Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-09-22

ara supposed ftuCISlilOn5 vi Ieulbie SouO~'
tioa? A very few simple little elements,
(.uch as "readin', 'ritin', aud 'rithmetic."
All that is changed now. Husbands and
fathers have got their eyes opened further
than they were once. Nothing tad retarded
the civilization 0! the race 50 much as limited
and deficient female education. Ii Wa more
important that women should lie educated
than that men should. He related the Gaze
of some Iodians, brought from the forests in
his early days in Virginia and educated and
christianzed They were sent back to the
forests again to humanize their brethren.-
They fell 10 love and married l0dlsn girls
these girls were Ignorant. and degraded
they had the bringing up OF the offspring OF
these missionaries, and the children were,
despite the education of thei: fathers, just
like those Of the other uneducated oayages--
" lid and barbarous. /, is the nursery man
ayers VINO must he educated. The great 90.
iects of female education, az wei! as .! male
education, were first, iniiViiuai--!hat is, 10
make persons more capable VI ieshDS and act
ing Alright, even il tbey were tue only per
sons on earth; and second, II was u enable
woman t. fill the dntieS and responsibilities
OF ife--to be e fl member q sDcic;y--a NJ
companion for man These are the great or
iac,s in her education. The DE-. then passed
to the confederation vi what e'iucaiiDn should
be, and SAID, first, that II was
TO sPELL PROPERLY; and unt!i She has
learned that, don't pcrmi, her to learn any
thing else. There are but the lowest DuLi-
Der Of people who know now to read-Hho
can give the sense Of an article. The most
q tficuit book 10 read is the New Testament
nlore 50 than Shakespeare. Few people can
read either Of them iutci!lSibiY. Ihe:e ore
two objects in learning to reat--hrs!, tor oar
own pryi!; and 5ecJod, :OV that CT others
|; is hard for great many people to c0m'
pass the first object and still more 50 tie
second.
PaoxUNcIArIox. no aaid, might be incin-
ded III :. seuerai remark about ro.dins-5uc
il deserved especial InHnt:Ga. Virginia was
settled wnen Dr.. Johnson gave uS o:ihV'
graphy, ana Wa kGr OjtlJepy. Virginia
bad ahldcd by iho-o standards and IL hI-
opinion she had done well. IL was said, tha;
were well educated Firsinidu to speak 10
the BRUSH Parliament, alter he got through
every mamtcr would claim that nc was from
HE particular district. The EogIsh Ian
. = -
| thar in any part Of the continent.
NEXT TO WK!TE-But tew ladies' could
write Il good note either sentimentally or
chirographicaiiy, even good billet doux.--
/ Yet II vas moro mportap; Tor item than 70
, be attempting French or German. Ii Is Oow
With ladies, as it was wnen DtGu Swift
/ sa,irised the ladies' Of his tine--s.ying, ;hat
they wrote neither up the page. nor Gowu the
! page, nor yet acrUsa, bat zlgzag. IEis WAS
! pas-;,b!c, or az least toisreDie IN a man, but
it was aboIainGtlc in Il woman.
NEXT, GRAMMAR II wish somebody or other
could persuade every woman--yes, aud
every man, too, within two hundred miles OF
this ground. never TO say Il have saw" Ut
Il seen" Ii IS COMMON yet II Is iHsuforabie
! 70 hear all such violations If the rates Of
| speech 10 people making auy professions 70
! education. let such phrases are among the
commonest ,hlngs we hear.
NEXT, GEoGRAPuY.--il had time, many
u liu.c think wyuld like to go bark osch3oi
and study Geography. IL is q branch that IL
sithsr most generally skinned over Or me-
! elected in ali our schools aId acad1nii2s.-
! Very few people know much ubont Gcosr"-
! uhy. They have scanty and heitcr-sheiteT
! ideas about the localities OF earth. /: Is very
| well Tut lar from being enough for our ycanI,
! ladies to know that Massachusetts, Is On the
! East side OF The Mississippi riSer. We can
| IcVer understand history until we EEO" got-
grGpby; geography and chronology are the
,wu ewes If history. We have 40 interest IN
the rest o! thn world b'G:dcs either our sec
| too or our coui.iry. | hope there Is nc one
present here to-day who would say that he
or she id not feel a lively interest even II
lar IF hcEightCd japan. Very lew CT ns
! know much abpnt that country.
Hi>roRY la this i. incimded Chronocgy
and II IS quite important to bear 10 mind
| the iurnrirIs between Caesar, Char!cmagne
and Napoleon. \ great many young ladies
| do not have much ld@a Of the SPACES bctNcen
then,--lt has not been considered important
! t'yT them 10 know much about such things
Many school girls either never learn or sooE
forget as to when the Christian era began.
and bow long before 1t Was tic food, &c.--
They don; tax their memories with suvu un-
continental a!ut,'
BELLIES LETrREs Let young ladies learn
early trat 4 wvHau's sueGSbb TO- first, II
her spocicss chastity --seCOId, IL her "eak-
ress, ard taird, n her iongne. QuntiIiau
gives directions .Ur the training VI az orator
and it vas that IL th0 setting "nt, ne
should not te cJltied to the attentions OF "
nurse having harbaTOu5 dia,ec;--iyr &c si:i
CRY 1t through lie. Ii woman or aUy-
body else would converse well, w!Ite well Or
appear well, she must be convCrsart "Ilh tie
best writers 10 polite literature.
LANGuACg.-I. seems to hc . question just
nov, vhetncr ladies' ought 10 study dead or
living languages. 10 ny opinion they Should
study both. o. modem languages, It has
al-0 been somewhat Of q question whether
French or German was OF the first lmpcr-
ianee. L. my opuign Spanish ls the lead.
irg language that young lady ought t.
study Ii is becoming every day Il more
important language IL Americans, and Of
course therefore to American ladies'. Il is :.
10 ucli more beautiful ana easy language than
either French or German. JON Milton once
advanced the Opinion that OHe tongue was
enough tor any lady 70 learn. Ia ole sense
that's true, hut it is because | would bave
her undcFstanl :hat orc tongue iaeT uatTe
languagel well, that | advocate tue study Of
others.
POETRY Turning TO Prof. RI-s, Dr. +.
sad: / hope sir. yCa'I not teach roctry here.
i mean wha. some people call the science
OF cOmpo~ios poetry. II it Will come from
some OF these youths, let It come but don't
force il. feel about .he writing Of poetry,
sornethir. ike the Methodist preacher who