The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1890-06-21
GRENADA, MISS, SATURDAY, JUNE 81, $780,

feel right by feeling right,grow sympathetic,
only by feeling sympathy We have all
heard tell of woman's hearts running away
with her head. 1t might be better If it were
the case oftener, and with mems hearts also.
1t is the heart that leads us right, while the
head undirected by the heart often go astray
Women should be taught to look at life in
its broadcast sense. Like the melancholy
Jacques, they should find tongues in trees,
books in the running brooks, sermons in
stones and good in everything"
.They should know that,
There breathes for him who understands
A voice from every flower and tree
And in the work of natures hands
Lies natures best philosophy
Woman's outlook in the past has been
circumscribed one. She has been forced by
long established custom into very marrow
limits, and her horizon needs broadening
sadly. AS a class we have not learned the
art of selecting from the accommodating
stores of information. that which is Of great
est use. In our study and reading we do not
distinguish between the essential and ac
cessory, between the useful and the oTna-
mental. In our efforts to train girls for the
work of life we should open up every avenue
whence light may come and give them con-
troll of every instrument of influence, from
the shining needle to the glittering pen
the spelling book, to the principles Of
Political Economy and Civil Government.
After the education of head and heart comes
that of the hand. While giving a girl
thorough training in natural and political
history physics, chemistry, mathematics
and the laws that govern society we must
not forget that there is domestic economy
which lies at the foundation of human
health, and therefore of human usefulness
and human happiness. One of the must eff
fective instruments in the hand of woman is
the knowledge Of domestic life that will
bring sweetness and efficiency into home re-
lations, and make the works of John Howard
Payne come literally true, THE dearest spot
on earth to me, is Home, Sweet Home
To quote Bishop Haygood again, "A house
keeper and home maker who cannot read is
| Il nobler woman than she who can read many
| languages but does not know how to do any
thing rightly and so makes wreck of home.
I'VE may live without poetry music and art,
| We may live without conscience and live
| without heart,
We may live without friends, we may live
without books,
| But civilized man cannot live without
| cooks.
We may live without books, what is know
ledge but grieving!
| We may live without hope, what IS hope
but deceving?
We may live without love, what is passion
but pining?
But where is the man that can live without
| dining?
/ t. .,,e, Il u,i1
the sweetest nature in the world. a girl
simpering ut the piano or giggling at the
, gate with her best young man while her
mother perspires over the cooking stove is a
sight to make angels weep. Education that
| does not increase productive power is a fail
ure. 1t only tends to make people discomfort
ed and unhappy. If colleges only make faith
| ers and mothers work harder to keep vain
| and idle daughters wearing fine clothes then
| colleges are a curse to the country An emil
nent educator of the present day says, If
had my way and could command the means
to make the end possible in our schools
would see to it that there should be no di
| plomas that did not certify ability to do
some work properly, as well us to read some
| Greek passably, ability to earn a living by
hand work of some kind as well as to solve
some sort of problem with difficulty. Anoth-
| er eminent teacher says, u course OF lily
gienic Cookery should be included in the
regular course Of study for girls, that many
of the ills Of life grow out of ignorant or
willful indifference to what, when, and how
we should eat The well educated woman OF
the future will come to her life work
thoroughly skilled on the basis of full scien-
tific knowledge. This will teach her the
principles of ventilation, Dress food shelter
and cheerfulness that will secure for her
vigorous, physical health, a well poised mind
and a soul fitted by its purity for the in
dwelling of the Holy Spirit She will under
stand that thin waists, narrow chests, droop-
ing shoulders and short spasmodic breath.