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 able sufferings, and yourselves from miseries, crimes and vices. You perhaps imagine that with the loss of their husbands your females lose their nature as human beings and are subject no longer to the influence of passions. But what instances occur at every step to show how sadly you are mistaken. Alas! what fruits of poison you are gathering from the tree of life, from moral torpitude and a sad want of reflection. How greatly is this to be deplored! Where men are void of pity and compassion, of a perception of right and wrong, of good and evil, and when men consider the observance of mere forms as the highest of duties and the greatest of virtues, in such a country would that women were never born."

However young the widows may be condition they are, m a majority or communities, not allowed to put on good dress and jewellery, nor are they allowed to use other similar articles to which they were accustomed in their married life.