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Show A WORD TO THE GIRLS. There are probably 5000 stromr, intelligent you d it women in Salt Lake who have finished their schooling, who. are an expense to their parents, who could iniiix month become good cooka and housekeepers, who, though they need the money, would not accept a place in private home at high wagcx lent it might militate against their getting married. All the time, too, they do not know the first requisite of being the wife and helpmeet of a pmr"man. They are not to blame for their fool notions, but their mothers are. They have, through a foolish affection and false "pride; 1rought their daughters up. in a way to make those daughters infinite hardships in the future, and it will always be so until domestic acienre is taught in our public schools and every girl . compelled not only to, do something which will be necessary to be done by somebody every day of her life, but also changa the ideas of girls in relation to the duties that await them. No sane person ever get regretted the learning and mastery of any useful accomplishment. All girls expect some time to be married and hare homes of their own. It is a shame for any young woman to grow up without a knowledge of the aim-pier aim-pier requirements of a wife in a home. If a girl marriea rich and ia not obliged to da any drudgery, she at least ought to be able to intelligently oversee over-see her servants, and if all girls but realized how many heart aches this knowledge would shield thera from they would never rest until they acquired ac-quired it. |