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 I think it a very good method for girls to have a certain allowance for cloaths [sic]. A mother can eaily, without eeming to do it, oberve how they pend it, and direct them accordingly. By thee means they would learn the value of money, and be obliged to contrive. This would be a practical leon of œconomy uperior to all the theories that could be thought of. The having a fixed tipend, too, would enable them to be charitable, in the true ene of the word, as they would then give their own; and by denying themelves little ornaments, and doing their own work, they might increae the um appropriated to charitable purpoes. A lively