You and I; . ENTERING HE young lady just entering societyhas before her a vast, unexploredrealm, and it is well, in reconnoiter-ing it, to look for some slight aidfrom chart and compass, be theyever so inadequate to all sorts ofweathers and atmospheres. The Age for a Debut.—The ageat which a young lady may makeher formal entrance into a society, isusually from seventeen to time is generally governed by her school duties, or thepresence of older sisters yet unmarried. A young lady should not attend parties and ballswhile engaged in educational pursuits. The proper servingof
You and I; . ENTERING HE young lady just entering societyhas before her a vast, unexploredrealm, and it is well, in reconnoiter-ing it, to look for some slight aidfrom chart and compass, be theyever so inadequate to all sorts ofweathers and atmospheres. The Age for a Debut.—The ageat which a young lady may makeher formal entrance into a society, isusually from seventeen to time is generally governed by her school duties, or thepresence of older sisters yet unmarried. A young lady should not attend parties and ballswhile engaged in educational pursuits. The proper servingof two such masters as learning and the gay world, is an utterimpossibility, especially at the age of seventeen, when thefascinations of a ball possess charms that are never experi-enced in after years. Going to school is an old, well triedexperience, going to a ball is a new and delightful one, and itis not hard to tell which would engross the entire thought ofa young girl. The one who has remained a student until twenty, ande
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