Besides, what can be more indelicate than a girl's coming
out in the fashionable world? Which, in other words, is to
bring to market a marriageable miss, whose person is taken from
one public place to another, richly caparisoned. Yet, mixing in the giddy.
circle under restraint, these butterflies long to flutter at
large, for the first affection of their souls is their own
persons, to which their attention has been called with the most
sedulous care whilst they were preparing for the period that
decides their fate for life. Instead of pursuing this idle
routine, sighing for tasteless shew, and heartless state, with
what dignity would the youths of both sexes form attachments in
the schools that I have cursorily pointed out; in which, as life
advanced, dancing, music, and drawing, might be admitted as
relaxations, for at these schools young people of fortune ought
to remain, more or less, till they were of age. Those, who were
designed for particular professions, might attend, three or four
mornings in the week, the schools appropriated for their
immediate instruction.
