The Progress., 1894-04-07
PHYSICAL CULTURE.
TIE LAWS OF HEALTH MUST NOT
BE NEGLECTED.


by Rev. Madison G. Peters.
II has been well said, Simply to be
a delighting presence Of lovellness in
our homes our daughters must be strong
ly healthful." The body is just as much
Gods gift as the mind, and it is sad to
SEQ young woman cultivate her mind
at the expense of her body. intellect
in an enfeebled body is like gold in a
spent swimmer S pockets-it only makes
him sink the sooner Let women have
all the culture which their own pecnl-
lar organization can endure, but let
more attention be paid to physical cul-
tule and the laws of health. Include
physical education in all our systems or
culture. Our girls need more athletic
development. fuller blooded bodies, to
carry them happily through life.
FALSE IDEAL.
Women, as rule, think Of education
as a schooling to be continued until the
age of II or IS years, the object Of
which is to make them appear as we'll
as others in their own circle, and there
fore to give to them an equal chance Of
social and matrimonial success.
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
However much the delicate sensibility
Of the ovcrrefned may he shocked by
my advocating a return to those home
duties which did not bemean our moth
ers, do not hesitate to say that from
systematic disregard of those duties
which it has pleased God 10 ordaln
arise many of the mistakes which we
have so much reason to lament.
CNWlSE MOTHERS.
Onr daughters, by the wish of the
mothers, are kept ignorant OF the sci
ences Of bakeology, boilology cookology.
stitchology and mendology, and because
Of the ignorance Of the details Of house
hold duties many WOman'S married
life is often series Of serious blundcrS.
The husband not infrequentIy discovers
that he has made an awful mistake, and,
to use the quaint language Of another,
that for all tie purposes Of domestic
life he might as well have put skill
fully painted picl0ro in the parlor and
a statue of Ven IS de Medici IN the
Kitchen
THE WORD LADY.
The Saxon word LADY" signifies a
loaf and to serve. It means literally
one who serves or dispenses bread How
can girls think it unIadylike to be able
to look we'll to the ways Of her house
hold?" What is unIadyIike is to be ig-
norant of household matters.
A wife was complaining to widow
about her husband, and she said, Feed
the brute" Owen Meredith truly says:
We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience; we may live
without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live
without books,
But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
lie may live without books-what is know
ledge but grevng2
deceiving?
lie may live without love what is passion but
repining?
But where is the man that can live without
dining?
Even if girl should never be required
to do the work herself, she ought to
know whether the work is done in the
Drorer manner or NOT
Give me the fair one in city or country,
Whose home and its duties are dear to her
heart.
AIMLESSNESS.
One Of the greatest defects in our So
cial system is the aimless way in which
girls are brought mp. The majority of
them are prepared in neither body nor
mind for the lofty duties and serious re-
spoDsibilities which marriage implies.
Let our girls DO brought up to have
their regular domestic duties, let idle
ness be forbidden them and let every
woman be clothed with the dignity Of a
useful life. With DR.. Holland, we be-
iieve that there is hnt one cure for many
of our social evils, and that is "univer.
sal housekeeping. No hotel or board
ing house, however. pleasant, can sup
ply the want created by an instructive
heart longing fer some place, 'be it
ever so lowly," which can be called
Our home.
charm from the skies seems to hallow US
there,
Which, seek through the world, is nc'er met
with elscN here.
HOME nArrlNEsS
Does not consist 90 mnch in the archi.
tectural beauty OF the artistic furnish
ing Of a home as in it's cleanliness and
ncatnrsS.
How can | tell her?
By her cellar,
Cleanly shelves and whitened walls.
| can guess her
BY her dresser,
By the back staircase and hall,
And with pleasure
Take her measure
e. Rs the way she keeps her brUoms,
Or the peepins
AT the keeping
OF her back and unseen rooms:
Bt the Kitchens air of neatncss
And its general completeness,
Wherein in cleanliness ami sweetness
The rose Of order blooms.
"a HAPPY GO Lucky HOMES.
There will always he friction in a
happy 20 lucky administration of the