The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-06-03
A Model Female Seminary.

The Education Of Women as st Should b
Coaducted-A Batch of Sensible S';gges
ti0ns.
The Richmond Enquirer which is face
tious on the subject of educating girls
says: x,
tIn the model seminary which our fancy
has conceived, when young lady arrives
at the age of fifteen and goes to the sem.
mary, the first thing put in her hand
should be broom. We should first teach
her tie sweep-not the pavements, tins
they succeed; \ doing without instruction,
but tic IL: after some progress in this
the pupils is prepared to devote some
months in busting and polishing praSs.
arranging furniture and putting as
ordered house to rights. We VIII sup
pose the young lady now to be sixteen.
She should at once receive instruction. III
the use of the needle-not that one which
po.zts Co sseo ,,ole, and directs the mariner
in Sailing round the world'-but that
Implement of civilization which Is used
in sewing on buttons and making shirts.
OF all the mere accomplishments which a
young lady can acquire in youth, there is
none more pleasing and beautiful than
this, and it is perfectly wonderful how
slow the female world has been IN dlscov-
oring it. Instead of the French professor
in such a soSSi0Soss -. ', . are thinking OF, we
should engage the services of some accom-
plished artist, like M. Zetelle or Ms Gerot,
to teach the young ladies the splendid art
of cooking. At seventeen a young woman
shorld learn all that can be learned about
max my uAv-- I'D the highest premium
of tine o.. fatrT beautiful coral neck
lace or lace pocket handkerchief should
be awarded to the best bread maker
Beaten biscuits are disappearing under
the new system of freedom and we are
having instead an uhealthy compound OF
soda or saleratus and -four, Now let our
girls learn to beat biscuit, and we can set
the colored breakfast cooks at defiance.
TheL Zach the young pupil how to cook
a beefstes, III. beefsteaks are so terribly
treated in Z '.-ginia kitchens then
how to boil egss, to make coffee, to whip
syllabub, and make pastry. The happiness
of many sweet and lovely girl is prema-
turely upset by the exposure of her ignor-
anoc % these subjects directly after mar
rage NJ l,'~s- serves so well to make
perfect and perennial the love and affec-
ton of young husband rs a tender and
well-considered beefsteak, prepared by
the hands Of the woman he adores And
as to any domestic sunshine with hard
boiled eggs and tough beefsteaks, heavy
bread and muddy coffee, it would quench
the enthusiasm Of Romeo and blast the
Establishments of q Juliet. To these ac-
compllshments our Virginia girls should
add a little knowledge Of arithmetic,
They are expected to negotiate with the
market mon for the butter, the chickens,
the eggs, the oraspberries, the vinegar
which are consumed in the family; and
they must learn how to get things cheap
and to make mental calculations with
rapidity and accuracy. It will be chiefly
necessary to direct their attention to addi
ton, satisfaction (and detraction,) divi-
sion and multiplication they soon learn.
They have in our present female schools
the air pump and orrery, and the use OF
the globes, and crucibles, and the blow
pipes and acids; for these we would sub
stitute the clothes-ringer, and the Italian
beehive, and the patent churn and sewing
machine. Pie making should
cover the ground now held by the piano
and gastrOnomy should fill up the. time
now devoted to the guitar. A good ok
ing woman with aigood pie amount to a
great deal more than good looking
woman with a good tune. We think the
great defect in ancient sculpture is the
training after the ideal and abstract /; if
the Venus de Medici in the fine art gal
lery at Florence only had a pie in her
hands, it would have been the grandest
female conception ever originated ab +