The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-10-28
HOME IND SOCIETY.
TRADES FOR OUR DkUGHTERs-TEACH THE
GIRLS SOMETHING USEFUL.
Philadelphia Times.


of us who are anxious to have our daughters
"stand up and enjoy them like man."
Far rather would we, if we might choose,
that they should know nothing OF the rough
places of life ; that there might always be
strong arms aud stout hearts near for them
to lean upon. Still this ia not always pos
sible. Fair seeming props sometimes prove
rotten at core or go down before hurricane
which nobody foresaw, leaving those who
trusted in them without support. Men moii
and toll to accumulate fortunes for their
children, and within few years after they
are laid in the grave the wealth 30 painfully
gathered is scattered to the fonr winds OF
heaven. In these days of change and
uncertain fortunes nothing ia securely our
Own but our heads and hands, the skill at
our fingers ends, the cunning OF our Drains.
or these no man can rob us; no adverse
fate deprive US, until with the hngeis stiH
and the brain cold We need them no longer.
Taught by the lessons when every osy
brings us, we are learning something OF
THE, and eq1Ippfng our r-rons st least for
the battle of life; yet we go on ofindfy
trusting Providence for our daughters
forgetting that nowhere is help promised to
those who do not help the nseives ~hen
boy has q talent for drawing we MAKE
him an artist, spending money freely Tor
the cultivation of that talent-making 1t
the work of his life. If our daughter shows
the same trait we allow her few lessons,
perhaps, and are content if she execute hall
a dozen crayon sketches and an oil painting
or two. The son has fancy for medicine
make him doctor by all means; the
girl-doctOr's books are not tit reading for
women and If TIE bent of her genius be 80
strong as to overcome all difficulties in It's
way, nothing but success more brilliant
than falls to the lot of most men will justify
her in the eyes of the world at large for
having followed If. 50 also with other
vocatioDs-in very few of them are women
able to compete with men. Often not 80
much for want of talent 80 aor lack OF
training. Training ia worth so much in
this world Pegasus is not of half 30 much
value at the plow as is the dollest cart
horse that ever stepped.
NOT EDUCATED EVEN FOR WIVES.
But women marry and married women
have little leisure for such things. Very
we'll but do We ed ocste our daughters for
wives and mothers Z When you married,
yourself, my dear madam, were you able to
get dinner3 Could you make your own
dresses and your hnsband's shirts 2 And
wien the baby had the collie did you not
think him ill, and cry as hard as he didf
And are you teaching your daughter 30
that she shall not learn her duties through
as many heart aches and failures as her
mother didf Nor do all women marry.
There are very many who have DO man to
lean on-apd some alas have men who
lean on them-women who are soHely beset
for the means of gaining livelihood, to
whom q trade would be an unspeskable
boon. Andsthere is no knowing how for
tunes wheel may turn. Five years ago
there seemed little likelihood that Oakley
HALLS children would ever need TO depend
upon their own exertiOns. Now as their
father wanders a fugitive in foreign lands
it ia probably the sweetest drop in the cup
he has mixed for himself to reflect that
those children have been trained for just
such an emergency. One OF the daughters
is a skilled 5ressmaker, the result of lessops
from Ii dTessmaker at home; another is a
clever eugravev on wood while the 500
has learned prlunDG, acd is gor6 type
setter. We haVo known OF an Instance
where a girl with a strong taste for mathe-
mates studied bookkeeping for her own
amusement, aud WHO, in after years, waen
reverses overlook her husband, took charge
of his lsGger--he keeping the das book
and saved him the expense OF buohkeepef
uutil they had weatheTed the storm. God
never gave auy human oeiag talent bu'
WAS worth beiug cultivated, It its cultiVa
ton was posslble. 1t may not be necessary
| perhaps, TO make it r. staf TO lean on, bu
hts posse ssicn will always enable the pos
| season to stard more erect-wiil give 6
| feeling of satisfaction and self respect which
is worth q good deal. 1t is only in Americt
that the children of rich men are as rul'
| brought up TO Do lOle. AOrOau1 the UermhI
princes are taught trades, and the German
princesses are accomplished housekeepers
Victoria's daughters are mistresses OF th'
needle Princess Louise is clever artist
and the princess Beatrice is one of the lad.
patroneeees of the South Kensington Schoo
Of Art Neediework. In cases such as thes
there is, of couree, no thought for tn
future, the art s acquired for Its own SAX
and the Amusement which it affords to th
restless child or energetic woman; but Aer'
in America, in addition to this, sucn &C
complishments are q defence against fate.
THINGS EVERY WOMAN SHOULD LEARN.
That "aRybody can learn anything" is al
American maxim which we every day Sc
verified. What to learn is a question to b
decided by inclination aud by experience
Where, however, natural talent does no
strongly indicate some special duty, it
always safe to educate a woman in house
hold duties, to make of her housekeepel
seamstress, OF nurse. If che marry, til
knowledge will be useful beyond measure
will save her from many mortifying failure
E and from not a few heart aches; If not,
. will render her welcome and useful in tn
home of some other woman. There ar
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