WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH OUR DAUGHTERS?

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 160, 21 October 1876, Page 2

WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH OUR DAUGHTERS?

Tench them self-reliance. Teach them to make broad. Teach them to make shirts. Teach them to foot np store bills. Teach them not to wear false hair. Teach them not to paint and powder. Teach them to wear warm thick shoes. Teach them to wash and iron clothes. Instruct them how to make their own dresses. Teach them that a dollar is one hundred cents. Teach them how to cook a good meal of victuals. Teach them every day, hard, practical common sense. Teach them how to darn stockings, and sow on buttons. G-ive them a good, substantial common school education. Teach them to say no, and moan it, or yes, and stick to it. Instruct them to regard the morals, not the money, of beaux. Teach thorn to wear calico dresses, and do it like a queen. Instruct them in all the mysteries of the kitchen, dining-room and parlour. Instruct them to have nothing to do with intemperate and dissolute young men. Teach them that a good, round, rosy romp, is worth fifty delicate consumptives. Teach thorn that the more one lives within his income tire more ho will save. Teach them that the'further one lives beyond his income the nearer he gets to the poor-house. Rely upon it, that-upon your teaching depends iu a great measure, the weal and woe of their after life. Teach them accomplishments—music, drawing—if you have, time and money to do it with. Teach them that God made them in his own image, and that no amount of lightlacing-.will improve the model.

Teach them that a good, steady, greasy, mechanic, without a cent, is worth a dozen oil-pated loafers iirbroadcloth. Instruct them in the. essentials of life —truth, honesty, uprightness—then at a suitable time, let them marry.—“ The Commonwealth. ”