The Young Bride at Home Author:Hannah More Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: matters of the utmost indifference to either, .or a sullen silence are the least proofs of their mutual ill humour. In fine, the whole tenor of their behaviour a... more »ffords too much reason to believe, that since they are not able to agree in one point, they are determined never to do so in any other. ON THE SUBJECT OF DRESS. The article of dress may seem to be of. very little importance to the happiness of a married state ; yet I have known some women who by that alone have forfeited thgs esteem of their husbands, as well as rendered themselves ridiculous to their neighbors. Though the men may not understand the paraphernalia of dress, as our ingenious Laureat expresses it, yet they are capable of judging when it is well or ill adapted to the rank, circumstances, or age of the person who wears it; and not a few there are who even go so far as to form their ideas of a woman according to the fashion of her garb ; I say the fashion of the garb; because it is not so much the richness of the stuff, as the mode and manner of making the garment, which denotes the disposition of the wearer: a tawdry painted linen, on the back of a fantastic woman, may be so contrived as more to attract the eyes of the spectators than a gold or silver brocade. A young single woman who has her fortune to make,.and perhaps has never as yet had an offer to that end, has something to allege in defence of endeavoring to render herself particular and taken notice of, as by doing so she will infallibly draw a crowd of gazers about her, among the number of whom she may hope to find some one who may take a fancy to her, so far as to make her his wife; that this method does not always fail of success we have recent instances to prove. A married woman has not this excuse; she can have no motive for the pain...« less