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Title: Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women
On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And
Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty,
Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their
Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.

Author: George Sumner Weaver

Release Date: March 14, 2007 [EBook #20819]

Language: English

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AIMS AND AIDS
FOR
Girls and Young Women,

ON THE

VARIOUS DUTIES OF LIFE,

INCLUDING

PHYSICAL, INTELLECTUAL, AND MORAL DEVELOPMENT; SELF-CULTURE, IMPROVEMENT,
DRESS, BEAUTY, FASHION, EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION, THE HOME
RELATIONS, THEIR DUTIES TO YOUNG MEN, MARRIAGE,
WOMANHOOD AND HAPPINESS.

BY REV. G. S. WEAVER,

AUTHOR OF "HOPES AND HELPS," "MENTAL SCIENCE," "WAYS OF LIFE," ETC.

NEW YORK:
FOWLER AND WELLS, PUBLISHERS,
308 BROADWAY.
London: William Horsell, 492 Oxford Street.
BOSTON: } 1856. { PHILADELPHIA:
142 Washington-st.} { No. 231 Arch-street.

ENTERED, ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE YEAR 1855, BY
FOWLER AND WELLS,
IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED
STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK.

DAVIES AND ROBERTS, STEREOTYPERS,
201 William Street, New York.

PREFACE.

My interest in woman and our common humanity is my only apology for
writing this book. I see multitudes of young women about me, whose
general training is so deficient in all that pertains to the best ideas
of life, and whose aims and efforts are so unworthy of their powers of
mind and heart, that I can n