Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-03-05
The Education Of Daughters.

full women how they shall educate their
daughters. Especially is this the case
l with widows, who have no fortune, nor
any prospect of any, which would ena-
bic them to leave their children compar
atively Independent. Compelled to la
| Dor for their daily bread, they ask them
;lssIxes eontinually, chow shah / smooth
for my child the tfiorfiy path fan treaIa'
ing myself?" Their own experience
has taught them how cruel society is to
the women who labor for their liveli
hood; how unjustly such women are os
tracised; and how unequal, consequent
ly, are their chances for obtaining a
comfortable settlement in life by mar
riage. The case is the harder, if, as the
phrase goes, "thcy have seen better
times" There can be but one reply to
this question. Every girl, no matter
how poor, ought to be educated, with
the conviction in her mothers mind,
that the chances are, she will become
wife and mother, however poor she may
be.
For this destiny, therefore, she should
be trained. However necessary it may
be that she should support herself, the
duties she will probably be called on to
perform eventually, should never be dis
regarded. Society is full of wives, who,
having been intended for teachers, dress
makers, &c, and having capably dis
charged the call Of their profession, have
after marriage, proved uttcrl y incompe-
tent for their new vocation. Many
husband, in consequence Of being united
to such a woman, has been driven into evil
courses. If a home is uatidy, or other
wise disagreeable, man of loose prin-
ciples or unusual unselfshness is very
apt to seek amusement clscwhcre.-
There is popular notion that house
keeping need not be taught to a girl, for
that every wife, after all, must learn such
things by her own experience. Moth
ing can be more absurd. Does man
put off learning business till it is time
for him to start for himself? Even,
therefore, where a daughter has to learn
some trade, by which to support herself
While single, she should be taught the
duties Of wife, because the chances are,
that she will, some day, be married.
Nor is housekeeping the Alpha and
Omega of these duties, Deeper than it
lie other qualities, quite as indispcnsa
BILE, and which are still more necessary
to a husbands happiness, or even a
wifa's It would consume too much
space for Us to enumerate them all, but
We may sum them up by saying that
daughters should be taught to- be wo-
manly The tendency Of that educa
ton which disciplines girl to depend
on herself entirely. or, Ito battle with
| the world" according to the popular
term, is to render her, so far less femi
nine; if nature did not do SO much to
counteract this proclivity. if women gen
eraliy were not, because of their physi-
cal. moral and mental organization, wo
| manly and not manish, the evil world
would be worse than it is. In the ezis-
ting state of society, especially in great
cities, there must be women who will
never have fit opportunity to marry;
bat this is no reason why they should
| not be made as feminine as mothers
example and influence can render them.
| And further, as no mother has 4 right
to pre-suppcsc that her daughter will
never marry, she has no right to educate
her in way that Will render marriage
less likely.
For truly womanly woman has
much the best chance Of being loved by
q truly worthy man. The ordination Of
nature has made tender, afcctionate,
sympathizing, cheerful, patient, unset
fish female more likely to attract strong,
earnest, heroic men, than one of diff
fcrcnt stamp. 70 argue that this ought
not to be, that manish females are vast
II more noble creatures, is simply pre-
postcrous. Men love, by fine instinct,
which generally leads them Alright; that
is, when they love in the pure sense of
that terln and they would love oftner
| in that sense. if women were truer to
that ideal womanhood, which even the
lost reverence and acknowledge. The
best dover mother can give her daugh-
ter, is the dover of perfect womanli-
ness It will be at once protection
against the vicious, and an attraction to
the pure. Where there is a necessity
for the daughter earning her livelihood
| ing by the practice Of some trade, by wait
in store, or by other employments of
similar character, the aim should be to
educate the child, that while she should
be self-rcliant, she should not be less
feminine. while she should think and act
for herself, she should not become man
nish, or, as the world calls it, ''strong
minded
BG~"Why, Sambo, how black you
are!' said gentleman, the other day, to
a negro waiter at a hotel, show i'll the
name of wonder did you get so black?''
Why. look here, massa, de reason
am dis-de day dis child was born when
der was an eclipse
i Ebony received a shilling for his
satisfactory explanation, and after grin
ming thanks, continued:
II tell you what it is, massa, dis nigga
may be black but he amt green, no how.
nes-TIRIsn INNocENE.-A little girl,
on hearing her mother say that she in
tended to go to a ball, and have dress
trimmed with busles, innocontly inquir-
f ed if the bugles would all blow up while
5 she danced Oh, no" said the mother,
, ''your father will do that when he dis
covers that have bought thcm.'