1733: Japan
home rule
seeing that it is a girl’s destiny on reaching
womanhood to go to a new home and live in
submission to her fatherinlaw and motherin
law, it is even more incumbent upon her than it
is on a boy to receive with all reverence her par
ents’ instructions. should her parents, through
excess of tenderness, allow her to grow up self
willed, she will infallibly show herself capricious
in her husband’s house and thus alienate his af
fection, while, if her fatherinlaw is a man of
correct principles, the girl will find the yoke of
these principles intolerable. she will hate and
decry her fatherinlaw, and the end of these
domestic dissensions will be her dismissal from
her husband’s house and the covering of herself
with ignominy. Her parents, forgetting the faulty
education they gave her, may indeed lay all the
blame on the fatherinlaw. but they will be in
error, for the whole disaster should rightly be at
tributed to the faulty education the girl received
from her parents.
