tion of female character and manners a matter of inestimable importance, especially at the present age, swayed as it is by moral, rather than by physical force, we have carefully availed ourselves of the best advice of some of our most judicious writers on female education; and, by presenting our work in a cheaper form than any of this class which is now before the public, hope to render it attainable to all those, for whom it is especially designed.

MARCH 8, 1843.

LADIES' VASE.

Politeness.

POLITENESS, like every thing else in one's character and conduct, should be based on christian principle. Honor all men says the apostle. This is the spring of good manners, it strikes at the very root of selfishness, it is the principle by which we render to all ranks and ages their due. A respect for your fellow beings, a reverence for them as God's creatures and our brethren, will inspire that delicate regard for their rights and feelings, of which good manners is the sign.

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If you have truth, not the truth of policy, but religious truth, your manners will be sinThey will have earnestness, simplicity, and frankness, the best qualities of manners. They will be free from assumption, pretence, affectation, flattery, and obsequiousness, which are all incompatible with sincerity. If you have sincerity you will choose to appear no other, nor better, than you are--to dwell in a true light.

We have often insisted that the Bible contains the only rules necessary in the study of politeness, or, in other words, that those who are the real disciples of Christ cannot fail to be truly polite. Thus, let the young woman who would possess genuine politeness, take her lessons, not in the school of a hollow, heartless world, but in the school of Jesus Christ. I know this counsel may be despised by the gay and fashionable; but it will be much easier to despise it than to prove it to be incorrect.