The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-09-24
EDUCATION OF YOUNG GIRLS.


Max Orch is turning his pen to the
very, most. serious problems of life; One
suhjSct Tat tngrosses much of shis at
tention of late is that of education OF
girls. He writes of a conversation he
had with charming French woman. One
of WHOM he says:
MY friend is a woman of society q
don't say a society woman), sensible,
most intelligent, the mistress of one OF
the happiest homes 1 ever was privileged
to visit, and the mother of two young
girls who are to my mind, the perfect
embodiment of what young girls should
be-
Max 'ORell quotes this charming and
true weman1y woman as having the fol-.
lowing to say on the subject of the
Education of Young Girls: :,
do not let young girls lose their il
lusions, but at the same time see that
they never become dreamers. woman
must be matter-of-fact, or" if you prefer,
not romantic, so that she may never seek
the impossible and ask or expect OF life
what it cannot offer to her. Imagination
and exaltation are; the enemies of wo-
men, and you should avoid supplying
girls with plays, books or anything which,
can feed them.
...Yolsp daughter should have many girl
friends, but none intimate; no bosom
friend to whom she can confide her secrets
| in mysterious, conversations. Her moth
err shaald be- her only bosom friend.
.Idieness and ennui can answer for
| nine4tenths at least of the misfprtunes
which befail women, girls especially !
| Your daughter should be constantly busy
However rich you may be, she should be
| taught how to make her living in case
any disaster should, happen in her family
al art she should
| be a good pianist or singer or able to
| draw sufficiently well to illustrate; books;
| if she has literary taste, she should. know
how-to write we'll an impression she mas
| received an incident she has witnessed,
| a landscape she has admired.
| "She should know stenography, type
writing and be a. good letter writer.
girl who knows these things can make
! from $50 to $50 a week in New YORK. she
should be a good dressmaker and know
how to keep house with order and
| economy at sixteen. she shoulu De
taught how to purchase inteligently, how
| to know good and lasting materials from
shoddy.
She should learn the proper use OF
money by having SO much money every
month for her own use. She should be
taught to invariably pay cash down for
all She buys, and never on any account be
allowed to run into debt-not toE ONE aoi-
| lar; even. -
"She should be taught, gently but
firmly, that whatever her parents posi-
Etion may be, she cannot have all she
flakes a fancy to. From the beginning
she should be led to see how pleasant
it is to possess little more, just little
more, than you need.
Il Economy is pot niggardliress; gooc
A order Is not iaVarice. II you see tha
under your guidance she spends hel
money sensibfy; IL, especially, you dis
cover that without telling you of 1t She
gives something to the poor, increase
her allowance every year.
when that girl marries she VIII p'
a. most useful wife. If her husband Is
rich. she will spend money discreetly ahc
well; if a misfortune happens TO MIN
she will be the very woman he wants
to help him repair his losses and sooner
recover his former position
Teach her discretion. consideration ano
the love of her own sex. In her presence
always take the defence of women, anc
never allow a woman to be slandered De
fore her without imposing silence to the
slanderer. =,
"Such are among others, the ideas OF
NV friend on the education OF young
| girl"