Reading the talents of others helps us to compose something that may help us in future life. Without reading we should not know any thing about our forefathers or how we came to be civilized. What would we know about religion if we did not read our Bible and find out how religion originated?
On Girls.
Girls are very stuckup and dignefied in their maner and behaveyour. They think more of dress than any thing and like to play with dowls and rags. They cry if they see a cow in afar distance and are afraid of guns. They stay at home all the time and go to Church every Sunday. They are al-ways sick. They are al-ways funy and making fun of boys hands and they say how dirty. They cant play marbels. I pity them poor things. They make fun of boys and then turn round and love them. I dont beleave they ever kiled a cat or any thing. They look out every nite and say oh ant the moon lovely. Thir is one thing I have not told and that is they always now their lessons bettern boys.
On Timidity of Women.
Timidity is a disease very prevelent among our American women. It is thought by them to be an ornament to their charms.
How many young women faint by the sudden appearance of a rat from its hideing place. Oh! they do declare it’s impossible to live where these dreadful creatures make their homes they ask Ma cant she and wont she please to try to secure some remedy so they can be destroyed. You will see the young ladies leap up over stones and steps of great height so as to escape the barks of the dog, if they are walking with a friend of the male kind they will cling to the masculine arm and beseach him to walk so that she might loose sight of that horrible creature known as a dog.
I do think their cases of timidity that cannot be governed such as cases of intemperance fighting and death. We dont want to see any man come along the street destitute of reasoning and come reeling suddenly by you. Also the expectation of death when we see a loved sister going away from a cherished circle.
It cannot be endured, but I have no objections for these cases but the preceding ones are ridiculous and I beseach you to reject it remembering you shall have to undergo greater trials than those related.
On Poverty.
How many persons possess it! They are persons whose poverty cannot be endured they had enjoyed preceding years in wealth and by some mishap in the family they became poor and how can they endeavor to forget that time when their happiness could not be expressed but now their troubles shall be discovered.