5.  Rival the boys.—­We want the girls to rival the boys in all that is good, and refined, and ennobling.  We want them to rival the boys, as they well can, in learning, in understanding, in virtues; in all noble qualities of mind and heart, but not in any of those things that have caused them, justly or unjustly, to be described as savages.  We want the girls to be gentle—­not weak, but gentle, and kind and affectionate.  We want to be sure, that wherever a girl is, there should be a sweet, subduing and harmonizing influence of purity, and truth, and love, pervading and hallowing, from center to circumference, the entire circle in which she moves.  If the boys are savages, we want her to be their civilizer.  We want her to tame them, to subdue their ferocity, to soften their manners, and to teach them all needful lessons of order, sobriety, and meekness, and patience and goodness.

6.  Kindness.—­Kindness is the ornament of man—­it is the chief glory of woman—­it is, indeed, woman’s true prerogative—­her sceptre and her crown.  It is the sword with which she conquers, and the charm with which she captivates.

7.  Admired and beloved.—­Young lady, would you be admired and beloved?  Would you be an ornament to your sex, and a blessing to your race?  Cultivate this heavenly virtue.  Wealth may surround you with its blandishments, and beauty, and learning, or talents, may give you admirers, but love and kindness alone can captivate the heart.  Whether you live in a cottage or a palace, these graces can surround you with perpetual sunshine, making you, and all around you, happy.

8.  Inward grace.—­Seek ye then, fair daughters, the possession of that inward grace, whose essence shall permeate and vitalize the affections, adorn the countenance make mellifluous the voice, and impart a hallowed beauty even to your motions.  Not merely that you may be loved, would I urge this, but that you may, in truth, be lovely—­that loveliness which fades not with time, nor is marred or alienated by disease, but which neither chance nor change can in any way despoil.

9.  Silken enticements of the stranger.—­We urge you, gentle maiden, to beware of the silken enticements of the stranger, until your love is confirmed by protracted acquaintance.  Shun the idler, though his coffers overflow with pelf.  Avoid the irreverent—­the scoffer of hallowed things; and him who “looks upon the wine while it is red;” him too, “who hath a high look and a proud heart,” and who “privily slandereth his neighbor.”  Do not heed the specious prattle about “first love,” and so place, irrevocably, the seal upon your future destiny, before you have sounded, in silence and secrecy, the deep fountains of your own heart.  Wait, rather, until your own character and that of him who would woo you, is more fully developed.  Surely, if this “first love” cannot endure a short probation, fortified by “the pleasures of hope,” how can it be expected to survive years of intimacy, scenes of trial, distracting cares, wasting sickness, and all the homely routine of practical life?  Yet it is these that constitute life, and the love that cannot abide them is false and must die.