A Treatise on Domestic Economy: For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School (Classic Reprint)

PREFACE THE THIRD EDITION
Tlr8 author of this work was led to attempt It, by dis ..
covering, in her extensive travels, the deplorable suffering.
of multitudes of young wives and mothers, from the combined
influence of poor health, poor domestics, and a defecttve
domestic education. The number of young women
whose health is crushed, ere the first few years" of married
life are past, would seem incredible to one who has- not investigated
this subject, and it ,vould be vain to attempt to
depict the sorrow, discouragement, and distress experien ..
ced in most families where the wife and mother is a perpetual
invalid.
The writer became early convinced that this evIl results
mainly from the fact, that young girls, especially in the
more wealthy classes, are not trained for their prcifessim.
[n early life, they go through a course of" school training
which results in great debility of constitution, while, at the
same time, their p

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; • • flo • • • •; CHAPTER 1; PECULUB RESPONSIBILITIES OF 4lIElUCAN wOllas; ~merican Women should feel a peculiar Interest in Democratic; lnstitutioDs The M:uim of our Civil Institutions Its Identity; with the main Principle of Christianity Relations involv; ing Subordination; why they are needful Examples How; these Relations are decided in Ii Democracy What decides; the Equity of Ilny Law or Institution The Principle of Ariatocro; cy The Tendency of Democracy in Respect to the Interests; of Women Illustrated in the United States Testimony; of Ue TocqueviUe Miss Martineau's Misrepresentations In; what Respects are Women subordinate? and why? Wherein; are Lbey equal or superior in Infl