Gem of Neatness:
Reading edition
OR,
THE COUSINS.
BY
MRS. MADELINE LESLIE
"Let all things be done decently and in order."—I COR 14:40.
BOSTON:
ANDREW F. GRAVES.
20 CORNHILL.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, BY A. R. BAKER, D.D. In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
J. D. Flagg & Co. 51 Walter and 57 Congress Sta. Boston.
LIST
OF
SPARKLING GEMS
FOR YOUTH.
SERIES FOR GIRLS.
VOL. I. GEM OF COURTESY.
VOL. II. GEM OF COURAGE.
VOL. III. GEM OF FAITHFULNESS.
VOL. IV. GEM OF NEATNESS.
VOL. V. GEM OF TRUTHFULNESS.
VOL. VI. GEM OF EARNESTNESS.
LIST
OF
SPARKLING GEMS
FOR YOUTH.
SERIES FOR BOYS.
VOL. I. GEM OF UPRIGHTNESS.
VOL. II. GEM OF SELF-DENIAL.
VOL. III. GEM OF PERSEVERANCE.
VOL. IV. GEM OF TEMPERANCE.
VOL. V. GEM OF SELF-CONTROL.
VOL. VI. GEM OF GENEROSITY.
DEDICATION.
MY DEAR LITTLE HARRY: I HAVE DEDICATED THESE SMALL VOLUMES TO YOU, PRAYING THAT THE GEMS OF WHICH THEY TREAT, MAY ADORN YOUR CROWN IN THE CORONATION DAY OF CHRIST'S BELOVED. Your affectionate grandmother, THE AUTHOR.
PREFACE.
THE author of these volumes recently attended the commencement of a seminary, in which sparkling crowns were placed on the heads of such of the graduates as had been distinguished for diligence, faithfulness, neatness and other virtues. Being very much pleased with the design, I have appropriated the idea in these small volumes.
On the illuminated title page, the teacher and pupils appear. He holds up to their view a sparkling gem, just taken from his cabinet. We may imagine him explaining to them, that these precious stones are used in the Bible as emblems of the different graces which adorn the character of Christians, even as God says: these graces "shall be as the stones of a crown," put upon their heads.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. EMILY'S BUREAU
CHAPTER II. OLD FRIENDS
CHAPTER III. MILLY'S ARRIVAL
CHAPTER IV. MILLY AT PRAYERS
CHAPTER V. MILLY AT TABLE
CHAPTER VI. MILLY'S REQUEST
CHAPTER VII. GRANDMA'S ARRIVAL
CHAPTER VIII. THE MISSIONARIES
CHAPTER IX. ORDER FROM CONFUSION
CHAPTER X. MILLY'S CHAMBER
CHAPTER XI. A DRIVE TO THE BEACH
CHAPTER XII. MILLY'S ESCAPE
GEM OF NEATNESS.