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What Shall We Do With Our Daughters

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Parent Issue
Day
22
Month
October
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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Teach them self reliance. Teach them to make bread. Teach them to make shirts. Teach them to foot up store bilis. Teach them not to wear false hair. Teach them to wear thick, warm shoes. Bring them up in the way they should go. Teach them how to wash and iron dollies. Teach them how to make their own dreasos. Teach them that a dollar is only 100 cents. Teach them how to cook a good tueal. Teach them how to darn stoekings and to sew on buttons. Teach them every day, dry, hard, practical common sense. Teaoh them to say No, and mean it ; or Yee, and stick to it. Teach theiu to wtur calicó dresses, and do it like queens. Give them a good, substantial, couimonschool education. Tcach them that a goud rosy romp ia worth fifty consumptives. Teach them to regard the moráis and not the money of their suitors. Teach them uil the mysteries of the kitchen, the dining room and the parlor. Teach them that the more one lives with in bis incomo the more he will nave. Teach them that the farther one lives beyond his incoiue the nearer he gets to the poorhouse. Teach them to have aothing to do with interaperate young men. liely upon it that upoü your teaching depends, in a measure, the weal or woe of their alter life. Teach them that a good steady mechanie without a cent is worth a dozen loaf.rs in b-ioadclotb. Teach them the accomplishments, music, painting, drawing, if you have time and money to do it with. Teach them that God made them in His own image, and no amount of tijjht lacing

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News