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

for mnch more mentally than ahe really
is. And yet ahe will, under such train
:nS, t;f Eifte6 with 6ut : .nodicum O.
COMMON sease) go through life painfully
Impressed with be- o.u habitual fraud
And do you not thereby lay tho sure
foundation of.inoral obliqnity In he.
entire character? Candor and high
self:respect become dwarfed and de.
| graded, IL not utterly cruahed out, undal
such. vicious course of t;aiuing; while
prurient love of fsttcry hood-Winks the
conscience into submission TO the deplo.
rable necessity Of drifting on as o livinp
lie. Marrsa1ssea y E.yh life en- oftet,
result la mieery u all the parties con.
cerned, amply because .one or both OF
the chief actIrs turn out to be so very
different @ thing from that they had
eeerned to be before more intimate
acquaintance exposed the sham Of. theiF
| ppetenBi0ns and the meapneas of their
| true character. M
l. Only impress on the minds of the
yonng. that If they would be really re-.
spectacle and happy, they must honestly
aud strenuously Get themselves TO become
| in reality the sort of person they wish 10
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. unfophisticated 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
acquaintances, but you will easily and
always retain your own selfrespect.
Genuine pnliteneea and the most win
ming grace in manners must always spring
out of On upright, modest aud susceptiblo
heart. The politeness OF the whole.
hearted may be, and often is, skillfully
aped by the hearalesa but eooner or
later the jackdaw is pIucked Of hia pea
cocks feathers and covered with shame.
Let the true and noble-hearted voman
or men of proper eelf-respect, end with
superior literary education, (which gen.
orally frees one from the embarrassment
OF egotistical and contemptible vanity
be introduced into fashionable society for
the frat 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 thu country,
and its true and rightful nobility viii
always be recognized and highly ref, ect-
ed In all civilized communitieg.f hen
labor, 20 parents, not to heard riches tor
your children, for that, at beat, can I'm
part but q vulgar power; but etrive
rather to give 10 them the moro 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, phyaical exercise of girls. OBJ.
serving aud thoughtful persons every-
where have come to recognize the fact
that this 10 essential TO their health and
happiness. How can it be doubted that
girls absolutely need such physichi exer-
else just as much as boys need it. The
medical faculty throughout Christcndom
are emphasizing the opinion that most
schoolgirls suffer much in health and
spirits, and many contract fatal sickness
from the want of moro active open. air
exercise,
And besides the preservation of their
health and the promotion of cheerful
animal spirits-so charming in the young
there arc other great advantages gained
by not only allowing but encouraging
schoolgirls in conducting themselyrs as
mere girls, and not as grown.up, sedato
ladies. So long as they are i:arpuing
their school education. and 90 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 knowi-
edge of the fact that they are encouraged
to do 90, and are regarded as mere girls
by their seniors, goes very far towards
reconciling them to the idea of continu-
ing Bchool.girls g sufficient number of
year5 TO enable them to acquire q good
scholastic education.
It would, in various ways. have q 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 tho way in which their elders
treated them, that they arc not grown
until they are grown. By protracting
in thiH way the adolescent social status,
we would not only improve much the
pbysical constitutions of the rising gem
GRAFTON, but wo would actually add Both
years and happiuess to their lives. We
are checked aE the inLdmanity of the
Chinese in con6ning the feet of their
female Infants to keep them unnaturally
small but our false notions Of propriety
contine, dwarf, distort and blight the en-
tire body ofmany thousands Of or girls.
Science, philanthrophy, and religion are
now combining their influences to Yeyo-
lutioniEe this iamsntabie stats of things.
and to direct tho efforts of all towards
the moro enlightened, humane, and wise
policy of seoaring 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 aspos-
sible the joy ofchildhood. I. Too soon will
"the scar and Yellow leaf.time ineyits.
bly, come 10. fhetn ell. s4
| And now there il one other point OF
the matter In hand, on which beg leave
i 10 submit lew observations before /
close. If there is any one point in re-
| gard TO gcholestic education, on which
there is unaniinity of opinion among
educators of. the present day. it is chat
the school and college courses combined
do not, and cannot impart complete edu-
cation to any one. Tho BEST students
finishing their collegiate training, are
only fhen prepared TO go on, without q
teacheE'a aid, in tho p1Tsuit OF science
and philosophy, and educate themselyet
! il they are resolved to do so. Now this
being admitted on ell hands, I am : per.
suaded that the course Of studies and
method OF teaching ehould be nlora M.
turally and logically cOnformed to this
admitted fact, thsn Is usually the case
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