[48] _Memoirs of an American Lady_, p. 27. [49] Humphreys: _Catherine Schuyler_, p. 8. [50] Smyth: _Writings of Ben Franklin_, Vol. III, p. 203. [51] Smyth: _Writings of Ben Franklin_, Vol. III, p. 4. [52] Ford: _Writings of Thomas Jefferson_, Vol. III. p. 345 [53] _Selections from Fithian's Writings_, Aug. 12, 1774. [54] _American Nation Series, England in America_, p. 116. [55] Vol. I, p. 299. [56] Vol. I, p. 301. [57] Vol. I, p. 311. [58] _Institutional History of Virginia_, Vol. I, p. 454. [59] Ravenel: _Eliza Pinckney_, p. 50. [60] Ravenel: _Eliza Pinckney_, p. 51. [61] Ravenel: _Eliza Pinckney_, p. 49. [62] Turell: _Memoirs of Life and Death of Mrs. Jane Turell._ [63] _Letters of Abigail Adams_, p. 11. [64] _Letters of Abigail Adams_, p. 9. [65] Grant: _Memoirs of an American Lady_, p. 136. [66] Grant: _Memoirs of an American Lady_, p. 267. [67] _Letters of Abigail Adams_, p. 401. [68] Smyth: _Writings of Franklin_, Vol. I, p. 344. [69] _Ibid._, Vol. I, p. 344. [70] Smyth: Vol. III, p. 431. [71] Smyth: Vol. V, p. 345. [72] Quoted in Earle's _Child Life in Colonial Days_, p. 113. [73] Humphreys; _Catherine Schuyler_, p. 75. [74] Brooks: _Dames and Daughters of Colonial Days_, p. 199. CHAPTER III COLONIAL WOMAN AND THE HOME _I. The Charm of the Colonial Home_ After all, it is in the home that the soul of the colonial woman is fully revealed. We may say in all truthfulness that there never was a time when the home wielded a greater influence than during the colonial period of American history. For the home was then indeed the center and heart of social life. There were no men's clubs, no women's societies, no theatres, no moving pictures, no suffrage meetings, none of the hundred and one exterior activities that now call forth both father and mother from the home circle. The home of pre-revolutionary days was far more than a place where the family ate and slept. Its simplicity, its confidence, its air of security and permanence, and its atmosphere of refuge or haven of rest are characteristics to be grasped in their true significance only through a thorough reading of the writings of those early days. The colonial woman had never received a diploma in domestic science or home economics; she had never heard of balanced diets; she had never been taught the arrangement of color schemes; but she knew the secret of making from four bare walls the sacred institution with all its subtle meanings comprehended under the one word, home.