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In her, and join her brother in health-oiy-
ing, out door sports, with the foot of n
gazellc outstripping him in the race. or
nimbly scaling the fence, or climbing the
trees, she Is alternately sneercd Mt and
scolded for romp by those who are old
enough 20 know better. Or she will stand
by the win low, her neglected dolls upor
the floor watching the wild and rolicsomr
fun Of the boys in the street, or walking
circumspectly by the side of father or moth.
or or nurse, gaze on them rolling over and
over, turning somerscts and lumbling upon
each other with laughter and shouts, and
she will clap her hands and wish over and
over again, that she was a boy
50 the lit girl grows into a larger girl.
She has no taste for those things now. Oh.
no. She would much rather lie n the sofa
than take walk in the crisp, morning air.
She never could see any fun in taking long
walks. They always tired her all out 1t
was as much as She could do to walk to and
from school Is it any wonder? ,he has
been taught that little girls should stay in
the house. II was unlady-liko to play out
ot-doorS with the boys. She accepted the
situation then because, forsooth. She was
obliged to. She accepts it now because she
has lost all inclination for anything else. So
she grows up pale and languid and the doc
tor says and father and mother say, the
child is studying too hard In nine cases
out of ten the teacher knows better
1t may be she has elasticity enough TO
overcome all this and perhaps she is sent
away to boarding school, to Vassar, or
lloiyoke, or somewhere else. She is am
bilious to excel and she works hard upon
her lessons, and if she breaks down, all the
blame is thrown upon the mental exertion
she has made Listen | have been behind the
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The table board is good but not by far so
dainty as my young lady has been accus-
toned to at home. 1t is simply plain
and wholesome. My Young lady
misses the accustomed Injuries.
She writes a piteous letter home. She is
starving. DO send her box The box
comes. Don't | know that box? What
magnificent frosted cake, What el giant
| pies! What heaps and hoaps;of conf
My young lady treats her friends all
round She will be treated in turn by
them. The plates are unturned at table,
and it does not require II very great amount
of wisdom to predict the result. OF course
my young lady will take the least possible
| utof-door exercise. That is her training.
! Why should it not be so? Do you wonder
that she leaves school with injured health?
No reason rs yet satisfactory to mind has
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is mapped out for young men, striving for
what Is called Il liberal education should
not be equally applicable to the wants of
an intelligent young woman DESTROYS of OBJ
tanning the same thing.
Nor do have the least fear for the ply
steal results, provided her whole life has
not been warped by previous false educa-
ton, and pernicious habits formed and fos-
tered under the home roof
Indeed truly think that greater de
gree of education an education that should
be something infinitely better and higher
than that given by the average boarding
school, would so expand and enlighten the
womanly mind that those thus illumined
would be led to take better care of them
selves realizing more fully the untold evils
not alone affecting themselves, but sure to
be transmitted to future generations, of
disregarding the first laws of their beings.
| have included more in this paper than
| intended when | began. The subject is
II comprehensive one, and one too which is
sure to be agitated from time to time; for
ours is an age of progress, and ideas and
principles are not allowed to slumbcr. |
have tried to give one woman's view of the
subject concerning which DR. Clarke has
written.
Believing heartily in the higher education,
the truer elevation of my sex, | am not
ready to admit as yet that God has given
us such weakly bodies that we may not, if
we observe his laws of health, attain to the
fullest capacities of our intellectual nature,
if only the opportunity is given us for
growth. Hence | cannot adopt the conciu-
sion of DR.. Clarke, that the higher educa-
ton of womanis is, or must be, physically Il
failure, intellectually IL success