Show FORMER EDUCATION OF GIRLS glance at the methods of sixty years ago shows great advance of present when one realizes the state of female education sixty years ago its ita progress ad as evinced today Is la marvelous indeed in the first halt half of the nineteenth century the policy of seeming rather than of being was followed throughout languages and society manners were considered all important there were no games and the only form arrn of exercise was that of wal walking kinf with riding tor for the wealthy girls the schools were small and suffered from bad classification jn ln consequence as classes had bad to be made up tip from girls of widely differing ages while teaching consisted of hearing lessons got by heart often without any a ny explanation when ono one reads the report of an examiner of a girls school only 30 years ago that thai many girls showed a great aptitude tor for mathematics but parents discouraged continuance of sound bound education after tho the a age ge of 12 or 13 in order to keep the girl feminine the change chang edn in the popular estimation of capacity Is indeed marvelous christian science mon alan aitor |