For in the chamber the little child has awakened and has begun to cry in his cradle.

He cannot speak, poor little one; he cannot tell you, if he be hungry or if he be cold, or if anything extraordinary has happened to him, before someone that he knows has come to care for him, before he hears the voice of his own mother." After enumerating and inculcating in the same manner all the duties of the day, the conduct to be observed toward every member of the family--father-in-law, mother-in-law, sister, and brother-in-law, and the children of them--we find a very minute code of conduct set forth in regard to neighbours and acquaintances.

The young wife is especially warned against gossip, against listening to any stories about what happens in other people's houses, and against telling anybody what goes on within her own.

One piece of advice is memorable.

If the young wife is asked whether she is well fed, she should reply always that she has the best of everything which a house can afford, this even if she should have been left without any proper nourishment for several days.