The Young Housekeeper's Friend

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE YOUNG HOUSEKEEPER'S FRIEND. COUNSELS AND SUGGESTIONS. Good housekeeping compatible with intellectual culture.?Persevering attention rewarded.?Effects of unhealthy diet.?Responsibleness oj women.?Application of the principles of religion to the duties of domestic life. A Symmetrical education is...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE YOUNG HOUSEKEEPER'S FRIEND. COUNSELS AND SUGGESTIONS. Good housekeeping compatible with intellectual culture.?Persevering attention rewarded.?Effects of unhealthy diet.?Responsibleness oj women.?Application of the principles of religion to the duties of domestic life. A Symmetrical education is extremely rare in this country. Nothing is more common than to see young ladies, whose intellectual attainments are of a high order, profoundly ignorant of the duties which all acknowledge to belong peculiarly to women. Consequently, many have to learn, after marriage, how to take care of a family; and thus their housekeeping is, frequently, little else than a series of experiments; often unsuccessful, resulting in mortification and discomfort in the parlor, and waste and ill temper in the kitchen. So numerous are these instances, that excellence in housekeeping has come to be considered as incompatible with superior intellectual culture. But it is not so. The most elevated minds fulfil best the every-day duties of life. If young women would resolve, let the effort cost what it will, to perfect themselves in their appropriate duties, a defective domestic education would soon be remedied. Observation and persevering attention would give the requisite knowledge, and their efforts would bring a speedy and ample reward. It were far better, when they enter upon the station of a mistress of a family, to be already possessed of such experience as would enable them easily to regulate the expenditures, and so to systematize the work of every day, as to secure economy, comfort, neatness, and order. But if this knowledge has not been previously acquired, let not the learner be discouraged, or for a moment yield to the idea of letting things take their course. No woman can innocent...