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 ARLY marriages are, in my opinion, a top to improvement. If we were born only "to draw nutrition, propagate and rot," the ooner the end of creation was anwered the better; but as women are here allowed to have ouls, the oul ought to be attended to. In youth a woman endeavours to pleae the other ex, in order, generally peaking, to get married, and this endeavour calls forth all her powers. If he has had a tolerable education, the foundation only is laid, for the mind does not oon arrive at maturity, and hould not be groed