The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-08-12
Something About the Education {
Girls.

Something About the Education Of
-" Girls.
Tor. crRs NJ Y. Tut.
What do want to point
out is, that women nowadays arc shame
fully miseduCated for their true place
Every girl must learn to thrum on the
piano, when she ought 10 be learning tc
sew; she Is crammed with u mass Of In
digestible "OlOgies," when she ought to bt
taught the management OF servants, and
the administration Of her household; shC
Is pettetl and ilattered, and cOddled, when
she ought to be broken into the duties o.
her life, as young men Hre broken into the
duties Of theirs.
The whole education Of q young woman
nowadays Is Of the fantastiCal and glitter
Ing sort, meant TO enable her 10 catch q hus
band in which, after all, the most "ac
complished" very often fail, Tor men
whatever their theories may be, have fol
the most part sense enough TO pick out iol
their wives women who promise 10 DC
useful as well as ornamental. !.
You yourself, in answer 10 Bachelor,
complain Of the slavery Of women to
fashion: but what could you expect
From the time girl can speak till she Is
married she Is sedulously taught that she
must mike herself charming-as though
every healthy young girl were not so. in
spite Of herself land that to be charming
size must he in the fashion, and, If posi-
BILE, q little more fashionable than some
body else. She must torture a piano, she
must scream in Italian, she mnst buy her
hair ofthe wig maker, she must give hei
DAYS TO new dresses and her nights TO
trashy novels. Size Is encouraged to crave
excitement, and to think dull and weari'
some the quiet duties Of hOme-all because
It Is fashionable, and il she Is not fashion
able she will not get husband. U
Suppose now, that our daughters were
taught that duties makeup the main parts
OF life, and pleasures arc only occasional
TINT humdrum is more wholesome thar
excitement suppose the time they waste
at tile piano were spent in learning how
10 eat, drink, sleep and otherwise use then
bodies in such u WY Us TO keep them
strong and health: suppose they were
taught sewing, and cooking, and modest
demeanor, and carly hours, and q love oil
exercise and outdoor life, and an esteem
for hcalthlul md instructive books, and !
should hope, with all, contempt for "ac-
complishmcnts," would they not be more
contented, more useful, less sickly, happiers
But we men would not marry calico
dress, writes one Of your correspondents
Would not wet We do not like dowdlcsi
SO far agree. But the three most charm.
ing women ever knew wore calico, and
were, in the opinion OF all the men who
knew them, never so charming US when
they were thus dressed. My wife could
tell YOU that her husband fell in love with
her, seeing her for the first time In his life,
ia o calico dress, with her sleeves tucked
up, making bread. And l will tell you
that she is today the mother of hall
dozen children, and the most charming,
fresh, comely, healthy, sensible person |
know; the best adviser man ever had the
most cheerful, contented and happy body
within my acquaintance who attends to
her duties as do to mine, and expects
her occasional pleasure trip as l do.
Moreover, having oil her lite gone
to bed carly, taken regular exer-
else, dressed sensibly, eaten hear
tily, and done her duties as tho head
Of her household, she is the mother Of
healthy, vigorous children, and to-day
wears her own hair, and has no more need
Of the adventurous aid ofwomen's tailors
&c., than when. she was twenty.
While two Of three millions of young
girls are taught Accomplishments" and
made 10 believe that they must be fash
ionable in order to get husbands, you
may, be sure that the absurd Woman's
Rights movement will prosper. So long
rs we bring up our women to crave eX-
element, to love extravaganza, TO despise
humdrum duties TO which, yet, their ne.
ccssitics compel them, and to long for
some other, different kind of life than that
TO which Providence or nature has dcs-
tined them, so long the Woman's Rights
people will make converts: for to them
come, rs to David Of old, all tho discon-
tented, all those who have grievances, all
whom the reading Of trashy books. or the
bad teaching Of the dNy, or the idle and
fantastic life In which they were brought
up, have made unhappy and eager for
change without regard TO improvement,
Here you have the opinions Of one who
is not a Bachelor, but
MARRIED MAN.
WaliamspOt, Pa, WlyS0.