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the parlor and sitting-room, where luxury and ease are robbing you of 

 the roses upon your checks, and is planting the seeds of disease in your 

 system — fly to the garden or the fields ; go among the flocks and herds, 

 to the kitchen or dairy. Educate mind and body to fill any station 

 which a wife or a mother may be called to fill. Learn to preside as 

 well and as wisely in the log cabin, as in the costly mansion. When 

 you have accomplished these things, you have done much for your- 

 selves, and much to sustain the character and dignity of the women of 

 America. 



