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Title: Maids Wives and Bachelors

Author: Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

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Language: English

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MAIDS WIVES AND BACHELORS

by
AMELIA E. BARR

Author of "Jan Vedder's Wife," "A Bow of Orange Ribbon," etc.

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1898

Copyright, 1898,
By Dodd, Mead and Company

University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.

CONTENTS

PAGE
Maids and Bachelors 1
The American Girl 13
Dangerous Letter-Writing 23
Flirts and Flirtation 32
On Falling in Love 38
Engaged To Be Married 47
Shall our Daughters have Dowries? 56
The Ring Upon the Finger 67
Flirting Wives 73
Mothers-in-Law 86
Good and Bad Mothers 97
Unequal Marriages 114
Discontented Women 125
Women on Horseback 145
A Good Word for Xanthippe 155
The Favorites of Men 160
Mothers of Great and Good Men 170
Domestic Work for Women