
TIE LADIES' FRIEND.

YOUNG LADIES.
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Next to mothers, the young ladies have
the greatest agency in forming the charac-
ters of the other sex. Their influence COM
mences at period when it is most needed
Young men, although their characters are
in great measure formed, require some
powerful restraints, just at the time when
they are becoming acquainted with the
world, and are beginning to move beyond
mothers eye. The young females, with
whom they associate, are the guardians of
their virtues, and accountable for most o.
the evil practices into which they fall. 1t
requires but little observation to be convinc.
ed that multitudes of young men, who are
destitute of religious principles, pursue that
line of conduct which is most likely to meet
the views of the young ladies with whom
they associate, and whose appreciation they
desire to obtain. There is not a vice prev
alcnt among them that would not be reln-
pushed, were it reprobated, and the perpe-
traitors Of it avoided by the young, the fash
,onable, and the intelligent of the sex. None
but the most hardened and impudent BIAS
phemer will even now utter an oath in the
presence of any respectable female IF the
omission to do good or to prevent evil, when
IN ones power, be crime, what tremcn-
aous account we shall have to render on the
score of profaneness. intemperance, gam
bling, and duellingl These practices which
disturb the peace of society, mar the happi-
ness of families, hurry multitudes to death,
perdition, and must ultimately call down the
Indignation of Heaven on our country, might
be greatly, if not entirely, exterminated, by
avlgorous and judicious effort on the part of
our sex. Let the practices themselves be
uniformly mentioned in terms of reprobation,
ana let us avoid those who pursue them as
we would the midnight assassin, or the
great adversary of God and man.