The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-10-21

Our AMERICAN GIRLs.-Miss Anna &.
Bracket discusses, in llarper's Magazine
for October,the question of female educa-
ton in this country, which she thinks
should not by any means be modelled
after foreign practices. We copy an ex.
tract
While European nations Shut their
girls up in conventual privacy lest they
should be sullied by contact with the
world, our girls walk abroad; nor do
they lose the purity of their own fresh
hearts by the knowledge which they gain
of actual life We trust them to form
their own acqaaintances, aud to entertain
them and there is nowhere else to be
found the young girl who, while She is
free to receive attention, is so well able
to repel with dignity any presumption.
She marks out her own limits. She is
left to decide her life for herself, and is
not considered as piece Of property to
be retained or alienated by her parents.
With charming freedom she combines
certain womanly reserve which is not
any outward mannerism, but the result
of the inward conviction. which all
American life forces on her, that she is
considered an Independent aud responsible
agent. 1t she be unbalanced, the excess
is on the side Of liberty, showing to the
educator tho tendency which his proven
tive measures ought to take. Such girls
we must rule through winning their con-
viction on the side Of right. They will
not blindly obey what seems to them ar
bitrary rules, or if they do, the natural
exuberance Of life checked in one tlrec-
tion will spread itself out in another in
a lawlessness and foolish bravado which
we shall find It impossible to control.
Any SGT, formal rules, any regulations as
to uniform dress are directly opposed to
the spirit Of our institutions, and can at
best secure but a formal compliance for
the time, a result which cannot be con.
sldered as any part of real education.
IhelwUrk oithe teacher must always look
beyond the present, aiming as it does at
permanent and not temporary results, and
must, in America, appeal directly and
indirectly to self-cOntrol. The educator
has in his hands, as the result Of our
climate, government, aud society, an ex-
Fqulsitely sensitive and neryously deyel.
oped organism, a1spirlt which knows its
rights and wilt assertaud maintain them,
an eiferVeseent girl-iife which is to be re-.
duceda to aiTgracious womhhhood, but
without iDpairingo its individuality. Is
itnot manifest th0t no system based on
life ean9be adequate to the
skilffui solution ofs1eh d problem? Our
American girIspiftrpaed in school as it
iisperiectiyncorrect to ftreat French and
yGeinnrp girlsqnre 1hwatted and pervert.
ed intosomething iwhichihas all the faults
toil thenGerman and French girl without
her excellencies. Our work Is for pc.
culiar CLASSY under peculiar elrcumstan-
ces, and we must modelt uh6w FOR our
necessities. .yrrt1 suCiaiLgil .r'r
We have therfuost uatefial the world
has ever produced, and the oest chances
for its development Oar gnls' schools
ought to send forth the finest women that
havclever blessed OF beaati6ed the world,
the strongest and truest wives, HE wisest
and tenderest others the m6st lintelli-
gent and worthy citizens ;1ahd there
ought to be no places as pure, fealthful
and inspiring as the homes presided over
by American women lEf We do not lind
these resultsgtho fault mast be that Of
their education. ra'l tid inudr .l'e nom
no bar rr,iii 7,,iiud- a-ulp Div pyuod T. Zoo
i Oven THE LaKE.A+ 0nuM ondsy OF last
week in Crownpeint opposite Port Frank
liz, as a company ofworkmen were get
ting out stone for the railroad, pieco Of
stone struck one Of themlin theieye and
entirely destroyed the sight.l's ia'f nd 81
iui An explosion Of a boiler in one of
the furnaces at Port Henry one day iAst
week seriously wounded aud Injured one
Of the workmen who were ehgDgod near
by. go 81, - 80. fsti 'lr ad pl'ril o
The Moriah Ore Company uad Ter thc
cpntrol of Wetherbce, Sherman " TO-,
are about to reduce their wofkineiiorce
by djsaharglngfive hundred iiuBasy The
pfowppoint furnace force is also TO be
reduced.