esentation of this class in our own country which would make
the heart bleed. Public attention should be turned to this
subject in order that avenues of more profitable employment may
be opened to women. There are many kinds of business which women,
equally with men, may follow with respectability and success.
Their talents and energies should be called forth, and their
powers brought into the highest exercise. The efforts of women in
France are sometimes pointed to in ridicule and sarcasm, but
depend upon it, the opening of profitable employment to women in
that country is doing much for the enfranchisement of the sex.
In England and America it is not an uncommon thing for a wife to
take up the business of her deceased husband and carry it on with
success.

Our respected British Consul stated to me a circumstance which
occurred some years ago, of an editor of a political paper having
died in England; it was proposed to his wife, an able writer, to
take the editorial chair. She accepted. The patronage of the
paper was greatly increased, and she a short time since retired
from her labors with a handsome fortune. In that country,
however, the opportunities are by no means general for woman's
elevation.

In visiting the public school in London a few years since, I
noticed that the boys were employed in linear drawing, and
instructed upon the black-board in the higher branches of
arithmetic and mathematics; while the girls, after a short
exercise in the mere elements of arithmetic, were seated during
the bright hours of the morning, stitching wristbands. I asked
why there should be this difference made; why the girls too
should not have the black-board? The answer was, that they would
not probably fill any station in society requiring such
knowledge.

The demand for a more extended education will not cease until
girls and boys have equal instruction in all the departments of
useful knowledge. We have as yet no high-school in this State.
The normal school may be a preparation for such an establishment.
In the late convention for general education, it was cheering to
hear the testimony borne to woman's capabilities for head
teachers of the public schools. A resolution there offered for
equal salaries to male and female teachers when eq