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20 them. if they saw need, and afford them protection if required, for allowing any impropriety would endanger the character of their own daughters. Cabin No. 3 may be also appointed for single females, and No. 4 for a family who may have three grown up daughters. In No. 3 I would place the widow with her three daughters, a girl from No. 4, and a friendless young woman; here, in like manner, is the same protection.

I would now have No. 5 arranged for single females, and in which I would allot berths for the two daughters of family No. 4, and the sister of the young man previously mentioned, and three other single females, thus the heads of family No. 4, would afford protection to two cabins, having a daughter in No. 3, and two in No. 5, they themselves being in the centre cabin; in this manner all the single females may be disposed of and protected. Aged females maybe accommodated in the single females' berths, they will give a gravity to the young people. Every evening two of the mothers by turns should be required to accompany the matron and see that the young women were in due time in their berths; the heads of families would soon feel the responsibility and sacredness of this duty, and the necessity there would exist of supporting it. The cabin» or berths of the single young men might also be so arranged that parents could have a controlling influence there if necessary; age should be mixed up with youth so as to give a steadiness to the party. To keep up a good feeling, I would place the son, aged 16, of the widow, with a son of family No. 4, one of whose daughters it will be recollected is berthed with this youth's mother and her three daughters. Thus in the single men's berth there would be raised protectors for the females in No. 3, and in like manner throughout the ship.