True and false Delicacy.
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Above every other feature which adorns
The female character, delicacy stands foremost
within the province of good taste. Not that
deiicacy which is perpetuallv in quest of somc-
thing to be ashamed of, which makes a merit
of a blush, and simpers at a false construction
its own ingenuity has put upon an innocent
remark this spurious delicacy is as far re-
moved from good taste, from good feeling
and good sense but that hi Oh minded deli
cacy which maintalus its pure aud undertaking
walk alike amongst women as in the society
of men; which shtnks from no necessary
duty, and can speak when required, with Sc
robustness and Kindness, of things at which i:
il would be ashamed to smile or blush--tba
deIicacy which knows how to confer bene-
lit without woundins the feelings Of another,
= nd which Understands also how, and when
TO receive ouc-thnt delcacy which cab give
aims without display, aud advice without as
suming; and which pains not The most humble
or respectable being III creation. This Is the
dellcacy which forms so important part OF
good taste, that where it does not exist as d
natural instinct, il is taught as the first prn-
ciple ofgood manners, aud considered as the
universal passport OF good society. Nor can
this, the greatest charm of female character,
if totally neglected in youth, ever be acquired
in after life. e.--\Nheu the mind has been ac-
cuSto,ned 10 what is vulgar, or gross, the fine
edge Of feeling is gone, and nothing can re-
store it. 1t is comparatively easy, and on
entering upon life, 10 maintain the page OF
thought unsuI.ied, by closing it against every
improper image; but when once such images
are allowed to. mingIe with the Imagination,
so as to be constantly by memory, and thus
to give their tone To the habitual mode of
thinking and conversins, the beauty of the
female character may, indeed, be: said to be
gone, and its glory departed.-.Nrs. Ellis s
Daua hters Of England.