A

PRACTICAL DIRECTORY

FOR

YOUNG CHRISTIAN FEMALES;

BEING A

SERIES OF LETTERS

FROM A

BROTHER TO A YOUNGER SISTER.

BY HARVEY NEWCOMB.

WRITTEN FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS SABBATH SCHOOL SOCIETY, AND
APPROVED BY THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATION.

Seventh Edition.

BOSTON:
MASSACHUSETTS SABBATH SCHOOL SOCIETY
Depository, No. 13 Cornhill.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1833, by
CHRISTOPHER C. DEAN,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

Stereotyped by
HOBART & ROBBINS;
NEW ENGLAND TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY,
BOSTON.

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PREFACE.

The following Letters were truly, as they profess to have been, writtento a younger sister of the author. By the death of her parents, she wasleft, in a measure, dependent upon him, at an early age. She had beenthe subject of many prayers, and endeared by many ties. His house, as hehumbly trusts, was the place of her second birth. As she was about toleave his roof, for a residence among strangers, the idea occurred tohim of imbodying his fraternal counsel in such a form that it might be afriendly monitor to her, in the midst of those dangers and difficultieswhich beset the path of inexperienced youth. In prosecuting this design,it appeared hardly proper to bestow so much time upon the interests ofone individual. Hence the writer concluded to commit these Letters tothe press, with the hope that they might be the means of doing somegood. This work is intended not merely to be read and laid aside; but,as its title imports, to be kept as a kind of practical directory fordaily living. This edition has been revised with great care, and muchnew matter added.

Boston, 1851.

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CONTENTS.