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JULY 20 
TUI BUBAL HEW- 
Citcvimj. 
NECESSITY OF EDUCATING FARM¬ 
ERS' DAUGHTERS. 
LAURA A. REINHART. 
T HE true end of education is the harmoni 
ous development of mind, body and 
spirit. All educating forces which act upon 
the individual should bring about symmetri¬ 
cal development. Our present ideal of an 
educated person is so high, so noble, so pure, 
that the term “ educated” can not be applied 
unless the individual demonstrates this three¬ 
fold development. Man is endowed with in¬ 
nate powers that are susceptible to all educat¬ 
ing forces that are brought to bear upon him. 
When these powers receive systematic and 
proper exercise, the progress is greatly en¬ 
hanced. The age is past in which woman 
was considered inferior to man m these 
natural endowments of moral, intellectual 
and physical powers. Woman has proved 
o be man’s equal in a great many of the arts 
and sciences ; and in the science of practical 
ethics and in the fine arts his superior; so that 
the plea of inferiority is no longer accepted 
by our best critics. What she lacks in physi¬ 
cal energy, she more than makes up in moral 
force. I think-that all reasonable persons 
will accede that woman is endowed with the 
same faculties as man, and if developed and 
trained with equal care and attention, she 
promises the same degree of usefulness. The 
fact that farmers’ daughters have not, as a 
rule, attained to the same degree of intellec¬ 
tual development as their sons, does not argue 
that they have not the possibilities; but 
rather proves that they have been, as a class, 
greatly neglected. Again, if we compare the 
average country girl with the average town 
girl, we must accept the former’s inferiority 
in (his one phase of the question—mental 
training. But do not judge too hastily. 
Let us look for a moment at the kind and 
amount of physical training farmers’ daugh¬ 
ters receive. Even in early childhood, they 
are brought under those influences that are 
conducive to a healthful, bodily growth a 
large scope of territory over which to roam, 
few desires that are not gratified by the silent, 
yet persuasive influences of Nature all around, 
teaching lessons of activity, of cheerfulness 
and unselfishness. In our rural districts 
Nature has full sway over child nature. The 
songs of birds, the babbling of the brooks, the 
rustling leaves, all produce a harmony sweet¬ 
er, grander and more perfect than the com¬ 
motion in cities and towns. In fact, the very 
environments of children living in the coun¬ 
try are conducive to healthful physical 
growth. It is a fact beyond doubt that farm¬ 
ers’ daughters are favored with bodily train¬ 
ing, which makes them useful in after life. 
We are awaking to the fact that the seemingly 
undue attention which the early Spartans 
have to their daughters was not a mark of 
weakness ; but rather of an intellectual in¬ 
sight into the true order of development. A 
mind that resides in a heal hful body has 
more chances for development than one in an 
ailing body. 
Why is industrial education all the rage the 
world over ? Men are realizing that the mind 
in too many instances has been educated at 
the expense of the body. It is, however, not 
necessary to urge farmers to give more phys¬ 
ical training to their daughters. Do we not 
find that, in many instances, the farmers re¬ 
quire of their daughters the same manual 
work as they do of their sons ? Is not a cau¬ 
tion in place ? Is it right to take your daugh¬ 
ters out of their proper spheres and deprive 
them of the most careful training in house¬ 
hold affairs, by obliging them to do work in 
the fields ? I am glad to notice that this prac¬ 
tice is on the decline. 
It will not be out of place to notice the 
moral culture farmers’ daughters receive. 1 
wish to state, right here, that the conditions of 
a healthy, moral growth are more generally 
met with in the country than in cities and 
towns. Removed from the enticing influ¬ 
ences of fashion, which first infatuate, and 
then ridicule; removed from the frivolous and 
the gay; from perilous centers of vice and im¬ 
morality, we realize that we are highly fa¬ 
vored when we receive our training in the 
country. The pure air, the blue, unclouded 
sky, the shining sun, the springy turf beneath 
our feet are all we require to make us feel 
that we are in regions of delight. All these 
speak in some way to the spirit and raise 
new emotions of purity. Farmers, as a rule, 
give much attention to morality, truthfulness 
and early piety. The lessons ot morality 
which children in country districts receive, 
are not counteracted by vicious associates 
and the manifold wicked influences which 
stunt the keenest sensibilities, dampen the 
purest emotions, inducing so many young 
people, coming from respectable families, to 
lead irreligious lives. How many young la¬ 
dies who have left their country homes, with 
all principles of morality and Christian sobri¬ 
ety deeply written upon their hearts, may be 
with a mother’s tears, on coming into 
towns where they are brought under the vile 
influence of corrupt society, have yielded and 
become wrecks on the quick-sands of time! 
Friends, we need to give the greatest atten¬ 
tion to make our daughters morally strong. 
The future actions and conduct of your 
daughters proceed from the prevalent state 
of their minds, as water flows from the foun¬ 
tain. Impure thoughts will lead to impure 
desires, and impure desires will lead to im¬ 
proper actions. We need to guard the rising 
generation more than ever, as the tendencies 
of the age in which we live are toward im¬ 
morality. 
But let us, in the next place, notice a few 
reasons why farmers’ daughters should re¬ 
ceive duo mental discipline. Is it not in many 
communities the prevailing sentiment that 
girls do not need the same amount of educa¬ 
tion as boys? This is especially true of a 
great many farmers. While they greatly 
care for their daughters in providing for 
them food, clothing, and future legacies, they 
fail to see how utterly helpless they leave 
their children by not giving them, at least, a 
fair education. Is there any reason why 
country girls should not be polished for so¬ 
ciety? It is an incontrovertible fact that 
farmers have the means to do this. Why, 
then, is this deplorable neglect of allowing so 
many fair maidens to grow up in ignorance? 
Is it not because so many farmers have a 
wrong conception of life? A great many 
good-hearted, sober-minded and industrious 
farmers consider the true end of their being 
reached, when they have provided for their 
daughters houses and lands. These provis¬ 
ions are right and proper in their place; but 
without a well disciplined mind, without true 
Christian courtsey and refined manners, these 
material things will not lead to true joy ami 
happiness. Make home-life beautiful, and 
parents will sow seeds of gentleness, true kind¬ 
ness, and fidelity in the hearts of their chil¬ 
dren, from which they will reap happiness 
and virtue. But how is this possible where 
ignorance is supreme? And as the daughters 
of our farmers promise to become the moth¬ 
ers of future generations; and as mothers 
have the privilege of giving the first lessons 
in this triune development of mind, body and 
spirit,how important it is to properly edu¬ 
cate them for this grand and noble work. 
How many great men give warm tributes for 
their success to their intelligent mothers? 
The memory of the happy home of childhood 
is the grandest legacy any farmer can leave 
to his children. 
Tne hallowed influences of a home in which 
there was a strong, social element, and re¬ 
fined manners, will never be forgotten. A 
home in which there is ignorance is full of 
darkness and gloom, while a home in which 
there is culture and refinement, is full of 
sunlight and joy. Educate your daughters 
and their homes will be graced with pictures, 
refined by books, and gladdened with sweet 
iimsic. You will have homes in which there 
will not be the blasts of passion, no storms of 
hate. You will have homes in which the wife 
and mother shall not lose h6r charms by un¬ 
remitting drudgery and toil. Educate your 
daughters and we will have homes in which 
happy children shall see the beauty of love 
and the beauty of holiness. We will have 
homes of plenty, of sympathy, of self-sac¬ 
rifice, of devotion. Homes of culture and of 
love. 
MAGAZINE REVIEWS. 
A MAGAZINE devoted to the interests of 
all women, especially those engaged in 
active pursuits, is the Business Woman’s 
Journal. The July-August number gives a 
short sketch of Mrs. Ella Dietz Clymer, the 
new president of Sorosis, of which she was 
one of the incorporators. A very interesting 
sketch is given of Clara Barton, “the angel 
of the battle-field, the pestilence and the 
flood,” who has recently been again brought 
into prominence through her devoted latiors 
among the sufferers at Johnstown. Senator 
Sumner once wrote of her: “She has the tal¬ 
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and the heart and hand of a woman.” Short 
sketches and incidents are given of Wi-ne-ma, 
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Meacham, at the lava-bed massacre, Mrs. 
Emma F. Petteugill, a successful Brooklyn 
stenographer, and many others. “What.Oc- 
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article lor the times. The magazine is re¬ 
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and ever-increasing army of business women. 
Mary F. Seymour, 3b Park Row, New York. 
P ANSY for July cannot fail to please the 
little folks for whose benefit it is pub¬ 
lished. It contains, among many other 
sprightly stories, several Fourth-of-July 
poems and sketches. “ Margaret’s Fire¬ 
works,” by Pansy, is a bright little story 
with a moral to it. “ A Practical Joke” tells 
bow a naughty boy played a very cruel trick 
upon a helpless cat, and how he was punished 
for it. The illustrations are numerous and 
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NEW CIDER MACHINERY. 
T O FIND a new field for magazine work, 
in this time of the reign of magazines, 
would seem almost an impossibility. Yet this 
honor belongs to the publishers of “ The 
Home-maker,” of which Marion Harland is 
the editor. We have met many of its contrib¬ 
utors before, in the pages of other household 
literature. Christine Terhune Herrick, for 
instance, who edits the department called 
“ With the Housewife,” and Catharine Owen 
and Anna Alexander Cameron, who write 
for that department. In the body of the 
magazine, the current number, which is the 
fourth of Vol. 2, contains poems by May 
Rebecca Lenox, Katharine Philips Williams, 
and Margaret E. Sangster; an editorial on 
“ Advice-giving;” a short sketch of John 
Randolph, “ J. R. of R ,” which leaves a 
new and more pleasing impresssion of him 
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chapters of “ Hope Harding,” a serial by 
Lucy C. Lillie; the concluding portion of 
a fine description of a fine “Old New 
York Homestead,” by the Editor; “Guenn 
at Home” written and illustrated by Walter 
Satterlee. “In Wonderland, No. 3,” in which 
Estella Thomson describes the Home and 
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No. 4,” by Hester M. Poole; and “A Stranger,” 
a pathetic story by Ella Thomson. The above 
fill about half the pages. The rest are de¬ 
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i leal “Guenn,” and a copy of the fascinating 
Gilbert Stuart portrait of John Randolph at 
32, which the beholder would swear was the 
likeness of a beautiful, dreamy lad of scarce 10. 
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