Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-04
Train Your Daughters.

This advice is intended for all mothers
without exception or distinction, and all
other guardians of young girls. A girl
should be trained to thorough theoretical
and practical knowledge of housekeeping,
however great her expectations, however
high her position IN life. Although she
may be the daughter of millionaire, or
one high in station, she is liable some time
to become the head of home, and the
head of a home without knowledge of
housekeeping is certainly q proper object
for commiseration. She may be album
dainty able to hire all the servants to do
her work without lifting her hands, yet if
she knows nothing experimentally she is
liable to be. in a measure, at the mercy OF
her servants A servant generally learns
very soon whether her mistress understands
the mysteries of her VOCATION whether she
is capable of directing her household affairs
or not, and if she makes up her mind that
she is ignorant in that respect she will
nine times out of ten, take advantage OF it
and become petty tyrant, or fail to earn
her wages
Every girl should be taught practical and
scientific cookery She should learn the
changes that take place in meats and vege-
tables by cooking, and just what kind of
cooking will render them most agreeable,
digestible and nourishing. young
woman who pronounces the marriage
VOWS, who takes upon herself the position
of head of the home department of fam
lily, assumes fearful responsibility. And
if she does so without qualifying herself
for the position she does very wrong, and
the evils that may flow from the act are IN
calculable An ignorant, incapable house
keeper will very likely ALLEVIATE the aflec-
e l,,rl,a,l his ayn1 hnr
health. and plant the seeds of disease in
the constitutions of their offspring. 1t is
highly important that Il wife and mother
should exercise refining, intellectual
moral and spiritual influence upon her
family, but that is hardly possible unless
she understands the lower departments of
housekeeping, the preparation Of their
food, the care of the rooms, the care OF
their clothing, the care OF their beds, the
art of making home neat, attractive, COM
Portable and beautiful.
Then begin early, mothers to teach your
children to do something well to sew and
mend their clothes; to sweep and dust
their rooms TO SET and clear off the table
to wash the dishes, and, quite early, to
cook the simpler dishes. Most girl, will
learn to do these things much more cheer
fully when young than when in their
teens, and it should not be postponed until
then. 1t certainly would be unwise TO
confne very young girls to work until it
becomes irksome, but they should have
some light tasks in that direction to per-
form every day. Begin early and follow
up conscientiously the duty of training to
some useful daily work i'll the way of
household duties, and, imperceptibly
your girls will grow into knowledge of
housekecpino that will nualify them when
the proper time shall arrive, to glide easily
into the position of keeper of their own
home; a position, when properly filed,
second in importance to none that man
kind can fill on this carth.-tTribune and
Farmer