The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-10-03
What Are We Doing With Our Daughters2

"Straws show which way the wind
blOws,n il an old saying, and "what are
we doing with our daughters ?" was the
question that rose to my lips an hour
ago when heard bevy Of good, sensi-
BILE, ordinarily educated, healthy Hoo
sier girls discuss i'm their girlish frank
hess the newspaper article below:
WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH OUR DAUGH-
TIERS?
Bring them up in the way they should
90.
Give them a good, substantial, COM
mon school education.
Teach them how TO cook good meal
OF vituals.
Teach them how to wash and iron
clothes.
Teach them how to darn stockings
and sew on buttons.
Teach them how 10 make their own
dresses.
Teach them 10 make shirts.
Teach them to make bread
Teach them all the mysteries Of the
kitchen, the dining-roOm and parlor.
Teach them that dollar is only one
hundred cents.
Teach them that the more they live
within their income, the more they will
save
Teach them that the further they live
beyond their income, the nearer they
get to the pOor-house.
Teach them to wear calico dresses, and
do IL like queen.
Teach them that good, round rosy
romp is worth fifty delicate consump-
tives.
Teach them to wear thick, warm
shoes.
Teach them to do the marketing for
the family.
Teach them to foot up store bills.
Teach them that God made them i'm
his own image, and that no amount of
tight lacing will improve the model.
Teach them every day, hard, practical
c0mmOn-sense.
Teach them self-reliance.
Teach them that a good, steady, greasy
mechanic, without cent, is worth a
dozen oil-pated lnafers In broadcloth.
Teach them TO have nothing TO do
with Incorporate and dissolute young
men.
Teach them TO climb apple-trees, go
hshingt cultivate 4 garden, drive a road
team or farm wagon.
Teach them the accomplishments
music, drawing, painting-if you have
lhe tlne ana means to do il with.
Ieach them not to paint and powder.
Teach them not to wear false hair
Teach them 10 say no, and mean il;
or yes, and stick 10 il.
Teach them TO regard the morals. no,
the money of the beaux.
Teach them the essentials of life
truth, honesty, uprightness-then at :
suitable time let them marry.
Rely upon il, that upon your teaching
depends in a great measure the veal ol
woe Of their after life.
Where this profound and practical
piece ofpOlite literature first saw the light
am not able even to guess; but it made
its advent into our family through the
columns of the Christian STANDARD, 4
weekly family aud religious newspaper
published in Cincinnati, Ohio, q pOpu-
lar and influential paper.
our black-eyed Laura opened the pa
per. Struck by the taking title OF this
article she thought 10 entertain her
guests with 1t and began reading aloud.
~ Nie second sentence her ROSY lips
1.leu ,,6il ana her nose tip-tilted n little.
common school education indeed u
salu sue, Il shall not be satisfied with
Ia, la mere are normal schools and
SoiieSSs' LII ~, aild there will go.n HAnd n
sides Of the room. ''' "'iieien'
The, third and fourth sentences MAR,
passed over in silence. bnt 3, were tht
NTH there was uproarions Ianol.stn .l,s
cries of Hear! hearr' aud exelams to-
such as "How original! How refroSh'
ingi How unselfishly philanthro,ioI,
At the sixth, our worthy. and untaIi;
gent dress-maker demurred, 'sNo. no )
said she, "girls don't, it would be mn
generous toward me, should you with
draw your patronage. Where woul,
my bread and butter come from2 Noy
don't compel me, at, the age Of twenty
four, and when established in goo
business, TO study law or medicine, no