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marked, that lie whs astonished at tlie improvement made in American prints of late years, enforbing his remarks by calling tlie attention of the two ladies to the quality of their dresres. 'Oh 1 the-e are . French!' tliey exclaimed. 'I assure you, | Mesdame?,' said the imperturbable gemle- i man, 'that your dresses are Manchester i prints!' The ladies did not faint,?but < their elegant French prints passed into the hands of the chambermaid. . It 19 this folly, which compels the jobber to affix French cards to I113 American prints, and keops^down the character of American manufactures. Afhenca pos- , sesses the means and skill to compete with foreign countries in the manufacture of , everything, if we except rich silks; and when our wives cease to blush in wearing an Anier can fabric?because it is American?then will our manufactures

ami sympalliy is universal, and beauties arc exceptions. In England a woman's beauty and her virtues are what every man thinks of as the charm of his home. lie I talks with rapture of the woman who will i nurse him and pour out his tea. In France you do not hear much about a woman's eofi'ce. 'Est elle amiable'?(amiable does not mean a virtue but an agreemen)?'a telle I* de esprit?' is the second question if not the first that every man asks. Il does not moan anything wonderful, it is?lias she the quick perception that seizes what is said and returns change for vour thoughts? Sociability, the love-of conversing is an absolute necessity. We know men who would rather live in extreme poverty in Paris Shan go away for a comfortable incmc, uotfiom any love of its localities, but they are afraid of being c-nuved for want

gratulating me upon my improved" Appearance, but ir. my whole being?mind;, bodyarid spirit?do I experience a wonderful vigor, to which 1 have hitherto been a stranger. Young ladies, try my catholicon. i* Genius.?It is interesting to notice bow some minds seem almost to create them-' selves springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduties of art, with whio.h it would reardulluess to maturity 1 but to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius* to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world; aod Rome may be choked by the thorns and Kt-omK1 on /\f ?? ?>1 1 ? 1 1 '?'? -?

larents, to have seen the branch of a wilow which had been torn by the tempest's land Irom the parent trunk, float in the raoriiing light upon the angry surges of the overflowing Saone. On it a female ligh'uigale still covered her neat, as drif* Led down the foaming stream, and thd male on the wing followed the wreck, which waa bearing away the objects of ove. Man's Ciiakacteh.? W6 ray judge of a nan's character by what he loves?what lipases him. If a peifeon manifests delight n the low and sordid objects, the vulvar iong and debasing- language, in the misfbr.uncs of his fellows, or cruelty to animals, at once detortuine tho complexion of his aharaetfer. ' On llifl ronlrAi-w. if ha. lnvoa.