Litchfield enquirer., 1830-04-29
BROUGHT UPsA LADY.

One of the severestsMisfortunes, which happens to many female in moderate cir- cumstances, is, the being 1" brought up a lady," to use the fond but mistaken ex- pression ofinjudicious parents.
 2 Madalcna Muddleford as brought up a lady, her parents belonged to the class of middling farmers. who think themselves fortunate, if they are as rich this year as they were the last--or, to use their own langnags, fthey can make both ends of the year meet. She was the youngest ofthree daughters, all of whom were brought mp ladies. But Madalena being emphntically the lady of the family, weshall takc her for a specimen of that mistaken education, which too many parents are fond of be- slowing on their daughters.
 To be brought up lady, they suppose. means neither more nor less than to grow up untaught in the useful branches oflear- ming; to be half taught in those which are merely ornamental ;, and not instructed, nor allowed, to do any kind of work. Such was the case with Madalena Muddle- ford. Instead of being taught to knit, to sew, to wash, to cook, and do the ordinary kinds of house-work, she was, bred up sin total idleness, except when attending tue neighboring school. which was not more than one third of the year. Her mother was all the while toiling like a slave, to purchase this indulgence for her daughter, in hopes of one day seeing her u lady.
 With this end in view, and to give the finishing stroke to her design, Madalena was sept at the age sixteen, to one of those seminaries called boarding school ; where, in the short period of one year, she wentthrough more branches of science aud learning, than the most studious geutle- man could compass in a whole life of close application. Atleast she thought she had gone tirOsgA; and her parents boasted of the many Extraordinary things their daugh- ter had learned in < finishing her educa- tion." But their ignorance and parental fondness deceived them, and the daughters ignorance and childish vanity deceived her. She had in fact learned nothing, or but lit- tie more than the names of those branches which make so great a show on the long list of studies at "a boarding school. She did not understand a single thing which she had professed to learn. .8s'sss 4..ts.s ss.
 And, fair reader,3 do not imagine hers a SiuSutaI CdS0sasts OuFSs pernapSs anu tnat Of 2 thousand ethers, is fac simile. The faUk is not in you, butt in the system, and those who encourage it. It is impossible to learn twenty or thirty different branches in the short space of one year. On the contrary. with ordinary talents and indus I try. one or two ofthose branches is quite enough to employ the whole of that period. And tho time difflsed among so many. is utterly thrown away,f and worss than thrown away, because. the girl is deceived into the belief that she knows a variety of things, when in fact she knows nothing at all, asshe ought. ~ M ..@'.. \
 So lis with Madalena. She went from home ! spoiled child, and returned more wrong headed than she went. She now fancied herself superior to the young miss sss0f fths neighbDfhOOd, and took upon Eisr- sslrairs accordingly. They had been lear ming of their judicious mothers tlie useful aFts Of d5Akesfic life while she had been acquiring set of hard words, without