Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1891 — A Word for Our Girls. [ARTICLE]

A Word for Our Girls.

JF Somebody was saying the other claj that the native daughter of the period was not like her grandmother of New England training, and the comparison was of course very r much to the disadvantage of the fomer. This led to a rejoinder very much like this: “The truth Is, a great deal of the platitudes we hear pronounced against the girl of the present day is a species of cant. There is not one young woman in a thousand to-day who is not capable of making a more agreeable home and keeping a more invitiug table every day in the week than the most accomplished housewife of a little more than a century ago. Let the philosopher who mourns the glory of his grandmother revisit the scenes of his youth. Let him recall the monotonous menu of the weeks and months that made his childhood years, and he will discover that the cookery apotheosized by memory owes most of its flavor to imagination. Furthermore, any girl that is worth marrying can make herself an adept in all the charming tricks of the cuisine in a few months if she finds it necessary. Yes, no doubt she could, and there are *ome who do, but how many are there of that class? inquires an exchange. They ought to be the rule amd not the exception. No doubt a great deal can be truly said on both sides of the girl question, but the fact remains practically undisputed that all too many of our native daughters are not receiving the best possible training to fit them tobecome wives “and helpmeets for husbands oom,peiled to economize and struggle for a financial footing during their early wedded days. That is the condition in which the vast majority of men must necessarily find themselves, and the training of women «hould be governed accord! ngly.