Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-11-09

q ferry boat "Rleass I'll mswhat O'clock !
10, sir 2" Il b just nine.," u. :. Thcn," seis
she, /" / shall be late at school," Do yot
cross the river to 60 to school p NO, Sir
but have been tohhny aunt's on q visit, and
I am now going back; I'm aflaid my niothsl
will not let me 50 again il Lam late. !" /" Wha
are you studying " 81 I'm, in ancient geoG
raphy, rhetoric, composition, and grammar.
'sDo you not study modern geography r-
"No, sir, but lam going to study physiolog@
geology and metaphysics" Are you, ID
deed ~ "Yes, SIR, mother says they ar|
the fashionable branches modern gcographj
and arithmetic are no common, you know, =
ersyy6Ody lcarns kRem. She wants me 4
learn the higher branches" "Will vow tab
message to your mother from me :" Yc4
SIR "Tell her that you met 4 gentlemai
on the ferry boat who told you that aneisnl
geography and rhetoric, and physiologE ~
not the studies for child of your, aee; AM
that modern geography, arithmetic, and
good newspaper are the higher branches.
Don't forget this" g!rfoGaal s - ,zIoJrAs
+ 1t would be for us perilous undcrtakini
to assert that girls, in general, arc not eqsd
to boys, and consequently that women ar
not equal to men. We assert no such thin1
We IRE afraid to do tive fear almost to ~
the case alphabetically. Are girls equas
boys, and women to men, in tact and abilit
to accomplish what is equally within the q
pacity Of either sex? Have they equal pre-
cncc Of mind in danger, equal readiness
resource, equal knowledge Of passing event
equal power to seize new arts and to taN
advantage of opportunities To sum up
a word, do they make a. much and as go@
use o(stheir faculties as boys and men 2 ~
Why not2 Is it because master Bob
serts a divine right to the newspaper
mornings, 50 that his sister, poor little SO
is Obliged to 60 to school to have all the p|
losophy thrust down her intellectual third
without any knowledge Of the real matters
life by which they are illustrated and to wh1
they are applied? Is it because the pd
child must drink in rhetoric without havi
read the fine periods ofeSeward and Evcre
or the glowing .eloquencc and thcreriticnn1
the leading columnsy Is it because she il
the maids hands to bes' fixcd up," with \
thoughts and aspirations directed to an
hOop-skirt, and 10 have her hair and
mind twisted into curls, while Bob is catch
the magnetism of dutiful great deeds,
reading telegams from California, Fran
England, Italy, and Chinas "ffurrah! Gj
ribaldi Ia at Naples l Hurrah! the Sasdiaia
have whipped Lamoriciere, and the Pope
going to be kicked out Of Rome" shouts Bd
as little hoop skirt comes into the brcAlfs
room, and shippers in her darling accents:
"Ma, ! want a pair Of jet armlets.--E EvsliI
Louisa Sophronia Smith has a pair, and
think it's a shame that can't have them
Won't you make bob quit that drca- a-a-d
noiseg' " Yes, dear, you shall have
armlets. Ma wil'tso out aud get them
Ma is going to make herself over again
her child. She never reads the papers, 4
eepting the marriages and fashions, and t.
horrors, and the sickening rOmances, al
the small gossip, and why should her daughtl
Some judicious families and circles m
be excepted from this not-caricature,s WIN
we sec girls equal to boys, growing up
women who will not DC inferior to men.
1t is possible that we oyerrate the infllN
OF the newspaper as an education, but
think not Tltis the voice of the living wos
II is history, art, philosophy, science tn,
justice, rhetoric, grammar, and eyeryth
else-not unnixed with falsehood and
sense, but not more so mixed than the M
infant school for girls, from which boys b
away before their bones are ont of tlls ri
Take Grammar, Natural History, Rhe
and Composition. Where are those sso1
taught as in the carefully edited iriewspat
What better lesson in Rhetoric than te|
some popular writer or famous scholar
ed alive on the hot Goals of criticisms II
are better, examples of tasteful compoa
Where is better cabinet Of natural hiJ
What in all the world escapes the newsE
editor sygAndTif he commits blundsk
grammar, or logic, or fact, or pbilosopl
he not forthwith served up on a gridird
another editor Whore, but III a ,cwsp
will be found running history oftall Il
eratnrcs Of the day. Where else sre,
told what books you may safely buy,
arc not worth putting on your shelves,
what would be as hurtfui to the min
your children as hcnbanc to their bolfk
WOMAN's COURAGE..-No one can
read the statement Of the clerk Of tie
EIgin without being struck by his desct
of the bearing Of the, ladiesr; ~ Thsy
pale, but silent; there was not a egy
shriek.,' The fortitude and resignati
men may have failed not So Is It aiW,
the great cxigenciss which women afes
to meet. w heti tpoubles and dangcrs a
slight, they are. more, excited and ali
than men. But let an overwhelming
ity bury the hopes aid fortunes Of the
band, Or rifAther, or brother in suddcn