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THE GIRL’S CABINET OF INSTRUCTIVE AND MORAL STORIES

By uncle Philip.

New York: 
Philip J. COZANS, publisher,
No. 107 Nassau Street
1856.

[Illustration:  Front Cover]

[Illustration:  A Doll’s Party.]

A doll’s party.

Here is a Doll’s party.  All the little girls of the vicinity who have Dolls, have assembled in order to give their little favorites a nice party.  You see they all have Dolls.  They are good girls.  They are very obedient.  They attend school regularly, and as they are well-behaved girls, Santa Claus left each of them a Doll at Christmas time.  They have learned their lessons for to-morrow, as their mothers have told them, that duty before pleasure is the good girl’s motto.  They will play sometimes with their Dolls.  Will settle on some new Doll dresses, and then bidding each other a kind good night they will return home to sleep.  As God is the protector of all good girls, each will say a little prayer to Him before she goes to bed.

[Illustration:  The Vain Girl.]

The vain girl.

Many years ago there lived in one of the New England States, a fine family, composed of father, mother, and six children.  The children were all good, and kind, and industrious, except one.  Kate never would do as she was bid.  She was in every sense, a disobedient child.  She gave her parents much pain and trouble.  She was what is called a vain girl.  You all know what a vain girl is.  A vain girl, is one who attends more to her dress and toilet, than to her books.  Kate’s father was going to New York some time before Christmas—­he told the girls, that if they were good, kind and obedient while he was gone, he would bring them each a pretty Album.  They all promised to do just as their mother should wish.  The father went to New York and returned.  The day after his return they reminded him of his promise.  He went to his desk and said,