The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1842-09-08
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we have now, ny ny Young t'lI Fields, 10 con.
slider the domestic education Of such Of you
as are the daughters of our rich merchants,
successful professional men, or men Of uhe'
rited fortune. If you are so fortunate as to
live in the country, you will probably learn
domestic economy from the necessity Of
your condition. Your opportunities of in.
struc;ion may not be quite equal TO Mary
Bonds, but from the impertectlons Of our
domestic service, from the incompetence Of
domes,ics, and the occasional imposslblity
Of obtaining them-eilher the family wheels
must sometimes stand still, or you must put
your shoulder TO them.
This necessity coming only occasionally,
may seem a great hardship to you. You
will have none Of the facilities that Mary
Bond has acquired from habit, and hall
days ironing, sweeping, and arranging the
bed rooms, laying the tables, and above all,
kneading batch Of bread, will seem Her.
culean labor TO you.
Depend upon ii, that if you are totally g
moran, of domestic affairs, you are nearly as
unfit 10 be an American wife and mother,
as if you were lame in both fee, and hands.
But what shall we say TO those unior!u-
nate young persons. who, bred up in luyurl.
Gus establishments in town, are cut Of! from
all accidental and irresistible opportunities
Of acquiring knowledge of domestic affairs
They are as ignorant Of domestic processes
as is the lilly that neither spins, nor weaves.
Of the modes by which it is more gorgeous
ly arrayed than Solomon in all his glory.
This ignorance is all but al inevitable
misfortune. There is an intrinsic Difficult,
iy in the case. All the arrangements Of a
town establishment, and all the arrange.
men,s Of town life. pre.suppose that The la.
dies Of the house arc 10 do nothing.
Such ladies may bo so fortunate as 10 Sc.
cure competent, wellinstrucled, and faithful
domestlcs, but such are rare birds in our
land and those to whose share they DO no!
fall, must make up their accoun, 20 having
sometimes confusion and disorder in their
establishments, to neglected children, and
dIspIeased husbands 10 find they have been
imposed upon, or what is still more painful,
that they have been unjust to their domes.
tics. How is this 10 be avoided Only by
an all conquering sense of duty on the part
Of the parent, or by the combined sense
aud virtue Of a self training daughter.
To show the disastrous aud Notifying
consequences OF emitting this must hare oil
an American girls education, we publish
extracts from the letter OF an accomplished
friend, who, after keeping house for twelve
years at New York, removed soon after a
commercial crisis, to one Of the Western
States.
After describing the richness and exqu.
site beauty Of the country abou. there, aud
the change IN her husband from extreme
detection 20 cbeerfulness, in consequence Of
the happy change in his pccunlary pros.
poets, she says--"but what does all this a.
vail me am miserable mortified woman.
don't DO alarmed by my language. | have
not yet broken any of the laws of the land,
nor lost my husbands affections, though
arm sure | deserve TO lose them but read on
and pity me. You know, determined 10
be Virtuousiy economical, SO | brough. two