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In this sphere more than in any other we need to follow Dr. Johnson's advice to " clear the mind of cant. " If our minds were thus clear, housekeepers would not be afraid of being thought niggardly if in providing food they considered what was wholesome and desirable rather than what was prescribed by any particular social standard. Ladies with deft fingers and abundance of 85 WEAR AND TEAR leisure would not regard it as a painful infliction, or as a shame not to be acknowledged publicly, if th...ey under- took personally some of the manual work of the house- hold. Sociable people would not be debarred from having a wide and congenial circle of acquaintances by the consciousness that such acquaintances would feel grossly insulted if invited to the kind of meal (however abundant and pleasant) that their host could afford without heavy additional expense. At the present day all the best gratifications of life physical, aesthetic, and intellectual may be had at so low a cost that there would be no great hardness in economy but for the stigma cast upon it.
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