If she is a plain girl, lacking in personal attraction, the sort of girl that 1
men pass by, who will not be likely to marry and who will probably have to i
support herself as long as she lives, then, by all means, send her to some
famous school, where her degree will carry a distinction with it that will
enable her to command a high salary as a teacher.
The school at home may be able to teach her just as much and tit her
just as well for her profession, but a certain glory is diffused from the well
known institutions of learning that is reflected in the graduate's pay envelope.
Once upon a time I came home from Europe on a steamship with a young
woman who told me a most pathetic tale of how she had nearly starved in
Paris studying art, and 1 asked her if she could not have gotten just as good
instruction in this country as abroad and at less sacrifice.
"Certainly, I could,” she replied, "but the fact that a school can advertise
that its art teacher is a pupil of Julian’s and studied in such and such a
studio in Munich doubles my salary.”
So that's that.
On the other hand, the advantage of keeping a girl at home is that you
form her character yourself, instead of intrusting the job to strangers, and
you bind her to you with the ties of daily association, children who are sent
awa> from home to school when they are young never have the close
Intimacy with their parents that those do who have always lived in continual
contact with mother and father.
