Public Leger, Volume 2, Number 57, Richmond, Wayne County, 23 April 1825 — Page 4

THE LADIES' MONITOR.

From the Wetern Recorder. LETTER TO A NIECE. My Dear E. I trust yon are endeavouring to profit by niv former Ue$tioTis. and I will now fulfil my promise by adding to these hints that wen? given for your morning regulation?. At your ai;e, it i always a tak to pursue a systematic course of study and occupation; hut remember that your habits, good or bad, will soon be fixed and strenuously adhere to a course similar to the one which is pointed out in the following directions. While you attend school, pursue your tudies mindful of the goodness of your ti i r . 1 i , i

ueavemy lamer, in aisuntiuifmng vou

from many who are denied the means of

storinir their minds with useful knowledge.

i Think too, that you have a talent commit

ted to your care, and of the consequences

of not improving it. Apply yourself to your studies not as to a task, but to gain

.knowledge. As you are going to your

school-room, ask of the Lord a teachable

disposition, and resolution diligently to ap

ply yourself to studv. Let your dress and deportment be such as will be acceptable

to your assocates. Cultivate simplicity of

manners, fraught with that meekness which

the gospel so beautifully describes and il lustrates.

Never allow yourself needlessly to ex

press dissatisfaction with your food, your

apparel, or with any arrange ments that

are made for you, but strive to acquire a

contented mind, in all circumstances.

In the time allotted vou for recreation,

let the walk, the ride, or the visit, be such

as to contribute not only to vour health

and pleasure, but to the improvement of

your disposition. Sometimes let the hour

for recreation be devoted to visiting the

house of want make yourself a wel

come visitor to the. children of penury, by

expressions of kindness and interest. Take tracts along w ith j ou. If you have some

pupils to whom you can regularly give les

sons adapted to their attainments, it will

be well. Be prudent, and you may readily

save from your own pecuniary supplies, a trifle that would prove a treasure to the destitute. In this way a love for doing

good will be interwoven with your choicest

pleasures. Be in the habit at evening, of

reviewing the business of the day. Where

you hav e failed in duty, note it down in your

journal, 10 impress it more deeply on the memory, that you may avoid delinquency in future. Do not be discouraged, ifyou should come far short in your attempts to systematize your studies and duties; let it urge you to increased diligence and selfdenial. I have suggested such hints only as are practicable for every Miss of fourteen or upwards,in ordinary circumstances. This time of life is of vast importance I may say of infinite importance1 as the character i now forming for time ai d eternity. I would not have you a drone, my dear E. nor would I restrain the vivacity of the youthful mind. I would oi ly have you subdue those evil propensities that so early shoot forth, and which, il cherished by indulgence will root out every virtuous feeling from the heart. That eutr.ay improve this golden season, in treasuring up useful knowledge and imbibing good sentiments and habits, and so be prepared to fill some useful station in life, is the earnest desire and prayer of your affectionate AUNT.

An extract. It was one of the nights of the season. The wind l)lc S; remorseless violence: Aunt Euni W't!i herself ill, and begged I would step see how the poor woman was I the habitation. It was a poor .The pale moon beams played on th n6r'

jthro' the chinks, and the wind whl m 'through the broken windows, q ? bed. nalp and rmnriatorl Vul the

i -v- a icver 1 the poor woman: In a cradle by the' '7 of the bed wrapped in a single m ! c

an infant, and in the rnrnor. fva .s' PP

fire, sat a little boy about five ve-ir"??

there was no other being in tho'l10Use. : friend to sooth her distress; no r,Ur ' r'6

moiiicn ner nurning ups with a rlrop 0f ter. Poverty has few allurementsness has none: and nnirWv and .

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bleness readily availed themselves 0f th' frailties ofthe poor sufferer, to excuse th

iicit-(-i. i aicpptu um u) procure a lo of bread for the children; I was not 1

gone, and on returning to the door if

souuu oia looisiep on uie noor tldmsoir body was within. O it was a ple;uin sight! A young female Friend, whose us is not unknown to a literary acquain. tance; whose virtues and amiable d'nposj! tion, combined with a peculiar agreeable, ness of manners, render her beloved as extensively as she is known, had preferred to the gay scenes of mirth, or the charms of novel, a lone and unostentatious viit to the house of poverty, and the bed of sicknesf , Like an angel of mercy she was administ, r. jing to the comfort of the poor woman aud ;her infant. j I have seen the assemblies of the jjreat. jl have seen woman glowing with beauty, 'arrayed in the richest attractions ofdr i whose charms were heightened by the j ''pride and pomp, and rircumstai.ee'- f Inelegant convivality." A lovely woman in such a scene, irresistahlv comm n ds our ! admiration. But alone at the bed of poverty and sickness she appears more than human. I would not be impious, but she I seems almost divine.

THE MORALIST.

uI3lo?sorus and fruits at oner, of golden hue, Appear, with gay ena.uelJM colours niil,

i On which thesun more glad impressed hi beams, j Than in fair evening clould, or humid buw, ; Wh n God hath showerM the earth-so lovely seem'd j The landscape and of purr, now purer air j Meets his approach, and to thehe;irt inspire! ; Vernal delights, and joy, ahle to drive ! All sitdncss hut despair." Milton. j "The creation is a perpetual feast to jtlie mind of a good man; every tbi'g he ; sees cheers and delights him. Providei ce has imprinted so many smiles on nature, j that it is impossible for a mind which is

not sunk m mere gross and sensual delights, to take a survey of them without secret sensations of pleasure. "The Psalmist has, in several of his di-

j vine Poems, celebrated. those beautiful and agreeable scenes which make the heart glad, and produce in us that vernal de- ! light" the poet s-praks of. Natural Philosophy quickens this taste of the creation, it is not only pleasing to the imagination, but j to the understanding. It does not rest in

the murmur of brooks, and the melody ol birds in the shade of groves and woods or in the embroidery of fields and meadows; but considers the several nds of Providence which are secured by them, and the wonders of Divine Wisdom that appear in them. It heightens the pleasures ofthe eye, and raises such a rational admiration in the soul as is littla inferior to devotion." Addison.

FRAGMENTS. Art thou a holy person, whose halting: atathe Lord roust serve, instead of walking UTicbtly and humbly with God? Art thou a snctifier Of th christian nn.th. ir-Ki art srlitotn Of OeV

er seen in the house of the Lord ? Art thou a candidate for heaven, whose affection! are glued to thc earth? -Art thou a traveller to the heaven! 2ion who art not arrayed with habiliments suitahlo to the journey ; with the garments of faith, of prayer, of hope, of praise, and of love? Art thou w swearest,and liest, an.! dealest unjustly, a citizen of the new Jerusalem, where truth, and love, aixl loliness, reign for ever? Alas! thy speech Uimteth thee . Into the city of eternal habitation nothing that defileth, either iu word or in deed, shall ever enter. If the first step to vice be somewhat difficult, thoe which succeed become easy. The fascination ol passion uproots reason, deceives winlom, n,1( e?fR changes nature before the evil is observed. Then let us determine not to diverge a single step lr"w the right and good road ; for should we, to or sr row we shall find that the path, although on a gentle declivity, conducts to a gulph into which we hall fall. lie that hath no resources of mind, is more pitied than he who is in want of necessaries foi hotly : and to be obliged to beg our daily happe?" from others bespeaks a more lamentable povcrtf than that of him who begs his daily bread. Happii ess has been beautifully compared to t n manna in the desert, he that gathered much h' nothing over, antl he that gathered little h;id nV lack: therrfore to diminish envy, let us consit'tnot what others possess, but what they erj"J. , As tht re are sonie faults that have been temf faults on the right side, so there arc some errorUiamight be denominated errors on the safe si4 Thus, we seldom recret having bet n too miM, cautions, or too humble; but we often repent having been too violent, too precipitate, or too proud. The seeds of repentance are sown in youth t.

pleasure, but the harrest is reaped in age bjr paui.