. Fors clavigera. Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain . GEORGE ALLKN,S V x\ X \ S I D K, O R 1 I N C; 1 O N , K E N LETTER THE 91st. Si:iTi;MiiicK, OF GOLD. T HAVE received several letters from )Oui\^ corres-pondents, complaining that I attach too muchimportance to beauty in women, and asking, What areplain girls to do.—one of them putting this fartherquestion, not easy of answer, Why beaut} is so oftengiven to girls who have only the mind to misuse it, andnot to others, who would hold it as a power for Godsservice ? To which (|ucstion, ho\ve\er, it is to be 2M)

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. Fors clavigera. Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain . GEORGE ALLKN,S V x\ X \ S I D K, O R 1 I N C; 1 O N , K E N LETTER THE 91st. Si:iTi;MiiicK, OF GOLD. T HAVE received several letters from )Oui\^ corres-pondents, complaining that I attach too muchimportance to beauty in women, and asking, What areplain girls to do.—one of them putting this fartherquestion, not easy of answer, Why beaut} is so oftengiven to girls who have only the mind to misuse it, andnot to others, who would hold it as a power for Godsservice ? To which (|ucstion, ho\ve\er, it is to be 2M) SKRIKS,] I 6 I So Fors Clavic^cra. answered, in the first place, that the nriystery is quiteas great in the bestowal of riches and wit; in the secondplace, that the girls who misuse their beauty, only doit because they have not been taught better, and itis much more other peoples fault than theirs ; in thethird place, that the privilege of seeing beauty is quiteas rare a one as that of possessing it, and far morefatally misused. The question, What are plain girls to do ? requiresus first to understand clearly what plainness is.

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