El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-26
TRAINING OF WOMEN.

A man is carefully, ever more care
fully. educated for his part in life. HI
spends many years in close study o.
his profession or business. And aftel
he finally seriously engages in 1t the
process of education continues. If hs
does not improve, if he does not be
come more expert, more competent, he
| is beaten back and down.
| How is it with woman?
| Aside from the ordinary equipment
of general education which every pro-
gressive human being must have now
adays, a woman requires special edu-
cation in the three great specialties
which constitute her particular bust
ness or profession.
These female specialties are personal
appearance, housekeeping and the care
of family.
To put them another way:
How to catch and hold husband.
How to be wife.
How to be a mother.
Each of these three is at once a
science and an art. Each is worthy of
the attention of the most intellectual
woman.
Each is necessary to success as a
woman.
II vii. not do to say, "Oh. the men
should a woman waste her time in
such vanities as personal appearance,
or such sordidness as household cares
and economies. or in learning how to
be a mother when instinct teaches ev-
cry woman how to be a good MOTHER"
1t will not do to say, "Oh, 1 can dress
myself we'll enough" and Il hate house
keeping" and 81 loathe children"
woman who feels that way has
nothing to offer in exchange for love
and a husband and a home.
There is a purely sentimental side
to marriage. But there is far larger
practical side that can be permeated
with and beautified by sentiment, but
that cannot, must not be ignored.
A wife is something more than a
woman who makes the family calls.
spends the day in gadding and gossip
ing and drags a weary husband to
weariful social function in the evening.
A mother is some thing more than
an engager of incompetent nurse girls.
A home is something more than a
place where dust reigns and servants
waste and tradesmen cheat and rob.
How many girls of your acquain-
lance are being carefully trained in
the art of dressing themselves with
economy and taste. How many are be-
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clean, orderly, economical housekecp-
ing? How many are being trained in
the science and art of motherhood?
Yet all but a very few of the girls
expect to have husbands to guard.
homes to. administer, children to train.
Just as it is the husbands duty to
be worthy of and try to retain the love
of his wife and to provide the means
for maintaining a home and a family,
precisely so is it the duty of the wife
constantly to strive to hold her hus-
bands affections, carefully to spend
her share of their common earnings
and conscientiously to be mother to,
their children.
The twentieth century man does not
want aplaything or a drudge or
slave as a wife. He wants a TWEEN
tieth century woman-a companion, a
a fellow-laborer.
Few men like the girl who is OBJ
a man-hunter, or obstre-
perously a good housekeeper. or OBJ
maternal in her instincts.
Would a woman like a man who was
always airing his proficiency in his
business or profession?
But the proficiency must be there.
And if it is not there the man or wO-
man who marries in spite of the fact
is making a melancholy exhibition of
bad judgment.