In her youth she had been trained in practical affairs as well as in art, and, although she felt that "the needle and distaff were enemies to the brush and pencil," her varied knowledge served her well in the responsibilities she had assumed, and at the head of the institution she had founded she became as well known for her executive ability as for her piety.

A green hand might break a needle, and a needle broken was a step toward death.

Upon our return we landed at Caper Point near the bottom of the bay; where, on taking some bearings, a considerable local magnetic attraction was detected, for the needle of the theodolite was nearly eight degrees in error.

" "And the needle?" "Was a charm not to kill a man, but to make a woman love him.

Death did arrest thee, many saw thee deade, Else needles were these rites of funeralls.

And now the needle that I ply is witness to the state Of bondage, which I feel to-day with heart disconsolate.

It seems to me that the needle is the chain of woman, and has fettered her more than the laws of the country.

There in the firelight stood the venerable forms of the old chairs; the hands that had made their tapestries lay far beneath the soil, the needles with which they wrought were many separate flakes of rust.

'With respect to the discordance of dips of the dipping-needles, which for years past had been a source of great trouble and puzzle, the Report states that 'The dipping-needles are still a source of anxiety.

Edward Needles, a kind and open hearted man, a native of Maryland, and President of the "old Abolition Society," is a devoted friend to the anti-slavery cause.