. What has been observed on the subject of
education, though said principally with re-,
ference to the male branches of fashionable^
families, will yet, with a few changes, be found,
applicable to the youth of the other sex*
The principal points upon which their scheme-
of education is brought to bear, are those of.
dissipation and display. A brilliant finger on:
the piano, wanton flexions in the dance, a.
rage for operas, plays, and parties, and the
faculty of undergoing the fatiguing evolutions s
of a fashionable life without compunction of
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of disgust, are qualifications which she iTvho
has acquired, will be considered as wanting
little of a perfect education.
The same assiduity is discovered on th^
part of the parents, to train their girls for the
sphere of polite life, as has been already ob-
served with respect to the boys; and the
methods that are pursued to accomplish this
end are very nearly the same. The blush of
virgin modesty (it is naturally foreseen) would
be extremely inconvenient, not to say abso-
lutely indecorous, in a woman of Fashion ;
and therefore it is wisely resolved, that such
steps shall be taken, upon the girl's growing
into life, as may most effectually destroy it.
