The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-05-28
HINTS TO HOMEN.
CHARLES KINsLEY ON HoUsEKEEplNa.

The Rev. Charles Kinsley recently
delivered lecture, entitled Thirty"
at Winchester, England. which is pub
lished entire III the May number of
"Good Words" We copy few pas
saGes:
When ,ye consider that every mis-.
tress of household is continually buy
ing, if not selling; that she is continu-
ally hiring and employing labor in the
form Of servants; and very often, into
the bargain, keeping her husbands &c.
counts,-1 cannot but think that her
hard worked brain might be clearer,
and her hard-tried desire to do her duty
by every subject in her little kingdom,
might be more easily satisfied, had she
read something OF what Mr.. Jonn
Stuart Mil has written, especially on
the duties of employer and employed.
A capitalist, a commercialist, and en-
ployer OF labor and an accountant
every mistress of a household Is all
these, whether she likes It or MOI; ana
it would be surely we'll for hef' IN so
verV complicated II state OF society as
this. not 10 trust merely to that mother
wit. that intuitive sagaCity and Innate
mower of ruling her fellow-creaturesI
which carries women so nobly through
their work in simpler and less-ciVillZed
societies.
And here stop to answer those who
may say, as have heard it said, that
woman's intellect Is not fit for bust.
ness; that when a woman takes TO
business she is apt to do 1t i'll, and un-
pleasantly likewise; to be more susp1-
Cious, more irritable, more grasp1ng,
more unreasonable, than regular men
OF business would be; that, as l have
heard 1t put, "a woman does not night
fai QimnlQ a
womRn's intellect is eminently fitted
for business is proved by the enormous
amount of business she gets through
without any special training for iti but
those faults In woman Of-Whlch some
men complain, are simply the results
OF her not having had special train
ing. She does not know the laws of
business. She does not know the rules
OF the game she is playing; and there
fore she is playing it in the dark, In
fear and suspicion, apt to judge or
questions on personal grounds, often
offending those with whom she has to
do, and oftener still making herself
miserable over matters of law or bust
ness, on which a little sound knowledge
would set her head and her heart at
rest.
A little knowledge of the laws of
light, for instance, would teach many
wo:aen that by shutting themselves up
Gurkeued rooms, they are as certainly
committing h waste of health, destroy
ing vital energy, and diseasiDg their,
brains, AS IL they were taking SO much
poison The whole time.
A little Knowledge OF tho laws of
heat would teach women not to clOthe
themselves and their children after
foolish and insufficient fashions, which
in this climate SOW the seeds of a dozen
different diseases, and have to be atom
ed for by perpetual anxleties and by
perpetual DOCTORS bills; and az Tor
little knowledge of the laws OF electric
ity, one thrift l am sure it would pro-
duce-thrift to US men, of having to
answer continual inquiries as to what
the weather is going to be, when a
slight knowledge of the barometer,
or of the form of the clouds
and the direction OF the wind, would
enable many lady to judge for her
quiry, disregard all warnings, go out
on the first appearance of strip of
blue sky, and come home wet through,
with what she calls "only a Chilli" but
which really means nail driven into
her cO1lin-a probable shortening,
though ii may be very small one, of
her mortal life, because the food of the
next twenty-four hours, which should
have one to keep the vital heat at its
normal standard, will have to be vast
ed in raising it up 10 that standard,
from which it has fallen by chill.
i'll be told that it is IL natural fault
OF wOmen-that they cannot take the
calm judicial view of matters which
men boast, and often boast most wrong
ly that they can take-that under the
influence of hope, fear, delicate antipa-|
thy, honest moral indig nation. they
will let their eyes and ears be govern
ed by their feelings, and see and hear
lnxR SCln 20 hna
1 answer.-that it is not for me as
IL man to start such theory; but
that if it be true; it is an additional ar
gument for some education which will
correct this supposed natural defect.
Ana l say deliberately that there is
but one sort of education which will
correct it-One which will teach young
women TO observe facts accurately,
Judge them calmly, describe them care
FULLY without adding or distOTting; and
that is, some training in natural science. |
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