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134 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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mission " And ? how B are their they home qualified education for this ? b hi the gh in office struction which they imp receive lies a divine in the y
the schools interim ? hy hetween y their devotion schooldays to that and instruction married life ? h or y the the lives fixed they condition lead in of
sing " Are ( not young ) "blessedness ladies { ladies ?¦ - par excellence _¦'_ ) qualified , in any one branch of studthe science and art of
music education and for all professional its delicate Teachers attributes ? Do ? they Do they y attempt to master the skilful of as _science a their future , chirograp an own d practice professor language h of should drawing even ; good ? ( thou Do ? mathematician h Do they last they aim certainl stud to make s y , not accura y themselve one least te forei ) good grammarians gn s mistresses language readers ? _* _,
gentleness And above and all , patience do ers they , essential endeavor to g to the perfect vocation themselve of y a Teacher s in the f calmness _^
irls " Alas whom ! , these we have questions seen sent are sadl to boarding y answered -schools to us with by most huge of trunks the young filled
with g rich and richly trimmed dresses and other drawJng , -rooin gear , inta beyond whose heads exile it from seldom luxurious seems homes to enter and that gliding education and dod consists ging throug in anything h tire- "
some lessons . , is not " We better believe conducted that the education We know ( so that called it is ) common of our _^ farmers for them and to mechanics be _sjmred
in from their household education labor is devoted hy . unw to isel obtaining y tender mothers a smattering , and exhortations of that accomp the money lishments to spent .
their exi " gencies Many daughters of parent life with . s will They a reject profession expect Madame their or trade daug Bodichon hters , with to ' s which marry , they and may thus meet provide be pro the - But it be well for both
vided for—the daughters themselves expect it . may _, may parent follow come and , child and marriage a to life consider of pecuniary the not chances come adversity at against all or As the a widowhood civilisation provision . ( of so M penury arriage called )
number where goes may on th of multi ere ; sing is or pl most le ying women refinement wants may fearfull , and whereb y converting increases women , luxurie and . are is s in least into greatest qualified necessitie proportion to s , take tliey
faxniHes care deterred of themselves from Their marriage wives . In were b the y the hel simp , difficulty - le meets lives of of If meeting our they ancestors could the expenses not men earn were of bread their not
. p . * al they they gebra could practised , they make knew her it . duties the If calculation . they If did they not b did y comprehend which not the stud penny y the political " saved rights economy , is of the women penny and , " . d costland wasteful Milesians
idleness they gained ' looked . / Instead The well Puritan of to waiting the wife ways to did be of their not serve ask household by her husband , y and ate to not be the decked bread in of , .
_Prench gauds , but was truly " * And The gentle makes wife his day who to decks . have his no board night , . '
ct In giving the reasons that restrain men from marrying at the present we day , beg and not thereb to y be diminish misunderstood the chances . We of would this abs not olute restrict provision women for women to the , The best instructed and most
humble offices of maternal existence . thoroughl and If practised parents y accomp the from saving lished pride arts women prejudice of domestic we have or life honest ever .. known judgment have best refuse understood to
provide " their be secured daug , hters ; if they with a persist , profession in thro or , trade wing , by them which on one their , _chjmce independence ; if the
may then daughters let them _themselves be qualified persevere in that in art trusting and craft to this in which ' neck or tlieir nothing grandmothers ' fate , — excelledand which is than at precedingtimethe
and boundon , duty of now every , more American wife any , whatever be , her condition necessary *
134 Notices Of Books.
134 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1859, page 134, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101859/page/62/
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