TO YOUNG WOMEN.

Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 34, 18 July 1872, Page 3

TO YOUNG WOMEN.

Trust not to uncertain riches, but prepare yourselves for every emergency in life. Learn to work, and bo not dependent on servants to make your bread; sweep your floors and darn your own stockings. Above all, do not esteem too lightly those honourable youug men who sustain themselves and their aged parents by the work of their own hands, while you caress and receive into your company those lazy, idle popinjays, who never lift a ringer to help themselves as long as they can keep body and soul together, and get funds sufficient to live in fashion. If you are wise you willlook at this subject in the way we do, and when you are old enough to become wives, you will prefer the honest mechanic, with not a cent, to commence life, to the fashionable loafer, with a capital often thousand pounds. Whenever we hear remarked, " Such a young lady married a fortune," we always tiemble for her future prosperity. Riches left to children by wealthy parents often turn out to be a curse instead of a blessing. Young women, remember this, and instead of sounding the purse of your lovers, and examining the cat of their coats, look into their habits and their hearts. Mark if they have a business or profession and depend upon themselves —see that they have minds which will lead them to look above a butterfly existence. Talk not of a beautiful white skin, and soft, delicate hands, the form and fine appearance of the young gentlemen. Let not these foolish considerations engrois your thoughts.