Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1873-08-21
BE USEFUL.
A Word 10 Girls.
RIVER SIDE, July 18th, Is,

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McSSrS Editors Girls, Ladies', We
men Each and every of you, do you
wish for a sure and unfailing receipt for
happiness? If YOU do, adopt for one Of
your notices this sentence. I will be
useful, and then act upon it.. Are you
one of several girls at home and do you
feel yourself almost a superfuous member
of the family group, which would plod
along its daily routine equally as well
without you as it does with you.
BE not satisfied to simply feel that you
are doing your part there where you are
not needed and are really of no use, but
find, if possible, ONE other opening for
yoalsclt' Teach school if you are quail
fed, garden or raise d crop on some patch
of land, make two blades of grass grow
where but one grew before. Start up
some branch Of business, be it ever so
small, or if you prefur it, 60 and work
for some ~neighbor who has more than
she can do herself. Never think it a dis.
grace to do any honest labor, or that it
will lower you in the social scale, for you
may be assured that you will be lust
what you make yourself. If you study
to be refined, polite, kind, considerable.
intelligent and good you will be respect
ed just as much if you are working in the
kitchen as if yen were l%ounging in the
paflor. No one really worthy of our re-
CARDS will think less of us for doing
something useful. By doing work for
others you will learn many different ways
of cooking and managing a household
which will be of benefit to you all your
life. There is no better experience than
that of kitchen girl and maid Of all work
for one VINO wishes to be a house keeper
herself. Only be sure to do your work
we'll and in the best manner and fill up
odd moments by study and by personal
improvements. Keep always the idea in
your mind that you will be somebody.
that what you are to be, what you wish
to be, you must study to make yourself.
Strive to be as useful as you can to Your
employers, 20 that you aud they shall feel
more than content with your relations to
each other.
Very many girls arc satisfied to spend
all the best part of their live, crochct>
ing, em5roidcring, knitting, tatting, ETC.,
when they should be gathering up useful
ideas, making something more of them
selves than mere butterflies of fashion. or,
namonts of the p%arlCr, ballroom. side
walk or church. 1t is really as necessary
that girls should have a trade Of some
kind as it is that boys should. There is
nothing like being useful and indepon-
dent, being able to help yourself. To ac.
complish these things one must learn to
use their faculties and be industrious
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NeS'ould not have girls give up all en-
oroidery or fancy work, by any means.
but let them learn useful things first
let the best energies be devoted to the
main business of life, and Gowersa and fan
cy fxings come in as side issues and
play spells. True, work will hardea and
tan the hands, enlarge the sinews and
muscles and give US a strong, robust.
hardy nature but what of that? The
day is at hand when the l%anguor, delica.
cy, palliduess, weakness and clinpinC do.
~pendence will not be woman's choicest
ornaments Of face, form and disposition
But mind, soul, intellect, a~groeablcncss
and other useful qualities will be- tho
things that will win the love and admira.
ton of all whose opinions are worth
caring for. Therefore let each one of us
STUDY to do and be something, So that life
shall not be wholly spent in vain and han.