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 attract no less if the nimble fingers of the wearer did the cutting and the sewing.

Raise your daughters to do their work, and the limited incomes of young men will be ample to support a family, and also to save for rainy days. The wife thus employed will have more respect for herself, and will be a good judge of the hardships of her husband. The husband will love the little sprite who lessens his anxieties, and affords him so much comfort. No more dependence upon unwilling or untrusty servants; she can laugh at them, and, when they find that it is so, they will learn that their interest is to work, to economize, and be faithful. The whole household will then be in harmony; the vexations that try one's temper, the heart-burnings and rejoinders, be replaced by peace, prosperity, and happiness.

Occupation and labor are conducive to health; and, with habits of industry, many of our beautiful but frail girls would have been much finer specimens of womanhood, morally and physically.

Health is that condition of an animal in which all the parts are sound, well organized; in which they all perform their natural functions without hinderance.

Is this condition made a requisite on the part of the parents before they give their consent to the marriage of their children? Would that it were so! The cattle-breeder carefully inquires into the pedigree of the sire; but the father gives his daughter in marriage to one whose lungs will not carry him ten years, whose skin indicates remote disease, whose puny figure demonstrates an organization vitiated by inherited humors; and, while the cattle-breeder looks with pride on the purity of his stock, the grandfather