Household hints to young housewives : with the arrangements and recipts for forty dinners &c. / by Martha Careful.

  • Careful, Martha.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Household hints to young housewives : with the arrangements and recipts for forty dinners &c. / by Martha Careful. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    the allotted sphere ; it only creates contentment with a station you may adorn ; and I would in no case diminish that best fortune Because imperishable, a good education, for the more a mind is expanded and enlightened the more humble and gentle does it become ; the more thoroughly the rust is removed from the mirror the purer and brighter is its reflec- tive power. Tour mind is not your own—it belongs to ages yet unborn—it is lent to you not to lay by and tarnish, but that its lustre may shine on in the hearts of generations “ who will rise and call you blessed^2’ Tour training creates the discipline and good government of your children, and, as each one enters into a home of its own, irradiates the widen- ing circles of untold numbers. By way of example, I surmise that at eighteen a young lady is • considered finished, and thus far all the parent has done is amply repaid by the bright blossom which now smiles and adorns a home. Julia is all that my artistic eye could desire in person and character, formed to love and to be beloved. She is, at home, a companion to her mother; her education is com- plete ; she is good, amiable, and happy ; her father is a lawyer, and has a handsome property. Servants in plenty attend to all the household matters, and Julia has also much to do. We will now enquire how she fills up her time. Breakfast at eight—Julia presides ; after breakfast practises a polka—then saunters about the house or round the garden— plucks a flower here and there—comes in weary, and drops into a chair—takes up a book, reads a