Sighing for the "'good old days' is an occupation not confined to one age or clime since Eve began it all by lamenting the wonderful advantages of the Garden after their expulsion therefrom. Our current tea-table chat deploring the increased cost of living, the iniquities of servants, and the scandalous behaviour of the modern Young Person ave all duplicated in that invaluable volume "The Young Woman's Guide to Virtue, Economy, and Happiness' written in 1818.
tus take, for example, the H.
of L. Our. author, living in what we consider the good old times, sagely remarks that the attention of the mistress of the family to every means whereby waste may he avoided is "of more importance now that the price of every nezessary of life Is increased to an enormous degree." Further the writer states, in what nust have been an alarmingly advanced position for those days:—"Many women are unfortunately ignorant of the state of their husband's income;... whereas marriage should be a state of perfect and mutual confidence and similarity of pursuits Which would secure that happiness it was intended to bestow. "There ave so many valuable women who excel as wives that it is a fair inference that there would be few extravagant ones were they consulted by their husbands on subjects that concern the mutual interest of both." The keeping of careful accounts and the 1818 equivalent of the budget system aye also advocate The subject of complexion creams and lotions was attracting much attention and a number of recipes for their preparation are given, with the. pologetio introduction: "To such females as are determined to make use of cosmetics instead attending to the more effectual means to preserve the bloom of the skin, it may be of service to point out one or two external applications,
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