The Youth's Companion/July 19, 1860/False Shame

False Shame.

Labor is always honorable, and in these days of effeminacy and self-indulgence, those families who dispense with the service of foreign help, are worthy of double honor. But girls are often very foolish, and are ashamed of what they have reason to be proud of. We hope none of our readers would be quite as foolish as the young lady in Oswego:

The Oswego Times tells a good story of a fashionable lady of that village, whose parents are not possessed of wealth in proportion to her pretentions, who excused herself to a visitor for doing house-work, thus:

“Mother and I do our own housework, because it is so exceedingly romantic.”

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