Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-09-14

brethren. They fell in love and married Indian
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 their fathers, just like
those of the other uneducated sayages-wild
and barbarous. It is the nursery managers
who must tie educated. The great objects of
female education, as well as OF male education,
was first individnal-that is, to make persons
more capable of feeling and acting Alright, even
if they were the only persons on earth; and
second, it was to enable woman to fill the duties
and responsibilities of life-to be a fit member
of society," fit companion for man. These
are the gre at objects in her education. The Dr.
then passed to the consideration of what educa-
ton should be, and said, first, that it was
TO SPELL PROPERLY,
And until she has learned that don't permit her
to learn anything else. There are but the few
est number of people who know how to read
who can give the sense of an article The most
difficult book to read is the New Testament,
more SO than Shakespeare. Few people can
read either of them intelligibly. There are two
objects in learning to read-tirst, for our own
profit; and second, for that of others. tits hard
for great many people to compass the FIRST
object and still more so the second.
PRONUNCIATION,
He said, might be included in a general re-
mark about readiug-but it deserved especial
mention. Virginia was settled when DIR. John
son gave us Orthography, and Walker Ortho-
epy. Virginia had abided by these standards
and in his opinion she had done WE'LL 1t was
said, that were well educated Virginian to
Speak in the British Parliament, that after he
got through every member would claim that he
was from his particular district. The English
language is found in greater purity in Virginia
than in any part of the continent.
NEXT TO WRITE.
But few ladies could write good note either
sentimcntally or Geographically, even good
billet doux. Yet it was more important for them
than to be attempting French or German. 1t is
now with ladies', as it was when Dean Swift
saterised the ladies of his time-saying, that
they wrote neither up the page, nor down the
page, nor yet across, but zigzag. This was
passable or at least tolcrable in man, but it
was aborninnble in u oman.
NEXT GRAMMAR.
wish somebody or other could persuade
every woman-yes, and every man, too, within
two hundred miles of this ground never to say
II have sax" or 81 seem" 1t is common yet
it is inspfferable to hear all such violations of
the rules of speech in people making any pre-
tensions to education. Yet such phrases are
among the commonest things VIC hear.
:. NEXT GEOGRAPHY.
If had time many time think would
like to go back to.school and study Geography.
1t is branch that is either most generally
skinned over or neglected in NIL our schools and
academies. Very few people know much about
Geography. They have scanty. aud helter-Skcl-
ter ideas about the localities of EARTH 1t is
very well but far from being enough for our
young ladies to know that Massachusetts, is on
the East side of the Mississippi river. We can
never understand history until we know geogra.
ply; geography and chronology are the two eyes
of history. We have an interest in the rest of
the world besides either our section or our
country. hope there is no one present here
to-day who would say that he or she did not feel
lively interest min far off benightcd Japan.
Very fcw of US know much about that country.
HISTORY
In this is included Chronology isq quite
important to bear in mind the interims between
Cesar, Charlemagne and Napoleon. A great
many young ladies do not have much idsa of the
spaces between thcm-it Inns not been considered
important for them to know much about such
things. Many school girls either never learn or
soon forget.a to when the Christian era began,
and how long before it was the flood, &c. They
don't tax their memories with such unSentimen.
tai stuff
bellies LETTREs.
Let young ladies learn early that woman's
strength is, first, in her spotless chastity-sec-
ond, in her weakness. and third, in her tongue.
Quintillian gives directions forlthe training of
an orator-and it was that in the setting out, he
should not be confidcd to the attentions of a
nurse having barbarous dialect-for he will
carry it through life. IL a woman or anybody
else would converse WE'LL write well or appear
well she must be conyersant with tho best wri-
ters in polite literature.
LANGUAGE.
1t seems to be question just now, whether
ladies ought to study dead or living languages
In my opinion they should study both. OF
modern languages, it has also been somewhat of
a question whether French or German was of
of the FIRST Importance. In my opinion Spanish
is the leading modern language that young
LADY ought to study. 1t isbecoming evary day
= more important langungeto Americans. and Of
course thereby to American ladies' Tits a much
more beautiful and easy language than either
French or German. John Milton once advanced
the opinion, that one tongue was enough for
any lady to learn. In one sense that true, but
it is because would have her understand that
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