ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses a girl possessed of virtue, when no jealous thoughts can come to her well-developed nature, is the jewel of the home. Anciently a girl was guarded, from her virtue would not part, pure as diamonds was her body, firm as iron was her heart. A woman's virtues are a chaste and honest heart of which modesty and goodness and decorum form a part. The chapter reviews that drawing and embroidering is not all of woman's work, and flavourings for cooking should constantly prepared. As a wife to husband, women should filial be and good, should not suffer imperfection in their clothing or their food. Women should take care of their children whether it is boy or girl. When their children are indifferent to themselves and to their home, then a teacher call at once, who will books and manners teach them that they may not be a dunce.