ho associate early in seminaries of learning:

"We, Hermia,
Have with our needles created both one flower;
Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion;
Both warbling of one song, both in one key;
As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds,
Had been incorporate."

Let the youthful female beware, in school and everywhere, of hasty
preferences, of taking home to her inmost confidence the acquaintance
of a day. Her own character is too precious to be exposed in heedless
traffic. Purity and love, the loftiest powers of our nature, not time
alone, but eternity also, should form the seal of her lasting
friendships.

Educate yourself at home and in private. By fireside fidelity the soul
is expanded and our being lifted toward God. View your relative
connections as each a Heaven-sent teacher. Incline your ear to them, as
if through their lips an oracle uttered its decrees in your hearing.

By your Reading, much may be accomplished toward correcting your taste,
enlarging your intellectual vision, and sanctifying your spirit. Form
now the habit of daily reading some volume with reference to your
personal improvement. Let no engagement seriously interrupt this
practice. Read the writings of your own sex. Woman takes up her pen,
usually, from the promptings of sympathy and affection. The temple she
builds to literature, may have an altar consecrated to reason, or to
imagination; but it is love, a high and holy love, which she inscribes
on its portals. Her works thus not only elevate the taste but amend the
heart.

Woman is addicted to the eager perusal of works of fiction. I regard
this fact as an indication of a want of her nature. Not, therefore, to
eradicate but to control, and direct, and restrain, this propensity,
would I make an endeavor. In the words of the afflicted Lady Russell,
used on the anniversary of her husband's execution, I would say, "I do
not contend with nature, but keep her as innocent as I can." Select only
such writings of this class as some judicious friend has recommended.
Read poetry. If it be true poetry, it is the twin-sister of religion. It
will exalt and ennoble your soul. Study history. From that you will draw
unfailing draughts of knowledge and wisdom. Be familiar with good
biography. Above all, make the Word of God your constant study. So will
you be educated for every stage of your existence, and ripe clusters of
virtues will adorn your