From the Juvenile Instructor, 1 August 1903 – the quotation marks in the title are as they appear in the original.

A Few “Accomplishments.”

Someone has suggested some things that every girl can learn before she is fifteen. Not everyone can learn to play, or sing, or paint well enough to give pleasure to her friends, but the following “accomplishments” are within everybody’s reach:

Shut the door, and shut it softly.

Keep your own room in tasteful order.

Have an hour for rising, and rise.

Learn to make bread as well as cake.

Never let a button stay off twenty-four hours.

Always know where your things are.

Never let a day pass without doing something to make somebody comfortable.

Never come to breakfast without a collar.

Never go along with your shoes unbuttoned.

Speak clearly enough for everybody to understand.

Never fidget or hum so as to disturb others.