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Benevolence.
I think it a very good method for girls to have a certain allowance for cloaths. A mother can eaſily, without ſeeming to do it, obſerve how they ſpend it, and direct them accordingly. By theſe means they would learn the value of money, and be obliged to contrive. This would be a practical leſſon of œconomy ſuperior to all the theories that could be thought of. The having a fixed ſtipend, too, would enable them to be charitable, in the true ſenſe of the word, as they would then give their own; and by denying themſelves little ornaments, and doing their own work, they might increaſe the ſum appropriated to charitable purpoſes.
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