THINGS WHICH NO YOUNG LADY EVER DOES IF SHE CAN HELP IT.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2303, 4 August 1880, Page 3

THINGS WHICH NO YOUNG LADY EVER DOES IF SHE CAN HELP IT.

You never know her to be the first up in tlic morning and not the last up at night. Keep an account book in the place of an album. Consent to sit down to the piano under the dozenth time of asking. Pay a morning call in her last year’s bonnet. Do plain needle work instead of fancy collar sticking. Eeturn from the morning service without bringing home an inventory (exact to a ribbon) of all the new toilettes which have been displayed there. Practice “ Cramer’s Exercise ” in the place of a polka. Wear shoes of any other than most wafer-like construction, especially in wet weather. Condescend to learn an English song instead of an Italian one. Leave out of conversation, “La !” “You don’t say so !” “ Dear mo !” .and “ Well, I never !” Mend her own “ things ” and also her younger brother’s. Travel twenty miles without nineteen packages, seventeen of v)hich she might easily dispense with. 3Be seen to eat more at dinner than a couple of canaries could. And finally, take less than forty minutes to “ run and put her bonnet on !”