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106 TRAINING- OF GIRLS ; OR,
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» Iisr Ages Past, It Was Affirmed That "...
p n mag Unfortunatel ical rapidity y , things , leaving get in no and trace get , out unless of the it be heads the of impress girls witli of
the boy frivolity entire are che or character cked impatience ; and in . these after Faults life faults . are , grown smiled at mature in a , g mar irl which and deface in a
were If it our be ancestors true , that women as a peop must le we either are partake more hig of hl that y developed development than
hoped Or directed be receding they training are , as on in nothing , the many ascending remains respects line stationary they , yet are , . from worse On want the off whole than of ri , g they htl it is y
, were "We in hear past on times all hands . that female servants are inferior to what idler
and they more were pretentious ; that the daug that hters the of wives the independent of the working classes men are neither
; meals know how Every to bring class up treads their children on the heels , nor how of the to cook class their above husband it , yet ' s
blemishe none . copy sand what not is virtue worthie sare st seized of imitation upon ; magp in their ies and superiors peacocks ;
divide attention , and strugg , le for pre-eminence . to The ive simp them lest a remed hiher y for pattern the acknowled of excellence ged defects whereb of y women to mould , is
gg require themselves day ; one a new on . which In one short suited public , the to op old our inion mould civilization must is affix rusty and its and to stamp the worn needs of approval out of , — . our we ,
so that the work may go on at railway speed . Sufficient barriers exist in the nature of the reform itself ; therefore all unnecessary obstructions ought to be removed , and the line as much ri as ht possible direc
cleared for us in order not to arrest our progress in a gtion . We cannotneither do we wish to , return to the usages of ruder timeswhen , science had not , as now , given such efficient aid
to the house , -mother and her maidens by the invention of useful mechanical helps . But we may strive to reach that higher
civilization and refinement which is ever accompanied by the greatest _sim-The p that licity training ascent , and , dispense princi of the ples entire with must human all take that being is the meretricious p is lace too of delicate . effete To a prepare stup task idities to for be .
the performed purposes wholesale of education , and , yet althoug if habits h public of order schools and , dili trouble are gence essential , of and scho accu for ol
master racy are or not schoolmistress insisted upon will at often home , be the thrown care away . It is the duty - of mothers to see that their irls are not permitted to lounge about
the house in idleness , nor to g fly impatiently from one occupation to anotheras this flightiness materially injures concentration of ideas ,
, _& nd is ruinous to habits of perseverance . Earnestness of purpose cannot be too much insisted upon , together
thpro with _ujg the lilyy injunction and the that rule whatever rigidly enforced they take ; that in hand all slovenl must be y work done
must be done over again , before recreation is permitted . .
106 Training- Of Girls ; Or,
106 TRAINING- OF GIRLS ; OR ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1862, page 106, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041862/page/34/
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