DEAR GIRLS,

            I think there cannot be a greater service done to the commonwealth, (of which you are a numerous body) than to lay down some general rules for your behaviour, which, if observed, will make your condition so happy to yourselves as it is necessary to others. Nothing can be more melancholy, than to hear continual complaints for faults which a very little reflection would render it almost as easy for you to avoid as to commit; most of the mistakes laid to your charge proceeding at first only from a certain indolence and inactivity of the mind, but if not rectified in time, become habitual, and difficult to be thrown off.

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