Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-03-14
Education of Daughters.

daughters. Especially IN this case WIN
widows, who have no fortune, nor any
prospec, of any, which would enable
them TO leave their children comparative
Iy independent. Compelled 10 labor for
their daily bread, they ask themselves
continually. show shall | smooth for my
child the thorny path | am treading my
self 2" Their own experience has taught
them how cruel society is to the women
who labor for their livelihood ; how. un-
Justly such women are ostracmscd; and
! how unequal, consequently, are their chan
ces for obtaining a comfortable settlement
in life by marriage. The case is the har-
der, If, as the phrase goes, "they have
seen better times" There can be hut
one reply TO this question. Every girl,
no matter how poor, ought 10 be educa-
ted, with The conviction i'll her mothers
mind, that the chances are, she will be-
come a wife and mother, however poor
she may be.
For this destiny, therefore, she should
he trained. However necessary II may
be that she should support herself, the du-
lies she will probably he called on TO per-
+ form eventually, should never be disregar-
: ded. Society Is full of wives, who, hav-
mo been intended for teachers, dress-ma-
kers, &C., and having capably discharged
the calls of their profession, have, alter
marriage, proved utterly incompetent Tor
lheir new vocation. Many husband, in
consequence of being united 10 such wo-
man, has been driven into evil courses.
! Ii home is untidy, or otherwise disagree
able, man OF loose principles, or unusual
scllishness, is very apt 10 seek amusement
elsewhere. There is popular notion
that housekeeping need not TO be taught
to girl, for that every wife, after all,
must learn such things by her own expe-
rience. Nothing can be more absurd
Does man put off learning business
ill it is time for him TO start for himself?
Even, therefore, where a daughter has TO
r learn some uade, by which to supper,
herself while single, she should be taught
the duties OF a wife, because the chances
are that she will, some day, be married.
Nor is housekeeping the Alpha and
Omega Of these duties. Deeper than il
lie other qualities, quite as indispensable,
and which are still more necessary 10
husbands happiness, or even wfe's.
1t would consume too much space for Us
to enuInerale them all, but we may sum
them up by say ing that daughters should
be taught 10 be womanly. The tendency
of that education which disciplines girl
to depend on herself entirely, or "io bat
tie with the world" according 10 the pop
uar term, Is 10 render her so far (orih,l Jess
feminine and if nature did not DO SO
much 10 counterscl lhis proclivily, if wo.
men generally were not, because Of their
/ physical, moral and mental oreanlation,
womanIy and not mannish, the evil would
! te worse than il is. In The existing state
of society, especially in great cities, there
must he women who will never have a
fit opportunity TO marry but this is no
reason why they should no; be made as
/ feminine as a mothers example and in.
! lluence can render them. And further.
As no mother has right 10 pre-supposo
that her daughter will never marry, she
has no right 10 educate her in way TIA,
will render marriage less likely.
For truly womanly woman has much
the best chance Of 5eigg loved by truly
worthy man. The ordination OF nature
has made tender, aTeclionste, sympalhi.
Zlng, cheerful, patient, unsefsh female
more likely 10 attract strong, earnest, he
role men, than one Of different stamp.
10 argue that this ought not 10 De, HAT
mannIsh females are vastly more noble
ciea!ures, Is simply preposlemns. Men
love. by fine instinct, which generally
leads them arigh, that is, when they
love in the pure sense Of that term and
they would love Ollener in iha, sense, If
women were truer 10 that ideal, woman.
hood, which even the lost reverence and
acknowledge. The best dover mother
can give her daughter, is the dover Of pei
feet womanliness. II will be at once a
protection against the vicious, and an al
traction 10 the pure: Whe,e there is a
necessity for tie daughter earning lier
livelihood, by the Practice Of some trade,
by waiting IN a store, or by other employ
menls Of similar character. The aial
should he so TO educate the child, that
while she should be seh-reiani, she
should not be The less feminine, while she
should Ihink and act for herself, sbs
should not become msDnish, or, as the
world calls it. "strong minded !'--DOiiaT
NetespGprr.
= A Paris correspondent, mentioning the
recent derease OF notable French gentle
man, NJ. de Sslvandy, says:
ION his death bed, and when he could
m Inner sneak he ask ed his "a. lie IN hand