IDLE DAUGHTERS
It is a most painful spectacle in families, where the mother is the drudge, to see the daughter elegantly dress reclining at their ease, with their drawing, their music, their fancy-work, and their reading, beguiling themselves of the lapse of hours, days and weeks, and never dreaming of their responsibilities, but as a necessary consequence of neglect of duty, growing weary of their useless-lives, laying hold of every newly invented stimulant to amuse their drooping energies, and blaming their fate when they dare not blame their God for having placed them where they are. These individuals will often tell you with an air of affected compassion; for who can believe it real? That poor dear mama is working herself to death. Yet no sooner do you propose they should assist her, than they declare that she is quite in her element in short, that she would never be happy if she had only half as much to do.
Title: Idle Daughters
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Media: Newspaper article, glued to page 8 of the Ledger of Captain W. B.
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