OCR Text |
Show ceeded to refurnish the house. The girl went to the hair dresser and had her tresses arranged in a dozen different differ-ent ways to find out which would be the most becoming style; colors were tried against her pretty faeu to get "her color:" she took her beauty naps, and from every source, even the old servant, a hint "to be sweet." In discussing a new acquaintance one heard that she was very "beautiful and clover and nice, but she was not pretty." Being what wo called "pretty" was considered con-sidered a superior virtue, and everything iu the girl's training tended to this erne characteristic The victim was being decked for the sacrifice, although tho fond mother would never admit that she was busy at the art of matchmaking. Prepare a girl for the altar, for the duties of a wife and mother, before even a lover has presented pre-sented himself? There is not only drollery droll-ery to such a situation, but tho tinge of indelicacy. 1 believe in giving tho girl the advantages of good training and leaving her to decide whether she is better bet-ter fitted for the inner or the outer world, for the home or the professional life Mrs. Gen. Pryc-r in New York World. A GIHL'S TRUE SPHEEE. MARRIAGE NOT 07 ANY MEANS THE ONLY COlinSE FOR HER. tful;e fryor'. I:!lni:lil Wilo Clven 1!T Olilnliiu i! n lion (.lil SI: on 1I tin Trained Wlint Sim lloi'Hi'lf tins Diuiu 3JlMul:r In Nut ion tif Girlliooil. What have women done? I know wlrvt these lingers have done. To re-Eiemher re-Eiemher all carries mo back to Virginia through th? most exciting pages of American history. They were trained to do elegant embroidery and to play well the best classical music. During the Civil war and since they have done everything that lingers could do. In war times ihcy plaited and sewed my children's hats, made all their garments, even little kid and cloth boots, while tl'.iir father was iu prison. After tho struggle, in tho experiment . uiado to earn a living, these hands copied briefs fur tho lawyer, then too poor to aiford a clerk, the while sewing for the seven dear children. They made every robe from the christening to the bridal for my two elder daughters, and the work in which they haiw engaged since has been most varied. Woman's sphere ii where thVLordhas placed her. We all deplore tin conditions condi-tions that reduce young children and tender women to liarl labor t.ir which ' they havo neither fitness nor strength, but I believe that things adjust them selves in tho end and we mold circumstances circum-stances till wo find our level. Home is a sweet place, but it is not the only place, Dor are maternal the only duties of womanhood. Life is made up of a series se-ries of conditions, and the talents of men sud women are equally varied. , EUCCATIOJJ IS NECESSARY. 1 deny that woman needs a special training for what you are pleased to term tho profession of motherhood. Maternal Ma-ternal love is innato. It ii a part of woman's wo-man's nature. She may bo a hoiden in her youth, a heartless lovor or u treacherous treach-erous friend, false- to every trust, and Btill bo a good mother. Even the savage bruto is kind to her young, and will risk her life in protecting k. I believe that tho training and education necessary to the perfect development of womanhood will fit tho girl for any sphere in life sl.o chooses to enter. I do not believe that marriage is all this world holds for tho sex, nor that a wife should round herself tw the four walls of her home. It is necessary for ' tho height and breadth and freshness of Its atmosphere that she go out, mix with the elements and becomo imbued with tho spirit, tho progress, the thought that j Is accelerating the motion of the earth, j The world is moving with a velocity j Bo great that one cannot afford to stand ! Btill, and the mother must be up and Bbout and around, oven if nhe is obliged ' to take her little brood with her, to watch 4-he Hweiling tide. I am, always ' bo glad to welcome t he young woman in r any new line. When 1 take up tho new- . paper 1 begrudge the valuable space given to tho reports of the Fifar Hundred. 1 I flo not caro to read about their coats of j arms, their coaches and coquetry. I 1 want to know what tho brave, bright, j gifted young men and women aro doing and thiuking about and striving for. i This talk about girls losing their j femininity and nnsexing themselves in Industrial enterprises 1 think idle and , Benseless.' Tho very word "unscx" is to lue a monomer, and if a woman becomes ; coarse and bold and rough in business, i In the art world or in the industrial School she would ii.it bo u lady in a parlor or a gentlewoman in any con- j dition. Tho decollete dress does not . make a woman vulgar. ' MISTAKEN TUAtKINO. j The girl who stands behind the counter ; to servo us and the one who stands be- hind the footlights to entertain us may ! have the same nobility of purpose and j the same lofty principles as the one privileged to ill use and criticise her. It is barely possiblo that our ladies do go ; to Delmonioo's for dinner or supper, that ; they aro even reckie.-s enough to sip a ' glass fif wine, and at tho hame time be rs intrinsically worthy and noble as the woman in quiet russet gmnents who Views tho scenu from tho other sida of , the window. j That our girls want tiaiiling there is riot a doubt, neither has tho inability of fume ino'.iier.s been questioned. They ; flou't want piano lessons unless I hern is Bu inborn love of music. The piano lias been the ruination of more than one feneration of women. Another fallacy is the hitherto universal tendency to direct di-rect all energies t marriage. In the louth as soon as a daughter reached her rouiig ladyhood tho mother at once pro- j |