Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women / On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And / Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, / Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their / Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.

by G. S. Weaver

Lecture Eight.

EMPLOYMENT.

Employment a Duty—Powers Developed by Labor—All Females are not Women—Dependence Usually Ignoble—Adversity gives Strength—Girls should have Trades—Self-reliance necessary to Women—Do Something and Be Something—Riches no Excuse for Idleness—Employment gives Activity and Strength—Labor considered Vulgar—Life is given for Employment—Woman was Made for Usefulness[122-135]