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THE VEXED PROBLEM. 107
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» Iisr Ages Past, It Was Affirmed That "...
Boys and lads enjoy their play-hours infinitely more than girls lessons whereas do , from are the the regarded simp latter le do cause as nothing of that so little they but hare consequence play been all day kep that long t hard 1 . it Even at is work all their the
—, same whether they choose to learn them or not . " Father never Inquiresand mother does not know" and thus carelessness in one
direction , "becomes carelessness in all . , It is then self-evident that one among other things to be done , is
i dili _, o impress gent habits parents in their with children the import , in anc girls e of es _23 forming ecially , since industrial they and run he t
earn the greater his own risk livelihood of being or neg starve lected a . irl A expects boy knows others that will provide mus ; g
for heruntil some sad necessity drives her into the world , where she is knocke , d about , trying various and occupations , succeeding work in
nonebecause she has had no training , , moreover , regards - _as the a g , positive irl moodil hardshi y , grud p . ging The ly , boy and goesch from a eerfull necessit y y to unprepared his daily task for . ; for
Idlenessindolenceand inexperience , are not readily exchanged , , beg activit in y to work and practice ) and when in later it becomes life , ( painfull the period y apprehende when many d that women the
: most ardent wishes , are of little or no avail if habits of industry are wanting . be traced the root of
every domestic To comp this servants laint neglect one upwards of hears early of . disci the Men p inefficiency line and may boys are of workwomen instructed in , what from iof
is when those to be duties their their emp instincts business haticall , ( to while y which their girls own they are . have left They in been are hopeless blamed wholly gnorance left and ) scolded do not
teach them how to be good cooks , good housemaids , good mothers , or good any things ; and nature is found instruction fault with because to they what were
not sent into the world ablewithout , perform - ever training mig , ht based be on demanded higher motives from , them , and . with With a into a more stricter extended ier metho and d aim of
useful than has women yet been . Habits tried , g of irls attention would grow , perseverance lace up of that happ , fitfulness sincerity , more and and
regulated thought , would then take the p irregularity The depreciatory so much manner complained in which of . girls hear themselves of such spoken
of is another evilas from the constant repetition language they are not become of equal depressed , value , with and boys ready . to Impressed take ht for with from granted the their notion that earliest they that
years nothing amuse with how is expecte a can sense they d of from inferiority be , them other , unless , than broug what it be up they to dance are made , to sing by , this and
unworthy to , respect treatment themselves ? Not by sufficientl degrees y they respected lose their by native others refine , they
ment cease and pixt deception and ; mannerism in its place , and as it is easier to be flimsy and frivolous than earnest and thoughtful , 2 they accept
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The Vexed Problem. 107
THE VEXED _PROBLEM . 107
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1862, page 107, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041862/page/35/
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