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124 into company (and examples now abound) do not acquire the ame precocity. So notorious is this fact, that the bare mentioning of it mut bring before people, who at all mix in the world, the idea of a number of waggering apes of men, whoe undertandings are narrowed by being brought into the ociety of men when they ought to have been pinning a top or twirling a hoop.

It has alo been aerted, by ome naturalits, that men do not attain their full growth and trength till thirty; but that, women arrive at maturity by twenty. I apprehend that they reaon on fale ground, led atray by the male prejudice, which deems beauty the perfection of woman—mere beauty of features and complexion, the vulgar acceptation of the word, whilt male beauty is allowed to have ome connection with the mind. Strength of body, and that character of countenance, which the French term a phyionomie, women do not acquire before thirty, any more than men. The little artles tricks of children, it is true, are particularly pleaing and attractive; yet, when the pretty frehnes of youth is worn off, thee artles graces become tudied airs, and digut every peron of tate. In the countenance of girls we only look for vivacity and bahful modety; but, the pring-tide of life over, we look for oberer ene in the face, and for traces of paion, intead of the dimples of animal pirits; expecting to ee individuality of character, the only fatener of the affections. We then wih to convere, not to fondle;&ensp;