New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-04-02
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Of Women, now delivering in his church on Sunday
evenings. M Frothngham began by saying that the
question Of work intimately connected with the
question OF education. The uneducated classes 10 the
community will always be the drudges. Before women
can do all the they are capable OF doing they must
receive all the education they capable OF receiving
We are not ready yet decide what education best behs
women and what best BELTS men; for until bQtl are
educated equally well it win be impossible to say what
place either may be competent to fill Men and women
are no doubt very different beings in many respects put
how different they are and TO what degree ana n %na
have had the same intellectual advantages The female
intelligence is more unlike the masculine thaH }he
female organization is and If masculine and fem;
nine bodies are submitted 10 the same HeheIai
regulations, why should not the masculine and feminine
why not intellectually Both bask in the same sunshine
milk and cat the same article Of poITidge why should
they not both feed On the knowledge 1t Is absurd
same SO SS fields Of literature az that they shod not aSe
the same islands and continents that they must NOT
the same Kind of vegetable Just as the beef and mutton
the bread and the hQmny, got9 make sTlhood IN thS
sciences assnilae according to the same organic law
The very thing we need TO know iswhat can women as
simulate and what men assimllatel And this We
shall never know till have tried the most liberal nutr
career and womans career but tie career is determined
by tile capacity and the capacity Is not ascerncd nor
can il be at present BY means let education be adapted
70 career but general education alone decide what
the Career shall bewhethcr it shall be indoors or ont
choice OF food left appetite hut let the appetite
have large choice of food There is little reason TO
think that women would betake themselves as general
usual thing. TO agriculture, commerce, finance manu-
features or engGeng but II they should teis nG bN
pursuits which she was to supply Are men aa ess
dol That fears confession that their work must be
meant for women; and who would hinder women from
conteudcd that nearly all occupations had their feminine
side Religion had, the Catholic Church had proved;
and Protestant Cm1stendOm would be greatly bcncilied
by introducing women into its organizations: Medicine
has a large place for women; so has social
do nothing of all this by instinct they need teaching NJ
every sep do. Education holds the key to every
kind of employment. Washing and ironing DO not come
by nature Plain sewing must be taught 1t Is an Aner
can superstition that cooking comes by nature TO al lIS
orls. and we are nation of dyspcptics Livery ploIcs
sion requires trainings even the humDes 90 vi course
the more lucrative and delicate must Literature u tne
easiest nmhc wits alone carry lew 10 lame OF lOi
tune Art i'm ali degrees requires instruction, severe ana
ionS Come 10 thc occupations which women are sup
posSd 70 take 10 naturally; how far viii kind heart 80
toward making good nurse! DO the SCIENCES cong Y
mine teacher dispense with knowledge of history phil
OsOphy, or language! Another popular superstition
genius for housekeeping. Where is the evidence The
good hOusckeCpcrnee much education an ONersccr
She should be chemist, 2 socioogst physician, and
a metaphysican Nothing less than an ordinary
common school education Is required equality women TO
be good houscmads TO deliver messages, take correct
change from the shOpman, keep themselves and their
mstresscs out of trouble. Now, with the immensely OF
this need for intellectual pTc9ara'@h, coat ,he M
education taxes the brain too severely and not lfac
teal enough The private school educatQh' WIN i.s W.
considerable amount of French, its dash of Italian, MS
snatch Of music, its patch OF arithmetic MS lldde OF
geography and ply steal science, ITS confusion of many
things ndgcstcd and ndigcsblc prepares the girl for
nothing useful and ends just as her mmd j. maturing
Women not instructed in book keeping, in technology
in practical science. They have no divinity schools IN"
convencuccs the study of medicine for the male
The old countries have in many respects me ad
conferred degrees on women and was proud TO
send out PrOtessOresses Of Jurisprudence, OF Anat-
Omy and Natural Philosophy OF Greek ana the
Mathematics More than century ago courses or nedi
cal lectures delivered TO women in Leydcn and
TFn i
dOctOrates to women III the last century so dd the Col
lcge at Malburg so dld the famous hospital III Term
wives The Sorbonne has instituted concurrent courses
OF instruction FOR women with examinations degrees;
and diplomas and sends ont $40 $50 women married
and single duly qualified teachers Paris has upward
and educating annually some 5000 poor girls Al this
makes America look small. Thorough Cducauon' tthcr
for men or Women Is not to be had here by any put me
very rich Business with Us has IN hand The task OF de-
velOpns the material resources OF an immense con,
male vieor in its rude state. Men are edu-
Gated Tor their immediate purposes, and as
not supposed 10 be concerned N these pnr-
poses, their education Is omitted. But better times are
CoIleeesAntoci ObeTin ana the normal school asso-
ciatcd with the Michigan University. He also gave
key note OF education for women in America. Special
schools too are beginning to grow up ana to flourish;
ana schools Of Design. What women viii become when
they VIII simply become finely developed women
They viii not become men. Education VIII mol produce
an immediate crop Of Maria Thcresas Ezabcths; Of
Tloscs on ypatias Of Miss Blackwes Miss Zakzcw
skas; OF Maria Mtchclls. Rosa Bonheurs Harriet
HosneIs; but il will enable those Who must work 10 hnd
work and 10 10 il WE'LL il will give those wboarc not
compelled to work a refuge from ideness and cnul III
will make all better takers, more interesting
companions, more intelligent associates more capable
hOusekccpeIs competent mothers more influential
wives. more significant members OF society may ne
fault OF that not better educated, but
il least much the fault of women. When ladies',
called shall feel that intelligence In glory and not
shame that culture is honor, and knowledge praise
that industry respectable than dcncss and that
selfsuppOTting occupation is more cIcdtabe than IAN
gushing ease, then tc doors Of academies viii fly OPEN
the avenues honest labor VIII Dc tTOngcd by
aspirantS feminine talent will fairly into the
market: women will be healthier for being cOnpIe
hcnsiyey developed and the weaker will become in
society the power il Is ordained that IL shall De.