1848: Ruinous

"It is too often the case that children, provided they spend half a dozen hours a day at school, are permitted to spend the rest as they please. The daughter, probably, becomes that pitiable, helpless object, a novel reading girl.  No man or woman is fully educated if not accustomed to manual labor.—Whatever accomplishments they possess, whatever their mental training, a deduction must be made for ignorance of that important branch.”

~From Texas Presbyterian. (Houston, Tex.), January 1, 1848