The Young Woman's Guide
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Alcott William Andrus. The Young Woman's Guide
CHAPTER I. EXPLANATION OF TERMS
CHAPTER II. FEMALE RESPONSIBILITIES
CHAPTER III. SELF-EDUCATION
CHAPTER IV. LOVE OF IMPROVEMENT
CHAPTER V. SELF-KNOWLEDGE
CHAPTER VI. CONSCIENTIOUSNESS
CHAPTER VII. SELF-GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER VIII. SELF-COMMAND
CHAPTER IX. DECISION OF CHARACTER
CHAPTER X. SELF-DEPENDENCE
CHAPTER XI. REASONING AND ORIGINALITY
CHAPTER XII. INVENTION
CHAPTER XIII. OBSERVATION AND REFLECTION
CHAPTER XIV. DETRACTION AND SCANDAL
CHAPTER XV. THE RIGHT USE OF TIME
CHAPTER XVI. LOVE OF DOMESTIC CONCERNS
CHAPTER XVII. FRUGALITY AND ECONOMY
CHAPTER XVIII. SYSTEM
CHAPTER XIX. PUNCTUALITY
CHAPTER XX. EXERCISE
CHAPTER XXI. REST AND SLEEP
CHAPTER XXII. INDUSTRY
CHAPTER XXIII. VISITING
CHAPTER XXIV. MANNERS
CHAPTER XXV. HEALTH AND BEAUTY
CHAPTER XXVI. NEATNESS AND CLEANLINESS
CHAPTER XXVII. DRESS AND ORNAMENT
CHAPTER XXVIII. DOSING AND DRUGGING
CHAPTER XXIX. TAKING CARE OF THE SICK
CHAPTER XXX. INTELLECTUAL IMPROVEMENT
CHAPTER XXXI. SOCIAL IMPROVEMENT
CHAPTER XXXII. MORAL PROGRESS
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Defining terms. The word excellence here used as nearly synonym with holiness. What is meant by calling the work a Guide. The term Woman—why preferable, as a general term, to Lady. The class to whom this work is best adapted.
It has been said, and with no little truth, that a large proportion of the disputes in the world might have been avoided, had the disputants first settled the meaning of the terms they respectively used. In like manner might a large share of the misapprehension and error in the world be avoided, if those who attempt to teach, would first explain their terms.
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But this is something more than a supposed case. Is it not, in effect, just what is actually taking place around us in the world continually? Not, indeed, that a long train of good influences has been frequently set agoing in the Sabbath school—for Sabbath schools are but of recent origin. But people have always been led along to virtue or vice, to piety or impiety, to bless the world or to prove a curse to it, by one another. A word or a look from a relative, or friend, or acquaintance, in the school or somewhere else, has often given a turn to the whole character. A word, it is said, may move a continent. Something less than a word—a look or a smile of approbation—may move more than a continent. It may move not merely a West,1 but an Alexander, a Cæsar, a Napoleon, a Washington and a Howard—men who, in their turn, moved a world!
I have spoken of the influence which a young woman may have on millions through the medium of the Sabbath school. But if she may influence in this way, the millions of those who are to come after her, how much more may she do in forming character for the great future, in the family! Her presence in the Sabbath school is only once a week—an hour or two a day, once in seven days; whereas, her influence in the family is going on perpetually.
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