How to be a Lady Author:Harvey Newcomb What you are while a girl, you will be when you become a woman. Your character is constantly forming. It is your business to keep out of the way of bad influences, and submit yourself to the moulding of the good. Keep in mind the great truth that you are forming a charter for eternity. Some years ago, there were found on the banks of the Mi... more »ssissippi River the tracks of a human being, deeply imprinted in the solid rock. These tracks were made in the soft clay, which in time hardened , and formed into stone. Now the impression is immovable. You now resemble this soft clay. Every thing with which you come in contact makes an impression. But. as you grow older, your character acquires solidity, and is less and less affected by these influences, till at length it will be like the hard stone, and the impressions made upon you at this season will become confirmed habits.« less