Let it be understood that woman’s life and labor, mission and work, point ever homeward, and whether she serve in the store or shop, in the factory or in the home, she will be ready, whenever God’s providence opens the way, to make home bright for another, because it has been made bright for herself.  In her reading, in her planning, in her waking dreams and in her night visions, let her live to make her own home joyous, and she will not live in vain.  To do this successfully in the future, she must make home bright and beautiful in the present.  It is the girl, whose hand is skilful in the home, who is prized as a companion, because of the substantial linked with the ornamental.  The same is true of a man.  Talent, genius even, is valueless unless it can earn bread.  There must be something to make home pleasant with, which it is the duty of man to provide, else woman finds it hard to do her work or fulfil her mission.  This does not disparage woman.  Her intellect should not be regarded as inferior to man’s because it differs from his.  Her mind is formed for a distinct work and sphere, just as truly as is her body.  In that sphere she is endowed with faculties superior to that of man.  Here she has her requital:  here she proves herself mistress of the field, and employs those secret resources which might be termed admirable, if they did not inspire a more tender sentiment, both towards her, and towards God, who has so richly endowed her.  “Her practical survey, equally sure and rapid; her quick and accurate perception; her wonderful power of penetrating the heart in a way unknown and impracticable to man; her never-failing presence of mind, and personal attention on all occasions; her numerous and fertile resources in the management of her domestic affairs; her ever ready access and willing audience to all who need her; her freedom of thought and action in the midst of the most agonizing sufferings and accumulated embarrassments; her elasticity,—­may I say her perseverance,—­in spite of feebleness; her tact to practise it, were it not instinctive; her extreme perfection in little things; ... her incomparable skill in re-awakening a sleeping conscience, in re-opening a heart that has long been closed; in fine, innumerable are the things which she accomplishes, and which man can neither discern nor offset without the aid of her eye and hand.  Thus, mentally as well as physically, is she predestined for a work and sphere different from those of her stronger companions.  And, as everything is beautiful in its place and season, so is woman most beautiful and useful when, like a modest flower, she blooms in the privacy for which her nature fits her, and perfumes, with the fragrance of her character, the hallowed precincts of home."[A] “No man,” says Mr. Jay, “was ever proof against the kindness of a sensible woman; but where, in all history, can an instance be produced in which an ascendency over him has been obtained by forwardness, scolding, and strife for preeminence?  No wife has such influence with, or even such control over, her husband, as