughter and a true woman. Nor is it difficult to discover the reason of it. For those qualities which are indispensable in a good daughter are particularly suited to the achievement of female success. A girl, who recognizes her indebtedness to parents, and ever accedes to their superior wisdom and experience, who cultivates the spirit of true submission to parental authority, ever ready to aid a loving mother or a devoted father, possesses judgment, wisdom, foresight, and moral principle enough to ensure her success in almost any sphere. Mary Lyon was emphatically a good daughter. Her earliest childhood was graced by the virtues of filial love and obedience. Her mother's word was law. Indeed, she was rather distinguished for being upon the watch for opportunities to assist her widowed parent. Nor did these filial virtues lose their lustre as she advanced in years. She was just as good a daughter at twenty as she was at five years of age, and as good at forty as she was at twenty. She never sacrificed the relation of daughter to the consciousness of becoming a woman. Her letters, after she left her home to study and teach, were imbued with the same filial love and devotion that characterized the conduct of her childhood. The following extracts from letters to her mother may be read as proof of this point: JULY 21, 1821. "Each passing day carries my heart home to you, my dear parent, and all my other friends, till I can no longer refrain from writing. Did you know how much my heart dwells on her who loves me with a mother's love, some of you, ere this, |