A good little girl is of good, clean life-- a guardian of her honor. Self-respecting, energetic, deliberating, reflective, enterprising. She is self-respecting, energetic, patient when reprimanded, humble. Theirs was the device with which the loom was held;...the colored wood with which they died cotton when they wove; ...maguey spines with which they picked the cotton threads. They took personal charge of preparing food and chocolate. There were their older women, who had reared them.