Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-06-14

motaphysicians or skiltul logicians those VINO
can make the most effective appeals to our
imagination, our hopes, and fears, are
most desirable for the duties of this high office.
Again, as Physicians; how necessary to have
educated women in this profession. Give wo-
man knowledge commensurate with her natural
qualifications and there is no position she could
assume that would be so permanently useful to
her race at large and her own sex in particular,
a. that administering angel to the sick ard ailic-
tcd-not an angel capable of sympathizng with
suffering merely, but with the power to relieve
it. The science of obstetrics is branch of the
profession which should bo wholly monopolzcd
by women, 1t is an outrage on common dec en-
cy which nothing but the tyrant custom can ex-
eusc, for man to practice in this branch of the
profession. cit is now in this country and in
England almost exclusively in the hands of the
male practitioner, though from the earliest his.
tory down to 1868, it was practiccd by women.
/ The distinguished individual first to make the
innovation on the ancient time sanctifcd Gus
tom, was no less parsonage than a court pros
titutc the Duchess of Villcrs, favorte mistress
Of Louis XIV. Of France" This is formidable
/ evil and productive Of much immortality, misc
ry and crime Now that some medical colleges
are open to women, and or has been establish
lishcd in Philadelphia exclusively for our sex,
l hope this custom may be abolished as specdi-
ly as possible. 1t seems to me its existence
argues a much greater want of dclicacy and re-
fncment in woman, than would the practice of
the profession by her in all its various branches.
But the great work before us is thepropcr cdu-
cation Of those just coming on the stage. Be-
gin with girls of this day, and in twenty years
We can rcvolutionizc this nation. The childhood
of woman must be free and untrammelcd tho
girl must be alinwcd to romp and play, climb,
skate and swim,-hcr clothing must be more
like that of the boy strong, loose fitting gar
mcnts, thick boots &C., that she may be out in
all seasons, and enter freely into all kinds of
sports. Teach the girls to go alone, by night
and day,-if need be OH the lonely highway or
through the busy streets of the metropolis
The manner in which all courage and sclf-rcli-
ance is early educated out OF the gir,-hcr
path portrayed with dangers and difficulties
that never exist, is melancholy indeed. Better,
far suffer occasional insults, or die outright |
than live tho life of a coward, or never move
without protector. The best protection that !
any woman can have, one that will serve her ut |
oil times and in all places, is courage, and this
she must get by experience, and experience
comes by exposure. Let the girl be thorough
ly developed in body and SOUL moulded
like piece of clay after some artificial speci-
men of humanity, with body after some plate
in Cooley book of fashion, and mind after the
type of Father Gregory's pattern daughters.
loaded down with the tradition, prophecies and
sentimcntalitics of generations of silly mothers
and grandmothers, but left free to be, to grow.
to feel to think and to act. Development is one
thing, that system Of cramping restraining, tor
turing, pcrverting and mystifying called cduca-
ton, is quite another. We have had women
enough befooled under the ono system pray
let US try the other. The girl must carly be
impressed with the idea that she is to be q
"hand and not a mouth"-a worker and not
drone, in the great hive of human action. She
dependence, and like the boy prepare herself
for some lucrative trade or profession.
Woman has relied, heretofore, too entirely on
her needle for support; that one eyed demon of de-
struction, that evil genius Of our sex, which
Stays its thousands annually, and in spite of all
our devotion, will never make us healthy or
wise. The girl must DO taught that it is 10
part Of her life to cater to the prejudices of
those around hcr,-makc her independent Of
public sentiment, by showing her how worth
less and rotten thing it is. 1t is u settled AK
iom with me that public sentiment is utterly
false on every subject. 1 know not one in
which 1t is not in direct violation Of all the ho-
liest and noblest aspirations of our nature, and
yet what tyrant it is over us all, over woman
especially, who is so educated that it is her very
life to please, her highest ambition to be ap-
proved. But once outrage this tyrant place
yourself beyond his jurisdiction, taste the JOY
Of free thought and action, and how powerless
is his rule over you his sceptre lies broken at
arc sweet music in your cars This darkening
iTown is sunshine to your heart for they tell Of
your triumph and his discomft. Think you,
women thus educated, would DO the frail de-
pendent beings VIC now find thems by nc
means. Depend upon it, they would soon set
lie this whole question of woman's rights. A;
educated capitalists and skillful laborers, they
would not be long in finding their true level il
political and Social life.
Yours sincerely.
Z. c. STANTON.