The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-10
WOMAN AND HOME.
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. SYSTEM
o. TEACHING ~ OUR SCHOOLS.

Boarding Houses for Working Women.
Novel Empioyment-wakefaI Babies.
Old and Yo"ns-German Giris-Amuse-
ments-Vagarics of Fashion.
An anxious mother writes tn know what
course she shall pursue with her 9year-old
daughter who will do nothing but read and
study, and whore health is suffering in conse-
qun.r. The best thing is to send her off into
the country, where she can get very little to
read. III she studies too much, keep her out
Of " ,iool tor year OF two. The whole
system of Teaching in public schools is
health destroying. Mini and body both
suffer. 10 girl should De graduated before
she il ~ ut least, and during that time she
should not h.. s.ilow.4i to enter society. As
rule girls begin ~ -, into society at II and 10,
ami If not married at ~ IN = arc looked upon
oil. a.,i thsy are more 81 less satiated
with ev..ry thing.
Girk, s..r..iEI H. kept i'll school much longer
than the u',, tiiy are. Teachers, from well
meaf:t ia ~, lat none the less unwise
motiv, "a. i,-tvor t. arouse ambition. by
hoiii- atty before scholars the dis
rra s. I ..,.. i-.hind In their studies. Bet
ter ", E.. 4 - it Iy no means Disgrace
full. a.. ..-rit.' health People urge i'll
IA. 80. ~ ,.,i.ii.- shoots, that they send
odt '.i. 81 aiti; L,.tt.,r prepared for col
k.,=s tan, any other schools. 1t may bc
tru,. i,li ti..s-c who wish t. study will do
with =. !...L' encouii cement, anywhere In
many va =, tba pub. school system is ad-
mrrliL, lat l., the matter of health it is
ruino,is-
y weii-Lnown Cleveland physician saAd,
not loiI;. sine. that p.ilii- school education
hal done Ia disease of the brain,
Spine and eyes than any other one thing, and
his opinion j. iut TIA. opinion of many emf
lfert A. and s1II-l.tsIllS We cDull
do without our inDl., Int we could do with
less elaboration iii the ,puirt-s, and should
insist on fever studies and slower and more
thorough work. From what anxious
Mother" says, hcr .iId ,atcr, loving books
naturally, has been lie more ambitious by
the ti.oIghtle-s5 wn.,ti and taunts of her
teachers, than the youn,; brain AMI delicate
body will stand, AMI Tia. only remedy Is com
piet. rest which D.. hal 10y taking the
chit fro.n s.,Iiopl for several years, and 10y
chahr,r at s.pnfy or 10y plentiful light and
pleasant ,nt 1T Iinment, thereby causing
hcaitil.i.i a, :clich. Cleveland Leader.
Is0aEsiin: hpu.... ior Working Women.
Tie in.-i1-, l.i;: number Of women who live
by the ii n M 10y rrnt.i iii this city las led
to the est. iaiun 81 several large boarding
houssr, on ;t,tIs' " hat the same plan, though
more i.oi..t ;,'ale. than the lncklees con-
u
Avenu. hot At tines, places you will find
teach.is- {, tc.r;,phic operators and type
writer's ...It. with the brush and the
needle. literary WCmCn and Others who do
pend rs,iii.t their talents ami accomplish
lncnt, th;r,I mere manual labor for sup
port o., ga; t,t.,t iii curious little conInuni-
ties, presided over 10y boarding mistress
who has the air of "a Inatron in public insti-
tutioa rather than n private person. The
none Of which seem to he ut all oppressive,
and have II very homelike and pleasant air.
The rates of board moderate, and the
character of the inmates lends their home
air of great refinement AMI pleasant domes
ITCHY.
The first nj these places that remember III
New York was in Mulberry or Mott street,
and Is, think, now known as the Big Flats
1t was intended as "a hotel for working girls,
but the rules were 50 cXacting and their adj
ministrati0n 30 rigid that even its economy
and comfort failed to render it popular, and
it was abandoned and the house handed over
for tenement uses. For women above the
condition of unskil!ed workers l do not he
heve any provision existed until the present
special boarding house system came into
being. They were commonly hcried to-
gether in gangs in the cheaper boarding
houses, where they packed the rooms that
lettcr-to-,to iJolr1.Cri Srorned, or forced to
live la ioI i.I;,i and feed ut restaurants,
always at a greater cost than should have
been necessary. n decent woman without
money to- waste used to have n hard time of
it hooking fer quarters i'll New York, and
with all the provisions, intelligent private en-
tarprisc and Et,.cr public philanthropy have
made for her she Is still far worse OF than
any man. Onc Of the good works of the
Young Wnthcnis Christian association has
been To encourage the creation of boarding
houses Tor sinsis women, register of which
Is kept by tho association for the direction of
applicants Trumble i'll New York
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