Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-09-09
LANCASTER WISCONSIN, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 9 1885,

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order the work OF household. but
should also have the aesthetic side of
her nature so carefully cultivated
that she may make the most and best
of the means at her command for
The production of beauty aud come
Illness and comfort in her home sur.
roundings and in her dress and per.
son. For home uses also every
woman needs what We call accom-.
plishments. II she can play a mu.
steal instrument with fair skill. or
can sing in tune, her home will be all
the pleasanter for the fact, not to
herself only but to all its inmates
and all its guests. A more important
accomplishment still-the most i'm.
portsnt of all indeed lis the ability
to maintain an intelligent converse
ton, which need not be learned
conversation by any means. A
woman who is . good talker is q
blessing to everybody about her, and
the school may do much to give this
accomplishment to women. To talk
well one must be well informed upon
great variety of subjects, and must
keep abreast OF the worlds thought
and action. This information 10
something that cannot be provided
in school, but the means of its acqui.
sition may he provided there. If the
girls mind is properly aw akened and
trained, il foundation of informa
ton is laid in thorough knowledge OF
the outlines o! science and in &C.
quaintance with literature, the woman
will have at hand the means of main.
tanning both her knowledge of cur
rent thought and her interest in 1t.
If she knows the elements of science
thoroughly, she will be able to inter
es. herself 10 the results, without at.
tending to the process of modern
scientific research, and those results
constitute the foundation of the
greater part OF modern thought and
conversation. A fair introduction to
the world of English literature, and
an awakened interest in letters, will
open to her not only a sure resource
against ennui and WEAKNESS at home,
but a means of self cultivation which
will add greatly to her ability and
charm in conversation, and 90 far to
secure her success in the making of
an agreeable home.
Finally, no woman's education can
be sound which does not fit her for
the rearing and home education OF
Children. She must have good health
aud cheerful spirit She has need
of that tact which comes only of q
well-ordered mind and thoroughly
disciplined temper. Patience, self
possession, an affectionate disposition
and sound judgment are the virtues
she most needs; and her naturally
correct moral intuitions should be
fortified by some systematic &C.
quaintance with the foundation of
Observation-Disclosures which it is her
duty to lay anew in new generation
of young minds.
II is not our purpose, however, to
mark out scheme Of education for
girls. We seek only to direct atten-
ton to the principles that should
govern the work. We earnestly wish
that every step in girls education
shall have reference TO the needs of
women's lives; that the girls of TO-
day may be SO educated that they
may properly and happily fulfil the
duties and functions of women; that
they may be taught how to rule their
households we'll; how to make
homes beautiful and happy and
wholesome; that they may be fitted
to refine and adorn life and make it
sweet; and that their resources for
self-culture, self. entertainment and
personal enjoyment of life at home
and abroad may be as full as posi-.
Bile, SO that loneliness at nome, weari.
ness with tasks tor which they are
imperfectly prepared, and painful
consciousness of their unitness for
society, may be states equally un.
known to them. We would have
the educatio Of girls directed to the
production Of healthy, intelligent and
happy women, accomplished in all
lovely women's ways, and capable OF
making the best of wives and moth.
ers in happiness and contentment OF
spirit. The education too frequently
given to girls ia directed to the work
of fitting them for only a small part
of life. The scheme of education
adopted in MANY girls schools APP
pears to have been devised with ref.
erence only TO that part of girls
life which lies between her school
days and her marriage. 1t FITS her
only to make an appearance to
shine and sparkle in 3 frivolous
round of gayety to be belle for a
few months to acquit herself we'll
In the arts of the ballroom. In a
word it is mere varnish, intended to
serve temporary purpose. 1t seems
to assume that the whole business OF
woman's life is to attend parties a.
yonng girl and to win husband.
For the life after that it leaves her
cruelty anprepared. 1t denies her
the training necessary for the proper
discharge Of her duties to others, and
the resources of mind necessary for
her own con eminent in life. IF /,
does not make misery her lot, her
escape is due TO her own natural re.
: sources, not to any 6tnsss for life
that education has given her. HeI
education has left the needs OF the
real life of woman out Of the &C
count.
On the other hand, those person.
who would give to women simply .
masculine education, omit to consid
er an important part OF the need ere.
ated by the circumstances and dutie,
of women. The middle way which
Steele sought is that to which sound
reason points. namely, the education
of girls with direct and constant ref
erence to the life aud functions o
women. -Ne,C York Post.
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A CHARMING widow of Saltwater
| owns a nice boy, and man from St
Paul wants 70 be appointed deputy
father to him. While the st. Pau
man was stroll,ne down street will