Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-20
MRS. KENDAn IND HEn GIR1s.
The Actress sHas Ideas About the Bring.
ing UP of Children.

MRS. EEND-fE IND HER GELS.
The Actress Has Ideas About the Bring
ing Up of Children.
From New York Sun.
Mrs. Kendall has some peculiar theo
ries concerning the teaching and train
ing of daughters, quite as conservative
and original as her dramatic methods
Like most English women, she prefer
home study to boarding school educa
ton. There are three of the children o
whom Mrs. Kendall proudly speaks a
my girls" with the little English soft
ening of the III that the most arden
Anglo-maniac cannot quite attain. Ant
these girls have had most exceptions
training in SO far us constant super
vision, guardianship and culture arr
concerned. In the Kendall nursery, rs
in most English nurseries, there have
been always a head nurse and an under
nurse. The head nurse is an intelligent
capable sort Of a middle-agcd woman
4 experienced iii the care of children, who
bathes and dresses the little ones, unless
the mother is devoted 10 her children 10
the extent Of doing it herself, and takes
them out if they walk or drive The
| under nurse serves more in the capacity
Of a maid, lighting the fires, keeping the
nursery tidy and in order, waiting at
the meals, &c.
Every morning at nine the French
! gnYcrncsS comes, teaches the children,
| takes them out for a walk, and has
| lunch with them. As soon as they have
learned sufficient French, their CONVEX
satlon is entirely in French, and, of
course, she is supposed to correct them
and teach them in all the pretty courte-
sizes OF department necessary for girls 10
learn. Then, after lunch, she goes away
and the English governess comes to
teach them the requisite English
branches, takes them for another walk,
and stays to tea with them. Once each
week the dancing master comes, bring
ing his pianoforte accompanist with
him, and everything is set back in the
nursery, the rug is rolled Zip, and the
children are taught to dance and to be
graceful in salutation and address, the
governess presiding over the lesson and
acting as chaperone. Once week, too
the music master comes and gives his
lesson while the governess, who hap
pens to be on duty, presides. Twice
week, too, German master comes to
the house, sharing the time with the
two regular teachers.
Mrs. Kendall acknowledges that she
could probably have found one or at
most two goyernesses capable of teach
ing all these branches to young children,
but her idea is that little children tire
quickly OF people, and the constant
change of teachers makes the lessons
less irkSome.S Besides, as she says, "If
the children get put out with the French
governess in the morning she goes
away, and their little temper vanishes |
at the coming Of the English governess."
"Of course, in one way it is more ex-
pensive than putting the children in
school, hut don't You see, if they go out |
to school they must have carriage I
when ii rains, or if they DO not, and sit
in their damp clothing, they are i'll for a
week in the house, and there is the
doctor; SO, you see, ii cuts both ways"
And arc your children never allowed
10 go about by themselves ?" asked
lady.
Never, not my girls The boys may.
They must learn a great deal that the
girls do not need To know and that do
lot want them to know. Until came
lere my girls were never away from
ne; now they are in France Mt a lady's
house who has charge and supervision
'yer them. They have their own apart
nents, their own maid, their own
eachers just the same, and the lady
5 20 he sort ofmother to them"
"But what if something happens to
GU TO prevent You giving your daughters
UGH constant care and guardianship
They have aunts, and godmothers,
NIL friends and &c !, IL =. /
hey have their own innocence, and ,
nat is the best protection they can have
better than any amount of worldly :
'isdom. There is nothing that appeals
, potently to chivalry and courtesy.
nd now if you'd like TO see the kind \
girl this training develops, | will call {
y daughter. She is only q girl. She j
i'll not come in with any flourish of I
nmpets, as il no one were Of any con c
quence now that she has arrived. She /
ay say nothing but yes and mo- to !,
III, just as they write in books OF the :
pical English girl, for such she is, and "
~ are a stranger. She will chatter 9,
&c any girl when You arc gone. We | K
G great friends and companions, tell h
ch other all our secrets, and have all
amer of fun together, but You will
,tice she will not sit down until after 81
10, or lead in the conversation while o.
7 mother is in the room, though | Of
yer told her MOTTO; but here she is" I'll
And there came into the room a tall, ii
ght girl with merry brown eyes like h;
r mothers, bright glossy hair of the m
h reddish yellow of Roman gold, an to
lglish fairness of skin, and an English Ia
eetness OF voice. Her greeting is as ar
tural, unconscious and frank as that "
u little child; her handshake, VITA its tr,
gle downward movement hearty and he
lorous, and her smile sweet and UNI be
acted Noting the quaint punctilious- in
IS with which she waited until her tn
ther was seated, the pretty dizziness OK
III which the hands, white and tn
lpely like her mothers, busted them en-
yes with some dainty knitting directly
was seated, and the unconscious =.
erence Of her manner, one felt in IA
led to honor the system and pay elt
mage to its results. sh'
md by and by, when Mrs. Kendall CIR
the room for minute, and the "
ghter gracefully took up the leader ae,
? OF the conversation, it was interest ".
to notice that one of the deepest inn ny iiei
sslons made upon her mind in w
erica, in which country she said that tne
had been long enough TO learn to en-
that she was having perfectly l 1ne
Fly time" was that ''the people do 70
ld such lot of money, and don't an
n to know how much a dollar is she
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