Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-01-16
A GIRLS TRUE SPHERE.
MARRIAGE NOT eY ANY MEANS THE
ONLY COURSE FOR HER.

Judge Pryor's Estimabis Wife Gives Her
Opinion on How Girls Should he
Trained-What She Herself Has Done.
Mistakes In Notions of Girihood.
What have women done? ! know
what these fingers have done. To re-
member all carries me back to Virginia
through the most exciting pages OF
American history. They were traineu
to do elegant embroidery and 10 play
well the best classical music. Du,in8
the Civil war and since they have oone
everything that fingers could 90, III
war times they plated and sewcd my
chillren's hats, made all their garments
even little kid and cloth poots' while
their father was in prison.
After tho strugylc, il the experiment
we mode "a earn living, these hands
copied briefs for tho lawyer. then too
poor to afford clerk. the while sewing
for tho seven dear chill lrea. They made
every robe from the christening to the
bridal for my two elder daughters, and
the work in which they have engaged
since has been most varied.
Woman's sphere Il where the Lord has
nlace1 her We all deplore the condi-
tions that reduce yorug children and
tender women to bard labor for which
tbev have neither fitness nor strength,
Int believe that things adjust them
relyes in tho end and we mold circum-
stances till we find our level. Home is a
sweet place. but it il not the only place,
nor are maternal the only duties of
womanhood. Life is made up Of So
ries of conditions, and the talents IF men
and women are equally varied.
EDUCATION Is NECESSARY.
I deny that woman needs a special
training for what you are pleased to
term the profession of motherhood. Ma
ternal love is innate. 1t is part of wo-
mans nature. She may be holden in
her youth, heartless lover or treach-
erous friend, false TO every trust, and
still be u 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 tho 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
vile should round herself to the four
walls of her home. 1t is necessary for
the height ana 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 acceleratiug the motion of the earth.
The world is moving with Il velocity
so great that one cannot afford to stand
still. and the mother must be up 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 coquctry. ]
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
femininity and unsexing themselves in
industrial enterprises | think idle and
senseless. The very word "unsex" is to
me misnomer, and fa woman becomes
coarse and bold and rough in business,
in the art world or il the industrial
school she would not be lady in a
parlor or u gentlewoman in any con-
dition. The decollete dress does not
make a woman vulgar.