Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1850-09-11
Mrs. Jones Experience. No. 3.

/ Mrs. Jones' Experience. No. 3.
EDUCATED WOMEN AS WIVES AND MOTHERS
FRANCES d.
Come. girls, mere is dozen of us al
the quilt. and we can all hear and think As
Well talk and work: SO now let us have
the tultvator and read T.. +. P.'s article
about !" Educated women as wives and
mothers ''-Fhere. what do you think
about il don't YOU feel that she is right!
| do: | have thought for good many
wears that no class of community would
be much benefited by good educa-
ton as wives and mothers. They are the
teachers of all the children in the land
trough all their most i,npressible years.
and If every mother was well educated.
she could give tone and bias to her
child's mind that no after training, if she
does not lay the foundation. can ever
equal. If all mothers were well learned.
all the world might be with a very little
trouble; for they could give their children
lectures OH chemistry. natural philosophy.
physiology. geology and astronomy, with
every passing day. Washing. churning.
cheese making. bread raising. soap boiling
cake beating. &c, would be practical
illustrations of the theories of chemistry
and philosophy. She could teach physi-
ology while she washed the little feet and
hands, and the child would remember as
easily as he now does the Oft repeated tale,
This pig went to meeting. and that one
stad at home.' the names and signs of
the formation Of his own little structure.
Then, too, when the little group. gather
ed around at eventide, instead of singing
them to sleep with
..lIey diddie diddle, the cats in the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon
she could repeat some of the most beauti.
full tales of astronomy. and point out to
them and tell them the names OF the stars
The rock and woods and hills around
would furnish long stories Of interest 10
the listener, and FIJI up the place now oc-
cupied in It's little head Of mothers muir
muring and discomfort. You can't ge,
time and can't afford the expense! Why
no,9 Did you ever set yourselves really
at work, to see what you could do! DO
YOU learn all you might learn as well as
not now! When the Cultivator comes,
do YOU read it all-all the scientific arti-
ces, all the useful and instructive, or do
you only read the poetry. Aunt Patience 5
letters, or whatever happens in the house.
wfe's department, leaving all the rest to
your brothersl Do you read the scientific
matter in other papers! No, not one in
ten Of you, because you have got the fool
ish notion into your heads, that the stories
and sentiment, the anecdotes and the dis.
as,ers, are all that legally belong to a wo
man. 1t would be quite unladylike and
unrefned TO know what men know, and
the men are not whit more sensible
Any thing that will suit mother. wife. ol
sister, is too soft and sentimental for them
Just as if God ever meant that a family
living under the same roof should have
no feelings. no sympathies, and no ENJOY.
ments in common. Why did he give Us
eyes to see, ears to hear, SO nearly alike
when we are children. if our after life is
TO be SO opposite! tell you. girls, it is
all wrong.
But let we give you little of my ex
{ perience When was young. girls wer.
not educated as much as they are now
was sent to school now and then quar-
ter, to learn to read, write and spell
studied Murray's grammer and Morse
geography. but figures were not though
essential for girls. ! did not bother m
brain with them. But had a brain to b.
bothered and filled. too. with something
All the newspapers | could get hold Q
were ransack ed-poetrv and tales. an,
every thing else. read and carefully re
membered. Every thing in the shape o
narrative that the neighborhood afforded
was devoured before | was fourteen.
was farmers daughter, and cid, be
lieve, about as other girls do-worked
when mother said. and played, when sh
said But the ever varying, never endin,
minuti;r of the house work did not sui
my romance loving spirit exactly; and il
the summer Of my fifteenth year | tol'
mother. that if she would excuse me from
the dish washing. cooking. sweeping am
bed making. would pick and spin all tn
wool. help dry the fruit and assist in th
milking. To this she agreed. and with
pile Of one hundred pounds before me.
set 10 work. | found if | rose early an,
worked fast could do a common dav'
work at picking or spinning in half day
the rest of the time was all my own.
begun my Job in July. and before christina
had all my work done. and it was m
pride to boast that, beside making on
hundred and thirty eight yards Of carpet
ing. linsey. flannel and blankets Il did no
weave.) had read 40 volumes. Now
what were they9 The novels Of Scot
Cooper. and almost every body's els
tlat could get hold of in the neighbor
ing village. where | went almost ever
week. not only boasted of having rea'
them, but Of being able 10 remember tn
name ofevery character, detail every Incl
dent. and carry out every plot ha
borrowed. too. Burns. Byron. Shakespeare
and Moore. and could repea, sixty poem
and songs, learned by laying my book OF
, the window-s;ll, at my wheel head. and re
!. hearse as merrily ,ripped i, to and fro
Every beautiful sentence or sentiments
!, strain was stored away in my crowde
| brain. will not tell YOU any thing abor