and this room should be kept sacred to his sole
use wherever and whenever it was possible to do
so. Girls might also be helped to make and
collect tasteful little odds and ends of ornamental
work for their own rooms, and shown the
difference between what is and is not artistically and
intrinsically valuable, either for form or colour.
It is also an excellent rule to establish that girls
should keep their rooms neat and clean, dust their
little treasures themselves, and tidy up their rooms
before leaving them of a morning, so that the
servant need only do the rougher work. Such
habits are valuable in any condition of life. An
eye so trained that disorder or dirt is hideous to
it, and a pair of hands capable of making such
conditions an impossibility in their immediate
neighbourhood, need be no unworthy addition to
the dowry of a princess.
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