San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-17
EDUCATING THE DAUGHTER.
1t Should Begin with Careful Home
Training.

Training.
Some one has said that woman is
educated for everything but the posi-
ton of wife and mother. Whoever said
it had false idea of the value of a
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 the new
homes that are made.
If daughter is delicate she should
not be crowded with work. Let her
education take a longer time. There
is no need of hurry. Why cannot the
truth be recognized that the years Of
training are the most 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 will do all in her
power to extend this delightful period
A thorough education makes it posi-.
BILE for young woman to enter almost
any occupation she may desire. For
those who have been brought up ten
derby it is not always pleasant to be
compelled to care for themselves, but
it is a thousand times better to be able
to do SO in an emergency than to eat
the bread of dependence. Education
will fit them to meet just such emergen-
cies.
But education should begin with care
full home training. 1t should be phys
ical and moral as well as mental. A
daughter should be taken to the den.
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 it new meaning by ap-
plying it to the woman whose waist
is so compressed that she never knows
the luxury of deep, restful breath.
have never heard that there was an
impression abroad that God had made
any mistakes in the anatomy of the
human form; 1 only infer it when !
look at the cramped feet and the over
corseted waists of the waning nine
teenth century.
Education is practical. 1t fits one foI
solving the problems of household af-
fairs, as well as those of other walks
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, flour 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 housekeepers and
the best mothers are those. who have
had the advantage of education.
1t is said that nowadays fewer edu.
Gated girls marry for support than was
formerly the case; that the statistics
of Vassar college show that the gradu.
ates marry comparatively late in life,
So be it. Where this is the case there
are fewer divorces-fewer lives spoiled
by hasty and ill-considered marriages
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.