The new female instructor; or, Young woman's guide to domestic happiness : being an epitome of all the acquirements necessary to form the female character, in every class of life: with examples of illustrious women. To which are added, advice to servants; a complete art of cookery, and plain directions for carving: also, a great variety of medicinal and other useful receipts in domestic economy; and numerous interesting articles, forming a complete storehouse of valuable knowledge.

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[1824]
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Credit: The new female instructor; or, Young woman's guide to domestic happiness : being an epitome of all the acquirements necessary to form the female character, in every class of life: with examples of illustrious women. To which are added, advice to servants; a complete art of cookery, and plain directions for carving: also, a great variety of medicinal and other useful receipts in domestic economy; and numerous interesting articles, forming a complete storehouse of valuable knowledge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I shall close my advice to my fair readers, on this important subject, with the following beautiful description of that inesti- mable jewel,—a MODEST WOMAN. “ Lo! yonder she walketh in maiden sweetness, with inno- cence in her mind, and modesty on her cheek. “ Her hand seeketh exnployraent, her foot delighteth not m gadding abroad. “ She is clothed with neatness, she is fed with temperance; humility and meekness are as a crown of glory circling her head. , . , ‘‘ On her tongue dwelleth music, the sweetness of honey floweth from her lips. ‘‘ Decency is in all her words, m her answers are mildness and truth. , , r i rr “ Submission and obedience are the lessons of her me, peace and happiness are her reward. “ Before her steps walketh Prudence, and Virtue attendeth at her right hand. „ , i r u.. “ Her breast is the mansion of goodness, and therefore sh.. suspecteth no evil in others. “ Happy were the man that should make her his w'lfe, happy the child that shall call her mother.” CHAPTER III. INTRODUCTION INTO COMPANY, Emancipated from the shackles of instruction, the young woman is now to be brought forward to act her part on the TubTic stage of life. And as though liberty were a gitt unattendea with temptotions to inexperienced youth ; as though vi%acity, rZness of heart, the consciousness of personal accomplish- es and of personal beauty, would serve rather to counteract to a-ravate these temptations ; the change of situation is not unfrequently heightened by every h /Sed Pains are taken, as it were, to contrive, that the dazzled ftranger shall step iTom the nursery at once into a flood of stranger siiaii s p „„iated with desire to outshine her Iquls in age P rank,’ she burns tiniHorTard tLks by day, and vnents and of dress, and of compliments, and of admirers.