Domestic Problems: Work and Culture in the Household, and the Schoolmaster's Trunk

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James R. Osgood, 1875 - 220

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Strona 216 - Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
Strona 79 - This must have been the curriculum for their celibates," we may fancy him concluding. "I perceive here an elaborate...
Strona 80 - Seriously, is it not an astonishing fact, that though on the treatment of offspring depend their lives or deaths, and their moral welfare or ruin; yet not one word of instruction on the treatment of offspring is ever given to those who will hereafter be parents?
Strona 45 - Great princes' favorites their fair leaves spread But as the marigold at the sun's eye, And in themselves their pride lies buried, For at a frown they in their glory die. The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foiled, Is from the book of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled.
Strona 81 - ... yet been given to the grave responsibilities of maternity ; and scarcely any of that solid intellectual culture obtained Which would be some preparation for such responsibilities. And now see her with an unfolding human character committed to her -charge — see her profoundly ignorant' of the phenomena with which she has to deal, under-; taking to do that which can be done but imperfectly even with the aid of the profoundest knowledge.
Strona 7 - You little know what help there is in books for the average housewife. Take Domestic Problems, for instance, beginning with this hard question : " How may a woman enjoy the delights of culture and at the same time fulfil her duties to family and household ? " The second chapter quotes from somebody else :
Strona 80 - To tens of thousands that are killed, add hundreds of thousands that survive with feeble constitutions, and millions that grow up with constitutions not so strong as they should be ; and you will have some idea of the curse inflicted on their offtpring by parents ignorant of the laws of life.
Strona 67 - Now, in the face of such facts as these, is it too much to ask of mothers, sisters, aunts, nurses, governesses — all who may be occupied in the care of children, especially of girls — that they should study thrift of human health and human life, by studying somewhat the laws of life and health ? There are books — I may say a whole literature of books — written by scientific doctors on these matters, which are in my mind far more important to the schoolroom than half the trashy accomplishments,...
Strona 80 - But a few years ago she was at school, where her memory was crammed with words, and names, and dates, and her reflective faculties scarcely in the slightest degree exercised — where not one idea was given her respecting the methods of dealing with the opening mind of childhood ; and where her discipline did not in the least fit her for thinking out methods of her own. The intervening...
Strona 29 - ... unfolding of a human being in body and mind, is so comparatively simple a process, that any one may superintend and regulate it with no preparation whatever ? If not — if the process is with one exception more complex than any in Nature, and the task of administering to it one of surpassing difficulty; is it not madness to make no provision for such a task ? Better sacrifice accomplishments than omit this all-essential instruction.

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