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Bath should be taken. Advantages of General Ablutions to Children.
Care of the Teeth, 118
CHAPTER X.
ON EARLY RISING.
Universal Impression in Respect to this Practice. Why it should be
regarded as American and Democratic. Practice in Aristocratic Circles
in England. Appeal to American Women. First Consideration in Favor
of Early Rising. Another Physiological Reason in its Favor. Another
Reason. Time necessary for Sleep. Proper Hours for Rising and
Retiring. Evils of protracted Sleep. Testimony of Sir John Sinclair.
Another Reason for Early Rising. Responsibility of Parents for the
Health and Industry of a Family. Effects of Early Rising on General
Society, 122
CHAPTER XI.
ON DOMESTIC EXERCISE.
Causes which produce Delicacy and Decay of the Female Constitution.
Want of Exercise. Neglect of the Laws of Health. Want of Pure Air.
Objectionable Amusements. Sleeping by Day. Want of Exercise a
greater Cause of these Evils, than all the Others combined. Importance
of understanding the Influence of the Neglect or Abuse of the Muscular
System. Nerves of Sensation and of Motion. Both need Exercise. Rules
for Exercise. Importance of a Feeling of Interest in taking Exercise.
Walks merely for Exercise. Exercise most proper for Young Girls.
Exercise, more than any Thing else, imparts fresh Strength and Vitality
to all Parts of the Body. Mistakes of Mothers and Teachers on this
Subject. Effects of neglecting to use the Muscles; Effects of excessive
Use of them. Effect of School Confinement and Seats. Extract from the
Young Lady's Friend. Lady Montagu. Daughter of a French Nobleman,

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CHAPTER XII.
ON DOMESTIC MANNERS.
What are Good-manners. Defect in American Manners. Coldness and
Reserve of the Descendants of the Puritans accounted for. Cause of the
Want of Courtesy in American Manners. Want of Discrimination.
Difference of Principles regulating Aristocratic and Democratic
Manners. Rules for regulating the Courtesies founded on Precedence of
Age, Office, and Station, in a Democracy. Manners appropriate to
Superiors and Subordinates. Miss Martineau's Remarks on the
Universal Practice of Americans to give Precedence to Woman.
Peculiar Defect of Americans in this Respect. This to be remedied in
the Domestic Circle, alone. Rules of Precedence to be enforced in the
Family. Manners and Tones towards Superiors to be regulated in the
Family. Treatment of grown Brothers and Sisters by Young Children.
Acknowledgement of Favors by Children to be required. Children to
ask leave or apologize in certain Cases. Rules for avoiding Remarks
that wound the Feelings of Others. Rules of Hospitality. Conventional
Rules. Rules for Table Manners. Caution as to teaching these Rules to
Children. Caution as to Allowances to be made for those deficient in
Good-manners. Comparison of English and American Manners, by De
Tocqueville. America may hope to excel all Nations in Refinement,
Taste, and Good-breeding; and why. Effects of Wealth and
Equalisation of Labor. Allusion to the Manners of Courts in the past
Century, 136
CHAPTER XIII.
ON THE PRESERVATION OF A GOOD TEMPER IN A
HOUSEKEEPER.
Influence of a Housekeeper on Domestic Happiness. Contrasts to
illustrate. Sympathy. Influence of Tones. Allowances to be made for
Housekeepers. Considerations to aid in regulating Temper and Tones.

First; Her Duties to be regarded as Dignified, Important, and Difficult.
Second; She should feel that she really has Great Difficulties to meet
and overcome. Third; She should deliberately calculate upon having
her Plans interfered with, and be prepared for the Emergency. Fourth;
All her Plans should be formed consistently with the Means at
Command. Fifth; System, Economy, and Neatness, only valuable when
they tend to promote the Comfort and Well-being of the Family. Sixth;
Government of Tones of Voice. Some Persons think Angry Tones
needful. They mistake. Illustration. Scolding, Unlady-like, and in Bad
Taste. A Forgiving Spirit necessary. Seventh and Last Consideration
offered; Right View of a Superintending Providence. Fretfulness and
Complaining sinful, 148
CHAPTER XIV.
ON HABITS OF SYSTEM AND ORDER.
Question of the Equality of the Sexes, frivolous and useless. Relative
Importance and Difficulty of the Duties a Woman is called to perform.
Her Duties not trivial. More difficult than those of the Queen of a great
Nation. A Habit of System and Order necessary. Right Apportionment
of Time, General Principles. Christianity to be the Foundation.
Intellectual and Social Interests to be preferred to Gratification of Taste
or Appetite. The Latter to be last in our Estimation. No Sacrifice of
Health allowable. Neglect of Health a Sin in the Sight of God. Regular
Season of Rest appointed by the Creator. Divisions of Time. Systematic
Arrangement of House Articles and other Conveniences. Regular
Employment for each Member of a Family. Children can be of great
Service. Boys should be taught Family Work. Advantage to them in
Afterlife. Older Children to take Care of Infants of a Family, 155
CHAPTER XV.
ON GIVING IN CHARITY.
No Point of Duty more difficult to fix by Rule, than