Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1899 — Advice to a Daughter. [ARTICLE]

Advice to a Daughter.

If you want to please the men, Daughter mine; , : * Learn a little bit of art, Some good poetry by heart, Languages to wit impart. Music fine. , ft Know the proper way to dress How to comfort and caress, Dance a little, gossip less, Daughter mine. If you want to please the men. Daughter mine; 7 Study how to make a, cake, Learn to stew and boil and bake. Say yon cook for cooking’s sake, How divineBe a housewife, all the rest Counts but little, truth confessed, Such girls always marry best, Daughter mine. -What to Eat. —: -—7,