River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-10-21
EDUCATING THE DAUGHTER.
Il should Begin with Careful Home
TraiuinG.

Some one has said that woman is
educated for everything but the posi-
ton of wife and mother. Whoever said
general education. Whatever trains
and develops a young girl into a
stronger and nobler womanhOod will
help her in any position which she may
be called upon TO fill. In childhood our
girls should have the same preliminary
training as the boys. They should be
encouraged TO play with their brothers.
Boys grow more gentle and considerate
by this association, while the girls gain
in vigor and force. Indeed. this ex-
change Of cOurtesies we find all through
life, first in play. next in the coeduca-
tional schools and lastly in she new
homes that are made.
If a daughter is delicate she should
not be crowded with work. Let her
/ education take longer time. There
! is no need of hurry. Why cannot the
/ truth be recognized that the years OF
1 training are the Iaost beautiful years
of life? They are full of hopes and
aspirations which beautify the soul
even If they are never fully attained.
( The wise mother viii do all in her
power TO extend this delightful period.
A thorough education makes ii posi-
BILE for young woman TO enter almost
any occupation she may desire. For
'.,ose who have been brought up ten
derby it is not always pleasant 10 be
compelled TO care for themselves, but
it is thousand times better TO be able
/ to do so in an emergency than 10 eat
I the bread of dependence. Education
will fit them TO meet just such emergen-
cies
But education should begin with care
full home training. II should be phys
ical and moral as we'll as mental. 4
daughter should be taken TO the dem
fist before She is taken TO the dress
maker. She should be taught to take
care of her body before she adorns it..
The expression "fearfully and wonder
fully made" is very trite saying, but
one might give il new meaning by ap-
plying it to the woman whose waist
is so compressed that she never knows
the luxury of a deep, restful breath. l
have never heard that there was an
/ impression abroad that God had made
any mistakes in the anatomy of the
( human form; | only infer it when l
/ look at the cramped feet and the over
corseted waists of the waning nine
teenth century.
/ Education is practical. II fits one for
solving the problems of household af-
3 f.,s 80 has al lie
\ of life. What is more natural than
for the young girl to go from her work
| in the laboratory, where she learns to
make chemical compounds, to the pan
/ try where she combines baking pow
/ der, -four and sweet milk? She will
probably label all her walls and will
hardly be guilty of havoring her IA
theirs pudding sauce with machine
oil because the bottle happens to be the
same shape as that containing lemon
extract. The best housekeCpers and
| he best mothers are those who have
I had the advantage of education.
( 1t is said that nowadays fewer edu-
Gated girls marry for support than was
I formerly the case; that the statistics
/ of Vassar college show that the gradu-
atcs marry comparatively late IN life.
/ So be it. Where this is the case there
are fewer diyorces-fewer lives spoiled
/ bv hasty and ill-considered marriages,
1 fewer women doomed to drudgery and
domestic unhappiness. Indeed, this
looks favorable for an era when old
/ fashioned love will again be popular
/ Woman's Home Companion.