Boarding schools are, beyond doubt, seminaries, where the minds of girls are early polluted. Let the mistress of the school be ever so virtuous, prudent, and attentive, the vicious girls (and some such there always must be among a number) will find sufficient opportunities to taint the tender minds of unsuspecting innocence. Nothing can be more destructive than bad example; and, unfortunately, the human mind is too ready to copy those which are vicious—and _the vicious_ are more importunate and solicitous _to corrupt_, than _the virtuous_ are to gain proselytes to goodness. Though I believe _the first seeds of vice_ are imbibed at a boarding school, yet I _by no means_ look on that education as the great cause of these frequent adulteries. If principles of virtue have been inculcated in infancy, they may yet, with proper care, bud out afresh under good culture—and flourish under the influence of good advice, when those noxious weeds are choaked up, which were planted by bad examples, but which may wither on the cause being removed. _It is to the almost universal custom of EMPLOYING MEN-MIDWIVES, that I attribute the frequent ADULTERIES which disgrace our country._ _Ignorance_ has spread this _shameless_ custom. Ignorance leads people to suppose men _safer_ than women—Ignorance of _what_ the _Men_-midwives _do_, leads modest women _at first_ to submit to employ men; and _it is ignorance_ which leads husbands [who love their wives] to recommend, nay even sometimes force them on their wives. They know not what stripes they are preparing for themselves—they know not that they are removing the corner stone on which the virtue of their wives is founded—and all this on _a mistaken_ principle—_the idea that men are safest_.