Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-03-20
A GIRLS TRUE SPHERE.
mAHRlAeE NOT BY ANY MEANS 1ur
ONLY COURSE FOR HER.

- ~ nave women done? | know
miae THESE fingers have done. To re-.
member all carries me back TO Virgin;,
thlough the most exciting pages of
Atnerican history They were trained
10 40 elegant embroidery and to NAV
wen the best classical music. D,,rir,s,
sne oiyii war and since they have done
everything that fingers could do. In
war times they plated and sewed INV
chiidrens hats, made all their garments
even little kid and cloth boots wbi1a
their father was in prison
AFTER the struggle, in the experiment
we made to earn living, these hands
copied briefs for the LAWYER. then Too
poor to afford clerk, the while sewing
Tor the seven dear children. They made
every robe from the christening to the
Driuai Tor my two elder daughters. and
the work in which they have engaged
SINCE has been most varied.
Woman's sphere is where the Lord has
placed her We all deplore the condi-
tons that reduce young children and
lender women to hard labor for which
they have neither fitness nor strength
out believe that things adjust them
selves IN the end and we mold circum-
stances till we find our level. Home ia a
sweet place, but it is not the only place.
nor are maternal the only duties of
womanhood. Life is made up of a se-
mes or conditions, and the talents of men
ana women are equally varied.
EDUCATION IS NECESSARY.
deny that woman needs special
training for what you are pleased to
term the profession of motherhood. Ma
ternai love is innate. 1t is part of wo-
mans nature. She may be a holden in
her youth, heartless lover or treach-
erous friend, false to every trust and
still be good mother Even the savage
brute Is kind to her young, and will risk
her life IN protecting it. believe that
the training and education necessary to
the perfect development of womanhood
will fit the girl for any sphere in life she
chooses to enter.
do not believe that marriage is all
this world holds for the sex. nor that a
wife should round herself to the four
walls Of her home. 1t is necessary for
the height and breadth and freshness of
its atmosphere that she go out, mix with
the elements and become imbued with
the spirit, the progress, the thought that
Is accelerating the motion of the earth.
The world is moving with "a velocity
SO great that one cannot afford to stand
still, and the mother must be I'D and
about and around, even if she is Obliged
to take her little brood with her. to
watch the swelling tide. | am always
so glad to welcome the young woman in
any new line. When | take up the news
| paper begrudge the valuable space given
to the reports Of the Four Hundred. |
do not care to read about their coats of
arms, their coaches and cOquetrv.
want to know what the brave. bright.
/ gifted young men and women are doing
and thinking about and striving for.
This talk about girls losing their
/ femiLinity and unsexiDg themselves in
industrial enterprises think idle and
/ senseless. The very word '.unsex' is to
me misnomer, and if woman becomes
coarse and bold aud rough in business,
in the art world or in the industrial
school she would not be a lady in a
parlor or a gentlewoman in any con-
dition. The decollete dress does not
make woman vulgar.
MISTAKEN TRAINING.
The girl who stands behind the counter
/ to serve us and the one who stands be
/ hind the footlights to entertain us may
have the same nobility of purpose and
\ the same lofty principles as the one
privileged to i'll use and criticise her. It
is barely possible that our ladies do &c
/ to Delmonico's for dinner or supper, that
I they are even reckless enough to sip a
glass of wine, and at the same time be
as intrinsically worthy and noble as the
woman in quiet russell garments who
views the scene from the other side o.
i the window.
| That our girls want training there i;
! not doubt, neither has the inability OF
some mothers been questioned. They
/ don't want piano lessons unless there is
an Unborn love of music. The piano has
been the ruination of more than one
| generation of women. Another fallacy
/ is the hitherto universal tendency to di
rect all energies to marriage In the
south as soon as daughter reached hel
young ladyhood the mother at once pro
ceeded to refurnish the house.
The girl went to the hair dresser ant
had her tresses arranged in dozen differ
ent ways to find out which would be the
most becoming style; colors were tried
against her pretty face to get "hel
color" she took her beauty maps, ant
from every source, even the old servant
hint Ito be sweet.
In discussing a new acquaintance on'
heard that she was very beautiful ant
clever and nice, but she was not pretty,
Being what we called pretty was con
sidered superior virtue, and everything
in the girls training tended to this ont
characteristic.
The victim was being decked for TIN
sacrifice, although the fond mothe
would never admit that she was busy a
the art OF matchmaking. Prepare
girl for the altar, for the duties OF wifi
and mother, before even lover has pre-
scented himself? There is not only droll
erv TO such situation, but the tinge o
indelcacy. | believe in giving the cir
the advantages of good training AM
leaving her to decide whether she is bet
ter fitted for the inner or tue QUITE
world, for the home or the professional
6fe.-Mrs. Gen. Pryor in New Nor
World.