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necessit and social y , will duties come , because several they sisters find that leaves the distribution them lenty of of hoine time
1 for : the further cultivation among of the iven to them p and for which these schools offer just - the facilities powers they g want . There , is also
a large and very imperfectly educated class , among whom schools of this description exert a . peculiar and most beneficial influence . "We
refer to the class of girls , whose supposed education begins in those brass-lated _" Seminaries for Young Ladies" ( to be found in the
second p -rate streets of our large towns , ) where , the parents pay much more , and the children learn much less , than in schools of "
liumbler name . After a few years , these girls are sent to a _" finishing school" to have that " finished" which has never been begun ,
and and hollowness where , the onl of y the things miscalled that can " education be , " finished . " The , " are parents the falseness " thank
Have God that done , thoug their h dut they b have their had children no advantages " The themselves irls come , home they ; g
with no idea of the v y alue y of lifeno desire for knowledge , with few , ideas of kindbut with a restless , eager longing to get married ,
or to be any " engag , , " thinking that , marriage must necessarily of itself be the culminating point of all " good . " No honest inquiry s
how do such to mak girls e ever a . married put to themselves life , a good as and to whether a happy or one not . they But know with
a little embroidery , a little piano-forte playing , and a great deal , of novel-readingthey manage to pass away their timeas
, , uselessly to themselves and others , as w _^ ater spilt on the sand . Good hard household work might save them , but " mamma and
the servant do all that , " and it is not worth while for them to " interfere . " Gf course , there are libraries , and institutions , and
lectures , and colleges , to which these young women can -resort _,, and become roused-if they like . But they do not like ; the _thirsty
the energy , are not up their , s _> to lead them to take advantage of suck opportunities . With drawingthe case is somewhat different ; there is
this something is far to more be done interesting , something , than to be mere produced book-stu by d eye y , and and thus hand these , and
schools have an attraction for them , which literary institutions do not Now it is as an agent for awakening dormant feelings and
latent possess . capabilities , that we think the study of Art so eminently useful . Many girls come to these schoolsj looking upon drawing ,
merely as " an elegant accomplishment ; " but very often , before they leave We , find have , to seen their good such , that irls ifc is as much we have more described than that . comeand
have watched them many through g their " transformations . " , We , have seen the listless , frivolous girl , who would enter half an hour past
wliose strings the tim * whole e , and and thoug spend gossi hts p the ing and — next a words g half irl - without hour were in about p object laying her or with last aim b her all in and bonnet life its ;
partners not sit silentl , or the and coming steadil one at and work its prospective of sort conquests for ; who minutes could - y y any , many ;
314 The Cui Bono Of Schools Of Art For W...
314 THE CUI BONO OF SCHOOLS OF ART FOR WOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1863, page 314, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011863/page/26/
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