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Maids Wives and Bachelors By: Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831-1919) |
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by
AMELIA E. BARR
Author of "Jan Vedder's Wife," "A Bow of Orange Ribbon," etc.
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1898
Copyright, 1898,
By Dodd, Mead and Company University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.
CONTENTS
PAGE
Maids and Bachelors 1
The American Girl 13
Dangerous Letter Writing 23
Flirts and Flirtation 32
On Falling in Love 38
Engaged To Be Married 47
Shall our Daughters have Dowries? 56
The Ring Upon the Finger 67
Flirting Wives 73
Mothers in Law 86
Good and Bad Mothers 97
Unequal Marriages 114
Discontented Women 125
Women on Horseback 145
A Good Word for Xanthippe 155
The Favorites of Men 160
Mothers of Great and Good Men 170
Domestic Work for Women 175
Professional Work for Women 187
Little Children 200
On Naming Children 205
The Children's Table 217
Intellectual "Cramming" of Boys 225
The Servant Girl's Point of View 231
Extravagance 240
Ought we to Wear Mourning? 248
How To Have One's Portrait Taken 254
The Crown of Beauty 272
Waste of Vitality 281
A Little Matter of Money 288
Mission of Household Furniture 293
People Who Have Good Impulses 302
Worried to Death 307
The Grapes We Can't Reach 313
Burdens 319
Maids and Bachelors
Women who have devoted themselves for religious purposes to celibacy
have in all ages and countries of the world received honor, but those
upon whom celibacy has been forced, either through the influence of
untoward circumstances, or as a consequence of some want or folly in
themselves, have been objects of most unmerited contempt and dislike.
Unmerited, because it may be broadly asserted that until the last
generation no woman in secular and social life remained unmarried from
desire or from conviction. She was the victim of some natural
disadvantage, or some unhappy circumstance beyond her control, and
therefore entitled to sympathy, but not to contempt. Of course, there are many lovely girls who appear to have every
advantage for matrimony, and who yet drift into spinsterhood. The
majority of this class have probably been imprudent and over stayed
their market. They have dallied with their chances too long. Suddenly
they are aware that their beauty is fading. They notice that the
suitable marriageable men who hung around them in their youth have
gone away, and that their places are filled with mere callow youths... Continue reading book >>
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