1800s Advice and Etiquette for Ladies
NEATNESS AND ORDER Wealth and abundant service does not always bring this. A neat, orderly house throughout is rarer than we suppose. Had we liberty to investigate many a home, we should find a surprising lack of knowledge of many simple sanitary laws. This question touches the health of a family. It is of more importance than the retention of the family physician. By its neglect, children die or go to the bad, husbands become dissipated, fortunes are wrecked. The woman who can bring neatness and order to her home, be it cabin or palace, has a magician's wand of enchantment. Without it grace, beauty, accomplishment will fail in large degree. It not merely touches the parlor, but the cellar; not alone the bay window, but the sink. It is heaven's first law, and every happy home's. You see it exemplified in the meanest abodes, you see it violated in stately homes. It is more necessary to know how to clean a spider than to translate a German sentence, to get up a dinner out of fragments than to interpret the last opera. - "A Country Parson," in Good Housekeeping.
Advice for Ladies - The Southbridge Journal, Southbridge, Massachusetts, December 25, 1885
NEATNESS AND ORDER Wealth and abundant service does not always bring this. A neat, orderly house throughout is rarer than we suppose. Had we liberty to investigate many a home, we should find a surprising lack of knowledge of many simple sanitary laws. This question touches the health of a family. It is of more importance than the retention of the family physician. By its neglect, children die or go to the bad, husbands become dissipated, fortunes are wrecked. The woman who can bring neatness and order to her home, be it cabin or palace, has a magician's wand of enchantment. Without it grace, beauty, accomplishment will fail in large degree. It not merely touches the parlor, but the cellar; not alone the bay window, but the sink. It is heaven's first law, and every happy home's. You see it exemplified in the meanest abodes, you see it violated in stately homes. It is more necessary to know how to clean a spider than to translate a German sentence, to get up a dinner out of fragments than to interpret the last opera. - "A Country Parson," in Good Housekeeping.
Advice for Ladies - The Southbridge Journal, Southbridge, Massachusetts, December 25, 1885
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