The Baltimore County union., 1883-05-05
WHAT SHALL WE TEACH OUR
DAUoHTER9

On quiet, Testful evening, not a
thousand weeks ago, a husband and
wife sat in their cory parlor reading the
current number Of the Christian Adr0-
cate, which had arrived few hours be-
fore. A brief article in the Home De-
partment suggested the topic Of the
conversation, the substance Of which is
given below:
Wife. "What say you to little
chat about the kind Of teaching we
should give our daughter1"
Husband. "Home teaching by our
selves, do you mean?"
w. "Yes; the kind of instruction
we should give her in our every day
life at home. don't mean the school
teaching she gets outside Of home"
II. "Agreed; the idea is excellent.
Suppose you call in, (the only
daughter,) to hear the conversation,
and write down the itcms1"
w. "Better and better. Why not
have her help us1 Let all contribute to
the list. I'll call her."
The daughter was called, and cheer.
fully consented to be the scribe Of the
hour. II was pleasantly agreed that no
item should be written down until all
three approved il. Then followed 4
most practical, conscientious, and yet
delightful conversation, which will not
soon be forgotten, the whole resulting
in the following list:
Teach her TO be pious.
Teach her to be self-reliant.
Teach her constant neatness.
Teach her kindness Of manner.
Teach her sweetness Of temper.
Teach her to be kind to servants.
Teach her industry and usefulness.
Teach her strict and loving obedi-
ence.
Teach herto be scrupulously conscien-
tious.
Teach her the best rules OF social
etiquette.
Teach her that proverty, however in
convenient, is not degrading.
Teach her how to make bread.
Teach her how to make shirts.
Teach her how to drive horse.
Teach her how to "set the table"
Teach her to avoid fop or fiirt.
Teach her To wear easy-worn shoes.
Teach her every day practical sense.
Teach her not TO ''paint and pow
der"
Teach her how to be helpful and
useful.
Teach her how to wash and iron
clothes.
Teach her how to make ker own
dresses.
Teach her how to do the family mark
citing.
Teach her how to cook 4 good meal
of victuals.
Teach her that one hundred cents
make dollar
Teach her how to arrange the plrlor
and the library.
Teach her to say "No," and mean
it, or "Yes," and stick to it.
Teach her how TO wear calico dress.
and do it like queen.
Teach her TO cultivate flowers, and
make and keep the kitchen garden.
Teach her TO have nothing to do
with incorporate or dissolu;e young
men.
Teach her,hat tight-lacing is Income
ly as well as very injurious to health.
Teach her to regard the morals and
habits, and not money, in selecting her
associates.
Teach her to observe the old rule ::
"a place for everything, and every
thing in its place"
Teach her that important truism !:
That the more she lives within her in
come the more she will save, and the
farther she will ge, away from the poor
house.
Teach her that agood, steady, church
going mechanic, farmer, clerk, or
teacher, without cent, is worth more
than forty loafers or non producers in
broadcloth.
Teach her 10 embrace every oppor-
tunity for reading, and to select such
books as will give her the most useful
and practical information, and that in
order to make the best progress she
must economic her moments in her
earlier as we'll as later home and school
life.
Before the pleasant and intensely in
tercsting evening interview closed it
was unanimously agreed that the above
list, with any additions which might be
afterward added, should be neatly en-
crossed, and a copy be kept in the
home as a practical reminder Of the
evening chat, and of the plan which
should be scri,pilloisiy followed