The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-27

girls should learn to handle tools. A
well equipped tool chest is as valuable
a possession TO a girl as to a boy. AS
things now are. thousands of young
women after they grow up viii have
homes of their own in which they
viii live and reign i'm quite cOntented
spinsterhood. Perhaps vol viii be
stenographers, artists or newspaper
women. by and by, living in pleasant
companionsbip with other women like
yourselves. without even a brother or
a cousin to help you along. There are
times when a man in the house is
great comfort, but il there should not
be a convenient masculine relative
within call. girl who can use a ham
her, a saw and a screw-driver, who
can open boxes that come by express.
and nail boxes up. who can mend
something that is broken and do her
own household tinkering without out
side aid, will be a very independent
girl
The manual training class is sup
posed not so much to enable you TO
DO marvellous things in school, as to
tit you for taking good care of yourself
in practical ways later on in life. I
am disposed to include under the head
of manual training some things that
most girls find very pleasant Why
should rot a school girl be taught 10
drive, to ride, TO row and TO reef
sail2 All the outdoor life in which the
hands play a part is better carried on
by young woman whose hands have
been trained. than by one who has
given exclusive attention to her mind
and very little TO her body.
IF Il were you I would care a good
deal about the beauty Of the hands.
They should be well kept, but not so
ful work. For instance, there is wash
ing the dishes-a hOmely task which
is seldom properly done except by a
lady. Of course, you and take pride
in the possession of beautiful china
In d New England farmhouse that l
know there are intact, not a piece bro
ken. cup nlcked, platter Clipped,
or any damage done anywhere, two
sets of ancestral china. The china
was brought from England in the early
days of the Massachusetts colony, and
il has been handed down from mother
TO daughter in an unbroken line ever
since.
How have you managed TO keep
your dishes from wreckage?" 1 once
asked.
These Dishes 1 was told. have
never been trusted to anyone out of
the family They have been uniformly
taken care of by gentlewomen."
1 am not sure that dishwaShing
ought not to be set in the place of
honor in the manual training of girls.
Rightly regarded il is feminine work
of the finest description. One may per-
form a great deal of homework and
still keep her hands soft and white,
if she win be careful not TO plunge
them into hot water when she may as
we'll use a mop, and if she Will protect
them by rubber gloves when doing
tasks which would make them red and
rough
One word mora beautiful hand is
not improved by an excessive number
of rings. Schoolgirls do not wear much
jewelry, nor should they. But as you
grow older and leave the sct0olroofn
behind, there may come the desire and
perhaps the temptation TO wear a good
deal of ornament. Do not spoil pretty
hand by too many gems. The stats Is
barbaric. Take pains with the nails,
which are the finishing touches of the
fingers. and whatever else you forget
never omit that language of the cor
dial handclasp, which signifies sincerity
and true heart.
Copyright 1905. by Joseph 3. BowIes-)