Excerpt from Domestic Duties, or Instructions to Young Married Ladies, on the Management of Their Households, and the Regulation of Their Conduct in the Various Relations and Duties of Married Life And now let me beg you to consider, how your example will influence all around you. Your servants will natu rally fix their attention upon you, as the mistress of the house; and if they perceive that your conduct is regulated by strict principles of religion, and morality, they cannot fail to respect you if, also, they have reason to know that your temper is well regulated, and that you have a bene volent desire to promote their comfort, While you only exact from them a steady performance of their duty, their respect for you will be mingled with affection, and solici tude to deserve your favour. The most unprincipled among them will be influenced by such an example, although that influence may not produce an entire reformation. The regulations you will think proper to prescribe for the preservation of order and morality among your domestics, must be enforced by your own example, or they will have little or no effect. In vain will you command them to rest on the Sabbath, if you make it a day of dissipation; and in vain forbid the practice of any impropriety of conduct, if you, or other inmates of your household, are not your selves as strict on every point. Mrs. L.-I hear it frequently remarked that servants of the present day are in every respect inferior to those of the preceding generation: and many consider this as occasioned by the education now generally given to them. Are you of this opinion? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.