Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1880 — A Sensible Girt. [ARTICLE]

A Sensible Girt.

The other day a girl of our acquaintance, who is pursuing a select course of study in one of the collegiate institutions of the city, examined the printed curriculum with reference to deciding what study she would take np in the next term. While consulting about the matter, she read over the long list of text-books on science, language, literature and mathematics, when she exclaimed : “HI tell yon what I would like takStudy—l would like to study medicine. I don’t mean that I want to be a physician, and practice, but only know what to do at home when anything happens. lam sore it will be more useful to me than” —and she turned to the prescribed coarse of study —“than spherical trigonometry, navigation, etc. We cannot ran for a doctor every time anybody sneezes or coughs, and I would like to know what to do for one who is a little sick.” Here is a matter concerning which yonng women need some simple but careful instruction. But who gives them any ? As daughters in the family, they can repeat the dates of Grecian and Roman wars, work ont the intricate problems of algebra, and give the technical names of all the bones in the body; but if the baby brother left in their charge burns his hand or is seized with the croup, bow many of them know the best thing to do while waiting for the doctor ? And when, as wives and mothers, the dnties of life increase, how many of them have any practical knowledge which will help them to meet calmly and intelligently the every day experiences of accidents and illness which are inevitable in every family.