Daily globe., 1882-04-30
The Education of Girls.

The establishment of cooking and sew
ing clubs in many of our larger cities is
significant that change IN public Opin-
ion is gradually taking place regarding
the education of girls. Sensible mothers
are beginning to desire that their daugh-
ters should learn not only the accom-
plishments, but the practical as well. A
young girl ought to be taught thorough
~ every one of the duties devolving on
the housewife, and with it she should be
taught that which is of still more I'M
pOrtanee-the art of systematizing her
work. ANY one can, after few trials,
make % bed, sweep a room, iron a
starched garment, bake q pie or cook
meat, but to do all these things and
many more simultaneously, or at least
in such nice succession that at the
proper time all will be done, is no slight
accomplishment, and one which can
Only come with practice. In this con-
nection the Rora5 Mea0 Yorker offers
few well timed remarks:
What would one think of mother
who provided for her daughters travel
ing outfit, over very long, rough jour
",
tudes Of climate and weather, only IL
fimsy ball dress? It might be very
beautiful in fabric, and adorned with
abundance OF the choicest flowers and
sparkling gems, but it would bea mis-
erable failure as travelling dress, and
we should almost think the woman de-
fcient N sound sense who should pro-
vide ii for such q ,,TIrDOse
But is it any more sensible to send
our girls out over the rough journey OF
life with only stock of accomplishments
to meet the wants Of this everyday
working world? How many girls mary
without the slightest preparation in the
way Of domestic knowledge and sef-re-
lance in managing home affairs. It is
fondly hoped that skill will come to
them, and chat they will manage some
how to keep a house in respectability
and comfort; but oh, that ball-dress
travelling suit! How poorly it answers
in the wear and tear of the road.
Don't buy everything for the girls.
Trust them with the money after giving
them as much good advice as You please.
Let them learn how to buy by actual
experience. Ii they make some mis-
takes, let them abide by them, just as
you have to. Said boy Of brother
skater who had met with a tumble:
"Let him fall down. That's the way to
learn" Is is the way we oil learn q great
many things. If jenny's pretty blue
cambria fades out white, let her bleach
it and make the best. of it; but learn the
lesson also of avoiding that alluring, de-
ceitful shade IN the future.
Let her learn to make bread from the
beginning to the end of the process, and
teach her the most thrifty, excellent
shortcuts to perfection in all depart
ments of cookery.
1t is not needful to go through the
tedious processes our grandmothers used
to beating eggs to froth with knife,
waiting all day for bread to rise, and 30
on, in world where egg-beaters are to
be had, and Vienna yeast-cakes which
viii answer the purpose OF rising IN an
hour or two.
Let her eschew cream-of- tartar and
soda when good baking-powder is to he
had, and adopt all similar improvements.
Life and time are too precious to be
needlessly wasted on these cid crudities.
Housekeeping need not and should not
be half so hard to the girls at the present
time as it was for us, if they only will
take hold and fit themselves for the bust
ness before actually in the whirl Of it.
What merchant would sent out ship
under Captain who knew nothing of
navigation? Would not there be likely
to come disaster and distress enough in
such case? Should not the home pilot
he equally Cuali6ed?