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Rh Sunday, viit the chool, and are impreed by the very parade that renders the ituation of their children uncomfortable.

With what digut have I heard enible women, for girls are more retrained and cowed than boys, peak of the weariome confinement, which they endured at chool. Not allowed, perhaps, to tep out of one broad walk in a uberb garden, and obliged to pace with teady deportment stupidly backwards and forwards, holding up their heads and turning out their toes, with houlders braced back, intead of bounding, as nature directs to complete her own deign, in the various attitudes o conducive to health. The pure animal pirits, which make both mind and body hoot out, and unfold the tender blooms of hope, are turned our, and vented in vain wihes, or pert repinings, that contract the faculties and poil the temper; ele they mount to the brain, and harpening the undertanding before it gains proportionable trength, produce that pitiful cunning which digracefully characterizes the female mind—and I fear will ever characterize it whilt women remain the laves of power! The&ensp;