| Show f ABUSING USING AN EDUCATION ta the of self culture Is in u ruinous of advantages in a thoughtful paper on A waste of education in the tha womans comans home companion brand dannor Huddle huddllston stort speaks of 0 the tha tendency ot of women to permit their talents to rust out mental e n culture may be the most costly or the most valuable gift ot of parents to their children just as they care lor for it after they got get it it la is certain that few would equally neglect a material property of like monetary cost as they often do their educations this to too 0 when money Is the very shortest tape lino by which a mental gift may be measured perhaps it Is due in part to tho the mistaken idea that when wo we have quitted the school room we ne carry with us Is a stationary fund of knowledge that will or ought to be sufficient for our future 0 look at the piles of hard dollars and the illimitable hours of time spent every year in the study and practice of music alone except tor for tho the good they are to teacher and to the tha makers of musical instruments the halt half might as well be wiped out of existence at one clean sweet sweep A decent little eternity might be made out of 0 the file time and this continues to exist and repeat itself generation after gen oration in the very face of the fact that music is 13 an incomparable addition to home life and on in that account it if tor for no more lofty or selfish reason ought to be perfected and never neglected by woman ilow how many of your women friends will undertake to entertain even the family circle with a creditable performance for mance usually their pianos stand idle from the period immediately succeeding their marriage until there ore are daughters old enough to be put at lessons then them tho the old ell lolly folly will be repeated what folly not the placing of children to study music or any other accomplishment that Is for their good or that the purse will permit lot let them have all the advantages within reach but also teach them appreciation the tolly folly consists in fostering through example and by a tacit acceptance ot of the tha existing state of 0 things the idea that it can be ba other than a sinful waste ot of time to acquire a good thing and then neglect it no one has any business to learn a thing that is not worth remembering mem bering it Is foolish from a merely utilitarian point of view thus it may not be possible or desirable tor for every mother to teach her own children though some count it a sweet privilege to do so yet it pays them to keep thoroughly posted it only to judge of the quality of work being baing done by the teacher and to supply that home operation cooperation co which Is so needful to the conscientious stu student dent and the teacher |
