Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-02-18

Il Mr. Everett, perhaps without due eau
ton, advocated, last summer, the atfirma
e tive of this question. With his accustom
! ed eloquence, he Urged en- the attention o
/ Suleinan Bey the fact Of the equal par
: ticipation of the sexes in the public schoo
. system of Boston, wElle emitting to explain
J to him that the equality Is Of very recent
standing. No doubt the eminent Orient
, al would have been pleased to hear thai
Ibis public administration Of the alphabel
) 10 fetlaIes, on any terms, is an institution
but little more than half century old y
the city>of Boston. 1t is well established
-Iby the early deeds and documents that .
large proportion Of Puritan women could
not write their own names: and IN Boston
ESPECIALLY, for hnadred and fifty years
1.-THE public schools induced boys only. Ii
he year 1850, however, the notable dis.
lcoyery was made, that the average atten.
llanee Of pupils from April to October was
Ionly one half Of that reported for The re-
fnainder If the year. This was an obyi-
ouS waste Of money and accom- Nodatlons
'lapdit was therefore proposed that female
pupils should be annually introduced dn
Irii this Intermediate PERIOD. According
ly, school girls, like other flowers, blossom
ed in summer oulY; and this stale Of things
4lllasted. with but slight modification, foT
lsome forty years, according 70 the Senool
.tSuperintendent's Third Report. II was
not Till 1928 that all distinctions were
abolished in the Boston Common Schools
in the High Schools lingering far later
sole vestige Of the /" good old times" be-
fore mistaken economy overthrow the
wholesome doctrine Of NJ. Sylvan Mare
Icha, and let loose the alphabet among
women.
/ 1t is true that Eve ruined US ell, a,cor-
ding 10 theology, without knowing her let
tiers. Still, there is something TO be SAID
lin defence of that venerable ancestress.-
The yeronese lady, Isotta Nogarola, FIVE
bundred and thirty-six Of whose learned
LETTERS We're preserved by De Thon, com
posed dialogue on the question, Wlie,be'
Adam or Eve had committed the greater
lsn? But Ludivico Doinenichi, in bis
: Dialogue on the Nobleness of Women,
lmaiuiails that Eve did not sin at all, be
cause she was not even created when Ad-
am was toll not to eat the apple. i is IN
Adam all died." lie shrewdly says; nobody
died ID Eye;-which looks plausible. Be
that as it may, EYES daughters are ~ dan
leer of swallowing whole harvest OF forbid
den fruit, in these revolutionary days,
unless something be done 10 cnt off the
Supply.
Ii has been seriously asserted that dur
ling the last half century mere books have
Eoeen written by women and about women
shan during all the previous uncounted
ages Ii may be true: although, when we
llhink Of the innnmerab'e volamss Of he
snoires by Frenchwomen Of The seventeenth
land eighteenth centuries, -eacl one just.
living the existence Of her own ten volumes
10y the remark, that all her Contemporaries
we're writing as many, we lrgve our donbts
AS to the increased multitude OF genera
treatises on the female sex, however,-its
5 education, life, health, diseases, charms
: slress, deeds, sphere, rights, wrongs, work
wages, encroachmen $, and idiosyncrasles
! generally, there can he no dorbt whatever
!, Ana the poorest Of these books recognize:
4 condition of public sentiment which nc
Iolher age ever dreamed OF. Still, Literary
History preserves the names Of some re-
formers before the Reformation, in thl
matter.
\ There was Signora Moderate Fonte
/ 1.-The Venetian, who left book to be pub
flushed after her death, in 1902, " Del Me
: Iriti dele Donne." There was her towns
{ woman, Luerez ia Marinella, who followed
wears after, with her essay, :" La Nobil
-iisa 6 Ia Eccelenza dele Dome con Di
, ietii Mancamenti degli Uomini," com
e prehensiye theme truly Then followed
I lhe all accomplished Anna Maria Schur
! man, in l645, with her Dissertatio d.
Ineenii Muliebris adj Doctrnam ct meiorei
S Lteras Aplitudine,' with few miscela
) ueous letters appended in Greek and He
!: brew. At last came boldly Jacque tie
) Guillaume, In 1865, and threw down the
II gauntlet in her 6 Les Danes Illustres: OF
par bonnes ct fortes Raisons il prouve que
lie Sexe Feminin surpasse en- toute Sorle
, de Genre le Sexe Ma.cuIin;' and with hel
came Margaret Bouflat and host Of
others; and finally, in England, Mary
Wollstonecraft, whose famous book, for
nidable 10 lis day, would seem rather con
sentative now,--and in America, that pi-
Gus and worthy dame, Mrs. II. Mather
J, Croker, Cotton Mather's yrandchild, who
lin 1918, published the first look on the
+. Rights of Woman ever written on this
lside the Atlantic.
! Meanwhile there has never been men
wanting, and strong men, to echo these
'Iappeals.
i From Cornelius Aggrippa and his essay
l(l5o9) on the excellence Of woman and
4 her pre- eninence over man, down to the
first youthful thesis Of Agassiz, Mems
Femme Viri Amino superior" there has
been succession of voices crying in The
4 wilderness.
i In England. Anthony Gibson wrote a
book, in 1899, called "A Woman's Worth
defended against all tie Men in the World
Iproying them TO be more Perfect, Excel