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Exterior Accompliſhments.
for the time; but when thoſe years are flown, and ſenſe is not ſubſtituted in the ſtead of vivacity, the follies of youth are acted over, and they never conſider, that the things which pleaſe in their proper ſeaſon, diſguſt out of it. It is very abſurd to ſee a woman, whoſe brow time has marked with wrinkles, aping the manners of a girl in her teens.
I do not think it foreign to the preſent ſubject to mention the trifling converſations women are moſtly fond of. In general, they are prone to ridicule. As they lay the greateſt ſtreſs on manners, the moſt reſpectable characterswill
