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Chapter Xvi. Love of Domestic Concerns.

The Young Woman's Guide · William A. Alcott — chapter 15 of 63 · ~68 words · public domain

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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.

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