The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-05-19
Girls Blunders.
1t is great blunder to start out in
l;fa w;tbont the sunreme and holy

Girls Blunders.
1t is great blunder to start out in
life without the supreme and holy
ambition to possess true woman
hood. Earth presents no higher OBJ
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. There are women, we are
sorry that truth compels US to say
it, with whom the cut of collar,
the depth of flounce, and the style
of a ribbon are of more importance,
and cause more worry and thought,
than the strength of virtue, the
fern OF mind. or the style of life.
They have the delirium s trimmins.
They live for no great purpose, no
worthy end. They dress nobody,
feed nobody, save nobody. They set
no example of virtue and womanly
life. What are they good for? Why
are they here? To be fed and dress
ed to order by servants, milliners
and dressmakers
Young women make a big blum
der if they fail to get good educa-
ton. Eeducation eleyates and re-
fines, and is an indispensable condi-
ton oftrue womanhood. How many
girls leave school at " sweet six
teen ?" How few, comparatively, of
our girls, ever get even as far as the
high school? The girl who in these
days fails to acquire good educa-
ton has but two reasons for her ig-
norance-:he was either too lazy, or
crazy after the boys.
Young women make an irrepara-
BILE blunder if they do not guard with
holy jealousy their good name A
good name is "the immediate jewel
of the soul" 1t is your all. Re-
member that while society lets the
man Qhe poor, innocent thing go
free, it will stone the woman.
Young women make big blum
der if they do not know how to take
care of home. 1t is a grievous go
cial and moral wrong when girls are
brought up helpless in household
life. How many mothers there are
who hardly let their daughters soil
their hands, and work like slaves
that their daughters may enjoy every
luxury and do nothing. No woman
ought to be allowed to marry unless
she can give evidence that she can
look well to the ways of her house
mold. In case she may not herself
be required to work, she ought to be
able to see whether the work is done
in a proper manner. No woman can
lay claim to finished education un
less she is acquainted, to certain
extent, with the science of bakeolo-
gy, boiloloy, makeolegy. stitchology,
and mendology. There never was
greater blunder than to substitute
good looks for good qualities. The
reason why so many men do not
make homes for themselves is be-
cause they cannot afford 1.-THE wo-
men are so averse to doing ANYTHING
and so extravagant in their tastes
and desires.
About the most fatal blun6er a
young woman can commit is to con-
tract bad marriage-yet how COM
monty it is done.
You blunder if you marry man
beneath you. You wrong yourself,
your family. and your whole life.
Read Tennyson's Loxley Hall. y
Now and then a woman of great force
of character may lift her husband
upTard, but she accepts such labor
at the risk of her own higher life.
Better alone than in bad company.
Remember that it takes great deal
to make up the loss Of fathers
home and a coed mothers counsel,
and the society of brothers and sis
ters. These affections last, while
those of many young man wane in
the honeymoon.
Young women blunder if they
marry young men who have not the
wherewith TO support them. No
man is justified in expecting wo-
man to consent to marry him until
he has given fair evidence that
be has counted the cost of keeping a
family.
Remem Der, too, that an industri-
Gus mechanic, or he who has an hon.
est living by his own efforts, is worth
more than all the floating, brainless,
though fancy-skulled and banged
fops in the world.
Never marry man to mend him
or reform him. If a man will not
cease drinking to please his sweet
heart. he will never do so to please
bis wife. Rather choose the single |
blessedness of maidenheod than the |
double cursedness of a drunkard's
wife Bitter tears can never undo
what YOU ought not to have done at |
first.
Do not rush into the sacred tenn
Piles of matrimony unsanctified by
holy principles. Custom, conven-
ience, passion, vicious novels, silly |
companions, intoxicate the brain,
and the step which death only can !
is often taken without one
serious thought. Next to being born |
into the kingdom of God. marriage /
is lifes greatest event. Yet how often
Is matrimony made a matter of
or simply society affair
between two exquisite fools. i
You blunder if you do not marry
in your own religion. Husbands
md wives OF different religious per.
suasions do not generally live hap
Dily together.-ReU. Madison c..
Peters.