The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-06-16

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of manner as will enable her, by polished
articles, to pass with superficial observer
for much more mentally than she really
is. And yet she will, under such train
ing, (if gifted with but modicum o
common sense) go through life painfully
impressed with her own habitual fraud
And do you not thereby lay the SURE
foundation of.moral obliquity in hel
entire character? Candor and high
selfrespect become dwarfed and de-
graded, if not utterly crushed out, under
such vicious course Of training; while
prurient love of Hattery hood.winks the
conscience into submission to the deplo
rable necessity of drifting on as q living
lie. Marriages in high life so often
result in misery to all the parties con.
cerned, simply because ..one or both Of
the chief actors turn out to be SO very
different thing from that they had
seemed to be before more intimate
acquaintance exposed the sham of their
ppetensions and the meanness of their
true character.
|, Only impress on the minds of the
young that if they would be really re.
snectable and hacpy. they must honestly
and strenuously set themselves to become
in reality the sort of person they wish to
appear in society, and they would be
saved much misery in their subsequent
lives. Eschew, my young friends, oil
counterfeits, however current. Be hon
est, unsophisticated and pure, and you
are then most certain to be happy; for
you will thereby secure not only the
lasting respect of your most Intimate
acquaintance, but you will easily and
always retain your own self-respect.
Genuine politeness and the most win
ming grace in manners must always spring
out Of an upright, modest and susceptible
heart. The politeness of the whole.
hearted may be, and often is, skillfully
aped by the heartless but sooner or
later the jackdaw is plucked of his pea.
cocks feathers and covered With shame.
Let the true and noble-hearted woman
or man of proper self.respect, and with
superior literary education, (which gen.
orally frees one from the embarrassment
of egotistical and contemplate vanity
be introduced into fashionable society for
the first time in their life, and they will
very soon feel themselves at perfect ease,
and act their part with due gracefulness.
Every one is at his ease in the company
of his recognized interiors. Superior
education is the only legitimate aristo.
cratic element of society in this country,
and its true and rightful nobility will
always be recognized and highly respect
ed in all civilized communities. Then
labor, ye parents, not to hoard riches for
your children, for that, at best, can i'm
part but a vulgar power; but strive
rather to give to them the more excellent
riches of high moral and intellectual
culture. The woman who loves not
books has no moral right to raise child.
A few. remarks, in the next place, by
your leave, in regard TO the open-air,
active, physical exercise of girls OBJ.
serving and thoughtful persons every
where have come to recognize the fact
that this is essential to their health and
happiness, How can it be doubted that
girls absolutely need such physical e1er-
else just as much as boys need it. The
medical faculty throughout Christendom
are emphasizing the opinion that most
schoolgirls suffer much in health and
spirits, and many contract fatal sickness
from the want of moro active opsn-air
exercise.
And besides the preservation of their
health and the promotion of cheerful
animal spirits-so charming in the young
there are other greatadyantages gained
by not only allowing but encouraging
schoolgirls in conducting themselves as
mere girls, and not as grown.up, sedate
ladies. So long as they are pursuing
their school education, aud 30 long as
their bodies are really growing, it is not
only essential to their health and proper
physical development that they romp
freely in the open-air; but the knowl.
edge Of the fact tina. they are encouraged
to do 10, and are regarded as nero girls
by their seniors, goes very far towards
reconciling them to the idea of continu-
ing schoolgirls q sufficient number of
years to enable them to acquire good
scholastic education.
1t would, in various ways, have very
happy effect on both the girls and the
boys of America, if they were every
where, and every day, made to under
stand by the way in which their elders
treated them, that they are not grown
until they are grown. By protracting
in this way the adolescent social status,
We would not only improve much the
physical constitutions of the rising gen.
Grafton, but we would actually add both
years and happiness to their lives. We
are shocked at the innumanity of the
Chinese in confining the feet of their
female infants to keep them unnaturally
small but our false notions Of propriety
con6ne, dwarf, distort and blight the en-
tire body of many thousands of our girls.
Science, philanthrophy, and religion are
now combining their influences to revo-
lutionize this lamentable state Of things,
and to direct the efforts of all towards
the more enlightened, humane, and wise
policy of securing for our girls sound
minds in sound bodies-the very greatest
of earthly blessings. We earnestly be.
speak from the generous patrons of the
ANDERSON FEMALE SEMINARY, their
hearty cooperation in this behalf. Let
our young people prolong as much as pos,
sible the Joy of ofchildhood. Too soon will
"the scar and yellow" leaf.time inevita.
bly, come to them all.
And now there is one other point Of
the matter in hand, on which / beg leave
to submit a few observations before /
close. If there is any one point in re.
gard to scholastic education, on which
there is unanimity of opinion among
educators of the present day. it is tina,
the school and college courses combined
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