The business of a woman is divided into three as distinct departments as the liberal professions of law, medicine, and divinity for men, which are so honored and endowed. Nor are they less important or universal. For, in the first place, woman is to train the human mind at just that period when principles, tastes, and habits are most firmly fixed; next, she has the care of the human body all through its period of development, when the physical habits are formed, and also in periods of sickness for all ages. Lastly, she has charge of the whole circle of domestic economy, and of all the _home_ interests of the family state. Educator, nurse, and housekeeper, these three departments are not less in importance than law, medicine, and divinity. The leading feature, then, in this attempt was to secure an organization of American women, who should aim to establish model institutions for woman, that should prepare her _thoroughly and properly_ for the three distinctive employments of her profession, by means of endowments to support highly-educated teachers for this express object. In all other female institutions, the training of the _intellect_ has been the leading object; in these, the preparation of woman for her distinctive duties was to be the leading object. To the common remark that the mothers must do this _at home_, it is replied, in the first place, that the mothers, to a great extent--_as the general rule, having but few exceptions_--are not qualified to do this; and, next, if they were, they have not the _health_, or they have not the _time_, or they have not the _will_ to do so. When men wish to perfect and honor any profession, they provide _endowments_ to sustain teachers of the highest order. Thus, for example, though it may be said that farmers can best train their sons for their own profession, still agricultural professorships in our colleges, and teachers sustained by endowments, are found to be indispensable to honor and raise that pursuit to a _science_ and a _profession_. While the young women of the nation see every thing else more honored and provided for than the very profession and future business of their lives, they will grow up to neglect and despise such duties.