There are certain properties of the female mind upon which doubt has
existed, and may, possibly, long exist.
1. Women are said to be fond of ornament--an evil against which they
were thus warned by St. Paul--“I will that women adorn themselves in
modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with embroidered
hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array, but which becometh women
professing godliness, with good works.”