Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1878 — A Few Words on Female Education. [ARTICLE]

A Few Words on Female Education.

Give your daughters a thorough education. Teach them to prepare a nourishing diet. Teach them to wash, to iron, to darn stockings, to sew on buttons, to make their own dresses. Teach them to bake bread, and that a good kitchen lessens the , apothecary’s account. Teach them that one dollar is one hundred cents, that one only lays up money whose expenses are less than his income, and that all grow poor who have to spend more tnan they receive. Teach them that a calico dress paid for, fits better than a silken one unpaid for. Teach them that a full, healthy face displays a greater luster than fifty consumptive beauties. Teach them to wear strong shoes. Teach them to purchase, and to see that the account corresponds with the purchase. Teach that they ruin God’s images by wearing strong bodices. Xeach them food common sense, self-trust, selfelp and industry. Teach them that an honest mechanic in his working dress is a better object of our esteem than a dozen haughty, finely-dressed idlers. Teach them gardening and the pleasured of Nature. Teach them, if you can afford it, music, painting and all other arts, but consider these as secondary objects only. Teach them a walk is more salutary than a ride in a carriage, and that wild flowers are a worthy object of admiration. Teach them to reject with disdain all appearances, and to use only yes or no in good earnest. Teach them that the happtr ness of matrimony depends neither on external appearance nor on wealth, but on the man’s character. Have you instructed your daughters in these principles, a..d have they comprehended these principles? Fearlessly allow them to marry; they will make their, way through the world.— Practical Teacher. The growth. of the nails is more rapid in children than in adults and slowestrin the aged; it goes on faster in summer than ih winter, so that the same nail which is renewed in 132 days r in winter requires only 116 in summer. The increase of the nails of the right hand is more rapid than those of the it differs for the different fingers, and in order corresponds with the length of the finger, consequensly it is the fastest in the middle finger, nearly equal in the two on either side of this, slower ift the littlo finger and slowest in the thumb. TJie growth of all the nails on the left hand requires eighty-two days more than those of the right.— ls. 7. Graphic.