The fountain : with jets of new meanings . GIRLS AND BOYS SOSIETLSIES WORK TOGETHER. It is recorded that one of the curiosities that is con-tinually presenting itself to the census-taker is thelarge number of young women who are found listlesslydawdling about houses, poring over the la^t newnovel, or thrumming Offenbachian melodies on patientpianos, and this too often in poor families, where the 38 JETS OF NEW MEANINGS. mother is busy with the manifold cases of householdduties, which could be materially lightened by theassistance of her daughters. Testimony by a woman, which fully justifies th
The fountain : with jets of new meanings . GIRLS AND BOYS SOSIETLSIES WORK TOGETHER. It is recorded that one of the curiosities that is con-tinually presenting itself to the census-taker is thelarge number of young women who are found listlesslydawdling about houses, poring over the la^t newnovel, or thrumming Offenbachian melodies on patientpianos, and this too often in poor families, where the 38 JETS OF NEW MEANINGS. mother is busy with the manifold cases of householdduties, which could be materially lightened by theassistance of her daughters. Testimony by a woman, which fully justifies thestrength of the charge herein made, is undisguisedlythus: In the nursery the mother is called upon toset forward the same injustice which presided overher own education. * Preaching down a daughtersheart, the beautiful phrase of Tennyson, becomes theduty of every woman who finds in her daughtersaliency of intellect and individuality of will. Medi-ocrity is the standard ! Seek not, my child, to go. EMBLEMS OE FASHIONABLE EMOTIONS. bej^ond it. Thou hast thy little allotments. TheFrench must be thy classics, the house accounts thy MOTHER NATURES DARLINGS. 39 mathematics. Patchwork, cooking, and sweeping thymechanics ; dress and embroidery thy fine arts. Seehow small the sphere. Do not venture outside of it,nor teach thy daughters, when thou shalt have such,to do And so we women, from generation togeneration, are drilled to be the apes of an artificialstandard, made for us and imposed upon us by an out-sider ; a being who, in this attitude, becomes ournatural enemy. Thus the difference in the conduct of life betweenmen and women in popular society, is founded in thedifference established through their unjust educationand dissimilar habits. Inasmuch as men and womenare derived from the same fountain of divine life, arecompounded of identical elements, and have a commondestiny in the grand progressive career of eternity ;therefore they should learn at once, and practically,to m
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