What Shall We Do With Our Daughters?
Submitted by Donnie PickardVan Buren County paper, August 17, 1882, P3, c2
What Shall We Do With Our Daughters?
Mrs. Theo. Butterworth answers the above question as follows:
Bring them up in the way they should go.
Give them a good, substantial, common education.
Teach them how to wash and iron clothes.
Teach them how to darn stocking and sew on buttons.
Teach them how to make their own dresses.
Teach them to make shirts.
Teach them all the mysteries of the kitchen, the dining room and the parlor.
Teach them that a dollar is only one hundred cents.
Teach them to wear calico dresses~ and do it like a queen.
Teach them that a round, rosy romp is worth fifty delicate consumptives.
Teach them to wear thick, warm shoes.
Teach them to foot up store bills.
Teach them to do marketing for the family.
Teach them everyday, hard, practical commons sense.
Teach them self-reliance.