A Domestic Problem

are now, it can't be done." By "as things are now" she meant, with the established ideas regarding dress, food, appearance, style, and the objects for which woman should spend her time and herse

that the great underlying cause-the cause of all the other causes-is the want of insight, the unenlightemnent, which preva

or have they, a full sense of what woman requires to fit her even for the first of these duties? Suppose a philosopher in disguise on a tour of observation from some distant isle or planet should favor us with a

eatures of any value?"

country. They will grow up into men

wing up any other than the right kind of m

bilities of becoming mean, base, corrupt, treacherous, deceitful, cruel, false, revengeful; of becoming, in fact, unworthy and repulsive

become like those, or

lly on early training. Children are like wax to

y alike, so that the treatment whi

r with praise, others without; the same of blame. It requires thought and discernment to know what words to speak, how many to speak, and when to speak them. In fact, a child's nature i

l affect a child throu

make these early impressions which are to be so enduring? Who are th

e of the children. This is their mis

must be the course of education which

considered that a woman who is going to marry and

nly receives the special instruc

l instr

aining of children, of course she is educat

education. But here is one of our young

r is left with the young mother, who name

ellectual, and physical-was no doubt mad

, no! That would have bee

u prepared for the du

sion do y

on of child

no prep

re you competent to the direction and culture of the intellectual and moral nature? Have you skill to touch the hidden springs of a

y that I do not feel my ign

owledge may be obtained? There must

I have no tim

to prepare for y

int. In real life it plays an

n real life, i

cooking a

share the common belief in r

he comprehends what a woman needs in order to do her duty by her childre

thing here for c

that nearly one-fou

do they grow up in fu

the advertisements of medicines. Don't you think there's meaning in these, and a meaning in the long rows of five-story swell-

ter of health su

I don't know what those laws are." "Mothers, then, are

hemselves acqua

fearful mortality among infants. Do not husbands provide their

ing, they do not

applied to the rearing of children, come into

oned. I would give up every thing else I ever learned for the sake of

ducational institutions,-do they share t

the chief business of woman

opher's

ust take an archangel to do it rightly; still they do not think a woman who is married and settles down to family life needs much education! More

ividual who builds our ships, cuts our coats, manufactures our watches, superintends our machinery, takes charge of our cattle, our trees, our flowers, must know how, must have been especially prepared for his calling. It is only character-moulding, only shaping the destinies of immortal beings, for which we de