Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-10
Training Girls to u Practical Kno,clcd0e
Of Some Profession or Trade
A e. S.

The Jews have this proverb; ''Refuse
to give your son trade and YOU make
him a thief" This is probably an an
Gent proverb as the Jews are an an
Gent people and found Of adhearing to
ancient rites and sayings.
Now, what did the Jews do with
their daughters, those fair defendants of
Eve, whose desire to be not only an actor
on the world strage. but pompter to
action, has probably been transmitted to
us all, whether for good or evil.
They did precisely what we are doing
at the present day. They brought them
upsdaintily, taught them a little spinning,
and fine needle work, and as an accom-
plishment, to play on certain musical in
struments as did Miriam, and then while
yet the strains of the music rang in their
cars, they were taught to sit down with
folded hands and wait, each individual
girl OF them, the approach Of the coming
man, who should arise from the East or
the North (or any other quarter of the
globe to marry her. When he came.
she entered into lifelong contract with
him to tend his house, rear his children,
and be in all things faithful and true to
him, her lord and master, for which she
was to receive food and clothing, the lat
ter she might spin-she had been taught
now Tor that very purpose-while the
former she could CLEAN in the fields and
grind into meal between two stones furn-
ished her for the purpose.
Now this in a modified form is lust
what is being done nova DAYS. The
education we give our daughter is de-
signed t. make her attractive, use
tul. 1t she fails to artract-and conse-
quently to marry-we have come short of
our endeavor, and find ourselves while
jogging along the down-hill slope of life
with sour old maid on our hands. Now.
that she is sour is our fault, not hers. It
isn't so much that she wanted to marry
and couldn't, as that she did not succeed
in doing the only thing she had studied
to do. If she had been taught-as all
girls, equally with boys should be- some
useful trade or profession, and at the
same time taught to look upon marriage
as something not to be lightly esteemed
should it come to her, nor pined for
should it not. what different aspect life
might wear for her!
The wonder is considering the way So
ciety is governed at present, that we have
SO many really contented and useful I'M
married women as we do. The secret Of
it is, they have struck out from the beaten
tracks far enough to find something for
hands and brain to do. But tits notalone
the girls, who from fate or choice, go
through life minated, to whom thorough
knowledge, of some trade or profession
would be a source of contentment and
profit. There are thousands ofwives with
a mere nothing to do, who would be glad
to labor, and to whom an opportunity to
exc out the family income might be af-
forded, had they acquired the mastery of
some special work OF business. Aaooman
has no more God giren right to depend upon
her husband for a living, than he has to de-
pend upon her for has.
Society stamps woman as the weaker
vessel, (and so at the present time she is
in some respects), and makes man her pro-
wider; but society might bear recon