The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-06-30

quite naturally expects that she, sooner Z
later, and perhaps very soon, will assum
the duties of asocial and household nature
} Has tho character of her studies been sue
that she has been best fitted to discharg
those duties with the creates! or even toleI
able efficiency, be these involving the charg
of a householi,s supervision of the castro
nomic department, due provision for child
rem, sick or well, or even of herself? Sd
may DO able to relate that it is 81 OO0, OO
miles TO the sun, that this elar is equal il
bulk 10 1,250.000 of our earths
that it contains iron, sodium, calcium
hydrogen, etc, that its diameter i
$50 900 miles, that Jupiter is larger by 1900
times than this old world o. ours, that il
has four moons, and that Neptune is /, $50,
OOO 900 miles from u.s. that the light from III,
pole star is fifty years in reaching us, while
from the farthest star ii is 300 years, tina
tho asteroids are etla aoou. th, slzs of tn,
state Of Texas but how much does she
know of the valuable things necessary to be
koown on this our own humble sphere
How much does she know even of the anat,
omy and physiology and the practical ny
genc data of her own personal body? She
mag DO able 10 distinguish herself by the
ina recitation of some ode of Horace, or OF
OVid's tart of love-" some selection from
E'chyus or Euripides. the "Phedre" or
"La medicin malgre lui," she can separate
the anapestc from the trochaic verse, but,
alas, she cannot tell what to do for her
neuralgia headache, for the friend who has
tainted by her side with an ache in the
heart, or the baby that is suffering with a
pain somewhere else. She knows not what
to do for the slightest catsrrh or whether fresh
air is hurtful to fevered patient. She laughs
atyou bee ,use you cannot realize staccato
movement from andante time, but he r
little brother swallows nickel, or the bsbe
gets needle into its little body, and she 10
at sea AS to whether she ought to apply an
ice bath to the one or give an emelic or
csthartic for tho other. She can demon
strate verbatim ct literatim that 'the square
described upon the hypothenuse of right
angled triangle, is equal to the sum of the
squares described upon the other two side. :.
yet she is completely disqualified iron. dis.
corning whether the butcher, the baker or
the grocer has properly cast up the monthly
account, or how much Is due for tho 10.
sursnce on her property at 50 much per cent
She can rehearse the geological formations
from the Silurian age through the miocene
and piocene periods TO the past tertiary, and
describe the exact mode of formation Of q
coral reef, but she confesses to inability to
cut to nice fit dress gored, or to be made
Ia princease, to evenly darn her stockings,
rewritten her soiled eight button kid gloves, or
becomingly and Hastily trim a spring bonnet
She can recite how grea. julius bridge was
ballt across the Rhine, but she does not know
modern railway bridge from a tramw.y,
aud is hence at loss to express herself
thereon if occasion require, to her travelling
Companion. She can viyidly paint her "over
the Alps lies Italy," and how "le petite cor.
porap crossed them, bu: alas, she APPEARS
not to care that across the back door lies The
kitchen, and knows as little OF tho manulac-
ture Of soups how TO bake, boil, broil OF
stew meats or poultry, rs does a Hotten,ot
about bnomisl theorems and the conserya,
ton of forces. She can distinguish a calyx
from its sepsls, corolla frum its stsmene,
the radicle from the plumule, but knows OF
the difference between municipal vote for a
school or other tax which involves the mar
ket value other property and constitutional
amendment. And so on through the course.
All of which criticism means that what has
been learned ut SO much cost has not suih,
GENTLY practical bearing on the nec'
essary duties snd relations of after
life. The college graduate comes
on. rs nicely polished ''as
the handle of the big front door," and with
as keen an edge MS new razor's, but alas
no or she discovers that not prairie land OF
flowers, but forest Of oaks has to DO Gu,
down in order to cut ones pathway through
life, and tho razor will not do the work, the
stout axe alone is fit for the business await.
ing. That Accomplishments should DO had,
and are eminently desirable, Is not for one
moment TO be gainsaid, that the aesthetic Ia
TO be carefully cultivated, Is Of equal import.
ance, but valenciennes lscos are not mean,
for calico dresses, nor Steinway piano for
the corn house or seed room. The prac,i
cal and the necessary, the usual and tho use
full must take precedence over tho ornament.
al, The luxurious or the elegant. The ,ru,
basis 10 Of tho former, and should
DO secured before tho iringes and
trim ming, arc put on. Whenever
they can 10 hand In band, 90 lot Il be in tbi
democratic country Of ours; but let US alwsy,
be sure. q. laast. that the education Of .bs
%ess.lsr yssf. shall boar some congsni,