The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-27

by getting a perfectly clear idea Of the
phrase highest living
1.-The highest living for anv woman
is, after all, nothing more nor less
than the truest and fullest expression
of herself.
"A southern girl has opportunities
for self development and self. training
such as girls living in other parts of
our county have not. She is sur
rounded by a life far truer and o
conducive to self development because
social conditions are more normal.
THE rush Of life of the North and
West is not so stimulating as many
Southern women suppose. On the
contrary, it wear women out as often
as it develops them; IN no part of our
land do women look younger at matu-
rity than in the South.
ITO the Southern girl, too, Nature
blooms IN a prOfusion as she does no
where else; the natural history which
a N Northern girl must get out of books,
the Southern girl gets direct from ma
lures WI hand.
Her parents are, and her ancestors
were, of the best types of American
chivalry and American womanhood.
The religion which she learns from
her mother is the highest and best, be
cause it is uutainted with modern
revelations The truest friend and
safest teacher in highest living a girl
can have is her mother, and in the
s outh mothers have a way of finding
time for their daughters and being
companions to them. The Southern
father is proud of his children and
proves it by his presence at the domes
tic hearth after his days business is
over. All these In fences and natural
conditions mean much to a girl in self.
development; she need but have the
desire for training and study and she
will not find facilities lacking.
"a Southern home is a pretty good
place for a girl to educate herself, if
she have the true desire. When she
grows older and it is given her to
travel, she may go far in. this and
other lands and still Fl I'd none that is
better"
This tribute to the Southern girl re-
minds US that Mr.. Box recently paid
the folio wing tribute to the Southern
people as a whole:
The most wholesome American
ideas, those ideas upon which our gov
eminent rests, are nowhere 80 prevail
ent as they are at present in the
South. = X They do not question
Divine la ws in the S )uth; they accept
and perpetuate them Intellectual prog
ress there goes hand in hand with
a strict adherence to the accepted be
liefs of religion. The Southern mother
does not explain the BlOle to her chill.
dren in the light Of sO-called modern
teachings she places it in their hands
as her mother gave it to her. And
with the fundamental principles of re
ligion the Southern child is taught
patriotism and a love of country ;
hence, religion and patriotism stand
side by side in the education Of a
Southern child.
"Tne Southern people believe in
progress, but progress along healthy,
rational lines. Theories which mentally
upset find no sympathy with them
They are content to 10Y slowly, but
safely and surely. And some day
when the vast maj 0rity of us who live
in other portions Of this country get
through with our camping out civiliza
ton, when we drop our boastful man,
ners, when get old enough to under
stand that there is a stronghold of con
servatism which stands between
tyranny and anarc hism, u eyes will
turn toward the South. And we will
see there a people who are American
in ideas and in living; a people wor
shipful, progressive, earnest, courage
Gus, and petriotic-a people who have
made their land, against defeat and
prejudice, the heart of America"
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