The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-02-25

the home making work? The girl who
intends to go out and seek a career will
doubtless laugh this idea to scorn, but
! if she does, it is because she was start
ed wrong. From her childish years she
I should have been called upon to do her
share in taking care of the home and
making it attractive. While she is still
very young she can be instructed in the
mysteries of busting and in such small
duties and as she grows older she can
look after her own room and keep the
living rooms attractive.
Then there comes the time that near
ly every girl finds interesting, when she
is allowed to do little cooking. Now
that the sensible plan has been intro
duced of giving cooking lessons in pub
lie schools there is a chance for chill
dren to learn something of cookery out
side of their own homes. The effect is
often very noticeable. The child goes
home eager to attempt some of the new
dishes she has made under the teach
er's supervision. The mother is guilty
of {. grave blunder who does not en-
courage this sort of thing in the home.
What if it does for a while make
more plague than profit? Bother is
not what the mother should be trying
to escape. Her effort should be to in
duce her daughter to care for the pure
ly womanly pursuits of making the
home and all that therein is of comfort
and pleasure.
1t is an excellent plan to give the
girl sense of responsibility when there
is entertaining to be done This does
not mean that she is to receive her
guests alone while her mother and
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the contrary. When older guests are
present the girl must consider it in
cumbent upon her to help make things
pleasant for them. She need not thrust
herself forwards, but she should let
them see that she appreciates the duties
OF her position as joint hostess. When
her own friends are invited to the house
it should not mean that the parents are
banished. In the habit of Young Amer
lea of putting ''the old people" to one
side when girls and boys are met social
ly may be found the cause of many of
the defects we lament in the girl OF the
period.
For after all, the young girl, no mat
ter how charming she may be, is an un-
tried creature. She is full of life and
vlgOur and shows these in an overflow
of animal spirits that manifests itself
in strange fashions. The youthful spirits
are all we'll enough in their way and we
would not have her without them. But
they must be directed and checked when
they threaten to carry her too far.
The average young girl is too self alb
sOrbed to grasp the idea that there are
other points OF view besides her own.
She knows what her impulses incline
her to do and she does not stop to con-
slider how her actions impress those
about her. If she dwelt too much upon
this consideration it might have a ten
dency to make her self conscious, but
little thought of herself in relation to
Others is an admirable thing. When
she has been taught from early child
hood to be unselfsh and to seek the
comfort of Others rather than her own
enjoyment, pure and simple, she is pref
ty sure to be womanly and gentle.
Yet this does not mean that she may
not be a breezy, outdoors little some
body. In fact, we would not like her
it she were not rather ''up and coming"
The American girl is not prone to be
lacking in Ego" and sparkle. Her recent
development along athletic lines has
improved her physically and mentally
as we'll. If to her splendid bodily health
and her eager mind she adds the gen.
tleness and thoughtfulness for others
which make her lovable, there will be
no one to cast even the shadow of
criticism on the girl of the period