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Education Outside Of Books

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
January
Year
1865
Copyright
Public Domain
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Do you Know that your b.;st eriuesícd womoü aro the most ecocornical without being meau ? They top to eount tbc cost. They are never deluded by fashion. They only pay a decent lespoct lo other people'n opinions and fit ther gal1meiits by the ltjngth of tlieir purses.-They cuu give llb'erally to Uod's poor, and bo happy Yiitb. an ingiuin catpet Tbey can look neat nad be conteoted in a i lain bouiiet, becauao tl;ey loro a wild rose better than one muda !v a Preneh Hiiiliner. They cau bo intelligeot aod entertaining without reading more tLau oue book a year, beoause, boepipg ti.eir ejes, aud eúw, snd Uuarií open', rioh and beautiful experiencia aredaily iaiüngout to t.hem. Aud, after all, tbis is the great í-ecreí of happiness and cfücioney in Ufe - this is wLat you are educatod up to-in oaruest appreciaïif)ti oi the cnpabilitics and the treasiu-edjoya of the present. Youitrue íearning, what irakés otbers riahi íor being with you, ure tho goldon gparki etrtick out of your own being. Your worthiest opiüiuns are uot iiorrowcj i from books, but thcisa borri of the I tbvjiiy ht and culture you liare brought íorwurd uto your lifa woik. The em tnciry and harmony of your chitrtteter was litrt drilled into you nt ouocbv your it!icl;Hr8, but grew by daily aecrstiooe, until you had learned to live as ií you viera acuountablu to God nnd not to man tor deecls done in tiie body. - E. il. A?r, in, Springfiicld Repubiican.

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Old News
Michigan Argus