The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-08-28
The Education Of Girls.

is the most thoroughly qualified to take
care of herself in hand to hand fight
with the world, who has basis of good
judgment, practical knowledge, and com.
mon sense, in which to start in her self.
sustaining career, who is armed with the
able weapon of trade or profession with
which she is familiar, and whose conduct
Is governed by exacting principles of
natural integrity. Such q girl possesses
fortune in her own right which no fuc.
tuations Of business circles can depreci.
ate and who will never become drag
upon opulent and unwilling relatives.
With health and strength and a fair
start in the race for life she will reach
every mile stone of success nor wear
out, or grow discouraged by the way
and not infrequently she will out run her
vaunting brother, and even stop to lend
him helping hand.
The properly.balanced we'll educated
girl Is aware that she can do one thing
we'll and she bends all her energies to-
wards it's Accomplishment. She concen.
trates her forces, instead of scattering
them, and has something to show for it.
She il the beat accountant, or the clever.
est writer, or the most successful sales.
woman, or the hardest worker Of science
music, physic, law-whateyer her tai.
ent destines her for. She studies with an
aim, and understands what she learns.
Her mind is storehouse, not seive,
and she endeavors to absorb quality rath-
er than quantity, snd comprehends to her
own enlightenment what she studies.
The wretched system Of forced culture in
which girl learned iitte frenIh and
Latin, smattering of mathematics,
glance into polite literature, and O great
deal of poor piano playing, has been
abandoned in favor Of more sensible
curriculum commensurate with her yalue
as co.worker with her brothers.
Sensible German parents have always
brought up their daughters to be pro.
ducers as we'll as consumers in the do.
mestic economy. 1t Is only the Ameri-
can parent who made the kitchen unat.
tractive to his daughter, and gave her no
possibility of employing her. talent,
except Id the few lady.like departments
sanctioned by conservative custom.
The time is coming, nay, has already
come, when sign reading "Smith &
Daughters" will merely indicate that all
Dir. Smiths boys were girls, and he he'd
educated them as he would have done his
boys; And the Smith girls instead of
AauohnB "a ''uuu tuo phLeEHai InhublOu
until scn1e. ing men could be found fcr
with their faith, and have never found
time to be discontented with themselves.
When Edison, genius and inventor rs
he is, had given two weeks of his valua-
BILE time to going up and down on the
New York Elevated Railroad, trying to
discover what caused its noise and a cure
for it, he gave up the job. Then little
woman took it. She rode on the cars
three days, was denied place to stand
on the rear platform, laughed at for her
curiosity and politely snubbed by con.
ductors and passengers. But she dis.
covered what caused the noise, invented
a remedy, which was patented, and she
was paid sum of SIC, 600 and a royalty
forever? Her name is Mira. May Wal.
ton, and che lives in New York City.
This Is what she says of her education ::
my father had no sons and. believed
in educating his daughters. He spared
no pains or expense to this end. My
fathers brother said to him, why do
you waste 90 much money on your girls p
To which my father replied, MY boys
turned out to be all girls, and / am 90.
ing to give them 80 good an enducatiou
that they may turn out to be as good as
boys" rgr
As gooL as boys are here used in gen.
eral sense; as good as some boys would
bs very poor recommendation. Any
girl who understands her own capabili-
ties will do her work as we'll as it is pos.
sible to be done. No boy can do better
than that. Work is without sex. Ger
taid departments of labor are claimed
exclusively by boys and men because