Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-02-05

sparkling joys. and would not have the girls
themselves to deaden and aatten life by leaving
out OF 1t its realities. Mrs. Browning saws:
uet leave TO work in this world, us the best
| you get at all,
/ For God in cursin1 gives rs b4risr -;fss than
men In benediction.'
So when girl having acquitted herself well
/ IN the high school, is about to leave il. l would
have her pause and ask herself what there i
Tor her 10 do2-'' the work good in itself that
.s good for her-the best she was born for"
II BY the Light Of reason and conscience she
ueeicc that that work is teaching, let her con-
sder the nature Of her calling, and the prepsrs
tion needtul for il.
ana here | cannot help wondering if every
one VINO Is now in the teachers chair, as well as
| every unsuccessful applicant for such posi-
uon' has considered the natter carefully and de-
I elded as In the presence Of the Most Hiph. tba.
that Is the work he or she is called unto Ave
there none IN schoO-houses solely on account of
the miserable stipend they receive2-none who
are teaching to pass away the time, or for con-
yenience, or because there seemed 10 be notbing
else to do? How can there be so many failures
ii every one is doing ones best, and in the hest
manner,
As to the preparation needful for teaching -
our lives about the importance Of a teachers
work; we call up a best we may the facts of a
teachers position, and draw an inference there
from that makes US tremble. And then comes a
difficulty real mcuntain in the path. Where
are the colleges and higher seminarie- Of learn
ing for US With a boy the only question !.
hat college shall favor with my patronage?-
With girl it is, What college is there to receive
me- Our highest schools are only equal to their
preparatory schools Mt Holyoke hardly goes be-
yond Phillips Academy. There is Vassar Col
iege wish the halls Of that institution might be
30 crowded, and 50 many turned away from its
doors Tor want Of room, that some Of our phil
anthrupc, moneyed men, might see that II would
be for their interest in a double sense, to found
another and really merit0rious Female col eye
within the limits Of the United States. would
Ike to see women so awake to their Deficiencies
ami needs, that they would apply to themselves
proper pro- rtion Of the fine thngs that are
saying in these times about culture and re-
form think it would not be long before some
woman Of Gol-riyen wealth, some mother in
Israel or some blessed maiden aunt, would make
will IN favor of the girls or better, a benefa--
ton to be appropriated in her life t. the eudow-
ment Of "a university that should be some an
proach to ale or Harvard for the young wo-
men Of her own and future generations.
Meantime we need no- be idle. Let MS I-
thorough work in our preparatory schools. r,sd.
stut- and think, act in ;he light Of conscience
ami the fear Of Col, do uothiu- shatbily ,r bv
halves. Iwonler if the young teachers who come
TO these conventions year after year know how
much need there IS OF the advice 90 often reiter-
atel; Prepare yourselves; DO your work rail-
Does any one know how many there are actually
IN school as teachers. who can read irtelligibiv-
l mean, who can take ordinary book Of poems
or Of history, and sit down Of an evening, and
read SO distinctly and so well, As to catertaiu
half dozen friends without effort on the friends
part 10 beentertainel.
Does any one know how many there are: who
can not only recite tine rules Of grammar. but
who speak English with tole-able correctne-,
whose verbs and nouns generally agree who 10
not make adieetives DO the work Of adyerbs, and
atyerh- tine work OF adiectives who have
thoughts On the important matters of life and
know how 60 express them Clearly and inteIli-
sihly in conversation hoa many there are who
spell correctly, write fair hand and punctulte
properly.
Surely these things can be learned without
going 10 college but it tikes work and time
and pains, more than we think.
What We want Of the girls. then, Is better pre-
paratiou, more earnestness, more hard work IT
work Il Is not 50 hard % study principles i-
to sili time perhaps it is "a little harder 10
think but, To use a common vulgarism, it pays
better-oh, vastly better for when You have
succeeded in killing time. YOU have at best his
ghost upon your hands and IT will haunt You 0n
your death-bei Il not before
We want You TO become better educated, t.
make more Tor yourseiye-, ami more Of life
not TO get hisher positions necessarily. but 10
an rel those you have. Time Is too precious 20
be wasted Gods work Is too sacred % be- sheh-
billy performed.
Hear what the good ami great men of our
time are saying 20 your brothers on thess sub
iects they would say them % you If ;hey
thought You were interested
BE interested, DO not spend al your life among
sticks and -trlws. when there is a lden crown
not far from every one of Us.