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cold. If a lady keeps her carriage horses waiting 

 about for her shopping, or at parties, it is cruel to 

 deprive them of defence against such unfair usage. 

 Her coachman may wish it done, but it would be 

 laying the foundation for all sorts of ailments to 

 permit it, unless the owner makes up her mind to 

 alter her usual practice, one certainly not to be com- 

 mended under any circumstances. Ladies must ex- 

 cuse me if I remark that a predilection for constant 

 and daily shopping lays them open to the suspicion 

 of not possessing minds of a very high order. It 

 may further be supposed that their taste and judg- 

 ment soars no higher than bijouterie or dress ; it 

 may still further be supposed to be a mere mode of 

 killing time, for those whose attainments are not of 

 a character to enable them to pass that time in higher, 

 more praiseworthy, more to be admired, or more 

 elegant pursuits. 



The lady who orders her carriage at two, to take 

 her from a ball, and then keeps it waiting till four 

 o'clock, shews that the fascination of a scene that 

 pleases the eye only, has so firm a hold of a weak 



