The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-02-19


os he soon after became possessed ofa COM
siderable fortune BY the death era Teladse,
he quilted the fAinstreis and went 10 Pafis.
where, I heard, he still lives in great spien-
dor and is famous for his dinners, 10 which
none of his coubtrymen are ever invited. 70
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Tho Education or Barghrefs.
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Ii is often q question:, with thoughtful
women how they shall educate their daugbs
ters. Especially is this the case with wids
ows, who have no fortune, nor any prospect
Of any, which would. enable them 10 leave.
their children comparatively indepsndent.--
Compelled to labor for their daily bread,
they ask themselves continually, nho@ shall
| smooth for my child the thorny path aut
treading myself!" Their own experience
has taught them how cruel society 10 to the
women who labor for their livelihood; how
unjustly such women are ostracised; and how
unequal, consequently, ore their chsnGSS for
obtaining comfortable eettiement In life
by marriage. The case ID the harder, il, az
the phrase goes, "lhey have seen better,
times There can be but one reply to thi6
question. Every girl, no matter how pooty
ought to be edneated, with the conviction ia
her mothers mind, that the chances are, she
will become wife and mother, however
poor she may be, - ,.a.atas4 .,a,,ra, l,,is,
For this destiny, therefore, she should ba
trained. However necessary it may be thai
she should support herself, the duties she,
will probably be called on to perform ev9nta,
uully, should never te ,disregarded. Bociet5,
is full Of wives, who, having Been Intended
for teachers, dress makers, &C., and having
caPably discharged the cails Of their pro.
fessfoh, have, after marriage, proved utter-
ly incompetent for their heH vocation.
Many a husband, in consequence Of being
| united to such u woman, has been driven.
into evil courses. If home is untidy, or
otherwise disagfeea6le, man Of loose pfih.
ciplea OF unusual sel6shness is very apt to
seek amusement elsewhere. There is d
popular notion that housekeeping need not |.
be taught to girl, for that every wife.
after all, must learn such things by her own
experience. Nothing can be more absurd.
Does man put OF learning business till
it is time for him to start for himself.-
Even, therefore, where daughter has to
learn some trade, by which to support her
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ties Of wife, because the chances are, that
she will, some day, be married. ,...
i Nor is housekeeping the Alpha ani ON.
ega Of these duties. Deeper than it lie other
qualities, quite as indisp ,nsdble, and which
are still more necessary to husbands hap
! piness, or ever wfe's. 1t would cohsume
r too much space for us ID enaniefate them
all, but we may sum theth up by saying that
: daughters should be taught to be womanly.
The tendency Of that edutatioh which disci-
e plines n girl to depend on herself entirely,
s or, "to battle with world" according to the
D popular term, is to render her, so far Less,
feminine; and if nature did not do ed much
S to countcract this proelivity, if women gen.
: orally were not, because Of their physical,
e moral and mental organization, womanly
|, aud not manish, the evil world would be
}. worse than it u.s. In the ,existing stats of
Q society. especially in great cities, there rnnst
be women who will never have a fit obBof.
% tunity to marry; but this is no reasOa why
!: they should not be made as feEhihine as a
mo,hers's example and influence can render
h them. And further, as no mother has d
;, righ. to pre-suppose thai her daughter will
i. never marry, she has no right to educate her
n in way that will render marriage lssa
il lkely., 4. u. \; NM. M NJ I. ,.;s
,fE For, a truly womaniy woman has fiaieh
d the best chance Of being loved IL Is truly
worthy man. The ordination i. Ra,ure has
i. made q tender, affectioRSts, sympa,hikins,
n cheerful, patipu,, unselfsh female more ike
iy to attract strong, earnest. heroic men. than