Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-12-04

pointed discourse on this question of
better education for girls. Men have
the issue in their own hands. Shall
young ladies be passed through the So
ciety-gate into the domain of personal
extravagance which has done its great
work in producing the panic, and be
confined in the curriculum of useless
ness, of dissipation, of money-spend-
ing, of novel-reading, of bonnet
studying, of contemplate worthless
ness for mems wives, and mothers of
children who will not be born with sill
yer spoons in their mouths Or shall
the years from sixteen to twenty-three
and four be devoted to school work, to
science, language and literature to
mathematics, which make a woman
practical and teach her to count pen
nies to music and the arts, which rem
der her agreeable and graceful; to lit
erature, whose benefcence will SO sur
round her later life that she will not
waste unnecessary time on dress max
ers and novel factors. Shall a young
girl be made an educated, useful woman,
or frivolous, extravagant woman
Shall she be brought up to thoughtful
ness and modesty and self-denial, or
will fathers persist in making a walking
show-window of her, to her ruin and
his q?
The question of expense cannot be
raised. It will cost one-fourth the sum
to send girl to school, from sixteen to
twenty-three, that dresses young lady
in society during that time. The ques-
ton of marriage is not pertinent.
American women are not ready to be
married under twenty-five. 1t is non
sense to say that she should be learning
housekeeping. There is nothing in do
mestic work that an educated woman
will not learn in a month. The ques-
ton of religion retires, blushing.
Science is pure and holy society is
not. Glass recitations are better than
balls, and philosophy is more modest
than flirting. The question of health
is settled. Study, properly conducted,
is invigorating and delightful are the
dissipations of young ladies fashionable
life?
When they have finished these years
of study, what then? Marriage, for
those that are to be married. VIII
they make inferior wives because they
are educated, honorable, high-minded,
tender and loving Because they
have spent the young years OF their
womanhood in study, instead of in ex-
trayagance of dress, in intellectual de-
velopment and Strengthening of body
instead of in a waste of mind and
heart and body. Will not gentle,
strong, and intelligent women bring
forth stronger, fairer, and brighter
children than they whose heads are
without thought, whose hearts are self
ish from frivolity and qualification ;
whose physical strength has been wasted
away OF they whose heads are thick,
and whose tongues are coarse and
whose hands are heavy with the brutal
ity of ignorance What is there about
the intelligence and nobility and
strength and devotion of man that is
not true about the intelligence and love
and fidelity of woman ?
Teaching, and the other professions,
trades and occupations, for those who
do not marry All women are not called
to the marriage state. This is on no
less respected an authority than st.
Paul. Nor does he relegate to the con-
vent those who do not marry. The
wants of the world to be best flleI by
unmarried women are not limited to the
converts. There is pressing need OF
educated women for heads of estab-
lishments in which large numbers OF
young girls are employed. Educated
women only can secure these places, and
Gn6 SdI0Uy Ol IuOuSduuS Vi 1uO1I oOA WILL
soon be dependent upon the accomplish
ment of this necessary change. Only
few women will go into the professions
but it is their right. Woman's work
is circumscribed by her physical powers
mans is not. Therefore, in all things
| a woman can do as well as a man (and
of course, in all those which she can dc
better) the preference should be giver
to her." says the Catholic World, al
excellent authority, also.
Forty yards makes young woman
dress for the parlor now. Twenty woult
answer quite as well, if men agreed tt
think so, and young women's minds
were SO sufficiently occupied with bet
ter thought that they will not have tim
to put on twenty yards more. Goot
taste would be benefited by the change
SO would the finances of the country
Margaret f. Buchanan, IN Lokestd
Monthly.