The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-12-02

busy. Ii developes very soon and very
fast, and begius at an exceedingly eaR!y age
TO exercise itself with the abstruser studies.
Parents and teachers often told me that
their difficulty, with the girls especially,
was, not to get them urged on, but to get
them held back. In one young ladies'
seminary which ! visited. fhey were held
back with the following light studies, in
addition to all the ordinary branches: :-Vr>
gil and Horace, Latin Prose Composition,
Anatemy and Hygiene, Moral Philosophy,
and Quadrantic Equations. To this add
pie and hot bread, and what could you ex-
pect but paleness, even among the noun
tains of Maine? g..f... ...
Paleness and pie notwithstanding. the
American Ei:ls are very delightful And in
ono point they fairly surpass the msjority
Of England girls-they are oil educated and
we'll Informed. 1t is painful, but fear
too incontrovertible fact, that most of the
girls on this side are very ignorant on gen.
eral subjects. dnu't blame them; blame
the system OF education. Some girls are
fascinating, whether they are educated or
mott hut to be left alone, as one sometimes
is, with girl who knows nothing, in a
room with no piano, is exceedingly en-
barrassing after the weather has been
exhausted. There is never the same diff
Guilty with American girls. The admirable
educatio: al system of New England. cover
ing the whele area Of society. has given
them education, whether they be poor or
rich; has furnished them with a great deal
of general information, end has qu,ckencd
their dc. ire for more. An American girl
will talk with you about anything. and feel
fo, hn& k.,., ., r.. ~
interest in it, Their tendency Is perhaps to
talk too much. and to talk beyond their
knowledge. With the eleverer Tor as they
would say themselves. the ''smarter'') OF
them, seemed to me sometimes TO make no
rerceptible difference whether they knew
anything Of the subject they talked about
or not.* But they generally knew a little
Of everything and their general intelligence
snd viyacity make them very delightful
companions.
had an idea before going out that the
New England ladies' spent tine over intel>
lectual pursuits to the neglect of household
duties | did not find it "a. comparing
class with class, they are qnite as good
housekcepers as have seen anywhere. -
They had need be, tor service jat present is
in very wretchcd condition in America; so
much 81 that middlc-ca>s tamiliss in the
country often disp ,nse with servants alto
gpther. The young ladies' can make beds
as we'll as demonstrate propositions, aud
their mental philosophy, whatever ii
amounts TO, never interieres with the pres
fiction oil the pies. Samuel johnson used
to say that man would rather that his
wife should be able 10 cook good dinner
than read Greek. But he does not seem to
have anticipated a time when woman
could lean to do both.
Now tor a word about the children. The
childreni = as write the wLrd. how the
sunlight seems to burst around mel how
MANY sweet voices start from the silence of
memory and fill the air with meloty and
|aughter?-how many bright and beautiful
faces, fa,, far away gather round me once
,gain! If | could picture forth some of
these little ones with whom the hsppiest of
al my happy hours in America were spent
If could reproduce the fuD, Ihe ,omping
The gam on the carpet, the hundred little
delights we shared III common A.
my readers would see that after all that has
b:en written alout America precocity, the
children there are children stil-in most
points just like our own-the joy and the
sunlight Of every home.
This. [ hope will not be- forgotten in no.
icing at present one or two PORTS of differ>
ance.
One thing that astonished me was the
ood given to the children. 1t seems to be |
he rule in America to let the children have |
share of everything on the table. re-
ner Der sitting beside one little boy of four,
who had soup, slice of fowl with dressing,
, fat NJ n |
lunch of grapes H. was very small boy
md had to get the slice of toul cut for him
y his aunt. A lady in Washington speak
ng of her little boy # two years old, said,
He cannot go to bed without lis plate Of
urkcy. He must have it" Fancy this in
scotland! At Clifton House, Niagara, the
,otel on the Canada size, lamily party
'at down at one of the breakfast tables
Dne OF the party was beautifully dressed
,hild of between two and three years of age,
Who was waited upon by a tall negro. The
irst thing this small gentleman had was
,up of milk and biscuit. Then he had
wo eggs, beat up In glass, and a slice Of
Johnny cake tacak4 made of Indian meal
md eggs. lie supped very little Of the
,gg, and then called for fish. After fish he
,ad 1eei, and alter the beef steak, bucon
md biscuit What more he might haze
,eeded was lett uncertain, by reason of his
,pilling the remainder of the beat ggs over
is own and mother dress, which caused
,im to be carried away fiom the table in a
tate of humiliation.
American children are undoubtedly pre-.
ocious. think this peculiarity, though
,artly owing tt the q,iickening ef, ct Of eli
nate, is du,' to some extent, to tb. Amor
can practice of bringing children to the ta-
lie from their infancy. A New England
ady, who boasted Of eleven children. Ia We
Y rare thing in New England, told ME
hat every one of them had BEEN brought to
he table at seven months old, and at thir-
cen months could handle their forks as
leatly as she couldl Brought to the table
o soon, and hearing every thing that goes
N. they bt gin at p preternaturaly early
Ige to take an interest in general affair>,
.nd to acquire the ideas and language OF
,rown people. An old doctor of divinity in
canada said that, calling one day ut
riend's house, little girl was sent in to
muse him till her mama was ready. The
bild told him. among other things, that
he had been writing. parody on Kinsley's
ong of the ''Three Fishers; but When dry
ng it at the open fire, it dropped from her
lano and was burned
Burned exclaimed the doctor; ''if
lad been the FIRE should have stopped till
'ou had got it out againl'
80 no, doctor" said the child, gravely,
You couldn't have done that. Nature
,ou know, is nature, ard her laws are inyi.
,lablel"
[, nearly knocked the doctor off his chair.
I .o.,ou,ber opa dnv nj diuner---thia ,ros