Litchfield Enquirer

We occasionally hear of a simpering, double refined young lady boasting that she never labored, and could not for the life of her make a pudding, as though ignorance of these matters was a mark of gentility and a leaning towards European nobility. There can be no greater proof of silly arrogance than such remarks, and for the especial benefit of such, we would kindly inform them that Madame de Genlis supported the family of the Duc de Orleans, (and among them the present reigning Monarch of France,) in London, by the sale of her drawings; one of the Duchesses of the same Court maintained herself and husband in Bath, by teaching a music school, and the Queen herself kept her family by plaiting bonnets. These examples we hope will have their influence, where examples of our own good countrywomen would be spurned as vulgar, republican mode.