Female affection

Montagu, Basil · 1851

There are certain properties of the female mind upon which doubt has existed, and may, possibly, long exist. 1. Women are said to be fond of ornament--an evil against which they were thus warned by St. Paul--“I will that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with embroidered hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array, but which becometh women professing godliness, with good works.”…

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