The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-09-21

- ~ "a "u' S"uiSOs luhl Sucu tNll Is gftHuJ
developed by indiscriminate association, is
lamentably true, but that il is more true orthe
society Of boys and girls than of either aepa-
rately, experience will not prove to be the
case. That boys possess any monopoly Of sin,
their respective parents at least will he slow to
admit, Whence do girls derive improper no.
tions or habits! Is not from unrestrained
intercourse with other cirs7 And are boys
who grow up without the habitual influence
of the softer sex, to be remarked FOR pr'priety
or deicacy Of character? The actual fact, as
exhibited where the fashionable monasticism
Of the day has not yet obtained, is, that girls
and bows are restraint upon each other, and
less frivolity, less ;mpropriety and less rude
ness prevails between them than when re-
stricted to their own society.
1t excites sense Of the ludicvous, mingled
with regret, to witness the anxious care Of
mothers, lest their children should be brought,
however transiently, into contact with boys,
and that under the eye Of a teacher--when a
moiety-of the same vigilance exerted to pre-
serve them from unrestrained association with
their own playfellows, would erect safeguard
around the gentIeness, purity and truth Of their
little ones, now unhapply too often wanting
Boys are eboisterous-thanks 10 the system Of
home-troining whirh allows them the too un-
limited exercise of muscle, lungs and will,
and denies 10 their sisters the healthiul one Ol
either. They are often rude, but will they
become less so by herding together without
the soGtening influence which, from the cradle
to the grave, will assert its quiet dominion
whenever its natural and legitimate exercise
is permitted.
The point in question takes deeper hol'
upon the fabric of the social constitution thai
at first appears. Men and women are, unde
{, niably, interded to find their happiness, an
their highest sphere of usefulness in each 9th
er,s society. Is it then rational to suppose
y that an entire system of training, which care
= fully excludes each from the acquaintance an
> participation in the pursuits, enjoyments an
aims of the other, is calculated TO produc
: the most satisfactory results either OF happ
: ness or usefulness. The artificial fashion {
: society is the universal subject Of complain
it would seem that the artificial system OF 90
ucation has something to do with it. Con
70 pare the position OF girls undcr.the egtimat
- effect OF each mode of training, when prepare
= to enter upon the realities of life, The bah
y belle Of the promenade is taken in full dro
> to see her 'beau,' learning with her first llsI
" inus, that some peculiar relation exists b
" tween her and her 'lite husband' She is,
O' due time, sent to school, and by parent, nur
o' and teacher is taughttO regard boy as XII
., of ogre, except when she occasionally NEE
~ HIM at a chiIdren's patty, or s'lree-whe'
GU nature and circumstances combining to reno
them mutually agreeable, she takes, oil
lrt own vanity, lessons in juvenile cOquetry
m afTectasion. At tthe bOarding-school she beg
- to rebel at the necessary, but TOO often va
ne, rules of restraint and hnds the interdlc'
ty, note. message, flower, delightful-and, II 60
er- sense and DrovideDtial circumstances PreV'
BILE greater folly, she emerges into l'te prepal
'ir- to find her happiness in some bein whom
nd fancy has invested with superhuman exc
of ence, and for intimate acquaintance W
Ch whom she is indebted to morning calls, e
ron MING dances and summer excursions. w
de wonder, then, at the mutual disaPpoln'm
OF which too often results from the Ignorance
ng, each of the tastes, sensiblites, habits OF Il
/ it inn snbiects of thought and modes OF acl
of the other. Is not common reason s'ron
fe, in favor of one who, accustomed to simple
,or- tural intercourse with the pIaytellows ol
, in brothers, forms understanding friendship
in, both classes Of her older companions, ana
nos ters upon life without the excitement oil
tact entire change Of her habitual society
per, The advantages Of a common intelec
'no" culture are too numerous and too lmPor
} all to be noted here, but are certainly worm.
liter especial attention. That great chang
'Ied the present mode of education could no
ools effected without some immediate undeslr
male results, is mora than probable-but that
CHI experiment of training boys and girls tOge
vim even in the face of the PrOjudices OF So
un- n, the present time, will prove abundf
seen satisfactory to the watchful teacher, IS lh'
that ~..;nnoo or CORNWALL
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