The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-08-18
AND SCHOOL LIFE
When They Should Be Sent Away
From HOmc-Good and
Bad Of Ii.

Answers from a number of we'll
known women to ar inquiry in regard
to the wisdom of sending young girls
away from home to boarding-schools
show a general preponderance of feel
ing in favor of such training as the
best for a young girl unless she can
have every advantage at her home.
Home" said the widow of Henry
Ward Beecher, lis undoubtedly the
best school for our girls. but, as in all
probability they will, in time, be
called TO leave it, / think a little ex-
perience away from home would be a
wise preparation for another life and
home which may by and by be offer
ed and accepted. But of curse if sent
from the home school it would
be very important that the very best
school should be selected. | should
wish that such school should not be
in the heart of a great city, like New
York, but one adjoining where a girl
should form some idea of city life
without living in it. l know OF none
equal to Wellesley College and the
various departments belonging to 1t,
where a girl can secure a solid educa-
tion without going through the full
college course if desired. One grand
daughter of mine graduated at the
college. Her younger sister did not,
but took the course at Dana's Hall,
connected with the college, What /
saw OF these two courses gave me the
highest ideas of boarding schools and
colleges for girls when properly con-
dueted.'
Marian Harland Mrs. Terhune)
said;-"Much depends upon circun-
stances. | have educated my own
daughter at home because, living in
the city, they could have masters for
all / could not furnish. My son, also,
attends Columbia College IN order
that we may have him with us at
night. But a girl who is well rooted
in principle, yet ambitious, may well
long to see something of the great
world whose hum she hears from afar.
You can not always be at her side, and
you do not want her to become pro-
vincial. | travelled with my girls for
two years in England and ON the
Continent, keeping them at school
(day SCHOOL, in the winter. My eldest
daughter also took an elective course
Mt Smith College while we lived in
Springfield. Mass. Had we remained
there, | am afraid that | should have
denied my heart the inexpressible
| comfort OF having them with me all
the time, and would have sen them
to New York to be '~broadened.'
Small towns asphyxiate live people, ,
unless air be let in from the outer
world,
II should be guided by what /
know of a girls natural bent and
habit of thought. If she wishes a
city school that she may have "a good
time, keep her at home. If she is
filled with an unsuitable longing TO
know more, TO acquire knowledge for
the sake of knowledge, and if the
promptings Of that longing are ever
present with her; if, in short, your
daughter longs to grow, and if she
has thus far proved herself entirely
trustworthy at all times and under
all circumstances, / should send her
to such a school as Rutgers Female
College or Packer Institute and place
her under the special care OF the
principal
Frances f. Willard, president of the
Worlds and National Woman:
Christian Temperance Union. saws
"All other things being equal, ]
would say most eInphatieally to al
mothers, keep your dear girls at home
III, however, you should decide TO senC
your daughter away to school, by al
means be particular to send her tt
none other than a strong, progressive
i institution, such, for example, a. Hol
Hoke, Wellesley, Smith, Vassar or Bos'