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    I would * recommend that , throughout her girlhood , she should frequently be an active assistant in household occupation * " What ! " exclaims some mother , by this time on the threshold of hysterics , " doom my daughter to red hands and found shoulders ! " Fair and softly , good madam , such will not be the

    Gonsequences of the light and occasional labour which I recommend , if her habits be good and her mind elevated * No labour debases either manner , mind , or person , unless it be excessive , and associated with moral circumstances in themselves degrading .

    I knew a lady in Hobart Town , and I am happy to pay a tribute to her merit , who kept a boarding-school for young ladies ; each pupil in turn held the household keys for a week , during which she attended to the domestic concerns , made the pastry , and attended to all the details of the laundry , &c . when

    requisite . Many of these hebdomadal housekeepers are now no doubt , wives , mothers , and mistresses of families , and perhaps quite as elegant and accomplished as the English boarding * school miss—a name synonymous with the most helpless superficial thing in existence .

    How I should rejoice to see good day-schools everywhere Supersede boarding-schools , which infringe home affectionsj and never inculcate universal ones , where , beyond all other places , a frosty , affected conventionalism prevails . " j ) ay schools I" again exclaims the hysteric mother . i ( What ! for

    our daughters to go to and fro through the common streets , and in our changeful climate . How could they endure such exposure !" I know not whether most to smile or sigh at the distinction made between a lady and a woman , or ( to use the medium phrase of those who tear no incorrectness but that which regards rank ) a female * The old story of a general officer drinking to one of his company , with " Here ' s to you , soldier , " to which the other replied that he was a captain ; when the

    commander filled his glass again , and nodding to the stickler for station , said , Here ' s to you , captain > who are no soldier / 9 might be applied , humorously enough , in the present case . There are many ladies who are not women , in their vulgar sense of that word , or in the high sense it bears . If nature had made

    One class of wood and another of wax , and if religion recognised this' difference , a greater disparity as to what privileged people will inflict , and what they will endure , could not exist ., £ et us only instance the wholesale suffocation , at the hottest time of the year , which takes place annually at St Paul ' s . Were the Kttle ones patricians , in place of plebeians , they would b $ perxnUisd to offer prayer and praise in rational numbers on several days , instead of being amused- into an insupportable crowd q $

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 102, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/55/