It is very much to be feared that the apportionment of time actually made by most women exactly inverts the order required by reason and Christianity. Thus the furnishing a needless variety of food, the conveniences of dwellings, and the adornments of dress, often take a larger portion of time than is given to any other object. Next after this comes intellectual improvement; and last of all, benevolence and religion. It may be urged that it is indispensable for most persons to give more time to earn a livelihood, and to prepare food, raiment, and dwellings, than to any other object. But it may be asked, how much of the time devoted to these objects is employed in preparing varieties of food not necessary, but rather injurious, and how much is spent for those parts of dress and furniture not indispensable, and merely ornamental? Let a woman subtract from her domestic employments all the time given to pursuits which are of no use, except as they gratify a taste for ornament, or minister increased varieties to tempt the appetite, and she will find that much which she calls “domestic duty,” and which prevents her attention to intellectual, benevolent, and religious objects, should be called by a very different name. No woman has a right to give up attention to the higher interests of herself and others for the ornaments of person or the gratification of the palate. To a certain extent, these lower objects are lawful and desirable; but when they intrude on nobler interests, they become selfish and degrading. Every woman, then, when employing her hands in ornamenting her person, her children, or her house, ought to calculate whether she has devoted _as much_ time to the really more important wants of herself and others. If she has not, she may know that she is doing wrong, and that her system or apportioning her time and pursuits should be altered. Some persons endeavor to systematize their pursuits by apportioning them to particular hours of each day. For example, a certain period before breakfast is given to devotional duties; after breakfast, certain hours are devoted to exercise and domestic employments; other hours, to sewing, or reading, or visiting; and others, to benevolent duties. But in most cases it is more difficult to systematize the hours of each day than it is to secure some regular division of the week.