ON THE TRAINING OF GIRLS.
Did girls get from childhood the same business training as boys, and were it clearly understood in all families that it is no credit, but rather a discredit, for women to hang helpless on the men instead of doing their own work, and, if necessary, earning their own living, I believe society would be not the worse, but the better, for the change. Men would find out that the more they elevate women the greater use they get out of them. If, instead of a man working himself to death for his unmarried daughters, and then leaving them ignominiously dependent upon male relatives, he would educate them to independence, making them able both to maintain and protect themselves, it would save him and them a world of unhappiness. They would cease to be either the rivals—a very hopeless rivalry—or the playthings first and afterward the slaves of men; and become, as was originally intended, their co-mates equal and yet different.—Selected.