Show tho education of english girls english girls aro taught or were in my time by a kind of system which tends toa multiply accomplishments lish ments rather than useful knowledge A certain routine of teaching is gone through and you camo out of the schoolroom with varnish intended to do duty until marriage at which period custom allows you to dispense with surface accomplishments and devote your self realities of life mitigated as they are for the do on the other hand the moral atmosphere of the english home aduca tion is superior to that of american education n general girls are lean forward and more respectful they grow into women more slowly and ripen better they are physically stronger and therefore hava simpler tastes and as to society they do not know wh t it means before at least the age of seventeen or ciglio teen american girls have certain advantage however which custom denies young englishwoman englishwomen English women of good position they are pot forced by an unwritten law to go into society and play their part in it while the english girl has no choice the upper ten thousand must marry or become blue st before the world agrees to let them alone A joung married woman choose plead home duties as an excuse for a quiet useful pleasant and studious life uninterrupted by any but tho necessary country civilities which are not burdensome but young girl saro not supposed to have such duties part enta even when tick themselves arc loath to let the chances of the london season pass by their daughters and depute any safe chaperon the nearest female relation if possible to take their girls to all the balls and parties the rudimentary education furnished to women of the bighor has perhaps something to do wat the prevalence of fastness among part of them while to others it becomes the base of a real later self education the growth of reading observation and thought august atlantic |