The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-05-01
NO. AZ.



cannot be too often discoursed upon,
the theme that the daughters of to-
day arc not given the education
they should have in the practical
duties of life, the duties that come
to most of them as mistresses Of
homes, as wives and mothers We
hear often enough of the necessity
of training schools for servants, but
less is said about the necessity of
training school for mistresses. and
ono is needed as much as the other,
for there is no doubt Of the fact that
the great and ever increasing hue
and cry heard about the incompe.
tency of servants arises from the
fact that so many mistresses are as
ignorant of the duties of kitchen
and the homo in general as are the
servants, whom they are expected
to direct. In many cases it is an
attempt of the blind to lead the
blind.
To be sure, one hears now of sew
ing schools and cooking schools, the
utility of which one does not ques-
ton, but the practical, everyday
duties of life can be learned only in
the home, and they consist in some-
thing moro than a knowledge of
how to make angel cake and oyster
patties. once heard a young wo-
man of almost % who was engaged
to be married, say with n girlish
giggle, that she mover made loaf
of bread or swept room in all her
life. My sympathy went out to the
man she was to marry. 1 heard
another girl say: aoh, it's easy to
keep house nowadays, when one can
buy everything already cooked
Why, they even bring baked beans
and hot brown bread right to the
door, and one can buy all sorts of
canned meats and other canned
things, and get up a lovely meal at
moments notice"
don't know If she expected to
be married soon, but trust not.
have eaten some of these meals fur
nished at moments notice by
the baker and the grocer, and feel
sorry for the innocent victim of u
woman who expects to feed her hus-
band regularly on that kind of faro.
Society makes so many demands
on ones time now, that women are
compelled to give less attention TO
their homes than they once gave to
them,'' 1 heard woman cay once
in feeble excuse for tho condition of
things in her own badly ordered
and halfkept home, in which there
was always n spirit of unrest and
unhappiness.
Is not the welfare, moral and ply
sical, and the happiness of a wife's
husband and children of immeasur-
ably greater consequence than all
the "society" on earth2
And when it comes to a knowl-
edge of the solemn and sacred duties
of maternity it is almost appalling
to know how utterly ignorant many
young mothers are.
The story would be almost laugh
able if it were not SO pitiful of the
Young mother who seemed to know
simply nothing at all about the caro-
of her baby, and when asked if her
mother had never talked to ber
about the laws and duties of mater
nifty, she said simply: "oh, no;
mamma thought it wasn't nice to
talk about such things"
Perhaps it is because / have no
daughters of my own, all of my own
ducks being brakes, fact greatly
regret, that / think i know just
how a daughter should be trained.
know that l would think it sin
to send daughter of mine TO u
home of her own as ignorant of its
duties, and of her duty to herself
and her husband, as are SO many
wives to-day.-Good Housekeeping.
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