If the Western Barbarians would see to it that all women, married or unmarried, were duly cared for in homes of relatives, _as of right_, and that they also made themselves welcome there by their usefulness and obedience, they would find an end of that agitation as _to Women's Rights_ existing among them. Rights would be as indisputable as duties--and the first of these would be a quiet, modest, and rational obedience to their natural protectors, who, in turn, would be bound to respect and protect them. And if by any strange chance a woman was absolutely without relatives (a thing nearly impossible in our _Flowery Land_), then the State should see to it that she had a suitable home. The education of woman, in a well-ordered Society, is also fixed and clear. It has immediate relation to her position and her duties. She is from the first never disturbed in the natural order. She sees her relatives always quiet, modest, _obedient_. She never thinks this state of things to be wrong. She perceives the manner of female life; its seclusion, its devotion to the family, its purpose, and end. There is no complexity about it, no _outside_ glitter, no field for show, no seeking for excitement and display. All her duties are at home--_her_ happiness is _there_; _there_ she is to be attractive, and there she is to attract--the love and respect of her husband, the regard of her relatives, the affection and obedience of her children! So, her education needs no straining after effect. It looks directly to her duties, to her natural function and place; and to those accomplishments, of mind and of person, which shall enable her to be happy with books, with music, and the like; and shall add to the pleasures of her home. All these things are common-place with us--so simple as to appear trivial. Our Illustrious wives and mothers could not _understand_ the reasons for their elaboration--they have never seen the women of the Western Barbarians! The position of women in the _Social_ system of the West, on the whole, is the most remarkable thing in it. I have made sufficiently suggestive remarks in the progress of these _Observations_; and only now have to add a word or two upon the _general_ effect. It gives a wonderful life, restlessness, and colour to the whole aspect of Barbarian life. Think of all the women in our Illustrious Land, at once leaving their homes, the seclusion of their orderly houses and lives, and rushing everywhere with the men, over the Land! And, not only so, dressed in splendid gaiety of colour, and adorned with gems and feathers, crowding into all places of amusement and of travel! Nor this only, but showing themselves, in public places, with men, where paintings and sculpture, and things here only seen by men alone, are exhibited! And, often, so dressed as to cause even the man to blush!