The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-07-29

Jul yOuhS gins 10 speId their tim
between the public streets, the ball roor
and the toilet; and worst of all, it lead
them TO contract engagements, without an
knowledge of their own hearts, merely 70
the sake OF being married as soon as thei
companions. When married, thew flint
themselves Ignorant Of the important duties
OF domestic life and its quiet pleasure
soon grow tlresome to minds worn out bv
frivolous excitements. If they remain un
married, their disappointment and discon
tent are IN proportion to their exaggerated
ldea OF the eclat attendant upon HAVING :
lover. The evil increases in STARTLING ra
ito; for these girls, so injudiciously ed1cat
ed, Will, nine times out of ten make iniu
dlclous mothers, aunts, and friends: thu,
ioilies will be accumulated unto the thirC
and fourth generations. Young ladies SHOULD
! be taught that usefulness is happiness, an,
that all other things are but Incidental
( with regard to matrimonial speculations
they should be taught nothing! Leave the
affections to nature and truth and all VIII
end well. How many can | at this moment
recollect, who have made themselves IN.
happy by marrying for the sake of the name
Of being married.
! One great cause of the vanity, extrava-
gance, and idleness that are so fast grow
ing upon our young ladies', is the absence
of domestic education. By domestic educa-
ton do not mean, the sending daughters
into the kitchen some half dozen times, to
weary the patience of the cook. and to
boast Of the next day in the parlor. I mean
two or three years with q mother, assisting
her IN her duties, instructing brothers and
sisters, and taking care of their own clothes.
This is the way to make them happy as
well as good wives for being early accus-
toned to the duties of life, they will sit
lightly as well as gracefully upon them.
But what time DO modern girls have for
the formation of quiet, domestic habits !?
Until sixteen they go to school-sometlmes
these years are judiciously spent, and some
| times they are half wasted-too often they
are spent in acquiring the elements of a
/ thousand sciences, without being thorough
ly acquainted with any,-or in variety of
accomplishments of very doubtful value to
moderate fortune as soon as they leave
school, land sometimes before,) they begin
a round of balls and parties, and staying
with gay young friends. Dress and fiat
terry take up all their ghts-What time
have they to learn to be useful What time
have they to cultivate the still and gentle
affections, which must in every situation of
life have such an important effect on wo-
mans character and happiness?
AS far as parents can Judge what will be
a daughters station, education should be
adapted to it; but it is well to remember
| that it is always easy TO know how to spend
riches, and always safe to know how to
bear poverty. A super fetal acquaintance
with such accomplishments as music and
drawing is useless and undesirable. Fksg
should not be attempted unless there is
taste, talent, and time enough to attain ex-
cellence. have frequently heard young
women of moderate fortune say, 81 have
not opened my piano these five years.
wish | had the money expended upon it,
1t had employed as much time in learning
useful things, | should have been better
fitted for the cares of my family"
BY these remarks | do not mean to dis
courage an attention to the graces of life.
Gentility and taste ale always lovely in all
situations But good things, carried to ex-
cess, are often productive of bad cohse-
quenceS. When accomplishments and dress
interfere with the duties and permanent
happiness of life, they are unjustiiable, and
dlspleasing but where there is solid founda-
ton in mind and heart, all those elegancies
are but becoming ornaments.
Some are likely to have more use for them
than others; and they are justified in spend
ing more time and money upon them. But
no one should be taught to consider them
valuable tor mere parade and attraction.
Making the education of girls such series
OF Man-traps," makes the whole system
unhealthy by poisoning the motive.
ANATOMICAL DESCRIPTION OF TIE FOOT
OF A CHINESE FEMALE. The foot, of
which an account is here given, was OBJ
tanned from the dead body OF female found
floating in the river at Canton, and had all
the character of deformty consequent upon
the prevailing habit of early bandaging, for
the purpose of checking It's natural growth.
From the heel to the great toe, the length
of the foot measures only four inches; the
great toe is bent abruptly backwards, and
| its extremity pointed directly upwards,
while the phaanges Of the other toes are
! doubled in beneath the sole of the foot,
having scarcely any breadth across the foot
where it is usually broadcast. The heel,
/ instead Of projecting backwards, descends
in straight line from the bones of the leg,
and imparts singular appearance to the
! foot, as if it was kept in "a state Of perma-
nent extension. From the doubling-in Of
the toes into the sole of the foot, the exter-
nal edge of the foot is formed, in a grea
measure, by the eXtremities of the metarsa
bones and deep cleft, or hollow, appears
in the sole, across its whole breadth. From
the diminutve size Of the foot, the height o
the instep, the deficiency of breadth, anC
the density of the cellular texture, all at
temDts to walk with so deformed foo
must be extremely awkward and in orde
to preserve an equilibrium in an erect posi-
ton, the body must necessarily be bent for
ward with Il painful effort, and with a yer
considerable exertion of muscular powers.
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