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suburbs of that city, from the exhalations of certain beautiful flowers.
See, my young friends, that the lovely associates of your life, even by
their most interesting traits, do not betray you into, first slight,
then graver, and at length into serious, departures from rectitude and
purity.

As a check against the corrupting influences of popular opinion and
practices, woman should cultivate two virtues, Moral Independence, and
perfect Ingenuousness. If she determine to cleave sacredly to her
homebred convictions of right, let the world commend or condemn her, she
will maintain the royalty of her sex. Her path will be broad, free,
upward, and ever toward God and felicity. But let her succumb to
society, and bow to every mandate of fashion, and she shall become a
mental and moral slave.

Equally would I incite you to the retention of your youthful Frankness,
and Simplicity. When a child, you expressed precisely what you felt. Let
not womanhood rob you of this angelic trait. Shun art; abhor
affectation. Set to your seal, that, if detected in this habit, you will
lose the confidence and the respect of all noble minds. Know that if you
are always ingenuous, you will secure self-respect, and a conscious
integrity of heart. Let clouds lower, let the storms of deceit menace
the circle you grace, on you will all eyes fix,--and none more
benignantly than the All-seeing one above;--and in you will all behold
the blue ether of Heaven.

If the general dangers which beset a young woman, on her entrance into
society be great, those which have reference to her own Sex require of
her a peculiar watchfulness. Let philosophy explain, as it may, the
cause, nothing is more certain than that the feelings, and deportment,
and speech, that occur between her and her sister females, are a source
of constant temptation. Man has charity for the faults of woman; and she
has much for the errors of his sex; but for those of her own sex how
contracted is her mercy. Never are her Christian principles so tried, as
when the character of another is in any wise impeached. Curiosity,
opening paths filled with snares, often leads her to venture, where
angels dare not tread. Let her mark well its perils, and beware how she
intermeddle, with tongue or thought, in the secrets of her neighbor.

A root of iniquity in this world is Envy. In the lower grades of society
what pining and misery might be traced to this baleful passion. Why are
the actions