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furnished another text for the often-repeated sermon on the delicacy of American girls.
It may not be unprofitable to give the history of one more case of this sort. Miss
E-had an hereditary right to a good
brain and to the best cultivation of it. Her father was one of our ripest and broadest American scholars, and her mother one of our most accomplished American women. They both enjoyed excellent health. Their daughter had a literary training, — an intellectual, moral, and aesthetic half of education, such as their supervision would be likely to give, and one that few young mer. of her age receive. Her health did not seem to suffer at first. She studied, recited, walked, worked, stood, and the like, in the steady and sustained way that is normal to the male organization. She seemed to evolve force enough to acquire a number of languages, to become familiar with the natural sciences, to take hold of philosophy and mathematics, and to keep in good physical case while doing all this. At the age of