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Rh but when women work only to dres better than they could otherwie afford, it is wore than heer los of time. To render the poor virtuous they mut be employed, and women in the middle rank of life, did they not ape the fahions of the nobility, without catching their eae, might employ them, whilt they themelves managed their families, intructed their children, and exercied their own minds. Gardening, experimental philoophy, and literature, would afford them ubjects to think of and matter for converation, that in ome degree would exercie their undertandings. The converation of French women, who are not o rigidly nailed to their chairs to twit lappets, and knot ribbons, is frequently uperficial; but, I contend, that it is not half o inipid as that of thoe Englih women whoe time is pent in making caps, bonnets, and the whole michief of trimmings, not to mention hopping, bargain-hunting, &c. &c. and it is the decent, prudent women, who are mot degraded by thee practices; for their motive is imply vanity. The wanton who exercies her tate to render her peron alluring, has omething more in view.

Thee obervations all branch out of a general one, which I have before made, and which cannot be too often inited upon, for, peaking of men, women, or profeions, it will be found that the employment of the thoughts hapes the character both generally and individually. The thoughts of women ever hover round their perons, and is it urpriing that their perons are reckoned mot valuable? Yet ome degree of Rh