The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-22

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could not possibly become good wives.
especially for poor men. But is this so?
Persons born aud bred in luxury have
their faults, but so do persons born and
bred in penury, and 1 do not know that
one class of faults is any more tolerable
or more likely to make girl into bad
wife than the other.
The fashionable girl, for instance, has
been used all her life to attendance, and
probably never has learned to mend her
own clothes, or to go and fetch what she
wants, or to wait upon anybody else
She sees a thing in shop, and having
plenty of pocket money, or plenty of
credit in her fathers name, she orders it
sent home, and perhaps never looks twice
at it again. If she is properly brought
up she devotes most of her time and en-
ergy to study and the practice of va
rious accomplishments, which, with nee
essary exercise, so fills her day that she
really could not if she would learn any
thing of practical matters-of the art of
keeping a house, of training servants or
of doing without them, of buying clothes
at the right time and to the best advan-
tage, of making those clothes or so re-
pairing and refreshing them as to
Max aud clathes
A'maist as good the new.
Of course if a girl so trained marries
poor man she has a great deal both to
learn and to unlearn, and her capacity
for these new lessons will be the meas
ure of her ability to become good wife:
But suppose such a girl marries a rich
man: We all know, especially in this
country, that money alone will not make
a comfortable home; it will hire ser
wants sometimes at tremendous wages.
but the air Of this free country is fatal
to servitude, and the man or maid who
while at home in England or Ireland
was the very incarnation of obedience.
respectfulness and content. only re-
quireS a few months in one of our cities,
with the advantage of reading the pa
pers before they reach the hands of the
family, and of listening to the lessons of
their cOmpatriOts who have been hera
a little longer, before they imblbe the
principles Of liberty and equality to such
an extent, that, unless the heads of the
house are well able to hold their own
position, they speedily lose it, and be-
come the servants rather than the rulers
Now is girl fresh from her school. or
even after some years Of society life,
able to take and keep this position of
head of turbulent and revolutionary
staff of servants simply because her hus-
band has the money TO pay them:
Of course she IS not, unless she has
had a mother so very unusually alive To
her responsibilities that she has taught
her the art of housekeeping, in addition
to her school studies, and the require
ments Of society; and such mothers are,
to say the least Of it, uncommon.
SO our poor society girl is not by posi-
ton and education fitted to become the
wife either of a poor man or Of rich
one.
Is she then never to be a successful
wife; Are both poor men and rich men
warned of from trying 10 appropriate
her delicate loveliness and dainty grace
TO the establishment Of that home for
which every man longs in his inmos-
heart?
Nay, the case is not quite as bad as
this for our dear society rosebuds and
half opened blossoms. There is teach
er who can III quite snort course Of
most delightful lessons teach the most
girl, whether she be city
bred and luxurious. or whether she be
country bred and unsophisticated, TO lay
aside all her previous habits and 10 &C
qulre a complete new set; - take up the
most tedious and distasteful tasks and
find them charming: 10 like the things
she supposed she should abhor, and 20
grow careless Of what rad Oeen her very
breath of life.
His terms are high, 70 be sure. this
wonderful teacher Of ours: he demands
even more than ShylOck with his pound
Of flesh, for he Is not satisfied with less
than the whole being Of his pupil-ber
heart. her brain. her hands. her feet, her
viii and her obedience; IN fact. all that
makes her herself. The teachers name. /
as you long since have guessed, Is Love. /
dear. old, yet ever young, Dan Cupid, I
who has been al wo7k among us from
the day when this weary old world was I
as fresh AMI young as the debutdHte OF 4
yesterday.
And now the crucial question i, can I
the fashionable g.-l. the society girl, /
take the course Master Love requires, .
She has, perhaps. gone IN for the
higher mathematics. for Greek and even 4
Hebrew. she knows the principles Of 4
tngonometry and assron-
omv: she has strained her poor little /
brain to H. utmost capacity. and Il quite
f. 20 assume the chair q mathematics
a. the coming college for Shs coming
woman. but l. she able 70 learn Loves
sweet lessons and TO graduate II ms
school
Those old noveiists and esssylsts. those
Of glldsd pills VINO wrlts
moral tales for ;he young and novels
with az educational purposs, n fact. ali
the clas Of theorists % whom / a. frst
say 10. sbs cant They main
tain that . worldly llfe MAKES the whole
nature worldly. they say that artificial
habits. sacn a. sieep4ng Ezf the day ard
more than half the night. 80 Up
- and transform The nz-zrsl tastes aid
capacities -. tSey lAHEzls- AID de-