The record-union., 1896-11-26

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age the girl does not care a snap Of her
finger whether she is with girls or boys.
She is attracted by health and strength
in either sex, and enjoys romping.
By and by she begins to change There
comes to her the feeling that she must
not do so any more. She determines
not to climb trees and bound up stairs
any more, but she continually forgets
herself Next she comes to the club
age. Her special comfort is knowing
that certain other people are not in her
set. And there are no boys in her set
either-except her cousins From IA to
16 she is watching other peoples love
affairs, and can tell you all about
them She doesn't want any herself,
however.
There never was a girl of 16 to 20
who did not have some boy for a mate.
1t is the period of her hero worship. 1t
may be a boy on the football field or the
boy who reciteS brilliantly, or the boy
who can lead in the Christian Endeavor
meeting, but it is some one.
Going back to the baby, he said it
can be trained in it's cradle to sleep and
eat at certain times, and does it as
matter Of course. AT years old the
reign of authority begins 1t must be
taught that authority is supreme in
each department; that Patrick is the au-
tocrat in the stable, Mary in the
kitchen, the nurse in the nursery
ETC., and that even father and mother
do not interfere with them in their re-
spective realms. The child should be
taught that she is to yield unquestion-
ing to authority up to years DID, Then
comes the reign of law. No girl is
child after she is s years old Must is
the ruling word with the baby and the
Child. Ought" is the ruling word with
the girl, and after she is s, if she has
been properly taught to obey authority,
she glides into the sphere of ought
insensibly
If after that age she only does right
because of authority there is danger.
IF the girl in her teens is only re-
strained by the authority of her mother
ana not by the feeling of necessity Of
rlght-doing, the case is critical, and
when she grows beyond authority the
case is desperate. After the age of 1G
she has outgrown the period of
ought Then comes the time when,
il she has been properly brought up,
she goes to her mother or her older girl
friend, not to ask what she Ought" to
do, but what is best for her to do.
There is just as much responsibility
resting upon each father and mother
with regard to girls as there is for the
| rollicking boys.
The girl is to be trained to grow up
either as a soloist or an accompanist
Our girls are not trained to become a
Soloist in their homes, and we are doing
wrong. They should be trained to find
out what they can do most grandly and
perfectly-better than any one else they
know. Never let any boy or girl go out
of your schoolroom with a remem-
brance only Of something you would not
allow them TO do Whatever you can
do best, do it for your pupils in order
that they may remember you by it as
| long as they live. Every teacher can
do some one thing that will make an
impression on their minds, and that
they will be remembered by in later
years. She should do it for the chill
dren's sakes, and should train and de-
velop in each pupil the power to be a
soloist in something. Cultivate in them
courtesy, politeness and the graces that
help to make progress through the
world pleasant and profitable to them
selves and others.
Then there is the acconpanist. She
aids the soloist, and by her perfection
IN accompanying sustains and protects
her, but she must not expect recogni-
ton or fame. That must go TO the So
| loiSt while the accompanist helps and
| brings her back to the proper key with
| out allowing the audience to suspect
| that she had wandered away from 1t.
| Woman is and must be the accompanies
| in the worlds action and grand
achievements. She must and does cover
up many defects and must attain the
power to transpose the key to one that
Larmonized with the soloist.
1t is libel to say that women do not
keep secrets. They keep the secrets
OF women we'll We must win the girls s
love and teach her to be content to be
an accompanist. If we do our best in
this direction for girls as we'll as boys,
God will bless US.
The teachers then adjourned till l:oo
y. m.