EDUCATION AND DESTINY.

North Otago Times, 3 December 1910, Page 1 (Supplement)

EDUCATION AND DESTINY.

Many years ago "Punch" published a picture representing a mother sitting surrounded. by her daughters. She is reading from a paper amhshe is represented as saying, " Another of those Allingham girls married! How well'those girls go off to be sure!"

Paterfamilias bursts in with, "Awfully good-looking girls, those Allinghams." To this, materfamilias responds, "It is not that; it is because they are so remarkably' well brought up." Ohorus of daughters.-" Oh, do bring us up well, mamma I" There is a vast deal of truth underlying this flippancy, Good breeding is the very essence of social success. People marvel at the brilliant marriages made sometimes by girls of slender personal attractions and very ordinary, intellectual equipment. The key to the mystery is to be found in the two • words, * " Good breeding." Without this, physicial beauty and mental attractiveness lose much of their effect; whereas that indefinite charm of manner that characterises the really well-bred girl is in itself a' passport to the most exclusive society. The wise mother knows this. She studies her daughter's future happiness, and she takes every precaution that she is launched well equipped' to "hold her own," in a'wprld that is hard enough under the most favourable conditions.- ."The Gentlewoman^'