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 endurance all their own. Probably there is no harder-worked person than
a lady in the season, let us say in Washington, where the etiquette of
visiting is carried to a perfection that it does not reach even in New
York, Boston, or Philadelphia, and where woman's effort to keep the
social fabric together requires more expenditure of intellect and of
physical force than was needed to protect the capital in its peril a
quarter of a century ago. When this cruel war is over, the monument to
the women who perished in it will need to be higher than that to the
Father of his Country. Merely in the item of keeping an account of the
visits paid and due, a woman needs a bookkeeper. Only to know the
etiquette of how and when and to whom and in what order the visits are
to be paid is to be well educated in a matter that assumes the first
importance in her life. This is, however, only a detail of bookkeeping
and of memory; to pay and receive, or evade, these visits of ceremony is
a work which men can admire without the power to imitate; even on the
supposition that a woman has nothing else to do, it calls for our humble
gratitude and a recognition of the largeness of nature that can put
aside any duties to husband or children in devotion to the public
welfare. The futile round of society life while it lasts admits of no
rival. It seems as important as the affairs of the government. The
Drawer is far from saying that it is not. Perhaps no one can tell what
confusion would fall into all the political relations if the social
relations of the capital were not kept oiled by the system of exchange
of fictitious courtesies among the women; and it may be true that
society at large--men are so apt, when left alone, to relapse--would
fall into bar

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