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To The Girls

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Day
1
Month
July
Year
1844
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Public Domain
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Habits of neatness, cleanliness and order are indispensable to a female, if she have any regard to the comfort of others, orto herown. I have before told you, that females are designed, not only to extend the comforts of domestic life, but to be its principal ornaments : an attention to dress, therefore, is very necessary. - How many females run into the error of thinking that to dress finely is to dress well- when the two things are as different as possible ; for the one excites attention, the other avoids it. A lady, who well knew this distinction, ordered a can from the milliner. "How will you have it made, madam 1" inquir ed the "Make it," replied the lady, "so that it will not excitea thought." I think this is the best definition of what dress should be, that I ever heard in my life. Be, then, neat and cleanly in your dress, and borrow a lesson of instruction from this lady. Sad it is to see a female walking out with a hole in her stocking, her stays visible behind through the opening of her frock or gown, and her under-garments seen through her pocket holes. These things are not as they should be : avoid them, my dear girls, they are bad habits: and bad habits never amwer.An orderly person shows her love of regularity in all things, and can lay her handon the article she wants; adisorderly person knows not if she possesses the thing she desires : ifshe has it, she knows not where to find it, and if she finds it, frequently it is not in a state fit for use, An orderly person has Hule do ; while a disorderly one has ten times the trouble of the other,withoutpossessingone half of her advantagès. I knew one who was the very spirit of order. She learned the habit of order in her youth, and practised it in her riper years. The house in which she presided was a pattern of propriety, and her wardrobe a picture to gaze upon. But, oh, it is terrible to peep into a drawer that is crammed, withont order, with clean frocks and dirty handkerchiefs, new gloves and old silk stockings, ribands and curl papers, bodices, and boot-lacers, scissors .& scent-boxes, patchwork and pin-cushions ! What a shocking exhibition of disorder and bad habits is here ! One glance at a room is enough to convince us whether it be under the care of an orderly person. I have frequently known the kitchen of a servant more orderly than the drawingjoom of her mistress; and the dormitory of an old woman in an alms-house kept far more cleanly and methodical than the bed-chamber of a young lady. Be orderly, my dear jirls ! do be orderly f

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