All this is very little; on paper it reads moan and contemptible: but in life it is real--in life these littlenesses play a great part.

The Misses -- -- know nothing of those long treasured recipes formerly handed down in old country houses, and never enter the kitchen.
No doubt, if the fashion for teaching cooking presently penetrates into the parish, they will take a leading part, and with much show and blowing of trumpets instruct the cottager how to boil the pot.

Anything, in short, that happens to be the rage will attract them, but there is little that is genuine about them, except the eagerness for a new excitement.
What manner of men shall accept these ladies as their future helpmates?
The tenant farmers are few and far between that could support their expenditure upon dress, the servants they would require, and last, but not least, the waste which always accompanies ignorance in household management.

Nor, indeed, do they look for tenant farmers, but hope for something higher in the scale.
The Misses -- -- are fortunate in possessing a 'papa' sufficiently well-to-do to enable them to live in this manner.

But there are hundreds of young ladies whose fathers have not got so much capital in their farms, while what they have is perhaps borrowed.