New-York tribune., 1906-05-11
a1RLBOOD IN BYGONE DAYS.
How the Learned Girl Was Regarded BY
Most People.

IN The closing chapter of Ideals for Girls CFred-
erlck A. Stokes Company, New York; Mrs Frank
learned has collected some interesting pictures Of
grhoo5 in days gone by.
II Is related Of the girlhood Of Queen Elizabeth
she says. ''thst when her brother, Prince Edward
vent out 20 exercise in the open air, she took up
her lutte viol. or solsced herself with needle
work. Girls were not expected to take exercise
!n the sixteenth century. Royal girls. as well as
others were occupied in acquiring mere accom-
plishments. The young Princess Elizabeth was
classical student and fond Of literature but her
tastes were regarded as unusual for girl and it
is certain that she was vain OF her superior at
fsinments. Mary Queen Of Scots rebelled at having
fnn little exercise. and played golf in the fields Of
Seton. and her tastes were considered unseemly
and undiguifed.
Charming Dorothy Osborne. in her letters TO Sir
William Temple gives sketch Of her life at Chick
SANDS. her fathers country house. which serves
10 show the duness and lack OF occupation a girl
was subjected 10 in the seventeenth century. You
ask ne, she writes, how pass my time here. l
can give YOU perfect account not only Of what
do for tbs present. but Of what likely TO do
this seven Years. ! rise in the morning reasonably
early, and / 20 round the house till I weary OF
that and then into the garden till IT grows too
hot for ne. About 10 o'clock ! think of making
myself ready. and when that is dene I so into my
fathers chamber. from whence 10 dinner. After
dInn=r Ne sit and talk. The heat OF the day Is
spent in reading or working, and about 6 or Z
o'cloek / walk out into common that is hard by
ou- house When I have supped go into the
garden. and 50 10 the side of a small river that
runs b. il, where sit down
PLEA FOR BETTER EDUCATION
That keen observer. Lady Mary Wortley Non
fagu' IN her letters 10 her daughter. Lady Butte
makes Plea for the better education Of her grand
daughter Learning. If she has taste for IT. SAYS
-adr Mary VIII not only make her contented but
napry- No entertainment is so cheap as reading.
nor any pleasure 50 lasting To render this amuse-
aeny extensive she should Re permitted to learn
ihs lansr2ges. have heard it iamented that boys
- e NAM years II mere learning Of words
o precious She cannot advance herseig IN any
f-ytssllA anq has therefore many hours spare
10y @laIF ADVISES, further. that her sranddaUgh-
- sloulo be cautioned 70 conceal whatever learn
- cans ana she fastened to write another
ne ne somewhat Taoderating the first lest her
is.ain,iaW should b. Shocked at the proposal OF
isszhed education for his daughters
ne ne of girls in the early part OF the nine
Sll century is portrayed in Jane Auster'E novels
most oag oea @ IF frg bsgt 2eGqged sT6d the minds
Is tas aim Jane Austen's work as an author
- Agt ttahen seriously by her family or friends
Ere writes in he FAMILY sit9i0 e reny I1eT books
,-35 ~l interruptions. and she had a piece OF en-
1g,lely read: 70 throw over her manuscript when
!l1ius whose books would be CLASSICS Ige e. 49, a
1 was written when she was twenty years old
AN IDEAL GIRL THEN.
tanny Burney vas considered a prodigy when
t'esne known that she had written 'Eveina
80 ss sne was % her success. she dreaded that
-s 4ignt be thought learned
= s interesting 70 know that Miss Wordsworth
-9Ss work has done so much to = 1vance universi
ale tor women Al Oxford did not always ap-
s-g.s O such career for Them Her own words
~ ss1sss FeFT amosngly the feelings she had on
f-s sanJect ! must own that. like Mrs Malaprop,
ssesn with little aversion In my younger
- y mad been told AZ party that q young
~ .loese1 70 college should have preferred
s.slelng The stiffest Of chairs in a thorough
Ts. % sitting hy her side the most COM
-,..tbis q sofaE' She lightly sketches her ideal
- osy woman as follows: Ny ideal woman
eRaps graceful and beautiful better with her
fl-s lnan with her head, but best Of all with her
- she has many admirers, but is constant TO
- WHOM she ulaTTies at twenty-five. She can
sew dance and sing, she IS very likely, &C.
..a-a4shed and well informed. She is not a bore,
alse she has never oVerWoTked her brain. and
-.telly interested in all she knows. Ny pattern
1,sn is rot At AL controversial She cannot
1sle but she lives