The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1839-08-08
TRUTH AND FALsEHooD.

Every school girl now acquires GER
tain facility a. talking French. Mira. Har-
tell was educated before this was consi.
dered one Of the necessaries Of polite hte.
and she set an undue value upon IL. She
wen, abroad, 10 use commercial phrase,
without capital. and consequently return
ed as poor as she went In palmer Lam
guage, she acquired taste only for that
TO which ART gives false gloss and lash
ion fictitious value, q love for the friyo-
lities that float on the surface Of society
in the French capital, and for the usages
that belong to highly artificial state Of
society; usages about as well adapted 10
our stage in the progress Of civilization
as an ottoman is TO The growing, bound
ing child. or lard.mayors coach 10 our
western hunting grounds. Instead Of
training her children TO tho sigour neces.
ssry 10 endure and resis. our rugged Gle
mate, she immured them alternately in
the nursery and in French boarding
school. Instead Of allowing their per-
sons 10 expand in obedience TO The laws
of nature, the beautiful work Of God was
marred, and the frames lesrfully and won-
derfully made were given over 10 French
milliners and tailors. But worse than
! this: Instead Of learning 10 speak laeir
own homely Saxon, in the phrases con-
secrs,ed by the domestic usages of cen
turtles, they mus, FIRST lisp in foreign ac-
cents, laugh, by French servants. Even
Mrs. Harlell might have perceived The
folly of a Frenchwoman permitting her
/. children TO take their FIRST lessons on that
most delicate, =" most cunning instru-
! ment." language. from an American ser
want; but it never occurred 10 her that the
care Of the French servant teacher was
worse, inasnuch as The opportunities OF
education, moral and intellectual. for the
lower classes abroad are inferior 10 those
accessible TO parallel classes al home.
But, unhsppily, these were not Mrs.
Hsr,elrs most serious mistakes. She
, never even thought Of preparing The
minds and manners Of her children for
, the state Of society in which they were
10 live. or Of adapting her own conduct q
! the actual duties Of her condition. Among
other necessary effects Of this faulty was
,he disorder and misrale which w Our
domiclliary visits fall more particularly
under our observation.
Mt. Har,ell was . man Of good moral
, instincts, but very lille moral culsivasion,
) He bu. half concealed from his children
his con.emp, for their mother. and not o
Q all his dslestalion OF her French iavori,es
y He very early took a liking 10 Lucy Lee
!. He perceived that his boy. his idol. SCOT
preferred her TO Adele. and he knew M
- preferences OF child are unerring. III
+ anwarily expressed in Adele's presenc
n his superior confidence in Lucy. Lucy
!. sweet qualities, and thoroughly tried the.
|. were, won the love Of The li,le girls
'e which they constantly manifested mus
y TO their mothers annoyance. by preiel
in ring Lucy on all occasions 20 Adele. A
n,, this. OF course, CALLED Adele; but wh'i
'r, her mistress was her champion she ie
|; quite safe, and she was no, insensloie
h, The advantage Of having young gltl
II. Lucy's capacity and good temper uPo
so whom she miehi impose her duties WV
he out her incident mistress giving nesss
.hi The trouble 20 reprovs. or even 70 nos'
q her injustice. Blu. there were occasion !.
in when che felt the presence Oh nis 'ss'