It preserves the happiness of many a household.

And as it is usually woman who regulates the order of the household, it is mainly upon her that the well-doing of society depends.

It is therefore all the more necessary that she should early be educated in the habit and the virtue of orderliness.
The peer, the merchant, the clerk, the artizan, and the labourer, are all of the same nature, born with the same propensities and subject to similar influences.

They are, it is true, born in different positions, but it rests with themselves whether they shall live their lives nobly or vilely.

They may not have their choice of riches or poverty; but they have their choice of being good or evil,--of being worthy or worthless.
People of the highest position, in point of culture and education, have often as great privations to endure as the average of working people.
They have often to make their incomes go much further.