Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-09
TO YOUNG LADIES.
Lecture Delivered at the A. M. e, Chur
by Rev O. Summers

by Rev. o. Summers.
The first important era in the life of q
young lady is when she finally leaves
school. Then she begins to think for her
self and to act for herself Previous to
this time she has lived in obedience to her
parents, guardians or teachers in all things.
She has gone to school and pursued her
studies under the direction of tutor, sub
hitting her will and her Judgment to the
will and Judgment of others who are older
and wiser than she. For years her mind
has been fully occupied with the various
branches of knowledge which il has been
deemed by others right THAT she should &C.
quire. But now books of instruction are
laid aside; the strict rules of the seminary
are no longer observed, the mind that has
been for long time active in the pursuit
of knowledge sinks into repose. This is q
critical period IN q woman's life, for her
whole future will be affected by whatever
is right or wrong il her conduct and mode
of thinking and living at this period. II
she is indolent, sinks into idleness and
SELF 1NDULGENcEs.
She will be in danger of forming habit
that will go with her through life. If on
the contrary she occupies all her time and
mind in doing or acquiring something she
will gradually gain strength and force OF
character as her mind expands. On leav-
| ing school, where all has been promptness
and industry, a young lady will find her
self in great danger of sinking into indo-
| lence and inactivity. She will find at first
little or nothing to do. Her mother has
| been so long in the regular routine of do
nestle duties that she does not think of
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daughter. She continues to rise early and
sit up late, while her daughter remains
late in bed and wearied with day of tire
some inactivity, retires early at NIGHT. 1t
too often happens in cases of this Kind that
| the daughter is too indolent or indifferent
| towards her mother TO step forward and
| tighten her care and labor by taking por-
ton of it upon herself. Her duty, how
ever, is a very plain one and needs only be
limited at to cause
EVERY RIGHT FEELING DAUGHTER
Not only to see it, but at once to enter
upon its due performance. When a young
man has finished his collegiate course, he
enters Immediately upon the study of the
profession or into the business which he is
to pursue. He looks forward with eager
anticipation to the time when his name
shall be honored among his fellow men.
Ut us COlltTS Overflow Win wealth. His
course of study is still plainly marked out.
He wastes no time in the choice of pur-
suit, for his natural talents, the habitual
bias of his mind. or the wishes of his
friends have already decided that question.
Not so with young lady. Having
passed through the usual studies at a
school in a desultory manner, generally
| too desultory to produce q disciplined,
we'll balan ced mind, she considers her
education finished. Perhaps you have
been absent for years from the home of
your childhood, its gayer visions have
| flown, life begins to assume sober reality.
Casting mournful glance of retrospection,
you inquire: "0f what value is the little
Like an army brilliant with glittering
display of bayonets in time of peace
brilliant and useless. You have been
collecting the
WEAPONS FOR LIES WARFARE;
Their temper is not yet tried, but the strife
has already begun. This is the reason for
castle-building. How fascinating the rain
bow visions that fit before a vivid magma
ton; yet how dangerous the indulgence /!
Exhausted with these wanderiDgs wild, las
situde and ennui succeed.
" Fancy enervates, while it sosthes the heart.
And while it dazzles, wounds the mental
sight;
To joy each lightning charm it can impart.
But wraps the hour of wee in tenfold night
In cities. especially, young ladies rush
| with eagerness into society, drowning re-
| Election in the all-absorbiDg career of fash
ionable gayety, filling up its brief intervals
with novel-reading. The country girl is
| disguised with this working-day world ~
and its plain good folks. Their refined ed
ucation has untitled them for cordial COM
| panionship with their friends and neigh
bors, whose useful common sense they
cannot appreciate and whose virtues I'M
adorned by the grace of polished life they
cannot admire. Let me urge upon you the
importance of the present golden moments
Sheltered beneath the parental roof, guar
ed from outward evil
BY TIE VIGILANCE OF LOVE,
The perplexiDg cares and overwhelming
anxieties of life are not yet yours. Cheer
fully now commence that self-education
without which all other education is COM
| paratively useless. Shrink not from your
| high responsibilities. He who has encom-
passed you with them will give YOU
strength for their fulfillment. Has he not
showered benefits upon you with unspar-
ing hand Your country-is it not a
blessed one? Parents, kindred, friends,
talents, and the means for improving them;
competence, wealth does not your heart
overflow with gratitude to the Giver? Even
now he grants you that quiet home where
you may prepare yourself for another with
more tender affections and more solemn
responsibilities; and for another still be-
yond, and not very far distant-a home in
| heaven.
Fewer disappointments and more of
life's blessings would be in store for her if,
instead of seeking for pleasure as the chief
object in view, she would lay store in her
mind the basis of true character that would
become beautiful, harmonious, beloved
and admired superstructure of moral ex-
cellence and beauty. Wherever her path
through the world may lead her, blessings
will attend; and in blessing others, she
would be doubly blessed. As Wordsworth
truly says:
" A being breathing thoughtful breath,
| A traveller betwiXt life and death:
| The reason firm, the temperate will;
Endurance foresight, strength and skill;
| perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warm, 70 comfort and command;
And yet spirit still and bright,
With something of an angels light"