Juliet signal., 1847-08-10
= sue From the Chicago Cavalier:
TRe Home Education of Girls. -

we are not a bachelor, but have attain:
ed to the state of double blessedness; and
not Only so, but the honors ofhis Respect.
able position have been sincs adtanced
biehnialy in regular geonstrical progres:
sion, We may, therefore, presume upon
a right to speak Of the Home Education
ofyourg girls and young ladies. Now il.
is our deliberate beliefth the course ,oc
female education at the present day, is
radically defective: the great end, being,SS
not to make intelligent GsefH, and agree-;
able members OF society. bltt fine ladies'.
tromthe time the child leaves The nurses
srms till il blossoms into cwomanhood, all
efforts, in far too many cases, are direct3
ed solely TO this results The cultivation
OF the affections; the discipline of the
mental powers; and q practical and thor.
ough preparation fof actrkl duties, are
too generally esteemed of secondary iu-
Portance, compared with the external
graces which are to make figure in soci-s
ETY.. And weak fond mothers, never feel.
so grati6ed as when their daughters ara
able to exhibit the airs and faunt in the.
plumage of fashionable fine ladies'. If
lbe world in which young ladies are after
wards to move, were an ideal world, as
many OF them seem to imagine,-if wo-.
manhood brought with it no cares; if
friends were always to smile, and hutter,
and caress, and life had no stern realities,
then all this might be well enough. But
it is not So. And many one the SPELL,
which at this blissful period promised but /,
golden blessings in The future, has been
abfdpty broken, only to reveal 70, them,
in the bitterness of grief, how poorly the .
ideal qualified them to enforce the Gctual.
The silliest ofaIl nations that ever en-.
tered the minds of young ladies and of
their nammas; is, that it is disreputable
to be acquainted with any habits of useful
industry. In this country. at least, where
few parents can hequeaih to their daugh-
ters, large fortunes; and where few bus.
bands can support them in idleness this,
Of all others, is the most Ridiculous phan-'
tasy. There is certainly no reason in
the nature Of things, why young ladies'
should notbe trainedto Industrious habits
in such duties as are fittinigly theirs, than :
there is that young man should not. Yet
many mothers, who are fully aware oflhe
absurdity Infringing up ptheir daughters in
idleneSs, wear out their own lives in will
ling slavery, that their daughters may
have the fashionable acquisition of not
knowing any useful employm. mt. q
This is short-sighted and mistaken ten.
derness.- .-if, daughters are left witho6.
supporters, win their tender nuturina q.
vail ofeed, and clothe. and protect thlsmq
J Or, in 9 more fortunate event, will it give
the foresight, the prudence. the skill which
the. duties of nature life demand! Depend
upon it, fair readers, however much more
accomplishments may command to the
admiration Of the ifatterers, yet few sem
sible men want wives merely as orna-
ments to their household establishments,
but as companions and help mates in the
duties and cares which inevitably devolve'
upon tbem.s u35s 0 s'aen'.e 'e''
What is their in the habits Of Industry
that need necessarily affect unfavorably
the accomplishments of a young iadyl
Any thing that should make them think
meanly, or act unworthy Any thing that
should produce Fudeness Of Conversation
or awkwardness of manners7 Any thing
that should, in any degree, blunt their pre-
centions Of what is correct in taste. or