Colonial days and dames . COLONIAL DAMES. Mrs. Knowles, the ingenious Quakerlady who outwitted Dr. Johnson in morethan one tilt of words, illustrated hertheories upon the education of womenby citing the happy consequences of awomans understanding the reason for thebursting of a pudding-bag, describing heras she calms her maids by learned dis-quisitions and proceeds to make a freshpudding out of the mixture; whereas theignorant housewife thinks a hobgoblin is11* 125 126 COLONIAL DAYS AND DAMES. in the pot, and gets into a perfect stateof flurr}. Placing the question upon a higherground than pud
Colonial days and dames . COLONIAL DAMES. Mrs. Knowles, the ingenious Quakerlady who outwitted Dr. Johnson in morethan one tilt of words, illustrated hertheories upon the education of womenby citing the happy consequences of awomans understanding the reason for thebursting of a pudding-bag, describing heras she calms her maids by learned dis-quisitions and proceeds to make a freshpudding out of the mixture; whereas theignorant housewife thinks a hobgoblin is11* 125 126 COLONIAL DAYS AND DAMES. in the pot, and gets into a perfect stateof flurr}. Placing the question upon a higherground than pudding-making, we find aPennsylvania pedagogue, in 1765, pro-posing to teach young ladies true spell-ing with the rules for pointing with pro-priety, urging upon them not to bediscouraged on account of their age, orthrough fear of obtaining a spouse, as hehas had the honour to give the finishingstroke in education to several of the re-puted fine accomplished ladies in NewYork, some of which were married withintwo, three and
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