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Title: The guide-board to health, peace, and competence ; or, the road to happy old age
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Hall, William Whitty, 1810-1876
Subjects: Medicine, Popular
Publisher: Springfield, Mass., D.E. Fisk and company Philadelphia, H. N. McKinney & Co
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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either inapplicable, hurtful,or utterly useless, and, in this latter case, are indirectly themeans of death, by the loss of time in obtaining the servicesof a competent physician to apply the proper means with awise discrimination. MAKE YOURSELF USEFUL. This is the standing injunction to a large family of steadyand affectionate children, of a Friend mother, whom weknow, and we regard it as one of the most important les-sons which childhood can learn. Many a young man wouldhave been saved from the halter, had he learned in his fathershouse how to make himself useful under all the circum-stances of life. And well do we know, that many a girl witha good heart has gone down to an early grave of infamy,from being brought up, by a false kindness, without theknowledge of how she was to make herself useful in thevarious changes and adversities of life. Very many girls, inthis drear winter weather, go to bed hungry, and rise tohover around stinted fires, and shiver all day in scanty cloth- 24
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TOMBOYS. 331 ing, wearing the wrinkles of sadness and care on faces yet intheir teens, willing enough to work — and abundant work todo, with liberal pay, in luxurious mansions, whose rich oc-cupants would count it a fortunate thing to find a personsuited to the place. Why, then, are the doors of all our charities besieged anddaily thronged? and why does the pitiful appeal strike theear of the pedestrian in his early walk, or noonday promenade,or nightly visit to the party, the lecture, the concert, or theopera ? It is simply because these starving, freezing girls were notbrought up to be useful, were not taught, by careless or over-indulgent mothers, how they might command situations.The incessant and earnest cry of thousands of almost despair-ing housekeepers, is for competent help, to cook, to nurse,to sew, for chamber work, or for waiting. AVithin any twenty-four hours, two thousand, may we not say ten thousand, suchgirls could find welcome homes, in the very best families inNew

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