The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-24
THE TRAINING OF WOMEN.
Gail Hamilton Gives Some Information to
an Inquiring Young Pastor.

Gail Hamilton Gives Some Information to
an Inquiring Young Pastor.
Philadelphia Press.
TO the second question, "Are our young
women receiving adequate training in the
home for the duties of married life2"--unde-
niably, no. We, their elders and trainers,
are very faulty that it is hardly possible
we can be giving them faultless training; but
can vouch for this: it is as good as the young
men are getting There is, therefore, need
of setting your shoulder with superabound-
ing strain to the woman's wheel. The
young men and the young women are reared
by the same parents in the same homes. TO
every start in married life man is
married life require exactly the same qualities
that the duties of unmarried life requife-gen-
erosity, truth, charity, patience consideration,
compromise, fidelity, large heartedness. In
married and in unmarried life alike, the highest
happiness and the highest biessedness require
that you should often yield your own within,
taste, ease pleasure to the pleasure Of another.
1t requires often the still harder duty of main
tanning voar own stand in opposition to the wish
OF another, and it requires the wisdom of high
heaven to know certainly when to do the one
and when to do the other. But there is no call
to make line of separation between the duty
of sons and of daughters. The same principles
apply to both The application each must make
for himself. They march to fate abreast.
'Is personal attention to the affairs of home
(house work. beneath the dignity of an accom-
plished young woman
That again depends upon the meaning of
words and the circumstances of women. What
do you mean by personal attention. What
do you mean by '.iignity?' 1t is undgniied
for an accomplished young woman to scrub the
floor if she or her family are able to hire
1T done by woman who has other accom-
plshment. 1t is dignfied for the most accom-
plshed woman to secure the scrubbing of her
floor 1t would have been far more dignifed
for Mrs. Carlyle to let her CRATES grow gray and
rusty, and keep her fingers white and her face
bright, than 1t was to blacken her hands, sour
her temper, break her heart over polishing them.
l hope the day will come when no hard manual
labor will fall upon any woman whatever, but
when all women WILL for humanlty's sake, lead
an easy material life to the souls sustenance.
Until that day comes many women must give
not only personal attention, but muscular exer-
ton to house work Then it is dignified I wish
my young female Hercules had money enough
to pay some poorer woman for house cleaning
some poorer man for cutting down her bed posts
while she gave her splendid strength her great
ability, her gracious soul to ransoming men Ell :
shaved by appetite, to enlightenlng women
chained down to darkness; but since it is of God
that she is poor, it is God working in her to will
and to do in the station where He has nlacedher
Not the result of work, but the quality of work
is our business.
1t is dignifed to give as much personal atten-
ton to homework as is needful to the welfare of
home. 1t is not dignified to do more A young
woman in her fathers house has not the incen-
tive of responsibility, and to that extent not the
incentive of duty. By that token a degree of
freedom from its tolls and cares is justly allowed
her. / always regret to elder sister or a
motherless daughter as anxious as supervising
as would be right and meet Tor the mother to be-
1t is premature burden. 1t is wrong to the
due and dew of youth Yet, if so be fate, even
a warped and cruel fate, have imposed the bur-
den, it is dignifed to hear it with calmness, and
to discharge the duty as unto God and not unto
men.