New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-06-29

laws Of supply and demand will equalize the
salaries of the best female teachers with those
of the best male teachers. Possibly one student
may become preacher feeling within herself
the capacity of hard work, the patience under
Encouragement, the power of persuasion, the
bravery to face prejudice, the fervor OF noble
conservation, which are the preachers call.
Perhaps one girl will undertake the severe dis
ciplne and contend for tho splendid prizes OF
tho law. Hardly one, we dare say, proposes to
herself the smirching slow, exact absorbing,
intricate labors of the analytical and practical
chemist. Three or four adventurous and hui
name spirits may select the study of medicine.
To all the rest these four years of Latin, Greek,
and mathematics, will have no direct bearing
on their future work. The telegraphers, the
photographers, the inventors of industrial I'M
plements, the architects, the designers, the
engravers, the artifcers of artistic ornaments,
the carvers, and modelers, and decorators, the
business managers of mercantile houses, hotels,
and theaters, the dressmakers, who are to make
the art of the world tributary to them, the
milliners, who will translate beauty, economy,
and the fitness of things, into form, and call
them bOnnet,-for all of whom we hope to be
indebted to Vassar,-these represent some OF
the crafts to be opened to women, and these
demand a culture in the direction OF their
special fitness. Chemistry and its appliances
the history of inventions and natural philoso-
ply the history of the industrial arts as it
can be studied from books and illustrations
tho history of Fine Art, ancient and modern,
as il can be studied from books and illustra-
tons the Grammar of Ornament, and Oriental
and European books of Design miDeralOgy per-
haps, drawing, book keeping; the elements OF
the noble science of architecture-with such
preparation as tho study of these would con-
fer, these pupils could walk straight to their
work, learn it, do it, and by this happy indus
try excuse themselves to too crowded world
for existing. We might hope for we'll
dressed, well-boused, tastefully adorned, intel
ligent, active, reasonably rich society, whose
women, literally taught and trained to work,
should demand at least corresponding intel
igence and industry of its men which would
really touch the subtle principle of "equal
rights that now hides out of sight behind
all the dust and vapor of its too yoluble cham
pions. For it is opening all doors of fit em-
ployment for women, which is to save them
from suffering and degradation. 1t is thorough
fitness for all employments which alone can
command them. Very little will be conceded
to sex, but all to capacity. And the best schools
for women to-day are those which shall best
prepare them flor their new career. We have
purposely specified handicrafts and those pro-
fessions allied to handicrafts in the large future
of employment reckoning to them, because 1t
il even n more fatal error for women than for
men to divorce manual labor from culture In
their scheme Of existence Only as they dedi-
cate the swift hands to the fine brain will they
understand and honor both. 1t seems plain to
MS that the necessities Of the time must soon
make Greek, Latin, the higher mathematics,
and the branches which are called accom-
"plishments," electric studies, to be taken by
those students who have the time, the money,
and the desire for them, while the enforced
course shall be one adapted to tins present
bread getting, woodworking generation.