What A Woman Can Do

As a wife and mother, woman can nake the fortune and happinesa of her lusband aud children ; and, if she did lothing else, surely this would be suffi3ient destiny. By her thrift, prudence md tact, she can secure to her partner md herself competence in oíd age, no matter how small their beginniDg, or how adverse a fate may be theirs. By her cheerfulness she can restore her hu3band's spirit, shaken by the arxiety of business. By her tender care she can restore him to health, if disease has overtasked his powers. Byher counsel and love she can win him from bad company, if temptation in an evil hour has led him astray. By her example, her precepts, and her sex's insight into character, ahe can mold her children, however adverse their dispositions, into noble men andwomen. And by leading in all things a true and beautif ui Ufe, she can reflne, elévate and spiritualize all who come witbin reach ; so that with others of her sex emulating and assisting her, she can do more to regenérate the world then all the statesmen or reformera that ever legislated. She can do mucb, alas ! perhap3 more, to degrade man if she chooses to do it. Who can estímate the evils that -woman has the power to do? As a wife she ean ruin herself by extravagance, folly, or waut of afi'ection. She can make a demon or an outcast of a man who might otherwise become a gooi ber of society. She can bring bickenng, strife and discontent inlo what has been a happy home. She can change tbe innocent b=ibies iuto vile men, and even into vile women. She can lower the moral tone of society itself, and thus pollute legislation at the epringhead. She can, in fine, become an instrument of evil iustead of an angel of good. Instead of making flowers of truth, purity, beauty and spirituality spring up in her footsteps, tilltheearth smiles with a loveliuses that is almcst celestial,she can transfoim itto a black and arid desert, covered with the scorn of an evil passion, anl by the bitter blast of au everlasting death. This is what a woman can do tor the wrong as well as for the right. Is her mission a little one? Has she no worthy work, as has become the cry of late? Man may have a harder task to perform, a rougher road to travel, but he has none lof ■ tier or more influential than woman'a.