Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1874 — “ What Shall We Do With Our Daughtars ?" [ARTICLE]

“ What Shall We Do With Our Daughtars ?"

Mrs. Livermore has made this query the text of one of her lectures. It is certainly an important problem, but the Davenport Democrat thus sums up some sensible lessons which should early be impressed upon thgni: Teach them self-reliance. Teach them to make bread. Teach Them to make shirts. Teach them to foot up store bills. Teach them not to wear false hair. Teach them to wear thick, warm shoes. Bring them up in the wav they should goTeach them how to wash and iron clothes. Teach them how to make their own dresses. Teach them that a dollar is only a hundred cents. Teach them to cook a good meal of victuals. Teach them how to darn stockings and sew on buttons, , Teach them every-day, ary, hard, practical common sense. Teach them to no, and mean it; or ypg- and stick to if. , - —. Teach them to wear calico dresses and do it like queens. r Give them a good, substantial, common school education. Teach them that a good; rosy romp is worth fifty consumptives. Teach them to regard the morals and not the money of their beaux. Teach them all the mysteries of tt* kitchen, the dining-room and the parlor Teach them that-,the more one lives within his income the more he will save. Teach them to have nothing to do with intemperate and dissolute young men. Teach them the further one lives beyond his income the nearer he gets to the poor-house. Rely upon it that upon your teaching depends in a great measure the weal or woe of-their after life. Teach them the accomplishments, music, painting, drawing, if you have time and money to do it with. Teach them that a good, steady mechanic without a cent is worth a dozen oil-patent loafers in broadcloth. Teach them that God made them m His own image, and no amount of tight lacing will improve the model. n |,|| 0 J | —The English revision of the Old Testament had proceeded on the 3d inst. as far as the seventh chapter of Df. Samuel. • .