than quoting examples of those who have exhibited triats of public spirit or public liberality and excellence. These are our views, and of course we highly approve the method adopted by Mathew Carey, the American philanthropist, of publishing Annals of those deeds of exalted munificence, which do honor to our age and country. We give from his third series, extracts to show the manner he has pursued, and when we can obtain original materials for a similar record of charitable and noble gifts, it will find a place in our Magazine. "The late John Grandom, of Philadelphia, after making proper provision for such of his relations as stood in want of aid, and even for some of his tenants, bequeathed the residue of his estate as follows: To the Orphan Asylum, To the Widow's Asylum, $5,000 5,000 To the Friends' Asylum for the Insane, 5,000 3,000 $18,000 And ground rents as follow: To the Philadelphia Dispensary, per ann., $ 80 00 111 00 To the Northern Dispensary, 120 00 To the Apprentices' Library, 75 00 Boston may with propriety claim to rank among the first cities in the world, for acts of extraordinary munificence. Few of her wealthy men have not distinguished themselves in this noble caThe late Wm. Phillips stood among the foremost in the liberal band. His donations during life extended to above $100,000. His bequests are as follow: reer. Samuel Elliot, of Boston, purchased in Paris, the library of Mr. Warden, containing 1300 valuable volumes, most of which appertained to the history of America, with 300 maps, and presented the whole to the University of Harvard. Of the cost I know nothing, but suppose it must have been 2 or 3000 dollars. Israel Thorndike, of Boston, purchased at Hamburg, the extensive library of professor Ebeling, collected chiefly with a view to writing a history of the United States, in which the professor spent most of the last years of his life. Many of the books in this collection are truly invaluable, as it is believed that copies are not to be purchased on any terms. Thomas H. Perkins and James Perkins, of Boston, presented each the sum of $8000 to the Athenæum in that city-and subsequently each $500, for procuring the transactions of foreign societies. The late Joseph Burr, of Vermont, who acquired a fortune of $150,000, and had no near relations who were not wealthy, made the following distribution of a portion of his estate :— To the American Board of Foreign Missions, $17,000 To the Colonization Society, For Domestic Missions, 7,000 10,000 To the Tract Society, 10,000 To the Bible Society, 15,000 To the Vermont Missionary Society, 5,000 To the Manchester Congregrational Society, 5,000 To the Manchester Literary Seminary, 10,000 To Middlebury College, 12,000 To Williams' and Dartmouth Colleges, 1,000 each, 2,000 Total, 3,000 $96,000 The society of Friends in North Carolina, made provision some time since, for sending to Liberia, seven hundred colored persons, manumitted by some of their members. The Cadets at West Point have had a handsome monument erected there, to the memory of the illustrious Kosciusko, the cost of which, it is understood, was about 4,000 dollars. James Bosley, of Baltimore, presented to the Baltimore Charity School, the sum of one thousand dollars. Mrs. Shaw, a daughter of Gen. Greene, made a present of 500 dollars to the Committee appointed to prepare a monument sacred to the memory of Gen. Greene and Gen. Pulaski. We propose to offer a few remarks upon the physical education of woman-that culture of the corporeal powers, which alone can enable her to perform the duties of life with pleasure to herself and profit to others. That a vigorous exercise of mind depends upon a wholesome condition of the various organs of the human frame, we need not contend. Some rare instances are found where the intellectual power seems to gleam, like the consuming fire of the bird of fable, when matter is returning fast to its destined decay, but the whole history of our race affords proof, that well sustained mental vigor exists only in conjunction with good habits of diet and exercise, which give a healthy tone to all the functions of animal life. Not only the power, but the quiet and complacency of the mind, depend upon physical health. A great proportion of the fretfulness, irritability, and nervous excitement which render individuals and sometimes families wretched, arises from disease; and this disease is too often caused by habits, adopted and continued through ignorance or a perverse folly. If actions are wicked, as they are injurious, then are those females wicked, who disregard the dictates of nature, and persevere in practices which not only render themselves burthens upon society, but too frequently entail miseries upon others, for which, some day, they will be called to a severe repentance. A very few of the prominent causes of vitiated animal powers are all that we can now mention. The first we shall advert to, is impropriety of dress. An important fact to be diligently considered, by those who have the charge of infants is, that the processes of breathing and digesting are mainly assisted by, if not dependent on the vigorous action of muscles, lying upon the surface, as it were, on the body; and these are the two grand functions of organized life. In whatever way they are checked, life becomes less perfect, and the organization itself is speedily impaired, so that it cannot be restored. In fact, restoration is far less important than prevention, in a philosophical consideration of the subject. To ensure free restoration and digestion, it is manifest that the great organs to which those duties are allotted, should have the ability to carry on their several operations according to the economy of nature. The lungs and the stomach depend on the muscles which are spread over the chest, both before and behind, to assist their action. Those muscles must be in constant activity if they are inoperative, the internal organs lose a part of their power to support the demands made upon them, in their several capacities. A long train of nervous, dyspeptic and other complaints follow the weakness of the stomach, and consumption is the terrific destroyer of these victims, in later generations, to weakness of the lungs. The first step, as must be apparent, to secure a vigorous condition of the growing frame, is to give full freedom to all those parts which assist the action of vital organs, and to encourage their development by appropriate exercises. All muscles may be made more powerful by judicious exertion; and those of the breast and shoulders, require it more than any others: they are the first to exhibit symptoms of weakness if neglected; and they are the most important. Look at a girl whose exercise is limited to an occasional promenade, or an occasional dance; you will find her shoulders round, and her body stooping; or you will perceive that in the absence of all muscular ability to sit straight, fashionable dress has intervened to correct the deformity produced by idleness. The complaint is often heard, that females are weak without the support of dress. The fact is, they have taken from the frame its uniform action, and have transferred to 1 articles of apparel, those duties which belong entirely to the muscles which God created for certain, well known, definite purposes. A female who cannot sit erect, and remain so with ease, without the assistance of artificial means, has so long trifled with her constitution, that muscle after muscle will yield; action after action will cease; the first indication of the coming evil is weakness of some particular part; the next is confined disorder of the digestive organs, or consumption. By the fashion of modern times, the chest is encased in a species of apparel which forbids all motion of the muscles around it-the shoulders are kept in the same resolute position; the body can bend neither forward, nor backwards, nor sideways -the muscles are compressed tightly upon the bones-and this inaction and pressure produce absorption; for nature, as she creates nothing to be useless, so she refuses to support and nourish any thing whose use has been discarded. The muscles of any part, but particularly those of the body, weaken, when disturbed, and after the vital energy has begun to depart, a moderate degree of pressure will hasten their removal, till scarcely the vestige of a muscle is left. The vital actions depending in a great measure upon them, become feeble, and disease, deep seated, perhaps irradicable, may be discovered in every look and motion. Ages of utter misery would be too little for the punishment of him who made the fashionable world believe that a small waist is essential to beauty. That belief introduced a mode of dress which the voice of ten thousand thunders would not repel. That dress absolutely prevents all useful exercise; and the victim of high life, is practised upon by the mantua-maker, till she is deserted by her own vital power, and, having communicated disease to her offspring, and rendered all her friends uncomfortable by her constant ailings, repinings, and uselessness, she sinks to an untimely grave. We shudder while we write the melancholy truth; but we do not use the language of exaggeration. Our aim is to tell the plainest facts in the simplest language, being anxious to be intelligible rather than pleasing. To prevent the evils and terrible diseases mentioned these things are absolutely necessary. 1st. Freedom of motion from youth upward, and most of all in that period of life when the animal organs are nearly developed and are about to take form, and consistency, as the growing process is suspended, that will render any change more difficult. 2d. Sufficiency of motion, |