Punctuality Necessary to Order.-Want of Punctuality a General Evil.-Woman who Lost her Place through Tardiness.-The Lowell Mother Visiting Boston.-One Minute Too Late.-Females less Punctual than Males. -The Tardy School Girl.-Early Rising.—Writing Letters. Twelve o'clock Precisely.-Rules of Gentility Unfavourable to Punctuality.-The Countess of Bur- ford.-Mary Lyon ever Punctual.-Remarks of Dr. Hitchcock.-Not Put Off till To-morrow what Can be Done To-day.—Amusing Dream.-Her Counsel to Dialogue between Two Girls.-Representatives of Two Classes.-Habit of Wasting.-Remark of Superinten- dent of Bonnet Manufactory.-Secret of many Men's Poverty. Saving to Hoard, an Evil.-Mrs. Prior.- Miss Dix and her Aged Father.-Margaret Boudet and her Nieces.-Mary Lyon.—Her Remarks on this Vir- tue. Its General Influence on Character.-One of the Principles that Regulated Mount Holyoke Seminary.— Self-Reliance of Mary Lyon.-The Rich and Poor Man's Daughter.-Madame de Genlis.-Want of This a Fault of Modern Female Society.—Remark of Freedley.—Get- ting well Married.—The Daughter who Relied upon her Mother, and not upon Herself.-The Old Man's Bride. Young Merchant's Wife in Philadelphia.—The Clergy- man's Widow and Four Children.-The Merchant's Widow and Three Children.-The Wise Merchant's Daughters, as related by Arthur.-The most Prosperous become Poor.-Marie Antoinette.-Napoleon's Mother. -Annals of Crime.--A Sad Story.—Self-reliance neces- The Moon and her Mother.-Connection with Self-Reliance. Princess of Orange.-Girls that Say "No."-Decision Necessary to the Improvement of Time.-How Mary Lyon Taught Pupils Decision.-Temptation to Waste Time in Bed.-Mary Lyon's Conduct towards Young Men of Doubtful Character.- Decision of Ruth.-Not Impossible to Cultivate it.-The Father who could Remark of Madame Necker.-This Quality Necessary in Minor Duties.-Necessary to Energy and General Strength of Character.-Perseverance of Mary Lyon.- Made her a Teacher and Founder of Mount Holyoke Seminary. Testimony of Dr. Hitchcock.-Sticking to a Thing. Hannah More, and her Labours in a Wicked Child Seized with Convulsions.-Self-Possession would have been Valuable in all these Cases.--Mrs. Daviess of Kentucky. The School-house on Fire.-The Woman who Shot the Robber in Ashland, Mass.-Suited to Female Character.-Some Girls think Timidity is Ladylike. Self-Possession of the Christian.-Divine Words. р. 30с CHAPTER XXXII. FORTITUDE. Connected with Self-Possession.-Mary Lyon an Example of Fortitude. Beauty in it.-Harriet Newell. Deciding to be a Missionary.-Genuine Heroism.-Females not Incapable of Displaying this Trait.-Eighteen Wives in the Mayflower.-Mary Chilton.-Women of the Revolution. Mrs. Harrington, of Lexington.—Mrs. Prior Imprisoned in House of Ill-Fame. Aaron Burr and His Aunt.-Records of Martyrdom.-Execution of Lady Jane Grey.-Lines on Wall of her Prison.-Fortitude a Valuable Quality • p. 309 CHAPTER XXXIII. PIETY. Crowning Excellence.-A Female Infidel.-Remarks of Hannah More and Rev. J. A. James.-They Represent Views of all Writers.-Mary Wolstencroft Condemned for Infidelity.-Frances Wright and Lafayette.-Many Girls Living without God.--Mary Lyon's Piety.-Increased Lustre of other Virtues.-Religion Adapted to Nature and Sphere of Woman.-The Temple of Vesta. -Girls Need Religion to Cultivate some of Foregoing Qualities. To Shield them from Temptation.—To Prepare them for the Vicissitudes of Life.-Mrs. Comstock, the Missionary.-It Prepares for Exchange of Worlds. Last Hours of a Pious Young Lady.—Lines. -Conclusion p. 319 CHAPTER 1. SUNRISE AND SUNSET. Her Grave and Monument.-Little Mary of 1802, and Mary Lyon of 1849.-Her rising and setting Sun.-How did she succeed?-Important for Girls to know. N the morning of March 6th, 1849, the tele ΟΝ graphic wires carried the sad intelligence from city to city that the Principal of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was no more. The mournful tidings spread far and wide, and tears were shed in many a peaceful dwelling. The death of a female is seldom announced with so many demonstrations of unfeigned sorrow. In almost every state of the Union there were some to weep over the sorrowful intelligence. "Long ere this," wrote a woman in Montreal, "amid the hunting-grounds of the Sioux and the villages of the Cherokees, the tear of the missionary has wet the page which has told of her departure. The Sandwich Islander will ask why is his white teacher's eye dim, as she reads her American letters. The swarthy African will lament with his sorrowing guide, who cries, "Help, Lord, B for the godly ceaseth." The cinnamon groves of Ceylon, and the palm-trees of India over-shadow her early-deceased missionary pupils, while those left to bear the burden and heat of the day will wail the saint whose prayers and letters they so prized. Among the Nestorians of Persia, and at the base of Mount Olympus, will her name be breathed softly, as the household name of one whom God hath taken. It was not strange that her death was the occasion of general sorrow. For, as the founder of the first thorough and extensive female seminary in the land, and the teacher of more than three thousand pupils, she had justly earned a place in the affections of the wise and good. She had performed labours that would have prostrated almost any one of her sex, and introduced a grateful era in the cause of female education. She deserved the nation's tribute of respect. We may justly apply to her the poet's eulogy of the Princess Charlotte, of Wales: "A soul more spotless never claimed a tear; A heart more tender, open, and sincere ; Dr. Humphrey said, in her funeral sermon, "In glancing at her character, taken all in all, I hardly |