| Mary Ashton Livermore - 1897 - 774 pages
...the •st dressed, and the last undressed, all the year round." CONCERNING HUSBANDS AND WIVES. 655 "No indoor household work is repugnant to a modest...and sensible woman. The shuttle and the needle are to be the sole occupations of her leisure; the neatness of her house shall be her pride ; and it shall... | |
| Mary Ashton Livermore - 1898 - 752 pages
...guardian of female innocence," wrote one of the Chinese teachers; "do not allow women for a moment to be idle. Let them be the first dressed, and the last undressed, all the year round." CONCERNING HUSBANDS AND WIVES. 655 " No indoor household work is repugnant to a modest and sensible... | |
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