Woman in Her Various Relations: Containing Practical Rules for American Females, the Best Methods for Dinners and Social Parties, a Chapter for Young Ladies, Mothers, and Invalids, Hints on the Body, Mind, and CharacterWilliam Holdredge, 1851 - 319 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 118 - ... clearness and force; thus saving much precious time, and avoiding those tedious narrations, which interest no one but the speaker. It enforces the necessity of observing the effect of what is said, and leads a talker to stop, when she finds that she has ceased to fix the attention of her audience. The art of conversing would enable a company, when a good topic was once started, to keep it up, till it had elicited the powers of the best speakers, and it would prevent its being cut short in the...
الصفحة 111 - The time between leaving the dinner-table and being joined by the gentlemen, is generally a very easy and social one with the ladies ; the young ones walk about, or run up stairs, or...
الصفحة 132 - The charm, which true Christian politeness sheds over a person, though not easily described, is felt by all hearts, and responded to by the best feelings of our nature. It is a talisman of great power, to smooth your way along the rugged paths of life, and to turn towards you the best side of all you meet.
الصفحة 121 - ... you beyond all you have said. And remember, the more you are praised, the more you will be envied. If you would add a lustre to all your accomplishments, study a modest behaviour. To excel in any thing valuable is great ; but to be above conceit, on account of one's accomplishments, is greater, Consider, if you have rich natural gifts, you owe them to the Divine bounty. If you have improved your understanding, and studied virtue, you have only done your duty. And thus there seems little ground...
الصفحة 77 - THE CARE OF PARLORS. IN selecting the furniture of parlors, some reference should be had to correspondence of shades and colors. Curtains should be darker than the walls ; and, if the walls and carpets be light, the chairs should be dark, and vice versa. Pictures always look best on light walls. In selecting carpets, for rooms much used, it is poor economy to buy cheap ones. Ingrain carpets, of close texture, and the three-ply carpets, are best for common use.
الصفحة 73 - ... of calculation and economy, in this matter. The arrangement of rooms, and the proper supply of conveniences, are other points, in which, economy of labor and comfort is often disregarded. For example, a kitchen will be in one story, a sitting-room in another, and the nursery in a third. Nothing is more injurious, to a feeble woman, than going up and down stairs ; and yet, in order to gain two large parlors, to show to a few friends, or to strangers, immense sacrifices of health, comfort, and...
الصفحة 250 - Drinks are immediately absorbed into the blood and carried to all parts of the body.
الصفحة 103 - Always begin at the bottom dish at the left side, and remove all before you as you go around. When all is cleared, take a fork and plate, and take up all the pieces of bread from the cloth. Then take the table-brush, or a napkin rolled up, and plate, and commence at the bottom as before, and go around, brushing the cloth clean from all crumbs. If there are finger-glasses to be used, place them half filled with water, at the right side of each person. Then place the plates and dessert as before directed.
الصفحة 196 - If you wish to be kind to a gentleman acquaintance, encourage him to speak to you of his own concerns, and show a friendly interest in them, and encourage him to noble deeds and high attainments.
الصفحة viii - Montague, who figured in the fashionable as well as in the literary circles of her time, has said that " the most minute details of household economy become elegant and refined, when they are ennobled by sentiment;" and they are truly ennobled when we do them either from a sense of duty, or consideration for a parent, or love to a husband.