Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-27

Happy TO regret, although she some
times remembers.
Make Y0UI: D.4VGTTERS rNDE-
PENDENT.
"Would it not be wiser far to induce
young girls in thousands of happy,
prosperous homes to make ample pro-
visions for any and all emergencies that
the future may have in store for them?
Could better use he found for some of
the years that intervene between the
time girl leaves school and the time
she may reasonable hope to marry? The
field for woman's work has been opened
up of late years in so many different di-
rections that vocation can easily be
found, outside the profession of teach
ing, that will he quite as congenial to
refined tastes, and considerably more
lucrative. Bookkeeping, type-writing,
telegraphy, stenography, engraving,
dentistry, medicine, nursing, and a
dozen other occupations might be men,
toned. Then, too, industrial schools
might be established, where the daugh-
ters of wealthy parents could be trained
in the practical details of any particular
industry for which they displayed q
special aptitude. If it is not beneath
the sons and daughters of a monarch to
learn trade, it ought not to be beneath
the sons and daughters of republican
America to emulate their good example,
provided they possess the requisite
ability to do so.
"Two years will suffice to make any
bright, quick girl conversant with all
the mysteries of the art of housekeep-
ing, especially if she be wise enough
to study the art practically as we'll as
theoretically. The management of
servants and the care of the
sick and children will be Incl
dentally learned in most homes,
and can be supplemented by more ex-
tended study Of physiology, hygiene,
ETC., than was possible at school. Sew
ing need not be neglected either, while
leisure will readily be found for reading
: or any other recreation that may suit in
, dividual tastes. Another year, c,
; longer, may be added to the time de.
voted to these pursuits, if desired. But,
above all, let two or three years be con-
scientiously set apart for the express
purpose of acquiring thorough expert
mental knowledge Of some art OF voca-
; ton which would render it's pos
SCISSOR self-supporting and, conse-
quently, Independent.
eff the tide Of public opinion favoring
such course would but set in, many q
one would be spared untold suffering
and misery in after life. Let the rich
set the example in this matter. They
can afford to do whatever pleases them,
, and, therefore, haze it in their power tc
; mold public opinion. Be not afraid,
girls, that you will find your self-im.
posed task irksome. Remember that
} occupation is necessary to happiness
and that there is no reason why you
should not dream while you work.
"The cry will be raised that there is
!, danger that such plan as the one adj,
vocated here will tend to give girls q
distaste for the quiet retirement G:
home, but there is little cause for fear
Not one girl in twenty will voluntarily
choose business life in preference tc
domestic happiness. Indeed, it is alb.
solutelv certain that happy marriages
would be promoted by this very indie
pendence among women. Not being al
leisure to nurse every passing fancy.
girls would elect to wait patiently until
the light Of true love came into Their
lives. Tile Century.
: JOIN BOYLE O'REILLY 4 BOXING
EXPERT.
John Boyle O'Reillv was once urging
friend to Join an athletic association
somewhat famous among the sports Of
the town. Doctor" he said, "yon want
to go there with your boy: you don't
really know what is in the lad until YOU
have stood up with him in the ring with
the gloves on. And boxing is such a
splendid sport! It's SO manly, so vigor-
Gus; and, he added, with q twinkle in
his eye, and the humorously persuasive
tone he can SO we'll give to the voice,
"there's tenderness about it only
equalled by making love!' Mr..
O'Reilly has long been recognized as an
authority on manly sports. It is related
that upon one occasion Mr.. George w.
Cable, who was lunching with him,
leaned over to ask him, with the air OF
one who propounds'a great ethical conun-
drum, "Mr. OReill,, can you tell me
what slugger is?" a question which,
coming from Mr.. Gable, the meekest of
men in appearance, must have been lie
liciously funny.-The Book Buyer.
HENRY T. CoxwELL, the Inalloonist is
70 years Of age, and has made 700 voy-
ages in the air.