The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-11-25

and dogs for intellectual discipline, and
wears stylish bonnet to church by way OF
morals and religion. Without definite
object, how can she be expected to rise early
in the morning, or TO take an active interest
in the affairs of life. .t
But the question recurs, what better can
be done? What shall be done that our
daughters may have courage to look the fu-
ture calmly in the face, and feel that their
position is, in some measure, dependent upon
their own ex4rtions .
A definite hope for the future can alone
make rational being happy GiOe every
child, then, male or female, an education for
some business. The discipline of acquiring
it will be, in itself, salutary, and the con-
sciousness of possessing it will at all times
give dignity and independence to character.
Whatever your position in society, educate
your daughter for some business in life; edu-
cate her according to your means and con-
diton, and according to her tastes and ca
pacity The "sphere of fwoman, which has
always been reduced far below the hemis-
phere which all accord to her as right, in
cludes, certainly, the whole range of teach
ing--in letters, in science, in music and
drawing, and whatever else is taught in our
schools. "Woman's mission" surely is to-
teach, and the demand for female instructors
of high order is by no means supplied
Academies and high schools are now paying
salaries of five hundred and thousand dol
lars to college graduates, as mere temporary
teach-rs, and would be glad to exchange
them for we'll qualified females, who would
enter upon their duties with some probabili-
ty of permanency. Then there are thou
sands of districts schools, which dre fast
changing from the hands of college boys to
the milder influences" of the gentler sex.
If your daughter has decided taste for mu-
sic, or any ornamental requirement, assist
her to appreciate the gift which Heaven has
offered her. Make her excel in something
which the world deems excellent, and her
superior attainment will always command
respect and means Of honorable subsistence.
But there are many who cannot afford the
means, thus to qualify their daughters for
teachers. What shall they do? answer,
believe that labor is honorable, and teach
them trade or manual occupation of some
kind. have never chanced to live in any
place where dress makers and milliners do
not keep the ladies of the village in COM
plete subsection, dealing out their favors of
dress fitting and bonnet-trimming as if they
were pearls and diamonds. venture to say,
sir, to you who are reading this paper, that
you can build a forty-foot barn in less time
than your wife and daughters can procure
the winter hats. Teach every young lady to
cut and make her own dresses, and if you 90
further and educate her to the trade, her sup
port in life is secured. The printing offices,
the counting rooms of shops. the manufac-
turing establishments Of various kinds, are
furnishing respectable employment to fe-
males, and gradually "the area of freedom
for womans labor and talent, is enlarging
everywhere in New England. The means
of education have not yet been supplied to
boys and girls alike. Even Boston, be-
lieve, which affords to every boy at the pub
| lie cost, sears course in Latin or high
school, gives to girls as an equivalent, only
one additional year in the grammar schools.
The want of the means 10 give to girls, at
the public expense, the same thorough and
systematic education as boys are receiving
at our colleges, is the great defect in our
New England system Of instruction. Not
withstanding this want of opportunity for
education, great share of our best writing
of literary character both in books and mag
azines, is from pens of ladies, and he who
doubts the capacity of the better half of
creation, for any literary labor, deserves 20
have his ears pulled BY Fanny Fern and to
be classed among slaye-catchers In Mrs.