WHAT TO TEACH A DAUGHTER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 36, 12 September 1891, Page 374

WHAT TO TEACH A DAUGHTER.

At a social gathering some one proposed this question—- ‘ What shall I teach my daughter?' The following replies were handed in :— Teach her that 20s make £l. Teach her how to arrange the drawing-room and library. Teach her to say ‘ No,' and mean it, or ‘ Yes,’ and stick to it. Teach her how to wear a calico dress, and wear it like a qneen. Teach her how to sew on buttons, darn stockings, and mend gloves. Teach her to dress for health and comfort as well as for appearance. Teach her to cultivate flowers and to keep the kitchen garden. Teach her to make the neatest room in the house. Teach her to have nothing to do with intemperate or dissolute young men. Teach her that tight lacing is uncomely as well as injurious to health. Teach her to regard morals and habits, and not money, in selecting her associates. Teach her to observe the old rule—‘A place for everything and everything in its place.’ Teach her that music, drawing, and painting are real accomplishments in the home, and are not to be neglected if there be time and money for their use. Teach her the important truism—That the more she lives within her income the more she will eave and the further she will get away from the poorhouse. Teach her to embrace every opportunity for reading, and to select such books as will give her the most useful and practical information in order to make the best progress in earlier as well as later home and school life.