Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1892 — A Triumph at Civilization. [ARTICLE]

A Triumph at Civilization.

There is a large farmer near me,, a clever and successful man in his way, who married (as men sometimes do) a foolish wife. His daughters are placed at an expensive school in Brighton and are carefully debarred by their mother from all acquaintance not only with farmwork and housework, but with such elementary feminine knowledge as the simplest servant maid can enjoy. They may not make or mend their own clothes; they may not use the needle. “I am happy to say,” their proud mother said lately to a lady; “I am happy to say, ma’am, that my daughters cannoteven sew.” But they can play the piano—after a fashion: they have a smattering of French; they could and would (if they were askqd) go to garden parties in evening dress. So greatly has civilization triumphed in their case.—Notes and Queries. ■.