The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-10-16
GIRLS ~DERS.

It is a big bunder, says the Rev. NJ. G..
Peters, to start o in life without the SUI
preme and holy ambition to possess true
womanhood. Earth presents no higherob-
iect Of attainment. To be a 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
tile stature Of a woman. There are women
with whom the cut of a collar, the deptho of
a 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 a mind, or the style of a life. They
live for no purpose, but are mere doll forms
in the hands of milliners and servants, to
he dressed and fed to order.
Young women blunder if they fail to ac-
quire a good education. Thousands of
girls think they are too big and too old at
1G to go to school. They simply lounge
around at home, visit and gossip and enter
tain friends. and yet we boast of our Gull
tured society.
A young woman makes an irreparable
fiiAlitAtt - SiA1 NitftH HAttt1 " spot
name with holy jealousy. Remember that
while society lets the man poor, innocent
tiing) 20 free, it will stone the woman.
Without a good name gold has no value,
birth 10 distinction, station no dignity,
beauty no charm, and age no reverence.
Young women make a big blunder if
they do not learn how to take care of a
home. It is a g%rievoHs social and moral
wrong when girls are brought mp helpless
in household life. How often We see moth
ers busily engaged in domestic duties like a
slave Ia order That the girls may enjoy
every luxury and do nothing; indeed, many
hardly let their daughters soil their hands.
No woman ought to marry who cannot look
she may not herself be required to work,
she ought to be able to see whether the
work is done in a proper manner. A
woman is out of her element unless she is
acquainted to a certain extent with sciences
of bake-ology, boil-ology, stitch-ology,
make-ology, and mend-ology. Thereneyer
was a greater blunder thar 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 much
averse to working and too extrayagant in
all their tastes. We want more frugality,
industry and system; if we could introduce
these virtues into our high society We
-Ia,Il 1,,,5.,zI. &1o anx-x- iaaiaucv 1nd
suicides of the single, and the wretchedness,
the pickering, and the divorces of the mar
ried.
Every girl ought to be brought up to
have regular daily domestic duties. Idle
ness should be forbidden her. The only
dignifed life is a useful life.
You blunder If you marry a man who
has not the w%herewithal to support you.
Poets may sing of the sweets of poverty,
but generally when poverty comes in at the
door love flies out at the window. Re-
member, too. that the industrious man is
worth more than all the floating, brainlcss,
and banged dudes i'll the world.
You blnnder if you rush into tie sacred
temple of matrimony in haste. Marriage
is the seal Of earthly veal and woe. Re
member that bitter tears can never undo
what you ought not TO have done at first.
1t is a blunder if matrimony is made to
read ''matter-of-money." The union Of
two excitable natures is a great blunder.
Fire united to gunpowder viii make an ex-
plosion in a divorce court. Marriage is the
perfect life Of love between two kindred or
suitably adapted natures