Sunday, July 24, 2011

Advice to Girls: Hot Water

Love this little bit of Mark Twain's advice to girls the New York Review of Books pointed out:

If at any time you find it necessary to correct your brother, do not correct him with mud — never, on any account, throw mud at him, because it will spoil his clothes. It is better to scald him a little, for then you obtain desirable results. You secure his immediate attention to the lessons you are inculcating, and at the same time your hot water will have a tendency to move impurities from his person, and possibly the skin, in spots.

—Mark Twain, Advice to Little Girls (1865)


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