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Never buy any thing because it is recommended as being cheap; many cheap things
amount in time to a large sum. In selecting furniture, let utility, not fashion,
govern your choice; some young persons furnish their parlors so extravagantly,
that necessary and useful articles are neglected, for want of means to purchase
them. Be persuaded that happiness does not consist so much in having splendid
furniture, as in attending to the every day comforts of those around you. If you
marry without the useful knowledge necessary for governing your family, lose no
time in acquiring it.
There is a time when most young girls show a fondness for domestic affairs
before they are old enough to go into company, when it would be an agreeable
change to be absent from school and assisting their mothers; the knowledge thus
acquired would never be lost.
Many a young man who commenced with fair prospects, has been ruined through his
wife's ignorance of domestic duties, and she has suffered from the consequent
diminution of his esteem and love.
I once knew a lovely and accomplished young lady, accustomed to every
indulgence, who, on her marriage, removed several hundred miles from her
parents, to reside in the country, where servants were difficult to procure.
This delicate and sensitive young creature was much distressed by her ignorance
of almost every thing connected with housekeeping; and after suffering repeated
mortifications, concluded to learn to do the work herself; and when this dearly
bought knowledge was acquired, she was able to teach her ignorant servants; and
resolved, if ever she had daughters, to use every means in her power to teach
them.
When a prudent wife is made acquainted with the
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