The Louisiana Democrat., 1889-01-16
FEMALE TRAINING.
A Facetious Review of This I'M
portant Topic.
II Training Schools for Beatrices Why
Not for Benedicks-What Has Been
Done to Promote This
Worthy Cause.

IL would seem TO De an error 10 as
sume too hastily that a certain place
uncomfortable to ears polite has a
monopoly in the way of d pavement
comprised of good intentions. Some
of the best intentions that mankind is
capable of might be found lying perdu
in wills to which the courts OF law
have unhandsOmely declined to grant
probate Turner, the famous artist,
devised by testament the bulk of his
vast wealth to found an asylum for
decayed oil painters; but an informal
ity in the mode of bequest brought his
good intentions toward his INDECENT
brethren to naught; and, although
some of his pictures and drawings be-
came the property of the nation, the
major part of his riches was divided
among remote kindred, about whom
he knew little and cared less. The
fasco of his benevolent scheme sub
sequently melted an eminent legal
luminary to remark amidst great ap-
plause at public dinner that the late
Mr. Turner could draw a great many
things, but that he did not know how
TO draw will. The intentions of many
other testators have again been render
ed nugatory, less by any informality
IN the manner in which their wills
we're drawn than by the essentially
fantastic and impracticable nature of
the bequests themselves-bequests to
which, in the interest of public policy
Or Of social propriety, it was found in
expedient to give legal sanction. To
This last category must be now added
the provisions of the will made by the
late Rev. William Wight, OF the Arabs
lent, Chiselhurst, formerly Vicar of
harbury, which was finally adjudicat-
ed upon by Mr.. Justice Chitty.
The deceased cleric had given
Instructions for the endowment
Ola female college of certainly novel
and not unattractive kind, since it's
object was to train ladies for the i'm
portant duties of wives, house-mis-
tresses and mothers. Women, the rev.
erend gentleman proceeded didactically
70 observe, should be something more
Useful and more noble than a doll, a
butterfly or a plaything for her hus-
band. To carry out his generous
aspiration the eccentric Mr.. Wight pro-
pounded scheme, two of the features
ID which were that the young ladies
who We're to be trained to become ex-
emplary wives, house-mistresses and
mothers should rise very early, and
resort to the salutary, but not always
convenient, use of the cold bath. He
iurther provided for quarterly CONVEX
saziones at this hymeneal college, and
directed that two-thirds of the invita-
Hons should be sent to single gentle
men. He also directed that his re-
mains should be buried in his garden,
next to the grave of dog named LAB
Fador," for which animal he seems to
have entertained q peculiar affection.
-lhe court, however, held these be-
quests to be illegal, and Mr.. Justice
ohi'.S made an order for the
distribution of the property among
lhe next OF kin. OF the thorough i'm.
practicability of the plans laid down
BY the well-meaning but eccentric
testator there can be no reasonabl,
doubt. Long ago the poet told u
Of ladies who at their dennis,
left their wealth to endow "colleg,
OF cat" and it would have been quit,
feasible for Rev. Mr.. Wight to be
geeath the whole of his property, hat
ae SO chosen, to the Royal Hollowa,
Sailege or to the Royal Society for tn,
invention of Cruelty to Animals. A:
~, the will which has been upse
y remain only as a monument o.
.sas generosity and misdirected anx
~ to do good.
sfom the poetical point of view there
!. h''ie to be said against the proposal
establish training school for wives,
suse-mistresses and mothers. The
las l.raet idea embodied in the antique
opa o'u OF Hymen is very beautiful
lss ana the god of marriage certain
rao0:s sefVes better treatment than he
receive receives in the present dav' wben' M
pA''a'Is at least, he is best known