The Middlebury Galaxy

Young Ladies.—The habits of "loafing" destroys more young men in cities than all other causes put together. But there is a lackadaisical class of girls called "young ladies," who are in a worse way than these same young fellows. While their fathers, honest, laboring men, work early and late to make a living, and their mothers enslave themselves to keep them tidy, and cook their meals, these interesting creatures are lolling about, terrified at nothing so much as the idea of earning the salt that seasons their food. You cannot induce them to do a little sewing by offering them double pay, lest they should be known to be "working girls," and lose all chances for the fashionable world. Interesting creatures! doomed to helpless dependence through life, or to be dead weight to duped husbands.