The Home Monthly Volume 3-4; Devoted to Home Education, Literature, and Religion

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...instructed in the laws of their system, and judiciously trained to observe the laws, --what a noble result would follow! How many female children who now die at an early age would live to grow up! How many teachers would be saved to this important profession! How many nervous invalids would be cheerful and happy! How much suffering would be avoided? How much money saved! How much life better enjoyed! But these are not all the benefits that would spring from such a physical education as might and ought to be. The greatest benefit, the richest boon from such a training would be found in the increasing stamina, the more vigorous constitutions of the present generation; and let this proper system of physical training be continued for a few generations, and the more than fabled golden age of the world would return, and we should have a race of men and women such as God intended should bless the world. The most deplorable effect of neglected female physical education is seen when such girls enter the family relation; when they become mothers. They are wholly unable to sustain the duties and responsibilities that devolve upon them. Few of our grandmothers ever thought of wanting or ever had an Irish girl to do their housework and ruin the morals of their children. Read the record left by the late Amos Lawrence, of Boston, about his first wife at the sltinning jenny. It is calculated to make the parents, and the girls, too, of our day blush at their incompetency of earnings livelihood. There are few in our day like Solomon's wise woman. Few who seek flax and wool, and work willingly with their bands. Further, this want of physical strength and adaptation to sustain themselves is a prolific source of the destruction of female virtu...