Domestic duties; or, instructions to young married ladies, on the management of their households and the regulation of their conduct in the various relations and duties of married life / by Mrs. William Parkes.

  • Parkes, William, Mrs.
Date:
1837
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Credit: Domestic duties; or, instructions to young married ladies, on the management of their households and the regulation of their conduct in the various relations and duties of married life / by Mrs. William Parkes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONVERSATION II. ON THE CONDUCT TO BE OBSERVED TOWARDS : MER FRIENDS AND CONNECTIONS. ON FORMATION OF NEW FRIENDSHIPS. COl SPONDENCE. CONFIDENCE, &C. Mrs. L.—I have known some ladies who, i marriage, have abandoned most of their « friendships, and have known little more, thrc life, of those with whom they have passed the piest and most innocent period of their exist€ The plea in their extenuation was, that marr having placed them far above their former nections, rendered the continuance of such int cies incompatible with those they were after ] riage compelled to form. Under such circumstaj the nearest relations have in some instances perienced this neglect, and have been ungrate overlooked by those on whom they had forn bestowed kindness and attention. Can such duct ever be expedient or necessary ? Mrs. B. — To give up all intercourse with friends merely because the chances of life have rj us so high as to make us ashamed of the conditi( which they belong, and in which we were boi indeed contemptible : such conduct proceeds the vice of a low mind, and has been univer