Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-14
Household.

Since the distinction of seniorwrangler
has been won by Miss Fawcett, some
idle minded youth OF the masculine gen
der has put the query, "Is she girl to
be made love tori BY such as he,
Hno, - but when a man VINO can ap-
preciate her is moved to make love to
her the answer is unhesitatingly, Eyes.
Every candid woman knows that no
amount of classic lore, no high attain
ments in fields of learning debar women
from the blissful privilege of being made
love to, or compensates her for the want
of this her dearest right. The days of
''blue stockingism are of the past; fe-
male education in the present means
thorough development of all that tends
to perfection in woman g nature, and
any curriculum that ignores the proper
culture of true womanhood is not only
faulty IN the extreme, but condemned
in this age Let writers in this Nine
teenth century hesitate ere they protest
against the rapid intellectual progress
women are making, or sneeringly
| term their efforts at culture only su-
| perficial and incomplete. There has
never been in the advance of women
! q time when their physical natures re-
| ceived more care, and when as sex
| there WIS more earnest search after
| the hidden in physical, mental and moral
| life, Education for women century
| ago meant fine ladyis ~; they were then
| taught to contract their waists and TO
! avoid brain expansion. The chief end
| of women was to look pretty, revere
| their lords and rear children. Oc-
casionally some woman possessing an in
teI!ect that would not be bound, burst
| the cords of green wlthes and compelled
men TO respect her brain, while they re-
veuged themselves by doubling her
heart. Those days of love ditties and
| lovers sonnets are passed, but in lieu of
| women content with these there are in
| these days women who swim, row
| host. walk their miles and ride wild
| horse, They can wrestle with the prob
lens of La Place or speculate with Ger
man metapbysiciaus, can render the
! music of the masters and intelligently
cr,ticise the work of Millais or Laudseer,
and thanks be to ''modern education -
knows something of hygiene in living and
| chemistry in cooking.
No man need doubt woman s capac-
itv for loving nor her instinct for being
loved, because she has discovered that
she ia n reasonable being and deserving
! rational treatment. Neither need any
man fear that the most approved
methods in mo ern education will render
the graduate less qualified to be his me-
long companion and q mother TO tneIr
children. The chances are ten TO one ID
favor of en- educated woman becoming o
thorough housekeeper. She has been
taught system and order as part of
school discipline; she has learned To
trace the relation of cause to effect, ana
not to accept traditions merely because
they have been accepted. Ihus she
enters her house better equipped than the
pretty doll whose principal attention t6
her head was 10 keep her bangs IN order,
and whose care for her body was to pun
hands, feet and waist into the smallest
possible compass.
woman thus prepared Tor Ire
duties will bring into play all the knowl-
edge acquired from many sources. she
finds why bread Is sour, what proportion
of alkali is necessary TO overcome the
acid, why fermentation takes place
and how to prevent it. 1t i:
easy to make an educated girl under
stand that bedrooms must be well ven
tilated and the house thoroughly aireo
every day. She appreciates God 8 sun
shine more than carpets and hanging'
and knows that red cheeks amply conn.,
, pensate for any other failing.
She knows why it is harmful to havt
! the kitchen step or two higher or lowel
than the dining room, and why sh'
should not stoop over the cooking stow
or kitchen table. Her pantry would b.
/ convenient, the jugs labeled that an
, Que who could read would not pour vine.
, gar into a syrup can or moIasses into |
{ vinegar cruet. 1t Is not probabl
e that she would have to cllmi