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DEDIOALION, 
Procul! 6 procul este profane!—Srsyxx. 
Anglcé—Sluts, keep your distance! 
If there be such a monster in our happy— 
country, as a slattern, too indolent to pick 
up the blessings of heaven, though scattered ~ 
as thick as blackberries around her,—she is 
strictly forbidden, even to touch this book, 
under the penalty of our everlasting displea- 
sure. But to that sober, discreet, intelligent, 
cheerful, active, industrious, economic class 
of matrons, who love their lords, whose 
gardens are a paradise and homes a heaven, 
—to that class, who were from the begin- 
ning, are now, and ever shall be, crowns of 
glory to their husbands,—this little work is 
respectfully dedicated, by their most devoted 
friend and humble servant, : 
THE TRANSLATOR. 
