Hints to Young Ladies.
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BY MRS. CHAPONE.


If young women waste in trivial
amusements the prime season for i'm
provement, which is between the ages of
sixteen and twenty, they will hereafter
regret the loss, when they come to feel
themselves inferior in knowledge to al
mos, every one they converse with; and
above all, il they should ever be moth
ers, when they feel their own inability
to direct and assist the pursuit Of their
children, then they find ignorance Sc
we're modification and real evil. Let
this animate their industry, and let not a
modest opinion Of their capacities be q
encouragement to their endeavors after
knowledge. A moderate understanding,
with diligent and we'll directed applica-
ton, will 60 much farther than more
lively genius, ifinattentive, which too Of
ten accompany quick parts. 1t is not for
want Of capacity that so many women
are such trifing, insipid companions, SO
i'll qualified for the friendship and the
conversation of a sensible man, or for
the task Of governing and instructing a
family; it is often from the neglect ol
exercising the talents which they really
have, and from emitting to cultivate a
taste for intellectual improvement; by
this neglect they lose the sinceres. plea
cures, which would remain when almos
every other forsakes them, of which
neither fortune nor age can deprive them
and which would be comfort and re-
source in almost every possible situation
in life.