Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-10-11
EDUCATION OF GIRLS.
THE NECESSITY OF LEARNING SOME
REMUNERATIVE EMPLOYMENT.
Daughters Should Be Prepared to Fight
Life's Observation-Disclosures of Fortune.
Fashionable Education Of Today-Pa-
rents Lack of Moral Courage.

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Life's Observation-Disclosures of Forum
Fashionable Education Of Today-P,
rents Lack of Moral Courage.
Why do not parents educate the
daughters to be Independent from ma
terial point of view? Most girls, as now
adays raised, look forward with som
yearning, as assuring them position Q
independence and comfort, to the tim
when they shall be married. That is nat
uraL Granted that the girl is finally an
In due season married. Does happines
always follow? Is there no husband VIII
by the use of liquor forces himself int
an untimely grave? Is there no husban,
who CANDLES away or recklessly dissi
pates his substance7 Is there no on
who is too indolent to do his duty to hi
family? Is there no one to whom misfor
tunes in health or business come? Wha
shall the wife do who in her youth be
Heves that roses were to be strewn ovel
lifes pathway to the end? What if she
should have two or three little ones tc
support?
The answer is plain. She must 90 out
and earn her living. And in proportion
as her early life was one of luxury she
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is sometimes blessing to be born poor,
because one becomes unconsciously Injured
in youth to the hardships that NAV como
to every one in the course of a lifetime.
| Again, poverty in youth, or comparatiye
poverty, not only disciplines one for the
adversities of life, but actively prepares
them to fight Lfe's battle. The child of
poor parents is forced to support itself.
This requires the learning of some useful
and remunerative employment Better
times may justify surcease from work.
But the profession has been learned and
it may yet be means of support. Life
has as many changes as a Kaleidoscope.
They come where we least expect them.
The rich man today may be poor to-mor-
row, and the next day he and his family
may suffer for the necessaries of life.
The possession of wealth is one of the
most uncertain things in life. What are
the daughters of the rich man to do when
poverty overtakes them?
IN A NUT SHELL.
Here is the matter in a nut shell. Are
they to be married? Marriage is not so
easy an affair as one may think. One
important requisite is the man who is
anxious for connubial burdens and de-
lights. A good many men do not want
to marry poor girls. Those who are wise
enough to marry poor girl take that girl
who from long experience, has learned
how to save and economize. They do not
wish the poor-rich girl who has the tastes
OF the rich and who will crafty them If
they can get husband indulgent enough.
1t must be very humiliating to proud
girl whose father has lost his fortune to
become the shuttlecock of fortune. If she
had some calling, such as any one of the
many occupations that are now open to
women, she could occupy position of in
dependence without in the least sacrifc-
ing her dignity or self respect She has
talents worth buying and for such there
is generally convenient market.
Parents should early impress upon the
minds of their children the vicissitudes
of life, and especially the uncertainties of
fortune. They should teach their chill
dren that happiness, which is as perish
able as the flower of the field which to.
day is and tomorrow is not, may in a
short time be succeeded by black despair
They should teach them that honest labor
is always to be respected and that the
girl or boy who is the master of a useful |
calling is of some Importance in the social |
fabric. They should teach the girls espe-
,ially that a special education NAV save |
them at critical time. The boys, by
some instinct which the girls donot have,
'hoose that which they can do best, and
Early learn to choose.
CHOICE OF CALLING.
But there should be some discrimina-
ion used in the choice of special calling.
dusic is not to be included in the list of
lseful pursuits. Accomplishments are
cry pretty for those who possess them.
'ut in the struggle for bread and butter
hey are not useful. Painting and music
re not necessities. At the best, accom-
lishments are of small avail in the efforts
or living, and music, unless one can
ecome a finished teacher, is too preca-
lous way to earn money to be depended
pom with any degree of certainty for the
upport of family. Very much in the
ashionable education of today is of no
alue when it Is tested in the crucible of
litter experience.
The reason why so few parents properly
lucate their daughters is because the
lajority are afraid of popular opinion.
hey lack the moral courage And be-
luse the canon IF fashionable society de-
are that certain foolish forms must be
they are observed. If the can
IS of fashionable society should hold
lat to know how. to cook is the proper
lalifcation for a society belle, we should
nd our pretty girls among the pots and
ms and kitchen smells in spite of the
ease and the dirt and the pertinacity of ,
10 latter. But fashionable society holds
herwise, and so the pretty girls neglect
art which will some day be of service /
them. No young woman can keep {
'use properly who does not know how ,
direct her servants. 1t will never do
r her to allow her servants to direct. !
It society ignores the proper training {
r housekeeping, one of the prime factors
mundane welfare. But society is often c
fault. 1t is at fault here. If the rich |
d more courage they might uncon- !
ously shape the education of young wo- {
IN in sensible way.-Detroit Free {
ess.