Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-06-08
(con.in ued from first psge.l


allowed time to sip the honey from each.
and getting sadly confused as to the rea-
tive merits of white clover and blossom
OF bean. If the pretty 'get-up' OF the mod
ern school book wi Justify the metsphnr.
We have set our faces against juvenile
parties as they are conducted AT present
so she does go to bed at ten. n she closes
the last book
but she has Saturday ?"
''Oh YES. Saturday Wei. she sit> bv
the heater and reads some trash or other,
or she goes out shopping and to pay calls.
Ii it be near Christmas-time, she works
away like a beaver on a g-strap tor me-.
much too fine for use, and cramps her arms
against her breast, aud bteathes short and
shallow over the hurried stitches. q
wonder, by-the-wav. why women are pro-
vided with lungs! Since all their gentle
and feminine pursuits. with hands, breath
ing. and eyeslght concentrated on the tiny
shalt of ivory or steel. tend to eliminate
these organs, surely they are almost as
unnecessary in the objects of their crea-
ton as the brain en- evldenceH)
Not a very abouudlng and rejoicing
existence certainly, this pnnitential Youth
we have prescribed for our daughter. We
shall have a platoon OF medical mu,kets
leveiled at her by and-lY They will dis
pose of her at the first charge, and the
charge is : Poor thing She has tried to
study as a boy does and behold the con-
sequences-total wreck ~
TOO much co-educatonP My dear. be-
lieve me, we harel't halt enough. We
don't begin to understand cO-educatlo1
we don't dream tor minute of giving
our girls chance for life and strength
that we secure for our boys. Look at
Debby Ann. She WGS educated with boys. |
She went to the primitive Quaker school
at Straitville Corners, where tn Dse shrewd /
old merchants, my uncle>, got their store /
OF the English Reader and Comley' sp, H. |
ing book. In school and out she had the I
same chances as they for simple nutrition I
of her active brain, and room for her |
healthy young body to dispor itself and |
grow in the wide fields under summer and |
winter suns.
They sent their ships over the world, !
walked cody among their fellows. and "
were gathered to their rest Years ago.
She. keen-wltted a. they, has been as ac-
tive, as useful. rs uSetui! Who shall
compute her thousands OF hours spent in
weary sick-rooms, winning trail babies
back to life, or soothing the racked and
weary soul to its last quiet Sleep No
trace of wear aud tear upon her. For a
sample of co-education, ! know none
better.
"And for higher education, denied II
my uncles and Debby Ann, how many
years is it since the whole curriculum OF
the Boston Latin School had f. be
changed, because the boys We're breaking
DOWN. Cramming Incorporate study Is
good for neither girl nor boy: but happt
~ the system of elective studies wisely
coming into favor in our high universe
ties will correct this evil.
IF we're to send Bessie to Cornell or
Michigan University just now, she might
or might not be able t. stand the pace,
artificial, abnormal Great are that we have
made her. But if | were to cal tire Tom
to-day, and put him under glass till he is
fiiteen--for year, let us say--load him
down with heavy and inconvenient dress,
tender him. as Debby Ann would say,
with fancy work over the heater, frown
upon every effort at noise or romp, deny
HIM fresh air save in an overburdened
and decorous walk, multiply his studies,
and add 'biano- blaying' aud practice for
sins-in shot, rear him for one year, AS
we have reared Laura and Bessie all
their lives Tom wouldn't 90 to Mchi-
gan University, but TO the grave.
a.s-'s.'No one has sufficiently computed, it
! seems To me, the grand elastic ty OF
womanhood. The good God has gwen
her brain as well as her sacred office Of
maternity. Not by sptsmodlc intellect
ual effort, with intervals of Incidence
and vague imagnings, are the great
mothers of the race reared and formed
The perfectly healthtul woman, whom
the doctors never see, will laugh if you
tell her she was created an Intermittent
invalid. She knows the sustaining force.
the healthiul reserve OF power, which
keeps the balance Of her pulses upder all
the complex conditions OF her life. Ma
ture, foreseeing the various demands up
on her, has gifted her with powers of
endurance, of rebound under care. OF
patient pulling and steering through
shoals OF harassing and complicated du
ties, before which the stout ST stroke OF
the university crew would break his oar
10 evaporation, and lay himself down in
despair. - drper's Mem MO1fbly.