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Advice To Girls

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
November
Year
1872
Copyright
Public Domain
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We have charity for fast girls. AVo have oficn l'ound them genereus and warm hearted, and are fully ready to belove that their diaregard of conventionalitie8 is ot'ton the boldnesa of inm For exaniple, in some families tlio chamber oï the sister is the resortof thobrotner in iliu iirst plaoe, then of tlie oousin, who is iiirnüst a brother, and tiii_n of thy brother's intiinate friend, wiiO is treated as ons of t!io t'aip.iiy. Wliou tliió tree style of liviug is tiunsferred from the siiibdüw of the fainily to the apartmentg of' :i crowded hoiol or boarding iioü.', il, giveB occasion tor muoh fren speaking and ftee thinking - for a btyle ot' judgnii'iit that dfton does ti:o young giri in jus tico. bare Baid that out' Amerioana had their fanlts. Th want of oouventioual limita of propnety botwei ■ -us is one of ti. uin. The younj French girl is kept Bi nd uevï) 8ulferd to see n gentleman unwatchüd. lu America, from early chiidhood i and boys grow u togethar - ;iiia on the whole ït is best uould. But, in order that tliis libttould prodace g In, parents and guardiaus sliould incessantly toacb. in limits of propriety. 'l'lii-ro aro ccitíi! ■ nd ui od ca of ititer. that are ftibper places, tini 'fhere are certain oiher places, , nul it ought to be i part of the early training ot' every giii to teach her this. Kvury upproach on the part of a yonng girl to any personal faiuiUarity with a yoisng mu!), suoh ii ghe might tnostiunouently take with another girl, l-x poses her to nii.-.eonstructioii which it v;is the duty o 11 r to pi ■■ ot by tiniüly ing. A favolite author Las said tbat suefa personal advances, on the part of wonifii, were " itnmoralities of manncr," ('vi-n where the intentiou w;is innocent. So girls, take care ; respect y ou r-ilvcs, respect your sez, and do not give the L'iiomy oanse to speak reproachfully. Listen, all of you, to what i man It is out of soiuo old-fasbioned "Fathtr's Legacy," or soint; sucli antiquated book. líu gaye, " Afinu von;iin has a power over us whicb she very littlo dreams, but a little too noav acquaintanoe often dissolvcs lusion into a very órdinary girL" a motber teil you, girls, that luothers, wbeu Uey send their boys into the gruat world aü! its temptationa, hope for them from the jntíuenoe of good wonen. Dil you ever think of ibis, when you toll yonng men ilmt you doto on smoking ; when yon urge wine upon them at partiesl1 Soiue motber, some sister, ïiiay wish that you would lead her 3on or brothei to nobler, purer oonceptiona of hïo. üugiit not soino higher motive govern your int'orcourse with the young jiu.il of your acquaintance than d admiratiori on youisolf, to pleage them at any and every hazard '( Be buru that a young man who is pleased türough bis lower nature, beauso you encourage bis indolent and Belf inuulgcnt habiis, and take [iart with bis least elevated impulses, wül think of you by-aud-by only as a part of souu'thing nnworthy, which his botter

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