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Temuka Leader, Issue 2351, 3 May 1892, Page 3

How Daughters should be Educated. —To inaugurate an economical fashion is well; only let it be one of prevention, not of cure. To rear a girl in absolute dc - pendcnce, good for nothing, selfish in her aims and exacting in her demands, is a sin against the daughter and against society, To begin at her birth to economise and retrench in every department for the accumulation of money, that this monstrous perversion of her life maybe accomplished and maintained,is grotesque and heathenish. Girls thus trained will fail of attaining _ a high ordey of womanhood. Thuir alms will bepetty, their ideals low, and nothing very excellent can be expected of them in wifehood or motherhood. Let the reform already inaugurated be made fashionable an d be carried on. Let ns begin a system qf economy that will prevent the evil which our author ou|y proposes, to cure, and by an utterly inadequate remedy. While wq carefully guard whatever is in j pur daughters, let thein be tTOn\q<l_ fey in*” pf fibre and self-denial, i| cncm to diqqqud *** + -y circumstances Aucuw*' — 1 n °t to self-indulgence. ■1 , „mn them to be of service in the household, to regard economy as praiseworthy, and even heroic, and to add to all other accomplishments a practical knowledge of work and the possession of some lucrative vocation or industry by which they can support themselves. Such girls, when portionless, will carry to their husbands dowries in themselves. — Mrs Livermore, in North American,