“OUR GIRLS."

Dunstan Times, Issue 985, 4 March 1881, Page 3

“OUR GIRLS."

The self support of girls is' a subject 1 hope to see ably discusse I. I was one of youy tenderly raised girls, and fed from experience that too much emmet ho sdd upon this suhjjol. As "A Man” has given us this-to discuss, I for ouo deem it a privile Ige to respond,^

In the first place, give them a good common school education. This will enable them to do any business that is carried on in our cities or towns This, well ap-liol to business, will be of far more- value to them ih in all the Oreck and Latin they could mister in a jifetjma. Mothers, give your -dauabters work to perform in iho kitchen. Toll them how things should he done, end then son that •hey do them as yon have orderel them to be done. Every girl should know how to make good bread, cake, pie, &c., how to wash and iron, a'so how to get up a good meal in a neat .and cxneditous manner. They k"»w how to make and mend their own c'othes, and be taught while young to keep their.own room in order.

You should supply your daughters with Bond l-ooks nnd pipers to read at their leisure. Music and fancy Work are also necessary r 'qnir inents to a girl’s education in this day and ago Any nuttier who brings up a daughter without a thorough kn nv'o Ice of the above ia doing great inj.is'i ceto said daughter.

The above branches of education slinu’d co n’oence very early in -ife. D.i not wait tor them to complete their school education. All this can he done while they are attending school, that is. if they do not go away to school. Let your daughter help you anont your work—if you have to go to the kitchen, take her with you. It will be a rood lesson for be l -. Allow her to make a pie, pud-ling, or fry th ■ steak for dinner. I am sure -he will like it, that is if you try to have her think it is for her good. So many mothers think that their daughters are too eonl to wirk in the ki chen. on hat i hureia no nee lof Iheird-mg it. Very well, if there is n v need of their doing homework. I hold that there ia need of t,h ir kn-wing how it is done Riches may take wines as thev often have, and leave them in a hdp’ess condition. Or how can they, as (he mistress of th dr own house, oversee work that, they know nothing about themselves Th ) be'p soon (in is out (hat, (hey do not know as much aknut wo-k as she does h-rse'f, and will soon taka advantage of them in a good many ways. This is why so many young hj msekeepers get discourage I.

If yon want, your daughters to he selfreliant. do not fail to sivo them a' good knowledge of houses'rock. Tench them that no work is beneath them that heo-iines necessary for them to perform, and that whatever is necessa-y for them to da. do it immediately, and i-he-rfuMy. Teach them to 1-e prompt in all business transactions, and to do as thev would he done by, T-ach them 'hat i ih-nesa is a sin. in man Or woman. Teach them to tic hj -nest and truthful, and that whatever is wo-th doing is worth doing well. Tench thorn to he neat in their personal apnearanee. at all times, to keep good company, or none ; to he prudent, virtuous, .ami economical. The-m are th- rnl-s (hat f .am trying in mv

way instil* into two vo-ns An l 1 nm prou-1 to sav that my efforts an far hj ive not. l)*o*i in vain. Tpv them. sUfep*. y rt u who have '1 an "liters. 1 a*n sure if this course i<» rmr-sne-1. vour rlniTih*■«!•« w**l at. *h*3 acre n r 18 he self-reliant. An 1 if they ever mavrv or not. thev will he self •sustaining ns we]] ns o-namental to society, and the pride of their parents.

Onr hrn'hpp 11 R’sz-.*’ hia ccmnarcl ns in nflo-V cf j'lmi'np. over ioi,v T ina r v ha-s Thanks. “hUzp-,” I am i>(d eninj f or nn -rv n’>pnMt ; 1 do no*- think it H-nr'h wliilo; Tam "lad Rome) king hs»-ppn-d to bring voi hire at all. This “Hou«ph-il I ” is RupnoQel to he a hand which pppirples tho world TVk»n one popson i itroducpß s Rid j c f , how absurd it. would he fiw thp o hers to tprji their hacks upon it, pretppding not to hoar what, others werp talking al'npt. How much interest, con'd we pet up, if we took the above course or a’l talked upon difFrent topic-? Oi-cnss tho ou h’v eveiy pid jept tint, conn s up. We will he able *o vet better views by so dointr. and it, will enable us to ! ook at both sides of the picture. ETHKL MAY in the Detroit free Press. Goodrich, Michigan.