Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-06-15
TIE DAUGHTER.

THE DAUGfTER.
A mother cannot intiict greater
punishment upon d daughter than to
allow her to enter womanhood with
out practical knowledge of the re
quirements of the household. Eve
rything may be provided for the
young wife bs the fond husband and
devoted parents, but unless sic has
an intelligent conception of the home
she is seriously handicapped With
some people a knowledge of house
work is ridiculed, but person who
does not give home keeping a place
among the fine arts shows an intel
lectual calibrc away down below the
commonplace. A husband with a
good salary does not lessen the neces-
sity of q knowledge of housekeeping
and home-making. The house and
home require head the same as any
other business. Nostudy is of great
er Importance to girl; after mar
riage she often wishes she knew more
of cooking and less of Latin. Money
and love combined does not form a
safeguard where there is domestic in
capacity. A woman who is capable
of filing her home in every sense of
the word is worthy of more tru APP
plause than if she possessed many
accomplishments. We are often very
much impressed by the woman who
is doing a great and grand work for
humanity, but the one who retains
our respect is the true wife and
mother, who presides over her home
and children with a heart and head,
demonstrating kindness and ability,
which puts the blush on the public
life. Let the parents, the father as
we'll as the mother, impress upon
their young daughters, whether they
are in the country school house OF
college, that the true woman S sphere
is in the home, and the great bust
ness and educational world that have
thrown wide open the doors for wo-
man does not detract one iota from
the importance of her sphere.
Back to the home is the cry going
up from thousands; let us educate
our daughters for true womanly wo-
men; give them the highest educa-
ton within our power but keep them
close to our hearts; teach them the
rudiments of housekeeping and grace
full home making, keeping the one
great truth before them that wo
man is more satisfactory to herself
and those dear to her when she is a
womanly woman, firm, capable, but
kind and gentle, keeping her path
way through life bright and good.
Parents should always bear in
mind tina. the daughters health is far
more important than anything else,
education without health avails but
little. The physical training is fal
more important than anything else,
education without health avails but
little. The physical training is fan
reaching in its influence: everything
depends upon it; whatever else may
be girls desire or ambition let her
health receive the first consideration.
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THEN AND NOW.
It is supposed by many who do not
give the matter more than passing
thought that the American people
are being carried away by fashion.
That we have wandered far from the
examples set us by our forefathers.
They say just think of the pride OF
people in this good year 1906. Just
look at the ladies' hats. Now as a
matter of fact there is nothing in the
ladies hats of to-day to equal the
coal scuttle hats of a hundred years
ago. They say, just look at the way
people dress their hair. Do you know
the most extreme style of today will
never equal the top knots which our
great grand-mothers wore put up
with high combs that we would have
thought would have made our great
grandfathers die of laughter. The
hair was lifted into pyramid foot
high. On the top OF that tower lay a
white rosebud. Shoes of bespangled
white kid and heels two or three
inches high. Grandfather went out
to meet her on the floor in a coat of
sky-blue silk and vest of white satin,
embroidered with gold lace, lace ruff
fies around his wrist and his hair fall
ing in queue. Many of the fancy
drinks of today were unknown to
them, but their hard cider, mint jul
ltp, and hot toddy sometimes made
lively work for the broad brimmed
hats and silver knee buckles Talk
of dissipating parties of today and
keeping of late hours. Did not our
great grandparents have their bees
and sausage stuifings and tea parties
and dances that for heartiness and
uproar utterly eclipsed all the waltzes,
lancers and breakdown known in this
good year of 1906. And they never
went home till NOR hing And as to
the old time courtships Washington
Irving describes them better than
ire can. Talk about the dishonesties
of today. Seventy years ago the
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