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"ruin. Remember your mother, who was so ex"quisitely versed in this art, that her dress, her "table, and every other particular, appeared "rather splendid than otherwise. Good housewifery was the foundation of all."

To conclude. Domestic management being the basis of female education, the superstructure consisting of music, dancing, drawing, historical reading, and polite behaviour, must be considered as secondary objects, and made conformable to the station of life in which Providence has placed the fair one. If in an exalted station, and consequently under an obligation to appear much in public, let her be a complete mistress of the amusements that she will there find; for be assured, that to play well, is, like a good countenance, a letter of recommendation; while, on the contrary, to display a want of judgment, will generally be considered, by a stranger, as a surrender of understanding..

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