Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-07-31

grading idea constantly present TO the mind OF the OBJ
serving and intelligent, that her parents preparing
their daughter for the great market of the world Real
elegance springs from the mind, andi an innate quail
ty of nature these fashionable manners are but base
limitations which, while they repress righteousness
and those natural impulses which are so lovely in the
young, graft upon the mind bastard progney the evil
influences of which, no can measure.
To attain high degree of mental culture, it is me-
cessary that there should be much
out 1t, little good can be done. 1t arduous and
pans-takng task, not less the pupil than the pa
rent. The body well the mind will be exhausted
under discipline where thorough learning is intend
cd to be impaired Hence are favorable to larg
er outdoor license than is usually permitted let the
pupils parake of every active exercise not absolutely
unfeminine and their being able to get in and
out of carriage with light and graceful step, which
no training accomplish. Let them retire early
and rise early, and we will venture that their beauty
will need artificial appliances in order to win for
them smile or insure for them welcome into any
room. Let them ride, run dance in the open air let
them roic among flowers, and under proper guidance,
let them carry into the open fields the botany and lux
urate amid the magnificent wonders of Nature. This
will draw them from the of tortureas the south
school rooms caled-from the map, the globe,
the blackboard and the grammar and the physical Or
ganization is developed the body braced and made
flexible by exercise the mind given rest and the health
improved.
We know that such course ofstudy as this, would
were it dictated to few fashionable mothers for their
dear daughters, throw them into spasms and schem-
ing fathers would denounce ridiculous, and forth
with commence counting the cost Butwe don't care to
talk to such people. We speak to the intelligent por
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trustees there educated, practical 1t is to
them would speak. Let them advance the stand
ard of scholarship and with heroism worthy the i'm
portant position they fill before this community,
their faces against the folly that has seized on the pub
lie mind. They know, some of them do that it is
impossible for any young lady to achieve any really
valuable scholastic education in thirty months That
they can be made, old and plain spoken friend
Russell said, smatterers is true But this sort of ed
ucaon is MEANS not end. 1t is TO give girl the
gainst the ashy and the evils that beset them
it does prepare them for those high and sacred
duties they in after years called to discharge 1t
is fixed opihion that in twenty years the real evils
incident to this low grade of fashionable education
will become fearully apparent in society," that it
bound work evil We feel well assured The present
purchased stock, who, for the part reared in
very close proximity to fashionable female board
ing schools audience they know but little of the real
intrinsic value of a scholastic course of study They
cannot appreciate the judicous and pointed remarks
the worthy Principal and they will at his
BILE dement's read out thus essening his authority
breaking his influence for good, but will rate him in
good set TERMS their little dears shall happen to be
Ill Nd Of +l,o
examination day These are they who, to be not in
the fashion is to be out of the world and if they not
fashionable, are nothing. God knows have enough
and to spare, of this wish we could say epheme-
raj material To strum off piece of music on the p-
ano, is not to be musician. To chatter in French,
is not to be French scholar. To give the rationale
of few common principles in chemistry, is rot to be
chemist To to analyze flower, is not to be bot
anist Not at all. Our school-books teach all these
and how much more it is not easy to tell No branch
department now is without its book, and if the
pupil masters them by his memory he is pronounced
scholar worthy fthe graduating honors. No princi
pies ingrained in his very being he has no
to assign for anything beyond what the textbook has
furnished /; he is the automaton of the book, or
he is nothing-most frequently nothing because his
memory is great store room in which there is neither
method nor thought.
! No young lady should be permitted graduating hon.
until she has passed through four scholastic years.
having entered upon her collegiate the age of
fourteen. We are apprised that this is tender SUBJ
ect for young ladies about that age are either
married, engaged in the all engrossng preminaries
Yet, with this fact before u.s. do not hesitate to
say to the trustees, that if they discharge their duty
with fearless disregard of public clamor they will make
one long stride towards the correction of growing
evil in the South.
We cannot do ourselves this subject justice in
editorial not but what have the time and the inc
nation, but because have the space to yield to
its legitimate discussion.
The NatCheZ Courier and Gen. SCOTS letter of
Acceptance.
The paper named above, under date of goth July,
contains very ingenious defence of SCOTS letter
ceptng the Baltimore nomination. AS this same let
ter has not been thoroughly exposed, it's double face
exhibited by any press in this State that have seen
we propose partly in reply to the Courier and partly
letter readers present it it stands
others judge it according to their construction.
We quote the third paragraph of the letter fol-
lows from the Washington campaign Signal -
'Not having written word to procure this dis
tnction, l lost not moment, after it had been
conferred, in addressing letter to one of your
members to signify what would be, at the proper
time, the substance of my reply to the convention;
and now have the honor to repeat in a more for
NAL manner as the occasion iuStlv demands that