The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-03-11
ADVICE TO GIRLS.

Girls should be trained to do domestic work.
No matter what qualifications IA girl may possess
educationaly, If she is unable to take up house
hold duties her school college training will be-
come failure and life burden, should She enter
into matrimony. Fortune is a tickle goodness. The
wealth which family may possess today may be
swept away tomorrow. Mothers are in duty bound
to teach their daughters what will fit them in do
nestle affairs to make their own life and that of
others happy.
When a girl who has been reared with tender
ness and a freedom from work loses parents and
home she is compelled, if sufficient means for the
support of life is not bequeathed to her, to go out
into the world and compete with trained people for
a living 1t is pitiable to see young girl who has
been reared in luxury and ease driven out into the
world with nothing but graduates diploma to
offer to critical taskmasters that she might obtain
employment. OF domestic life and the of
household she knows nothing Ig norant of every
thing that gives to the well-traned girl opportun-
tiles, the pampered child of over fond and foolish
parents Is butfeted about the worldly sea like
sci without compass rudder. "What to her,
them" says exchange, ARE the rudments of
'ologies and trumpery and half-learned accomplish
ments. What to her, then, calisthenics and Oh
lendorf French! What to her the rules of pros
ody and the data of physiology! What to her,
them is the parental care that tried to make her
parlor doll, but that took thought of fit her for
the realities of life and the duty of complying with
the ordinance of God eat her bread in the sweat
of her brow.'
"The girls of Germany, matter what wealth
their parents may possess, taught to cook, knit,
sew and perform domestic work. The German en-
press dons apron and goes to the kitchen of her
palace daily, where she assists in cooking the en-
peror's meals. Every one of her daughters, when
they arrive at sufficient age to be taught house
keeping. will be instructed in ways to become prac
teal housekeepers. The emperor takes care that
his sons will be taught trade, which they will
know thoroughly, should the dynasty of his race
be at any time overthrow by the will of the peope
The girl, no matter what her prospects, who
neglects to gain knowledge of housekeeping is
bghting her own life and putting herself at dis
advantage, if she has dozen domestics at COM
mand to do her bidding
Don't be ashamed to put on an apron girls; to
go down in the Kitchen and help your mother or a
servant because you can read Latin and Greek
and possess a college diploma. Don't be ashamed
if your best" young you in domestic APP
parel If he is an honorable, upright fellow he
will be proud to know that when your hand and
heart are given to him at the marriage altar he be-
comes the protector and husband of a woman who
can practically care for home.
The girl who can run a twenty-mile spin on a
bicycle and is too tired to "help mother" at home
will never do much to make husbands home a
sanctum of domestic bliss To work is not degrad-
ing. Labor is enobling. From toll thousands have
sprung into affluence and wealth. God has or
dained the human race to labor. Idleness is the
agent of sin; luxury and ease curse to many
Michigan Catholic.