EDUCATION AND MANNKKS OF GIRLS. 39 



The amenities of manner are not quite enough considered at some of 

 our female colleges. With the college course the young graduates are apt 

 to copy masculine manners. This is not graceful, and to some minds would 

 more than balance the advantages of the severe course of study marked 

 out and pursued at college. A mother with gentle and lady-like manners 

 would, however, soon counteract these masculine tendencies and overflow 

 of youthful spirits. We all detest a man who copies tin.- feminine style of 

 dress, intonation, and gesture. Y\ r hy should a girl be any more attract 

 who wears an ulster, a Derby hat, and who strides, puts her hands in her 

 pockets, and imitates her brothers's style in walk and gesture ? 



However, to a girl who is absorbed in books, who is reading, studying. 

 and thinking, we can forgive much if she only will come out a really cul- 

 tivated woman. We know that she will be a power in the state, an addi- 

 tion to the better forces of our government ; that she will be not only 

 happy herself, but the cause of happiness in others. The cultivated woman 

 mu2h more useful factor in civilization, than the vain, silly, and flip- 

 pant woman, although the latter may be prettier. But it is a great pity 

 that, having gone so far, she should not go further, and come out a culti- 

 vated flower, instead of a learned weed. 



Far more reprehensible and destructive of all amenities, is the growing 

 lency to "fastness," an exotic which we have imported from somewhere ; 

 probably from the days of the Empire in Paris. 



ems hardly possible that the " fast" woman of the present, v, 



Las been achieved by her questionable talk, her ve dress, 



doubtful manners, can have grown out of the same soil that produ 



Mullins. The old Puritan Fathers would have turned the helm 

 be M'i;ijl<n'-i'r the other way if they could have seen the product of one 

 hundred years of independence on the other side of the line. Now all 

 Kurope rinirs with the stories of American women, younir. beautiful, charm- 

 iiiL-ly divssrd, who live away from their husbands, flirt with ]>i 

 themselvea tin- common talk of all the nations, and are delighted with 

 their ONMI notoriety. To educate daughters to Mich a fate seems to re. 



jr of the Harpies, Surely no moth oily contemplate ii And 



tl..- aim-nities of home should l.e so strict and so guarded that thi.s : 

 would !) imi'o^ihl, . 



In the HIM j.lan-. youn^ ^irls .hould not be allowed to walk b 

 Crowd. -i CMinpanioii. a friend, a maid 1 always be 



sent with them. Lady Thmton said, after <>i 



Washing "ii. I n,u !i->h governess to walk 



about with my And in the Tftrioilfl gamM - n "ich in fashion now, 



