Girls and Women

Paine Harriet E. (AKA E. Chester}

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The Riverside Library for Young People

NUMBER 8


GIRLS AND WOMEN

BY

E. CHESTER

(Harriet E. Paine)

[Illustration: Publisher's logo]

_Copyright, 1890,_

BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

_All rights reserved._

_The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A._

Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company.




CONTENTS


CHAPTER PAGE

I. AN AIM IN LIFE 7

II. HEALTH 24

III. A PRACTICAL EDUCATION 38

IV. SELF-SUPPORT.--SHALL GIRLS SUPPORT THEMSELVES? 49

V. SELF-SUPPORT.--HOW SHALL GIRLS SUPPORT THEMSELVES? 63

VI. OCCUPATIONS FOR THE RICH 82

VII. CULTURE 99

VIII. THE ESSENTIALS OF A LADY 116

IX. THE PROBLEM OF CHARITY 127

X. THE ESSENTIALS OF A HOME 136

XI. HOSPITALITY 154

XII. BRIC-À-BRAC 165

XIII. EMOTIONAL WOMEN 173

XIV. A QUESTION OF SOCIETY 187

XV. NARROW LIVES 201

XVI. CONCLUSION.--A MISCELLANEOUS CHAPTER 218


GIRLS AND WOMEN.




I.

AN AIM IN LIFE.


For the sake of girls who are just beginning life, let me tell the
stories of some other girls who are now middle-aged women. Some of them
have succeeded and some have failed in their purposes, and often in a
surprising way.

I remember a girl who left school at seventeen with the highest honors.
Immediately we began to see her name in the best magazines. The heavy
doors of literature seemed to swing open before her. Then suddenly we
heard no more of her. A dozen years later she was known to no one
outside her own circle. She was earning her living as book-keeper in a
large five-cent store! She led the life of a drudge, and that was not
the worst of it. She was a sensitive woman, and there was much that was