A WORD TO GIRLS

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 140, 1 April 1873, Page 2

A WORD TO GIRLS

Among the most essential accomplishments of a young womau, housewifery takes a very prominent position, and we arc not inclined to admit that any girl has received a good education* unles3 she has learned to be the mistress of ahouse. No matter how well you may have been instructed in all the accomplishments of a finishing school, your education is still unfinished if you are ignorant of household duties ; and whether your position in life bo suck as to demand your actual discharging those duties yourself, or wh ether you have simply to see that they are discharged by otheVs, it is equally important that you should know all about them. You expect to be mistress of home ? Remember, then, that your own comfort und the happiness of your husband depond on jour ability to order that home well. Now, in all probability we are addressing those in humblo circumstances. Very likely you will have to work hard with your o.vn hand* to make your homo an attractive place. Well, learn how to do this Perhaps we are speaking to those who may marry man of competence and wealth. Well, a knowledge of good housewifery is essential to you, otherwise you must rely entirely upon your servants, and instead of being mistress in your own house, will only be a guo3t ; your life made miserable by careless and neglectful domoatics, who miposo upon your ignorance. ' In order to become acquainted with your household duties, enter upon them now. You say you* are occupied. You are engaged in study, or yoiraro learning a business. Persevere m either ciwo by all means, bit recollect that tho regular performance of special duties in the houso will form an excellent reliof. To feel that tho houso is tidier &r our etForts, and the comfort of our family increased, is the surest warrant of content and cheerfulness. Find some household work to do, und do it regularly. Loam to help yourselves, and 10 be independent of all circumstances. I " Were Tas rich as Cvcesiti," says a modern writer, "my girls should havo something to do regularly, ju9t as soon aa , they became old enough to do anything. They should, in tho j first place, make their own bed and take care of tboir owa room. They should dress each oilier. My policy would bo, as tlio girU grew up, to assign to them special dutie j , first, in one part of the house, then in another, until they should become thoroughly acquainted with all." A thoughtful girl looks beyond the present ; she knows and feels that the glory of her life is to do something and to bo something. Possibly Home of our readers may havo formed the jdea that emo and personal enjoyments aro the ends of life. This is wrong : development m tho broadest sense, and in the highest direction, is tho end of life. You may find ease with it, and a great deal of long experienco of splf-denial. You have gob a good position to maintain ; 1011 havo got to take a load of care upon your thoulders and to bear it through life. You have got n character to maintain ; and let us hope that you mnv ha\o the heart of a husband to cheer, and tho intellect and affection of children to develop. Solf-enjoymcnfc is not for you, you have a great work to do, and if you have a spark, of the true fire in you, your beart3 will respond to these word*. Yon are not called upon to cccupy a prominent position before tho world, but you aro called upon toexerci«ethat homo influence which shail make tho world better. Remain where Heaven places you. Somo of the noblest conquests havo been achieved in a humblo homo. Wo would urge upon yon then to begin life with right idea 3 about it. Life is a real and earnest thing; it has homely duties, painful passages, and a load of care. Cultivate the will and the wish to meet it with a- womanly spirit. Your imagination may clothe tho future with gold and purple, but all thia will fado as you approach, and everything will wear its own natural aspect when touched by experience. Then, if tlieso ideas of life's reality lime no place in you, you will be forced to acquire thorn sternly and painfully. Learn them you must. Begin, then, to take up life's duties now. Learn somothiug of what life i», before you enter on its graver responsibilities ; endeavour to tram yourself for tho dischnrgo of its' duties, that you may at last acquit them after the pattern of that good wife, of whom the inspired author writes — "Strength and honour are her clothing, and eho shall rejoice in timo to cpme.."

"As fo lsi?iiig conflicted il h the gout," said Mrs Partington, " high livmy doi'Mi't always bring it on. It is incoherent in some families, and ia handed down fiom father to son Sir Ilanirni?!*, poor soul, w>>o h.is been so long ill ivitK ■it, disinherits it from hu wife's grandfather." '• Mike, wbv don't you fire nt those ducks ? Don't you sec jou liavo got tho wliolo iJock btforo your gui ? "—"" — " I knqw, 1 had j but you see, when 1 get a (?ooU aim «t one, two oithree othiM-i will buim ri£jhfc 'twixt him and mo." A populai'Vdoetor m Oswcgu, N V., gave a prescription with directions to '• t i\ » .1 toaapoouful every throo '•Tlic paUmt rcaoveri'l.

Wiiow-suu, UxEcvTtQM isiCms\i Tkrbe Tiiots^o Beheaded by O:rc Man.—' 1 One hundred bamboo cages v anted l " Such was the form of an- order issued a shbrfc -v, time ago from the office of the Chow Yang district ma^is-, -trato neai 1 Suafcow. Thd plain meaning was that about that number was beheaded, and tlio batnboq worker* were roquired to furnish the requisite means of convoying the victims to the execution ground. The- oeoasiou of this hecatomb wa3 the presence of General Pang, who b) special commission is meting out justice to delinquents in the distract indicated of twenty and f'uifcy year a standings » well a4to those of quite recent date During tho'tirae of tlieftabel'on, that ptrfc of Chin v wAn thrown into, a state of general misrule and judicial rosfiHifcn Tie civil mandarins were often sat at defiance, erqn by villages which had not participated I m insurrection, but whose clan ties and clau feuds made them unwilling to admit an outside umpire, to regulate their social relations and rights. And so cases went on accumulating. Murders wore committed ; feuds were pursued with blouh strife ; taxes wero withheld, and tax collectors beaten and driven away; violence and lawnessnoss reigned supreme It is, however, a noticeable characterise of Chinese civil admimstration that, though tho cv il representatives of the Imperial Gowrnmenf were powerless either to punish or protect, they did not allow themsolyes to forget these tiling. A note was carofully m a do ol every lawless act and of its perpetrators And wlien peace was restored ebovvhere, a general who had mado for himself a name in the north was sent down to Lw own native district to " soothe " his old neighbours and acquaintance* And he has " soothed" largo numbers of them, for tluylwuo mado no disturbanceof any kind smco they passed undo.- his hands— and never tt ill. General P.mj h ai been engaged m this task over three years lie liar. ;i heavy military forco always attending him, and t.ie arrests anJ executions are really niilitnry executions, notwithstanding the usual form of trial before tho civil magistrates precedes the tragedy. It was a melancholy procession that wended its way to the parade-ground outside the city shortly after tho appearance of the significant notice • above referred to It so happened that only eighty of the cages wero used, the remainder being kept in reserve, for tho prisons are yet full. The victims, on arriving at the Aceldama, were placed in long rows, tho men in each raw boms; some ton fcoL apart, so us to furnish plenty of room for the agile executioner nfter leaving ono to get a good swing of hi* blade before coining to another. Wh-n all wero arranged, and relays of swords or choppers were placed at suitable intervals along the lino— for the executioner uses a fresh ono for every, half-dozen men— the horriblo work oomnienced, and the fellow went bounding and d.incmg down, one row and v,, another, whacking off a human head nt every fall of the bloody elotivor The scene we have attempted dimly to shidow forth h more sugge.tive of the slaughter of hogs in those large Ampncm eatabhslunenti where they mako away witk a thousand a day. But for celerity, that one Chinaman can surpass any guillotine thnt over* was made. During tho past three years General Pang has beheaded some 3000 at least, nnd nearly all tlu n ork htvs been done by tho ono man— a short, stout-built fellow, with a hawk nose'thnt well bcQts his calling. llis history is curious enough. One day, a year ago, Pang had a file of rebels kneeling beforo him for execution. The executioner began, and was bungling in a horrible way. The hawk-nosed follow was down the line awaiting Ins turn. He was used to such scenes and did not quail. Lie watched tho bungler for a few turns, and then cillcd in a loud voice to Pang to know if they were all to bj hacked in that manner, and then adlcod to bo released, and he would show them how to do it. Pang was atruck with Jus audacity, and ordered his request to be complied with, lie went at it and mado short work of it, then throw ins; down tho sword and resuming his kneeling po3ture, he called upon them to finish bum. " No," said Pang, " that man is too useful - r I want lam myself ; " and so ho was spared, and a bloody career he has since led. BLOOISG NOT 80 BVD A GIMB A3 PEOPLE THINK.— -A nig.it or two ago J^says the correspondent of a Liverpool paper) I found myself in the company of an individual who considers himself quite an authority on tho management of gaols and workhouses. I may as well bo candid ; he was in a police lock-up for bogging— nothing else ; for, as he told me aifcerwards, " I'd rather starve than steal. If I couldn't jjet an honest livin' without stealm', why I'd lie down and flio " " How many gaols have I been m?" he said, in reply to my inquiry o:i that' delicate subject. '• Why, ammy " Counting on hn fingers—" Durham, three times, n month ; Northallerton, fourteen days ; Wakefield, a month ; Gloucester, a month; that place* where the biggest goose fair in inland is (Nottingham), a month ; Ecading, a month ; Colchester, a month (for beggiug, and I wanted mom, and I Sue a fellow a blow m the eye, and I got three moiltll3 more for that); Liverpool, 11 days ; Manchester, 14 dava ; Swansea, 10 days ; nnd Morpeth, in the North of England, a month. I cannot remember any more." I hinted that the list was tolerably complete, arid that ho needn't troublo further. He had established hia claim to be an authority. " How did I get in ? Why, nothing but beting. Sundays is tho best day. I got sixteen shillings in Raading once on a Sunday. You see there's a'great many poople about on Sunday, and they mostly have coppers. ' Tho best gaol in all England is Morpeth; Colchester is a good 'un, you get more exercise there I never work on account of my arm, you see. At Wakefield, I sent for the ofllcer and asked for my hard labour. I had been sent to hard labour, and I w ould have it." " What did he say » " " Why, ho slapped the door in my face. Durham is a bad place ■ you get no bed there but boards for a month, and dry bread too. Liverpool 13 another bid 'un ; yon won't got much there. But I'd sooner bo in the worst gaol in England than the bo-t workhouse. The unions are tho d In a gaol, if a body is wishing about he can do well. The officer will guc htm ft bit of 'baccy, and ho can go into all the cells when the prisoners are at exercise, and get ' chuck.' " Sly question as to his religion did not talto him aback nt all. " I was u ' Catlik ' once, but I soon fouivl out that wouldn't do " " Why?" "Because you don't; get out to church an hour every day, and two hours- on a Sunday. Iee been a Church o' England amce." My informant had an apparent dread of workhouses. In answer to his appeal as to what else he could do but bug, 1 hinted that as ho could not work, the union was his pl»ce. Ho knew better than that " I'se generally moro content in my mind in a gaol," he said, " and I reckon ,>ou get more to eat in a prison if you can only get in for four months." According to my friend's account, begging is not so " bad a game as people think." The doleful countenance, tho shirtless trunk, and shoeless feet, are part of tho " get up," as mucli as tho threepenny lodging-housea arc places of meeting, whero note 3 are exchanged, and tho weaknesses and idiosyncracies of householders arc discussed. Tho little story of Wukeficld Gaol and hard labour is instructive. Fancy tho bewilderment of the olllcial when tho prisoner demanded his " haH labour " Tho irony of the situation is instructive, especially to visiting justices. Germax EutGnvxrov— Tin decreo of the Emperor of Germany prohibiting the Prussian Railroad Companios from transporting emigrant passengers unless full rates aro paid both for them and their bag»as;e, is intended to check tho trade of emigration which is flowing towards the United State* from all part 3 of Germany. That this arbitrary increase of the Co3t of railroad transportation will not even temporarily check tho trade of emigration is apparent from the single fact that tha advance in wastes throughout Germany since tho closo of the war against France places the mechanical and agricultural classes in a better condition to pay the increased fares than they wero a few years ago to pay tho -educed rates. No person who has roally resolved to seek his iortuuei in another land wil b? prevonted from doing so by t,hn advance m passenger and freight charges. Indeed, tk'e ch vices aro that it »vill only fire the people with a still deeper hatred of the arbitrary policy that would thus attempt to shut them out from all hopes of tho better future to which they aspire. There is also another consideration. It is by no mains improbablo that the determination of tho Government of Germany to throw all possible obstacles in tho way of emigration, and the penalties liaugingovor those who may in this wav evade the laws of military sorvico, may lead to senotM complieitions between the Governments of tho Unit- 1 States ani Germany at no distant period. Recent aviuiits from Germany oucur in representing that it is tho intention of tho Government of that country to enforce, no in itter at what periol of time, tho full penalties of tho conscription la.v against all persons who may return to their nitivo country. If this raonm American adopted citizens travelling in Germany aro liablo to bo thrust into gaol as a piinishinp-it of offences of wliic'i international or treaty law likes no cogiiz.ince, then there could be no question as to the duty of our Government tb protect them at all hazards. It involves tho whole principle of the right of persons to select thoir nationality, which has been always maintained by tho Government of tho United State 3, which involved us in ono great war, and which ha 3 been finally and fully concolei by tho Government of Great Britain, tho most tenacious Government in tho world on that point. .For the reif, this anti-emigration decreo of the Emperor of Germany affords another evidence, if any were needed, of tho neglert, evon by tho most enlightened Governments, of the leach ings of history as embodied in tho plainest principles of political economy. For it is manifestly no less absurd to make iron and woollens artificially dear than it is to make radroa'l freights artificially dear ; and tho people and Government that raise a Chineso wall against the free movement of commodities should bo tho very fist to batter down tho s-arcoly less preposterous barrier against the free movoment of population. Dr. Biuchit'B Phosmiodtwe.— Multitudes of people aro hopelessly »uffering from Debility, Nervous and Liver Complaints, Depression of Spirits, Delusions, Unfllnoss for Business or Stmtv, Failure of Hearing, SigVt, and Memory, Lassitude, Wnnt of Power, "<fcc , whoso cases admit of permanent cuao by tho new remedy Phosphochne (Oxomc O-cygen), which at once allays «ll irritation ami excitement, imparts ,new energy and hfo to the enfeebled constitution, and rapidly cures every B fag<> of these hitherto incurable ahd distressing maladies. Sold W all Chemisls n n,l Storekeepers- tlirougout thu -eolonic*, from whom pamph'ets containing twlimoiiials-may tool>faincd-"Cau-tion-' Bo particular Jo nsk. for I)r, Wright's. Phosphodyne, -n imirntioni are nbroa/l; and rvoiU «p,urehosing Bindc bottles, tfio gonulna articlo being sold hi caicb only.— Am.

bffZS^f^ I \ ai ° 80b0)J ' their Ju,a W t.ai,i SlhoLff ff f' C ? whvteVLr - The only books toad the fZ ?H I , W;," ' • W 'V ch coniam - as a fa* *"<« trough i the Fourth and 1-mh rtoruimg Rooks will °h.nv, difficult lessons on Polled ISoonouiy, Woadora of .Science, S.iW thetngliahclasBics-.Shakespe.ire, Milton, Pope, AcUi^ou, Jo. Parents need not wonder, therefore, that pupils iv P m PCr f rTv, OCCaS r allyfail in rcadi W. fo/ wh a t is read must be tboroa K b]y audeiatood. Af,o extensive reding 13 required. We Bad that ihoae of our clde? pupils iyho are accustomed to read n newspaper, are iv put o geneial mtelligenco vastly superior t ) their leas fortunate class mates. Linked as we are by electric telegiaph to the wlwlo civilised world, ono is inclined to' wonder that any family should be without a paper, especially now that the cost , „ .o little." We quite endorse Air ieavaea argument that the school education of any child must prot'itt* v«y slowly when there is no home training to assist it, for there is no doubt that by far the greater part of the knowledge on general subjects acquired byehJdjen isobtamcd from answers given to questions put by the child, en themselves, to the adults with whom they aie constantly brought in contact in the family circle Any boy of common smattness m reading a newspaper must meet with a good deal that will interest him and stimulate his cuuosity, and with a good deal that will puzzle him, and if theie are those around him who are able to answer, oi even attempt to answer the questions that the poruaal of a newspaper will prompt a lad to ask, there is no doubt that he v.ill quickly improve in general intelligence. WheiiTfteinistocles went to Androa, to demand a loan of money, he saul, " I bring two gods with me, Force and ±\!i'Buasion. —He was aptly nmwered, "Wo h^vo two stronger, Want aad Impossibility." A Memphis papor dclinea adverfcismqto be "bh-tor* which draw customerd " Never mirry a woman till you know «hme her dres& ends and Jior soul begins.