What to Teach Girls.

Southland Times, Issue 8062, 17 July 1885, Page 4

What to Teach Girls.

Give y6ttf daughters a thorough education, Teach them to cook and" prepare the food of the bonseholdf Teach them to wash, to iron* to darn stockings, to lew 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 Itfsup money whose expenses are lest than his income, and that all grow poor who have t > spend more than they receive. Teach them that a calico dress paid for, lite better than a silken one unpaid for. Teach them tbat a. full, healthy. face disp'ays greater lustre 1 than fif y consumptive beauties^ Teach them to purcba c, and see that the acroant corresponds with the purchase. Teach them

." eodd cbmmon-seoee, self-fruit, se!f-help and industry. Teach them that sn honest me- - chaDic, in lla workirig-dreas, is a better object to esteem than a dozen haoghty, finelydressed- idlera. Teach th^m gardeniog and the pleasures^ of nature. Teach them, if you can afford ' it, music,' painting, &c, but con* aider them as^econ'ary object only. Teach them that a walkiß more salutary than a yideiiu a/cairiage. v Teach them to; reject, with disdain, all appearances, and to use oq]y 'Yes' or 'No 5 in good earnest.— From, a Beiinon by Mgr, Gspel. ' /