Our Philadelphia . THE BASIN, OLD WATER-WORKS PHILADELPHIA AT TABLE 437 Leslies silence on the subject, did I not suspect her of adisapproval as complete as her Cookery. She had no new-fangled notions on the position of woman, no desire to dis-pute mans long-established superiority. If she was will-ing to teach women how to become accomplished house-wives, it was that they might administer to the comfortand satisfy the appetite of their fathers and brothers andhusbands and sons. The end of woman, according to hercreed, is to make the home agreeable for man, and it woiddsave us many of to-days
Our Philadelphia . THE BASIN, OLD WATER-WORKS PHILADELPHIA AT TABLE 437 Leslies silence on the subject, did I not suspect her of adisapproval as complete as her Cookery. She had no new-fangled notions on the position of woman, no desire to dis-pute mans long-established superiority. If she was will-ing to teach women how to become accomplished house-wives, it was that they might administer to the comfortand satisfy the appetite of their fathers and brothers andhusbands and sons. The end of woman, according to hercreed, is to make the home agreeable for man, and it woiddsave us many of to-days troubles if we agreed with man, since it is to his advantage, will blame her forbeing more orthodox as a woman than as a Philadelphian,nor is it at very great cost that I forgive her. I prize herbook too much from the collectors standpoint, if from noother, to resent its sentiment. And my joy in my copy-in my Fifty-eighth Edition—is none the less because it waspresented to me by Janvier who, in a few short
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