Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-04
Physical Training of Boys and Girls.

Mr.. Cover Not long since | read
approyingly one of your editorials
on training boys physically as well
as mentally. That Is, educating the
hands as well as the head. But why
not include girls who may also SOON
or or later in life DO compelled to earn
a living with their hands Head
learning without physical training is
surely hurtful as often as beneficial,
because there 10 want of even bal
ance between the propeling and the
mental powers, the giving way or
being consumed by the Intellectual
Disappointments and misfortunes
may oveatake our daughters as we'll
as our sons. Entaiied wealth may
take wings, however well secured
Indeed it seems those who begin
poor are more sure of fortune in adj
vanced life than those who begin
| rich. Fortune at the start of life
turns out to be misfortune four cases
in five, more particularly when the
fortune belongs to the side of the
wife. | think that girls of fortune
in prospect ought to prepare them
selves for adversely by learning TO
work. | was raised poor, married a
poor man, and now we are what the
world calls, 0eU to do. But my girls
are workers in all tho arts of the
household, because / led and made
them follow. And, bordering over
lifes uncertainties, / consider their
chief wealth to consist in perfect
health and the practical ability TO
earn their own support, come what
may. And as to mental training,
that has not been neglected. But /
think withal better for them to share
the labors of home than to go out
and teach school. These are the
thoughts of q woman and mother.
and if you print them no harm will
be done by Withholding the writer's
name. A WOMAN.
April I'd 1859.
REMARKS We of course meant
to include girls in the editorial lec-
ture alluded to, but supposed it I'M
necessary to expressly include them.
What is written above we indorse.
| Young women of wealth and ex.
pectations may have more oppor-
tunities for marriage, but have few
or safe opportunities than poor girls.
They are ever surrounded by set oil
young men whom it is needless to
describe without real character,
talent or worth, whose whole stock
in trade is impudence, dandyism and
secret dissipation, and whose adven-
lures in life never 90 beyond insinu-
ating themselves into the affections
of some unsuspecting heiress. For
reasons hard to explain most girls oil
wealth prefer just such men. And
those who fall into the hands of these
pirates are sure sooner or later to be
stript of all, and then treated with
cruelty and neglect. Every young
woman, no difference how great bel
wealth and expectations, may be des-
tined meet just such fate as this
And she will be best prepared tor the
crisis who has the best practical
know ledge of the art OF living by
industry. The Jews had q custom
of adding TO the most finished edu
cation practical kno Wedge of som
trade. And this rule applied to the
women, so that no Jewess could come
to poverty and want.
The subject is certainly an inter,
esting one, and may be further used
in the Herald with sure profit to par
eats and children. In the light pre-
sented it would seem that girls hav-
ing property in expectancy are in
even a,greater danger of marrying
scallywags and being compelled to
finally earn their way than are poor
girls. But the practice of rich moth>
ers is wide departure from the logic
of these facts. They generally lead
in encouraging their girls to marry
fourth rate men-appearing to act
on the principle that girls SO raised
az to unfit them for wives ought to
marry husbands equally worthless.
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