Show hints to young ladies 0 if any young woman wastes in trivial amusement the prime season for improvement which is between the ages of sixteen and twenty they regret bitterly the loss 1088 when they come to feel themselves inferior in knowledge to almost everi even one they converse with and above all if they should ever be mothers when they feel their ina inability to direct or assist the pursuits purin tits of their children they find ignorance of severe mortification and a real evil let this animate their industry and let a modest opinion of their capacities capacite capa citi be an encouragement coura gement to th them em in their endeavors after knowledge A moderate understanding with diligent and well directed application will go much further farther than a lively genius if attended with impatience and inattention which too often accompany quick parts it is not for want of capacity capacio y that so many women are such trifling insipid companions companion so ill qualified for the friendship and conversation of a sensible man or for the task of governing and instructing a family it is often from the neglect of exercising exer exercising cisin 9 the talents which they really have and fr from om omitting tin 9 to cultivate a taste for intellectual improvement pro by this neglect they lose the sincerest pleasures which would remain when almost every other forsakes them of which neither fortune nor age can deprive them and which would be a comfort and resource in almost 1 4 every possible in fears fo fe Mrs chapone girls spend much time in beautifying their beads which ought to be employed in adorning their hearts in curling and twi atin ting and braiding in lacing and trimming with ribbons and a thousand fashionable fooleries fool eries which they think adds to their beauty not so in reality but disgusting to men of sense and worth what is more lovely than modesty neatness in dress drees and what more enticing than intelligence and virtue if you yon can find qualities more estimable more desirable and more attractive than these please inform us for we have hare not yet discovered them what does a sensible man car caie e for a haughty vain coquette whose only pride is dress to frolic and figure finely in the dance they might be placed within within glass glam oases cases and show off to much advantages advantage but in the capacity of wife mother affairs of family and the real duties of woman she is wholly y unprepared con consider sider for a moment if you please the almost invariable fate of young females of this description are they proud proad it is core ly mortified by poverty are they gay they are disappointed and but seldom succeed in life as those who have real worth themselves and consequently seek it in their companions instead of any momentary satisfaction is resulting result ng from a fair exterior what can the mother mean who fails to instruct her daughters a in these things do all the drudgery washing and scrubbing and let them sit in the parlor in the rocking chair reading the corrupting p iges of the yellow covered fiction that floods the land such an admirable wife she will makel make so dignified and amiable the woman such an honor and blessing to her husband away with this flagrant outrage upon common sense let girls be taught the practical duties of their spheres those that will fit them for good wives and mothers mother ai and exemplary women in society and if young ladies wish the companionship of tops fops and worthless rakes let them be vain emp ty headed beaded if they desire the society of the wise the noble the good let them be discreet modest and endow themselves vea with skill in household life which is the true sphere and dignity of woman deseret Oe seret news |