Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-28
OUR GIRLS.
Some Sensible and WelI-Timelt Remarks
for the Parents.

| Some Sensible and Weu-TimelE Remarks
I for the Parents.
What shall be done with our girls? Any
| one who reads the kilograms in daily
newspaper nowadays must wonder what is
to become of our girls. But few days
ago we read Of a bright young lady who
| had been home missionary for the Pres
| byterian church, and who drowned herself
| after writing a letter of despair, in which
she said: There is no Godr This young
lady had a home and friends; she was well
educated, with all the benefits of a Chris
tan training. But she was proud-spirted,
and when adversely came preferred death
to the humiliation of hard work for self
support.
1t is a common thing to read of the elope-
ment OF young woman with her father S
coachman, or with some one else than q
man of her station. 1t is not an uncom-
mon thing to hear that young women have
disappeared from homes of comfort to re-
appear in the vanities and allurements of
| the great cities. Perhaps the most pitiful
| of all cases are those which tell of young
women's struggles against universities, and,
falling to find help, seeking rest in self
destruction, One such case was reported
| in the New York papers. 4 young woman,
cast aside by an uDfaithful husband, goes
Oul .ltlO tDG hOiltl W oSCh u Wdbh6i :
to New York and tries to sustain herself by
sewing. She fails in this, loses her home
because she cannot pay the rent of her
miserable tenement goes to hotel, stutfs
up the crevices in the windows and doors
of her room, turns on the gas and sutfO-
Gates like drowning rat in a hole.
These are sad facts, but we read them too
often. There is but one explanation for
them-our girls are not properly brought
| up. They are not educated to be self
| reliant, industrious, practical and patient.
/ The education at school is superficial, and
at home it is insufficient. Instead of max
ing them fit for the battles of the world in
an emergency that may come to any one in
| often gives them an entirely wrong impress
| sion of what the future has in store. A
good, plain old-fashioned grandmotherly
| talk TO the girls of the day would do them
more good than q course in a fashionable
seminary Girls should be told the truth
about themselves and about the world.
| They should know something of the pit
falls and snares that beset them. They
! should know the beauty of true woman
! hood in its simplicity, its consistency and lis
! purity.
The highest ambition girl can have is
not to shine in social circles, not to roll in
| sister or friend, but to enjoy pure woman
hood to be fitted to make home with
surroundings happy and joyful and yet to
be prepared if necessary for LIES bitterest
struggles The young woman who is best
equipped for this world is one who has
seen something of the shadows as well as
the sunshine OF everyday life, who knows
what poverty is, what work is and what
true happiness is. This experience is open
to every one who wishes to find it. Give
the girls lifes practical lessons-lessons
that once learned are never forgotten. Let
them visit the workshops, and let them
carry hope and comfort to poverty-stricken
! homes Give them course at the cooking
school, or in the kitchen at home. Let
them begin where the mother began half a
century ago, and we shall have Q genera
ton OF girls--strong, self-reliant, hopeful,
ambitious and successful in every station.
-[Albany Journal.