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Title: Girls and Women

Author: Harriet E. Paine (AKA E. Chester}

Release Date: January 15, 2007 [EBook #20362]

Language: English

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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-A-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