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daughter. Necessity of self-education. The work of
self-education the work of life-a never-ending progress
upward to the throne of God.
43-51
CHAPTER IV. LOVE OF IMPROVEMENT.
Female capabilities. Doing every thing in the best possible
manner. Unending progress. Every person and every
occupation susceptible of improvement, indefinitely.
Doing well what is before us. Anecdote illustrative of
this principle. Personal duties. Two great classes of
persons described. Hopes of reaching the ears of the
selfish.
52-60
CHAPTER V. SELF-KNOWLEDGE.
Vast extent of the science of self-knowledge. Spurious
self-knowledge. Knowledge of our physical frame—
its laws and relations. Examples of the need of this
knowledge. Instruments of obtaining it. The use of
lectures. Study of our peculiarities. Study of mental
philosophy. The Bible. How the Bible should be
studied.
61-74
CHAPTER VI. CONSCIENTIOUSNESS.
Is there any conscientiousness in the world? How far
conscientiousness should extend. Tendency and power
of habit. Evils of doing incessantly what we know to
be wrong. Why we do this. Errors of early education.
False standard of right and wrong. Bad method of
family discipline. Palsy of the moral sensibilities.
Particular direction in regard to the education of con-
science. Results which may be expected.
75-92
CHAPTER VII.
SELF-GOVERNMENT.
What self-government includes. Cheerfulness a duty.
Discretion. Modesty. Diffidence. Courage. Vigi-
lance. Thoughts and feelings. The affections. The
temper. The appetites and passions.
93-112
CHAPTER VIII.
SELF-COMMAND.
Presence of mind. Examples. Napoleon. Female ex-
ample. Mrs. Merrill. Use of the anecdote. Self-
command to be cultivated. In what manner. Consult
the experience of others. Consult your own reason
and good sense. Daily practice in the art of self-
command.
113-122
Fashionable education. Why there is so little self-depen-
dence in the world.
well in the world.
men once were.
Why orphans sometimes make out
Error corrected. What young wo-
What they are now. The best char-
acter formed under difficulties. Cause of the present
helpless condition of females. Three or four to get
breakfast. Modes of breaking up these habits. Anec-
dote of an independent young woman. Appeal to the
reader. 130-143
CHAPTER XI.
REASONING AND ORIGINALITY.
Females not expected to be reasoners. Effects of modern
education on the reasoning powers. Education of former
days, illustrated by an anecdote of an octogenarian.
Extracts from her correspondence. Difficulty in getting
the ears of mankind. The reasoning powers in man
susceptible of cultivation indefinitely. Reflections on
the importance of maternal effort and female edu-
cation. 144-152
CHAPTER XII. INVENTION.
Why woman has invented so few things. Abundant room
for the exercise of her inventive powers. Hints. Par-
ticular need of a reform in cookery. Appeal to young
women on this subject.
153-155
CHAPTER XIII.
OBSERVATION AND REFLEC
TION.
Advice of Dr. Dwight. Other counsels to the young.
Some persons of both sexes are always seeing, but
never reflecting. An object deserving of pity. Zim-
merman's views. Reading to get rid of reflection.
Worse things still.
156-159
CHAPTER XIV. DETRACTION AND SCANDAL.
Universal prevalence of detraction and slander. Proofs.
Shakspeare. Burns the poet. Self-knowledge, how
much to be desired. Reference to the work of Mrs.
Opie-to our own hearts-to the Bible.
160-164
CHAPTER XV. THE RIGHT USE OF TIME.
Great value of moments. An old maxim. Wasting shreds
of time. Time more valuable than money. What are
the most useful charities. Doing good by proxy. Value
of time for reflection. Doing nothing. Rendering an
account of our time at the last tribunal.
165-170
CHAPTER XVI. LOVE OF DOMESTIC CONCERNS.
Reasons for loving domestic life. 1. Young women should
have some avocation. Labor regarded as drudgery.
2. Domestic employment healthy. 3. It is pleasant.
4. It affords leisure for intellectual improvement. 5.
It is favorable to social improvement. 6. It is the
employment assigned them by Divine Providence, and
is eminently conducive to moral improvement.-The
moral lessons of domestic life. A well ordered home a
miniature of heaven.
CHAPTER XVII.
171-180
FRUGALITY AND ECONOMY.
Economy becoming old fashioned. The Creator's ex-
ample. Frugality and economy should be early incul-
cated. Spending two pence to save one, not always
wrong. Examples of disregarding economy. Wasting
small things. Good habits as well as bad ones, go by
companies. This chapter particularly necessary to
the young. Frugality and economy of our grand-
181-186
mothers.
CHAPTER XVIII. SYSTEM.
General neglect of system in families. Successful efforts
of a few schools. Why the effects they produce are
not permanent. Importance of right education. Here
and there system may be found. Blessedness of having
a mother who is systematic. Let no person ever de-
spair of reformation. How to begin the work.
CHAPTER XIX. PUNCTUALITY
Evil of being one minute too late.
187-191
Examples to illustrate
the importance of punctuality. Case of a mother at
Lowell. Her adventure. General habits which led
to such a disaster. Condition of a family trained to
despise punctuality.
192-205
The muscles, or moving power of the body. Their
number and character. Philosophy and necessity of
exercise. Why young women should study these.
Various kinds of exercise. I. Walking. 2. Gardening
and agriculture. 3. House-keeping. 4. Riding. 5.
Local exercises.-Difficulty of drawing the public at-
tention to this subject. The slavery of fashion. Con-
sequences of the fashionable neglect of exercise. A
common but shocking sight. 206-222
CHAPTER XXI.
REST AND SLEEP.
Why rest and sleep are needed. Sleep a condition.
We should sleep in the night. Moral tendency of not
doing so. Is there any moral character in such things?
Of rest without sleep. Good habits in regard to sleep.
Apartments for sleep. Air. Bed. Covering. Tem-
perature. Night clothing. Advice of Macnish on the
number of persons to a bed. Preparation for sleep.
Suppers. The more we indulge in sleep, the more
sleep we seem to require. The reader urged to study
the laws of rest and sleep. An appeal.
223-240