What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficient for anything but domestic concerns! She does not hesitate to write to an uncle, Albert Dickinson, and reprove him for drinking ale and wine at Yearly Meeting time.

It seems that then, as now, girls had a habit of writing on the first page of a sheet, next on the third, then vertically on a page, etc.

Uncle Albert retorts: Thy aunt Ann Eliza says to tell thee we are temperate drinkers and hope to remain so.

We should think from the shape of thy letter that thou thyself hadst had a good horn from the contents of the cider barrel, a part being written one side up and a part the other way, and it would need some one in nearly the same predicament to keep track of it.

We hope thy cranium will get straightened when the answer to this is penned, so that we may follow thy varied thoughts with less trouble.