The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-01-23
ACCOMPLISHMENTS.


ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
1t is The grand defect Of The science of fe.
male education in this country that it is too
much the science of mere BEHAVIOR 1t aims
too much at mere accomplishments. ncg!ccts
that which is lasIingy useful, and tends to
produce hcarlless, artificial character. 1t
is true there are endless "'ologies" in which
The ladies now delight: plenty of arts and
sciences, which fashion mists they must be
fought, and of dialects which they 1--we to
Pallcr; but it is for show not for service. we
fear that these things arc learned. With
all our respect for them, we must say we
deem the moulding of the heart, the cdnca-
ton of the chvuctcr, to be infinitely more
important. Tho mothers Of the most ceIe-
brated men have been far more remarkable
for strength Of character than for genius or
requirement. strength of character. which
Is not incompatible with femeninc softncss
oficelng. This education Of ofcharactcr does
not at all preclude intellectual EDUCATION;
we only ask that women should learn 70
use their minds as well as their memories,
and The heart keep up that communication
which in modern bellies, is as irregular as
tho transmission Of the mails"
All systems, however hy which Young
women are fought TO move their limbs ac-
cording to the rule of art. ,n enter room
with studied difiidcncc, and 10 scat them.
selves in chair with measured action and
studied grace, should be utterly explodcd:
Tor they are only calculated TO keep perpctu-
ally TO their minds the degrading idea that
they are preparing for the great market of
the world. Real proprIcty of dcmcanor
springs only from the mind; fashionable
schools teach but its counterfeit. while they
forbid to be ingenious. in such places the
whole of early life is spent in getting rid Of
nature, and in the requirement of arlfice,
till tho heart and mind arc no more like that
for which they were at first intended, than
the tree which some laborious cit has train.
cd into the shape of 4 peacock Is like that
which has grown up III all the vIgotous lux
uriancc Of its native forest. Some minds
there arc by nature so strong and elastic rs
to rebound from tho pressure of such an
education into TIC region of natural enthusi-
as.n and innocent true hcartcdEcss, bnt the
mass arc so moulded that they arc PASTE
board, whalcbonc and buckram things, crca-
lures of putlery and arlifcc. whose every
word, look, and act, every thing they do. is
but a trick of custom. Well has ii been said
OF one who finished her education" at such
an establishment, that "wlcn she marrIrs
her days OF happiness arc gone" The tran:
sicnl ornaments Of youth pass away, and no
solid attainment remains to supply tier
place Neglected time returns to take long
years of vengeance for the hours that have
been lost. She has learned nothing. she
knows nothing, and she is nothing. In the
meantime her husband wakes to sec the
the truth: he may not use her III, lie may nns
rcproach her: but lie may and must re-
gard her as an insect buzZlng over his
path, adding noliing TO his happiness, some
times hardly attracting his notice, never
admitting her as counsellor in his plans,
often mortified when they 20 Iuto company,
and never amused, or iatcrcstrd, III the
least degree, when they arc left a'one.-
They are paired, not matched; they endure
life: they never cnj"y it. The parlor Of
such a woman is rs cold as sepulchrc.
She is dependent wholly on company. Sta
has no home. She passes her days in exile.
Yankee Bhmlc.
The ST. Louis Republican states that tho
district in that city, laid waste by the recent
conllagralion, have been almost entirely
built up.
MIR. 'opway, the Indian Chef, lost his
daughter at New York on Saturday last.
Che was but four and half years old, died
Of typus fever.
Ifa printer dreams of starving to death,
it forclokcns an abundance "pI."