Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-05-13
The way to spoil Girls.

fla parent wishes a recipe how to spoil
daughters, it can be easily and readily
given, and can be proved by the expert
ence of hundreds to be certain and eff
cacious:
/. BE always telling her, from her
earliest childhood what beautiful crea-
turo she is 1t is a capital way Of infa-
ting the vanity Of little girl, to be
constantly exclaimiug GLOW pretty p
Children understand fattery, even in the
nurses arms, and the evil is done to the
character in its earliest formation.
2. Begin as soon as she can waddle
around, to rig her up in fashionable
clothes and rich dresses. Put a hoop
upon her at once, with all the artificial
adornmen's of 1ouncos and feathers and
flowers and curls. Fondness for dress
will thus become prominent character
stic and viii usurp the whole attention
Of the young immortal, and be a long
step toward spelling her
3. Let her visit so much that she finds
no happiness at home, and therefore will
not be apt to stay there and learn home
duties. 1t is capital thing for spoil
ed daughter to seek all her happiness in
visiting, and change Of place and associ-
ates. She will thus grow as useless as
modern fashionable parents delight that
they should be.
4. Let her reading consist of novels
of the nauseatingly sentimental kind 49,
She will be spoiled sooner than if she
peruscd history or science. Her heart
will be occupied by fictitious scenes and
feelings; her mind filed with unreali-
ties; and her aims placed on fashion and
dress and romantic attachments.
5. BE careful that her education gives
her smattering of all the accomplish
ments, without the slightest knowledge
Of the things really useful in life. Your
daughter won't be spoiled so long as she
has real desire to be useful in the world
and aims at its accomplishment. If her
mind and time are occupied in modern ac-
complishments, there will be no thought
of the necessity and virtue Of being Of
some real use to somebody, peryading
her, and she will soon be ready as a
spoiled daughter.
6. As a consequence, keep her in pro-
found ignorance Of all the useful arts Of
housekeeping, impressing upon her mind
that ii is vulgar to do any thing for your
self, or to learn bow hnythiug is done IN
the house. A spoiled daughter should
never be taught the mysteries of The
kitcheh-such things a lady always leaves
to the servants. 1t would be vulgar
for her to know how to dress trout OF
shad, to bake, to wash, to iron, to sweep,
to wiring the neck Of a live chicken,
pluck it or prepare j. for breakfast, or to
do any thing that servants are hired TO
do. AS the mistress Of house it is her
duty to sit on velvet sofa all day, in
the midst Of apyramid Of silks and foun-
COS, reading the last flash novel, while
her domestics are performing the labora
of the house.
TO complete the happiness of your
spoiied daughter marry her TO bearded
youth with soft hands, who knows as
little how TO earn money as she does TO
save it. Her happiness will be fnished
for her life time--Hatford Courant.
Bu TRUTHFuL WITH CHrLDREN.--Some
people tell stories TO children with a
view of enjoying a laugh at their ercdu-
lily This is to make mock at sin,
and they are guilty who do it, The ten
dency in a child to believe whatever is
told, is Of God for good. II seems a
shadow Of primeyal innocence glancing
by. We should reverence a child's sim
plicity. Touch il only with truth BE
not the FIRST to quench that lovely truth
fulness by falsehoods
Ezy~ Mrs. Mary Cuthbcrt. widow Of
Capt. Anthony Cuthbert Of the Revolu-
ton, was visited on May /, at her res
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