If these creatures were not permitted to frisk about at pleasure, they would soon die, or become diseased.

The same inclination appears very early in the human species; but as they are not able to take exercise themselves, it is the business of their parents and nurses to give it them.

This may be done in various ways, and the methods included in the system are shewn in other parts of this work.

It is to be regretted that men should be so inattentive to this matter; their negligence is one reason why females know so little of it.

Women will always be desirous to excel in such accomplishments as recommend them to the other sex; but men generally avoid even the slightest acquaintance with the affairs of the nursery, and many would reckon it an affront were they supposed to know any thing of them.