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look out every nite and say oh ant the moon lovely. Thir is one thing
I have not told and that is they always now their lessons bettern boys.

On Timidity of Women.
Timidity is a disease very prevelent among our American women. It
is thought by them to be an ornament to their charms. How many
young women faint by the sudden appearance of a rat from its
hideing place. Oh! they do declare it’s impossible to live where these
dreadful creatures make their homes they ask Ma cant she and wont
she please to try to secure some remedy so they can be destroyed.
You will see the young ladies leap up over stones and steps of great
height so as to escape the barks of the dog, if they are walking with a
friend of the male kind they will cling to the masculine arm and
beseach him to walk so that she might loose sight of that horrible
creature known as a dog.
I do think their cases of timidity that cannot be governed such as
cases of intemperance fighting and death. We dont want to see any
man come along the street destitute of reasoning and come reeling
suddenly by you. Also the expectation of death when we see a loved
sister going away from a cherished circle.
It cannot be endured, but I have no objections for these cases but
the preceding ones are ridiculous and I beseach you to reject it
remembering you shall have to undergo greater trials than those
related.

On Poverty.

How many persons possess it! They are persons whose poverty
cannot be endured they had enjoyed preceding years in wealth and
by some mishap in the family they became poor and how can they
endeavor to forget that time when their happiness could not be
expressed but now their troubles shall be discovered.
Poverty is a case that cannot be hidden it must be let known so
that the possessors may obtain condolence in some way. Places for
poor persons are not of much importance for the care of them is not
worth mentioning. Some poor persons with a great deal of poverty
would rather walk from house to house in search of some

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