Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1879-10-17
Discipline and Training of Girls.

But, say some, the rude contrasts,
the low drudgery, the promiscuous as
sociations, to which our ladies are now
inevitably subjected, force them out Of
their true sphere, and forbid the posi-
bility Of refined and elegant culture
But it should be remembered that the |
loveliest adornments of female charac-
ter, whether of virtues or manners,
are often found in the middle or lower
walks of life, where tolls, sacrifices and
anxieties press most closely and most
constantly, and are most exacting on
time and energy. 1t is not in the
performance of duties and in the IN
terminghng of associations appropriate
to their sex that our ladies are to suf-
fer in delicacy Of feeling and refined
sensibility. These, we know, consti-
tute their irresistible charm and be-
nign sway over the characters of men
and the sweet and tender sympathies
of life 1t is when these conditions
are violated it is when individuals
and society impose positions, duties
and relations upon them which the
Christian ages, which natural law,
which revealed truth, all unite in as
signing to the sterner sex. AS sure as
we are born, in the course of few
: years, society will be all boys and men.
We shall have no girls and no women
in any true and desirable sense. In
finite wisdom and infinite love have
made the sexes beautiful and complete
+ counterpaits of each other. Transfer
the qualities, the duties, the sphere oi
!. one to the other and this beautiful
:, symmetry Of nature is destroyed, anc
Q the ends of the great law of our bein:
frustrated.
G lst From infancy to womanhoo,
: girls should be subjected to the bes
moral influences and the most consum
IS mate examples of personal purity AM
G propriety of life. This, it is true
:. might with equal emphasis be said o
IS boys. But most certainly girls, fa
o more than boys, are impressed by tn
II sentiments, the manners, the example
4. the aims and aspirations of those wit
1T whom they are intimately associatet
st They are most confding creatures SUI
v ceptible Of deep impressions and stron
rs attachments on short Acquaintance
Their affection for parents, relativ.
and friends is most ardent and intens
ID they receive the sussereioris Of thoS
in whom they have confidence maxim
no inquiry as to whether this confde,
lg is well placed, without challenge {
Sc suspicron and but for the keen, quic
1o instincts of their nature would thus
n oftener led into grave wrong. Cir
IN from the age Of twelve to seventee
ne years are the most arless, unsuspectir
le~ characters in life; their intense cul
ne osity and fondness for novelty nature
lle ly leads them to places, to association
ie' to acts or to expressions of scntimen
m which would be ruinous to reputatio
Ms and character if allowed; and wh'
li- informed of the results which wou
ne naturally flow from such conduct, th'
M start back with the utmost horror
hS showing clearly that they never dreal
ro- ed of such consequences, and at b
NY same time proving beyond questi'
'ai their innate aversion and disgust I
lai that which is injurious or impure.
he save them, therefore, from wrong hi
'sge and deep and lasting errors of sen
he ment and character, and to place tho
'at i'll society lovely and tremendously {
'ile veloped in true feminine virtues q
OF moral and intellectual aflinities,
III must surround them, from childho
iat to mature age, with examples and
my sociations of pure, aesthetic and elev
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