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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
·
Florence Hartley
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"Of
all
modes
of
exercise,
that
which
nature
has
bestowed
upon
us,
walking,
is
decidedly
the
most
salutary;
and
the
prevailing
system
of
substituting
horse
and
carriage
exercise
almost
entirely
for
it,
is
far
from
being
advantageous
to
the
present
generation.
Walking,
which
has
for
its
aim
some
pleasing
pursuit,
and,
therefore,
animates
the
mind,
is
efficacious
to
the
majority.
Gardening,
which
is
a
modification
of
walking,
offers
many
advantages
both
to
the
delicate
and
the
strong,
and
it
is
a
species
of
exercise
which
we
can
adjust
to
our
powers.
In
a
continued
walk
you
must
go
on--you
must
return;
there
is
no
appeal,
even
if
you
have
gone
too
far,
and
would
willingly
give
up
any
further
exertion.
But,
while
gardening,
you
are
still
at
home--your
exertions
are
devoted
to
objects
the
most
interesting,
because
progressive;
hope
and
faith
form
a
part
of
your
stimulus.
The
happy
future,
when
flowers
shall
bloom
around
you,
supersedes
in
your
thoughts
the
vexatious
present
or
the
mournful
past.
About
you
are
the
budding
treasures
of
spring,
or
the
gorgeous
productions
of
summer,
or
the
rich
hues
of
those
beauties
which
autumn
pours
forth
most
lavishly
before
it
departs,--and
is
succeeded
by
winter.
Above
you
are
the
gay
warblers,
who
seem
to
hail
you
as
you
mingle
in
the
sylvan
scenes
which
are
not
all
theirs,
but
which
you
share
and
appropriate.
The
ruffled
temper,
the
harassed
mind,
may
find
a
solace
in
the
occupation
of
gardening,
which
aids
the
effect
of
exercise
and
the
benign
influence
of
fresh
air.
Stores
of
future
and
never-dying
interest
are
buried
in
the
earth
with
every
seed,
only
to
spring
up
again
redoubled
in
their
value.
A
lady,
as
a
writer
in
the
'Quarterly
Review'
observes,
should
'not
only
have
but
know
her
plants.'
And
her
enjoyment
of
those
delights
is
truly
enhanced
by
that
personal
care,
without
which
few
gardens,
however
superintended
by
the
scientific
gardener,
can
prosper,
and
which
bless
as
they
thrive;
her
plants
bestow
health
on
the
frame
which
is
bowed
down
to
train
them--they
give
to
her
the
blessing
of
a
calm
and
rational
pleasure--they
relieve
her
from
the
necessity
of
excitement--they
promote
alike,
in
the
wealthy
and
the
poor,
these
gentle
exertions
which
are
coupled
with
the
most
poetical
and
the
sweetest
of
associations.
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