Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1853-01-26
a Word 70 Our Girls.

WE have word of advice for you this week. girls,
and we hope you will heed what we say. 1t is in
tended very kindly OF course we mean those Of you
who have not come out'-thosr of You who are
still going to school, And believe there is an even
hundred Of that class in village at this time.
You have commenced another years schooling un-
der very propous circumstances. orr facilities, to
whichever of our Seninaries you may be attached,
arr excellent. The teachers, under whose charge you
placed by your kind reativcsand friends are quite
equal 10 any that can be found in any town or even
city. You are among friends who are taking deep in
terest in your progress and whu watch your improve
ment, both mental and physical with an eager desire
TO see your talents and capabilities thoroughly devel-
oped There are eyes upon you, and more hearts
concerned about you than you imagine. Your elders
know well what you do not now fully realise tits the
truth that the best time for rapid and permanent im-
provemcnt is that very period OF gir-hood through
which YOU are now passing. The experience ni al
most every one goes establish the complete correct
ness Of the old saying, " that early impressions are
| the most lasting" What you learn now ~ you learn
II ueib will never leave you-it will become, as It
were parl of your very mind-it will be ready Tor
vour purposes at any moment you may need it, wlcth'
er in rational conversation in forming opinions
upon any point, at any time of your subsequent life
Your elders know another thing which but few, II
any of YOU, have yet found out and this lis that Old
Time flies swiftly-oh! very swiftly. Your Spring
season of life will pass away speedily Some of you are
now ripcning into womanhood. Perhaps those, who
are So already begin look back with regret upon the
niss-spent days of their earlier =" teens" lfyou are
Young ladies of any pride and reflection We know you
do Now, little dcars, this ought TO be caution to
YOU, and you ought sit down alone for short time
in some corner of your Mamas house, and just deier.
mine within your little heart OF hearts, that this shall
not be your case-that you will strive to make such
good use of the nice advantages with which you are
blessed have cause for rejoicing and not for re.
grc when you in your turns, come to look back upon
these davs-But We do not design 10 discourage you,
Young ladies'. Many Of you may have done precisely
as we have tpld tile little ones to try and do. We
hone so. If not however, here is at least this pre-.
cious year of SO left, and much can bc made up in
twevemonth by spirited application. AL OF you are
capable oflhis kind of application, if We are not very
much mistaken. Then, please exercise it forthwith
We ask this OF you in sincerity, and we are fully con-
6lcnt that every single Of your acqainlanccs, who
cares straw for you, joins US in the request Ic
urge YOU on to this industrious course, will tell you
wha, we know TO have been done by some Of you
lady predecessors in this very old village of Edgefeld
A good many years ago there was Female Schoo
Of high grade at this place, under the care of the Rev
VIM B. JOHNSON. Quite number of girls entered
this school al early age and completed their edu
cation in it. There was remarkable degree OF beau
tiful pride and praise worthy perseverance among
these girls calledorlh by the excellent discipline
the venerable Rector and by the lively interest OF pa
frents and friends. The consequence was that man.
of them have proved to be real ornaments TO the soci
ETY. in which they have since moved. Some are nov
wives and mothers thoroughly qualified for the ardu
Gus and perpexing duties Of those delicate relations il
life Others arc dead, but have left upon the hearts
of those they loved an unefIaceable remembrance o
their refinement and cultivation, intellectually ant
morally. We can, at this moment, recall many win
are exercising most wholesome influence for th
goud of society, whose minds were drilled and who's
characters were formed at this place alone. And
young ladies, You can exhibit, you WILL repetition
of these admirable results Remember, you can, !
you ,ru.' We are not lecturing You, but simply en-
dcavoring to increase that feeling Of emulation ant
industry, by which we know you to be influenced
Bear wi,h,us now while we drop few suggestion
upon some your duties, as schoolgirls in lishte
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