Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1860-09-13
Written for the Green Mountain Ere eman
Female Education.

1t is a vanity men have, to always be sug-
costing some improvement, applying fault
finding with the training the ladies have re-
ceivcd. well, they may be pardoncd for
two reasons: the ladies' should thank their
stars that there are those who take sufficient
interest in them t make all sorts Of sugges-
tons for their benefit for none can doubt
that their intentions are good-and they may
take their own choice of making use Of the
suggestions.
Again, the greater part Of mans existence
is, or should be, chered by the presence Of
these angels Of earh,-as he would have
them,-an oltentimes years of frutless toll
are spent in the search for this accomplished
one, and perchanye disappointment ensues
at last, either by deception, or his patience is
exhausted. Then permit suggestion, COM
ing from what quarter 1t may, for the benefit
of those coming after, if not for those now
on ife's stage.
1t iswth girl as with boy. They take
lessons somewhere, and from What is before
them-if not from good it is from bad if
not from the intellectual and identifying, it
is from the flirting and glddincss of lrivolity
Let there he a proper direction OF ideas; let
there be the right associations; the right OBJ
jects Of study, and suffciency of sugges-
tons for thought when books, music painting,
sculpture, or other arts are not at hand, or
have been in lulgcd in to suHiciency. This
is not wholly for the competent parent; but
no parent should undertake the training of
an infant unless his competence is enough,
and his judgment and taste sufficient, to max G
the best out of small means. The girl amid
the beauties of rural lie has lar greater
field, and more valuable material, for her
education, than can be purchased in the
city.
A writer in the Eclectic Reriew makes
some valuable suggestions, duly impressing
upon his readers the importance of encourag-
ing frmness in action, with a genteness Of
manner. Let every attention be paid to
indispensable exercises and healthlul recrea-
tions which tend to siren ,then the frame !;
and let it be continually borne in mind that
girls may be made robust without being
made rough, and that they may be vigorous
without being athletes. Let there be cher
ished due sense Of what belongs TO woman
as womam. Let it be clear y understood that
just as the perfection Of a mans nature is
when his thorough maniness is qualified by a
redeeming touch of genteDess, which seems
to charm with all the pleasure Of surprise,
so the perfection OF womans nature is
when her thorough womanhood is retained,
though all the while prevented from dcgen-
Grating into weakness by just due proper
ton land no more) of man-like wisdom, and
force, and energy.
Let there be design so to train the daugh-
tiers of our land that they may best meet
their probable and possible future-abe to
cling, if support be granted them-abe to
maintain themselves, if prop be withheld or
removed. Let there be an effort to concen-
trate in their character all those blended
graces which bear affinity to the untiring
beauties of nature in her summer-tide--
beauties not capricols like those of spring,
nor pensive like those Of autumn-beautes
which are as rich as they are soft, as radiant
as they are serene beauties which are too
varied to become WEAKNESS, and too life
some to grow tame. Let there be desire to
see them not 90 y as &C corner stones" solid,
and stable, and strong, but as " corner stones,
polished after the simlitude of palace"