“Advice to Young Ladies”:

1. If you have blue eyes you need not languish: if black eyes, you need not stare.
2. If you have pretty feet there is no occasion to wear short petticoats: if you are doubtful as to that point, there can be no harm in letting the petticoats be long.
3. If you have good teeth, do not laugh in order to show them: if bad teeth do not laugh less than the occasion may warrant.
4. If you have pretty hands and arms, you may play on the harp if you play well: if they are disposed to be clumsy, work tapestry.
5. If you have a bad voice, speak in a subdued tone: if you have the finest voice in the world, never speak in a high tone.
6. If you dance well, dance but seldom; if ill, never dance at all.
7. If you sing well, make no previous excuses: if indifferently, do not hesitate when you are asked, for few people are judges of singing, but every one is sensible of a desire to please.
8. To preserve beauty, rise early.
9. To preserve esteem, be gentle.
10. To obtain power, be condescending.
11. To live happily, try to promote the happiness of others.

— Enquire Within Upon Everything: The Great Victorian-Era Domestic Standby, 1894