TEACH YOUR DAUGHTERS.
Give your daughters a thorough edu* cation. 'Teach them to cook and prepare the food of the household. Teaoh them to wash, to iron, to darn stockings, to eew on buttons, to make their own dresses. Teach them to make bread, and that a good kitchen lessens the doctor’s account. Teach them that he only lays up money whose expenses are less than his income, and that all grow poor who have to spend more than they receive. Teach them that a calico dress paid for, fits better than a silken one unpaid for. Teach them that-rrfull healthy face disploys greater lustre than fifty consumptive beauties. Teach them to purchase, and see that the account corresponds with the purchase. Teach them good common sense, self-trust, self-help and industry. Teach them that an honest mechanic in bis working dress, is a better object to esteem than a dozen haughty, finely dressed idlers. Teach them gardening and the pleasures of nature. Teach them, if you can afford it, music, painting, <&o., but coneider them secondary objects only. Teach them that a walk is more salptary than a ride in a carriage.' Teaph thejp to reject, with disdain, alt appearanpes, and to use '?* IjTes ” or “No ” Jn good earnest.—From a sermon by Mgr, Ospel,
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3832, 20 July 1885, Page 2
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