A MOTHER'S TALK TO GIRLS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2275, 8 November 1889, Page 2

A MOTHER'S TALK TO GIRLS.

MARY M. ALLEM, M.D. You wo aid not ba surprised if I wero to auk your brother what ho intends to make of himself, bub if I were to put the query to you, perhaps you might open yjar eyes m antonishinant. Yovi expoo to i/o to Hohool until ynu ?ra 'inte, and then booomo a young ludy m aooieiy and have a nioo liuue. Do you intend 10 go to partlos and h^ve beautiful costume 1 Who wi'l foot th<i billH ? "Oh, papa, of courtje." And m return you will embroider him handsome siopern on •rmierial for which he paya, and t *vo them aoled at his expense at figures throu umea fb much hb you would pay for a pair ready made, and then you will think yourself yery dutiful. You will make bannecß to hang on every Bparo spuoe, and crazy quilts for yourself snl friends at enormoua expenditure of time and money. You will duat the parlour fnrnlture and take care of your own room and fancy yourself industrious ; you will hulp the dressmaker plan elaborate garniture for yoor new dresses and oall it being economical. Perhaps you practice on the piano an hour daily, belong to a reading olub and oall yourself studious, but what m to be your life work 1 If called upon to day to earn your own living, is thero any one thing you oould do ao well that some one wbnld pay you to do It ? You don't expeot to have to work for a living, yet your brother does, lie would feel ashamed to calculate en being supported all his life. Why should not your brother be supported as well as you? But what is the use of a girl's learning a business when the chances are that she will get married' and never have an opportunity of following the vooition whioh has coat her so much time and labor ? To maintain her self-reßpect if nothing else. Why should you live an aimless life ? The world noeds workers : why not be one of them? If you have talent— and who has not — why not cultivate it ao as to make it of avail to you ? Why not be ambitious to do something and to do it well ? The time you put upon It will not be lost, for it will develop you, it will make you strong, more worthy of living. True worth is being, not seeming ; In doing eaoh da; that goes by, Some little good, not m tho dreaming ' Of the great things to do by and by. Learn a trade, a profession, a business. Find yoae work, and make a place for yourself to the world. Then if yon are promoted to the digai y of wlfehood, and muat lay ialde yoar lean important bailness, you will not bo tho lues. worthy, leas the woman, or less the mother. The very knowledge that you oan support youraelf will, perhaps, relieve von of much dreadful foreboding. Many a wooun tut found use for her akitfal h»nds In tha support of an Inva'id husband and halplesa children. Then, too, Ithlnk.it will make you more otreful In the choice of a husband. You will not be planning to marry for wealth or a home, and c»o afford to wait nnttl you can mstry for love. You will think more of yourself, thus demanding more of the mkn whom you honou? with y ur heart and hand, and as ycur oltlm te destiny will donbtleia be to mnry, no m*ttur what other vocation you may ohoono, be sure ttnd obtain a praotiotl knowledge ot all tho dutlea of P WomntJ \n tho bnnr»r».