The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1885. EDUCATION OF GIRLS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 98, 28 March 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1885. EDUCATION OF GIRLS.

I A southern exchange Writing upon the question of the proper education of girls remarks that it is rather sin-y gnlarihal while th«re ere no moire boys who have graduated m qur public sohools who. aspire to the position of teachers than are actually required, there should be such a plethora~of girls that it is impoiSfiible to find billets for them all. It seems to be a feature of colonial life that girls should almost invariably have a nredilection for such callings as are the yerv reverse of domestic. To serve m shops, to work m millinery and dressmaking establishments, or to teach m schools, ajppeai;s to be the height of their ambition, -while domestic, service is regarded as a species of drudgery infinitely beneath them. But any sensible man. who desires a true helpmeet for himself would vastly prefer a young woman wiio has had the advantage of n few 'yours service ?n jtvfjll-c«o)dncted family t linn a .more, dot! who cannot cook :i ii'itjittV, mid .hiis no. ulaa of how to manage ii'hoiisohold. tJirls are none ( the worse for being well educated, but their eduoation becomes rather a

curse than a blessing, if m eouse— • quence of the absence of domestic training it unfits them for the proper discharge of their duties as wives and mothers. Such was' not ; the case before the invention of* State School system, but since that has been m vogue the number of real housewives has become small by^ degrees and "mournfully lessT l^h'e evil . manifestly exists ; its appropriate cure we confesß our inability to suggest.