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226 exclaim, cleanlines, neatnes, and peronal reerve. It is obvious, I uppoe, that the reerve I mean, has nothing exual in it, and that I think it equally neceary in both exes. So neceary, indeed, is that reerve and cleanlines which indolent women too often neglect, that I will venture to affirm that when two or three women live in the ame houe, the one will be mot repected by the male part of the family, who reide with them, leaving love entirely out of the quetion, who pays this kind of habitual repect to her peron.

When dometic friends meet in a morning, there will naturally prevail an affectionate eriounes, epecially, if each look forward to the dicharge of daily duties; and, it may be reckoned fanciful, but this entiment has frequently rien pontaneouly in my mind, I have been pleaed after breathing the weet bracing morning air, to ee the ame kind of frehnes in the countenances I particularly loved; I was glad to ee them braced, as it were, for the day, and ready to run their coure with the un. The greetings of affection in the morning are by thee means more repectful than the familiar tendernes which frequently prolongs the evening talk. Nay, I have often felt hurt, not to ay diguted, when a friend has appeared, whom I parted with full dreed the evening before, with her clothes huddled on, becaue he choe to indulge herelf in bed till the lat moment.

Dometic affection can only be kept alive by thee neglected attentions; yet if men and women took half as much pains to dres habitually neat, as they do to ornament, or rather to figure,&ensp;