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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
·
Florence Hartley
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CHAPTER
XXI.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
In
the
present
age,
when
education
is
within
the
reach
of
all,
both
rich
and
poor,
every
lady
will
endeavor
to
become,
not
only
well
educated,
but
accomplished.
It
is
not,
as
some
will
assert,
a
waste
of
time
or
money.
Not
only
the
fingers,
voice,
and
figure
are
improved,
but
the
heart
and
intellect
will
become
refined,
and
the
happiness
greatly
increased.
Take
the
young
lady
after
a
solid
basis
has
been
laid
in
her
mind
of
the
more
important
branches
of
education,
and
rear
upon
that
basis
the
structure
of
lighter
education--the
accomplishments.
To
cultivate
these,
disregarding
the
more
solid
information,
is
to
build
your
castle
without
any
foundation,
and
make
it,
not
only
absurd,
but
unsteady.
The
pleasure
of
hearing
from
a
lady
a
cavatina
executed
in
the
most
finished
manner,
will
be
entirely
destroyed,
if
her
first
spoken
words
after
the
performance
are
vulgar,
or
her
sentence
ungrammatical.
A
lady
without
her
piano,
or
her
pencil,
her
library
of
French,
German,
or
Italian
authors,
her
fancy
work
and
tasteful
embroideries,
is
now
rarely
met
with,
and
it
is
right
that
such
arts
should
be
universal.
No
woman
is
fitted
for
society
until
she
dances
well;
for
home,
unless
she
is
perfect
mistress
of
needlework;
for
her
own
enjoyment,
unless
she
has
at
least
one
accomplishment
to
occupy
thoughts
and
fingers
in
her
hours
of
leisure.
First
upon
the
list
of
accomplishments,
comes
the
art
of
conversing
well.
It
is
always
ready.
Circumstances
in
society
will
constantly
throw
you
into
positions
where
you
can
use
no
other
accomplishment.
You
will
not
have
a
musical
instrument
within
reach,
singing
would
be
out
of
place,
your
fancy
work
at
home,
on
many
occasions,
and
then
you
can
exert
your
most
fascinating
as
well
as
useful
accomplishment,
the
art
of
conversing
well.
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