The young woman's companion: or, frugal housewife. Containing the most approved methods of pickling, preserving, potting, collaring, confectionary ... Also the art of cookery ... with the complete art of carving, illustrated and made plain by engravings. Likewise instructions for marketing. With the theory of brewing malt liquor. To which are added directions for letter writing, drawing, painting, &c. and several valuable miscellaneous pieces.
- Date:
- 1816
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The young woman's companion: or, frugal housewife. Containing the most approved methods of pickling, preserving, potting, collaring, confectionary ... Also the art of cookery ... with the complete art of carving, illustrated and made plain by engravings. Likewise instructions for marketing. With the theory of brewing malt liquor. To which are added directions for letter writing, drawing, painting, &c. and several valuable miscellaneous pieces. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![doubt. as you say : I am sure I have found it, blessed be God ! and then lie twanged his nose, and lifted up his eyes, as if in an ejaculation. 0 m v good aunt, what a man is here for a husband ! At last came the happy moment of his taking leave; for I would not ask him to stay supper; and more- over he talked of going* to a lecture at feU Helen’s. And then (though I had no opportunity of saying lit- tle more than Yes, and no, all the time, for he took the vapours lie had put me into for devotions or gra- vity, at least I believe so] he pressed my hand, looked frightfully kind, and gave me to understand, as a mark of his favour, that if upon further conversation, and inquiry into mv character, he should happen to like me as well as he did from my behaviour and person, why, truly, I need not fear, in time, being blessed with him for my husband. This, my good aunt, may be a mighty safe way of travelling toward the land of matrimony, as far as I know; but I cannot help wishing for a little more en- tertainment on our journey. I am willing to believe Mr. Richards, an honest man ; but am, at the same time, afraid his religious turn of temper, however in itself commendable, would better suit with a woman who centres all desert in a solemn appearance, than with, dear aunt, Y our greatly obliged kinswoman. O w O Her Aunt's answer', rebukinq her ludicrous Turn of Mind, J Hear Niece, I AM sorry you think Mr. Richards so unsuitable a lover, lie is a serious, sober, good man : and surely when seriousness and sobriety make a necessary part of the duty of a good husband, a good father, and a good master of a family, whose charac- ters should not be the subject ot ridicule, in persons of our sex especially, who should reap advantages 14 * - ' :3 F](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21532230_0441.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
