The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-20
Education OF (IirH,

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is the most thoroughly qualified TO take
care of herself in a hand to hand fight
with the world; who has basis of good
Judgment, practical knowledge and
common sense, in which to start in her
self-sustaining career; who is armed
with the able weapon of a trade or pro-
fession with which she is familiar, and
whose conduct is governed by exacting
principles of natural integrity. Such
girl possesses a fortune in her own
right which no fluctuations of business
circles can depreciate and who can
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 milestone of
success, nor wear out nor grow dis
couraged by the way; and not infre-
quently she will outrun her Wanting
brother, and even stop to lend him 3
helping hand.
The properly balanced, well educated
girl is aware that she can do one thing
well, and she bends all her energies to-
ward its accomplishment. She concen-
trates her forces, instead of scattering
them, and has something to show for it.
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crest writer, or the most successful
saleswoman, or the hardest worker in
the sciences-music, physic, law-what-
ever her talent destines for her. She
studies with an aim, and understands
what she learns. Her mind is store
house, not sieve, and she endeavors to
absorb quality rather than quantity, and
comprehend to her own enlightenment
what she studies. The wretched svs-i
TEN of forced culture, in which a girl
learned a little French ard Latin, a
smattering of mathematics, little of
polite literature, and q great deal of
poor piano playing, has been abandoned
in favor of a more sensible curriculum
commensurate with her value as CO.
worker with her brothers
Sensible German parents have always
brought up their daughters to be pro-
ducers as well as consumers in the
domestic economy. 1t is only the
American parent who made the kitchen
unattractive to his daughter, and gave
her no possibility for employing her
talent except in the few ladv-like de-
partments sanctioned by conservative
custom. The time is coming. nay, has
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'Smith q Daughters" will merely in
dictate that all Mr.. Smith boys were
girls, and he had educated them as, he
would have done if they had been
boys. And that Smith girls, instead of
dawdiing around the paternal mansion
until some young men could be found
for husbands, have wisely gone into
business with their father and have
never found time to be discontinued
with themselves.
When Edison, genus and inventor as
he ls,. had given two weeks OF his val
liable time to going up and down on
the New York Elevated Railroad trying
to discover what caused its noise and q
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 andpolltely snubbed
by conductors and passengers. But
she discovered what caused the noise,
invented a remedy, which was patented
and she was paid sum of $4,000 and
a royalty forever. Her name is Mrs
Mary Walton and she lives in New
York CITY This is what she says OF her
educatlon;
"My father had no sons and believed
in educating his daughters. He spared
no pains or expense TO this end. My
father brother once said to him: why
do you waste so much money on your
girls?' To which my father replied:
My boys all turned out to be girls, and
| am going to give them as good an ed
ucation that they may turn out to be as
good as boys.
As good as boys is here used in
geperal senses as good as some boys
would be a very poor recommendation.
Any girl who understands her own ca
pabillties will do her work us well as it
is possible to be done. No boy can do
better than that. Work is without SEX
Certain departments of labor are
because they have legendary right in