The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-08-11
The "Finished" Young Woman.

r The plight of the young woman whose
education has Just been sffinished, that
is to say. whose education in the useful
ness and practicalities of life has just
| begun. is by no means as enviable as it
appears, or asTperhaps it actually seems
to the young woman herself. Oar
| methods of instruction teach her little
ior nothing of the duties of life. If she
| is poor, they often interfere with her
| requirements in home industry, make
har discontented with its hardships, and
provide her with few, if any, means of
conquering them. If she is rich, her
litime is, apt to be devoted largely to
frivolity. flirting, excitement, a fitting
from one pleasure to another, in the
vain hope of quieting the restless and
reckless desire for time-illing and time
killing entertainment Sooner, or later,
tof course, she looks forward to marriage,
but even for that, an empty and unpro-
ductive interval of small talk, lunches,
Germans, ice cream, chatter, gossip
and Irritation is very poor prepara-
tion.1 fOld-fashioned mothers see and
lament this condition of things; sensible
teachers deplore it; and in some cases.
attempts are made by the introduction
Of art study, ,;out door exercise, archery,
sailing and horseback riding, literary
circles and women's clubs; to fill up q
part Of the long -drawn-out leisure which
comes to young women Between their
leaving school and setting up homes of
their own. But many Of them do not
care TO read, unless it is light fioveI; !;
few like. to sstudy-many of them, in
spite of their schooling, never having
really Learned to study-4and the vexar
tious problem of how to get through
the hours, without some new zest to an
already jaded experience. and a. fresh,
flip to an already palsied sensation,
haunts them day by day. / .Y9siiAssi
A club OF young women in Hartford,
Connecticut, have attempted to satisfy
this state of mind by series ofsnovei,g
If mot picturesque, experiences. They
arc. known as the - Saturday Morning
Club,@ and have Of late been idevoting'
their leisure to a thorough examination,
and at least a superficial mastery, of
the industrial arts with which Connectil
cut abounds. To this end they have,
with competent instructors, visited all
the principal panufactnres in the city
and vicinity, made a study ~ them and
endeavored tolso far comprehend the,
processes as to gain an intelligent notion
OF the method of fabricating articles,
rnanysof which are strewn about them
every day Of their lives. They nave
visited thread mills and learne,l how
threads made; Colt s pistol faetorys the
rifle manufactory; the works of the Cat
ling GUN Company; sewing machine
shops, ak shops;a carpet faetofies; the
making of books and newspapers, and
other ingenious, but common. manu-
factures. ~s~ : -ss-s
Now. while muchsofl this will not be
ct great practical use-although it is
easy to imagine young woman MAX
ing better bargainoin carpet for
knowing how it was made-yet it tends
to stimulate their minds, and itAaffords
topicslof thought and talk superior cer-f
tainly to the inordinate amount of at
tention given to dress, to- beaux and to
society gossip. The precise mode
adopted by the Hartford young women
is of course practical only to q limited
extent, but in many places there might
be excellent substitutes for il, at aorice
interesting and informing. Detroit Free,