When married, they find themselves ignorant
of the important duties of domestic life; and its quiet pleasures
soon grow tiresome to minds worn out by frivolous excitements. If they
remain unmarried, their disappointment and discontent are, of course,
in proportion to their exaggerated idea of the eclat attendant upon
having a lover. The evil increases in a startling ratio; for these
girls, so injudiciously educated, will, nine times out of ten,
make injudicious mothers, aunts, and friends; thus follies will be
accumulated unto the third and fourth generation. Young ladies should
be taught that usefulness is happiness, and that all other things are
but incidental. With regard to matrimonial speculations, they should
be taught nothing! Leave the affections to nature and to truth, and
all will end well. How many can I at this moment recollect, who have
made themselves unhappy by marrying for the sake of the _name_ of
being married! How many do I know, who have been instructed to such
watchfulness in the game, that they have lost it by trumping their own
tricks!
One great cause of the vanity, extravagance and idleness that are
so fast growing upon our young ladies, is the absence of _domestic
education_.
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