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stand could convenientl And for what y and let profitabl us ask y , is take this in expenditure , or tlie adult of _constitution health and
led strength . of , all thi the s intellectual languages , under " cramming the sun " serve designed either f I to > oes train a know the
ge , intellect duties as , or daug to hter form , si the ster , character wife , and ? - — mother does a , because woman better she can fulfil chatter in her
bad French and worse German , or rattle the keys of a piano a clamour slap taste - , dash feeling the sty deficiency , le and , which expression of at real best ? musical , and only if serves we knowled look to ge beneath drown , the utter in the in noise surface want and of ,
• what shall we _ixn . d ? Imagination naturally so vivid woman ? kindled and excited at the expense of her reasoning faculties ; as an without eloquent practice French , modern writer has education it , " stu enlarge dy without s the circle object , of knowled woman ge ' s :
nursery wants Sensitive , but , the adds school and nothing impressionable -room , to and their the satisfaction drawing by nature -room . " , the often , tends education to and foster of and the
affections the develop springs qualities but of too existence , which . to in Quick after a life years in of her emotion but sympathies too and , feeling sap ardent , destroy ikmale in her prone
education , , instead of counteracting these dangerous tendencies , fatal tall and y activity controlled excites , hurried and in all stimulates which from one tends them accomp to . develop Forced lishment a into health to preternatural y another physical , checked frame men- ,
her the young education girl for passes the duties from the and schoolroom responsibilities into societ of life y , , disarmed defenceless by thousand
and against one its interests dangers and , trials occupation , and temp s which tations await . Instead the boy of the as he leaves solid
cation school education or ermitted college there begun , her and which , I but gnorant one correct path of her is and open own carry nature to the on g and the irl , but the more natures _oae
voshe has p to deal with . even here her true needs and requirements , are , ignored . Marriage has become a to trade the ; : —man fluctuations the purchaser and dis ,
orders woman which the vendor characterize ;—a trade all trade liable . A lutted same market here , as else - - whereinevitablleads to a fall in the g value of the commodity . y
Marriageable and yet , mothers girls and have daug long hters been alike avowedl persist y in a thi drug s artificial in the market train- , matrimonial lists
successful they ing , which are at competitor , present if it qualif constituted for y a the girl vocation , to assuredl enter of into y wife disqualifies the and mother her . even as , as a of thiall
It is not our wish or intention , in the treatment s -imporsuggestions tant subject . , to There start any is new no question theory , or more to offer fraug any ht crude with the reformatory the education honor ,
happ of of our woman iness best , ;— and men a welfare question and women of the more , whose human and thoug more race , hts than engrossing and this op of inions the we attention shall ,
as far as possible , place before our readers , in the hope of arousing
English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1858, page 218, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061858/page/2/