Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by GOULD AND LINCOLN, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. PRESERVATION MASTER ELECTROTYPED BY W. F. DRAPER, ANDOVER, MASS. PRINTED BY GEO. C. RAND & AVERY, BOSTON. PREFACE. THIS volume is a companion for "THE POOR BOY AND MERCHANT PRINCE," designed for girls from ten to eighteen years of age, although persons of any age will find counsels and facts upon its pages to guide and cheer them in the work of life. The plan of the book is similar to that of its companion. MARY LYON is the leading character, around which are grouped a large number of incidents from the lives of other distinguished women, both for the purpose of illustrating certain elements of female character, and of making the book more attractive to the young. Miss Lyon was not a perfect woman, and therefore she is not a perfect model for girls. Yet she possessed a rare combination of qualities, such as are indispensable to a high order of character, and which will secure a good degree of success to any girl who will really imitate her, whatever may be her sphere of effort. It is believed that girls, no less than boys, must possess certain elements of character, if they would succeed in the stations they occupy. These elements are found in Mary Lyon, and other women to whom reference is made on these pages. Miss Lyon was never a wife or mother, and therefore we cannot speak of her in these important aspects of the True Woman; yet we believe that it is comparatively easy to judge of what she would have been in these relations from what she was in others. Much has been written for boys concerning the way to success; but little has been penned for girls, as if they had nothing to do with the subject. But if there is such a thing as success in forming character, and in housekeeping, mantuamaking, teaching music, learning, and the multitude of other matters that claim the attention of women, then the subject is as important to them as to boys. The author hopes that the volume will assist girls in cultivating the highest virtues, and in prosecuting the work of life with credit to themselves, and acceptance to God. 'W. M. T. CONTENTS. THE MOUNTAIN-HOME-A DEATH-SCENE LAST WORDS OF THE DYING FATHER LITTLE MARY A CLOUD UPON HER RISING SUN-THE LONELY WINTER-MARY'S WORDS FORTY YEARS AF- TER A PRAYING MOTHER EARLY ADVANTAGES-A DEATH- SCENE AT MOUNT HOLYOKE FEMALE SEMINARY UNIVERSAL SORROW-WORDS OF A MONTREAL LADY-EULOGY OF PRINCESS CHARLOTTE APPLIED WORDS OF DR. HUMPHREY OF DR. HITCHCOCK-HER GRAVE AND MONUMENT LITTLE MARY OF MARK OF AGESILAUS-PARENTS TEACH SONS TO BE USEFUL, AND DAUGHTERS TO BE LADY-LIKE SONS EDUCATED FOR PROFES- SIONS, DAUGHTERS FOR NOTHING VICTORIA, AN EXAMPLE OF NOBLE PURPOSE MRS. WESLEY, MRS. DODDRIDGE, AND OTH- ERS - MADAME DE STAEL, HANNAH MORE, HANNAH ADAMS, POSITION AND DUTY-MANY GIRLS DESIRE THE FORMER-DESPISE LABOR - MARRY UNPRINCIPLED YOUNG MEN FOR BEAUTY OR MONEY THOUGHTLESSNESS RESULTS- QUEEN ELIZABETH CONFESSION OF PRINCESS AMELIA - CONTRASTED WITH SEEKING HAPPINESS IN DOING DUTY A YOUNG LADY AT THE WEST- MARY LYON ALWAYS ASKED, WHAT IS DUTY?" — HER COUN- SELS TO PUPILS - HER REGARD FOR DUTY IN VIEW OF DEATH REMARKS OF A GIRL-ERRONEOUS VIEWS-FEMALE INFLUENCE- REMARKS ON ADOLPH MONOD OF REV. J. A. JAMES-INFLU- ENCE OF WIVES AND MOTHERS-CASE OF GENERAL HOUSTON- THAT OF SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH - WIVES OF THE GENERALS HOWE - MOTHER OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS-OF REV. RICHARD KNILL OF BACON, DWIGHT, NEWTON, ETC. ALL COUNTRIES GOVERNED BY WOMEN - MOTHER OF WASHINGTON-DISCOVERY |