NINETEENTH-CENTURY THOUGHTS ON HOUSEWORK
As society gradually shakes off the remnants of barbarism,…a truer estimate is formed of woman’s duties, and of the measure of intellect requisite for the proper discharge of them. Let any man of sense and discernment become the member of a large household, in which a well-educated and pious woman is endeavoring systematically to discharge her multiform duties; let him fully comprehend all her cares, difficulties, and complexities; and it is probable he would coincide in the opinion that not statesman, at the head of a nation’s affairs had more frequent calls for wisdom, firmness, tact, discrimination, prudence, and versatility of talent, than such a woman.
This is an excerpt from the American Woman’s Home, by Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1869.
One of my favorites hope you like it.
As society gradually shakes off the remnants of barbarism,…a truer estimate is formed of woman’s duties, and of the measure of intellect requisite for the proper discharge of them. Let any man of sense and discernment become the member of a large household, in which a well-educated and pious woman is endeavoring systematically to discharge her multiform duties; let him fully comprehend all her cares, difficulties, and complexities; and it is probable he would coincide in the opinion that not statesman, at the head of a nation’s affairs had more frequent calls for wisdom, firmness, tact, discrimination, prudence, and versatility of talent, than such a woman.
This is an excerpt from the American Woman’s Home, by Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1869.
One of my favorites hope you like it.
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