Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-23
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GIRLS, RLUNDERs.

NJ. G.. Peters, to start out in life |
without the supreme and holy ambi-
ton to possess true womanhood.
Earth presents no higher object of
attainment. To be woman IN the
highest and truest sense of the word
is to be the best thing beneath the
skies. 1t is to be more than "sweet
SIXTEEN" or reach the statue of a
woman. There are women with
whom the cut of collar, the depth
of founce, the style of a ribbon, is
of more Importance and causes more
thought and worry than the strength
of a virtue, the form of mind, or
the style of life. They live for no
purpose. but are mere doll forms in
the hands of milliners and servants,
to be dressed and fed to order.
Young women blunder if they fail
to acquire good education. Thou
sands of girls think they are too big
and too old at sixteen to go to
school. They simply lounge around
at home, visit and gossip and enter
tain friends, and yet we boast of our
cultured society.
A young woman makes an irrepar-
able blunder if she does not guard
her good name with holy jealousy.
Remember that while society lets the
man (roor, innocent thing y go free,
it will stone the woman. Without
good name gold has no value, birth
no distinction, station no dignity,
beauty no charm, and age no rever-
ance.
Young women make q big blunder
if they do not learn how to take care
of home II is a grievous social
and moral wrong when girls are
brought up helpless in household life.
How often we see mothers busily en-
gagged in domestic duties like slave
in order that the girls may enjoy
every luxury and do nothing; indeed
many hardly let their daughters soil
their hands. No woman ought to
m AIRY who cannot look well to the
ways of her household. In case she
may not herself be required to work,
she ought TO be able to see whether
the work is done in proper manner.
A woman is out of her element I'M
less she is acquainted to g certain
extent with sciences of bake-ology,
stitch-ology, make-ology, and mend
ology. There never was a greater
blunder than to substitute good looks
for good qualities. The reason why
so many men do not make homes for
themselves in these days is because
they cannot afford it. The women
are too extravagant in all their
tastes. We want more frugality,
industry and system; if we could
introduce these virtues into our high
er society we should diminish the
envy, jealousy, and suicides of the
single, and the wretchedness, the
pickering, and the divorces of the
married. a
| Every girl ought to be brought up
to have regular daily domestic duties.
Idleness should be forbidden her.
The only dignified life is a useful
life.
You blunder if you marry man
who has not the wherewithal to sup
port you. Poets may sing of the
sweets of poverty, but generally
| when poverty comes in at the door
love flies out of the window. Re-
member, too, that the industrious
man is worth more than all the float
ing, brainless, and banged dudes in
the world.
! You blunder if you rush into the
sacred temple of natlimony in haste
Marriage is the seal of earthly wea
or woe. Remember that bitter tears
can never undo what you ought not
to do have done at first.
1t is q blunder If matrimoDy is
made to read "matter-of-mon
the union Of two eXcitable natures
is great blunder. Fire united tt
gunpowder will make an explosion
in divorce court. Marriage is the
perfect life Of love between two kin
dred or suitably ADAPTED Datules.