Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-04-13

fpmale EuUCallOll.
Some real aud positive good viii come out
of the Female Suffrage agitation. ir it leads
society to look for the remedy Of woman's
remodiable wrongs in the right direction.
Nor have we any doubt that one Of the ulti-
mate effects Of this movement, iIl-iudged as
we certainly esteem it, will be the higher cd
ucatiou of women Woman has oltcn been
unfairly dealt with. She has been admired,
hattered, loved but not sufficiently respected
and honorcd Now we venture to say that
she would not be the less charming if she had
more intellectual culture and power. The
same accuracy, logic and method that are
aimed at in the education of men should be
sought in that Of women. We have no fear
that an extended mental and physical culture
will take them out Of their true sphere. III
will rather enlarge it, and make them more
efficient in the performance Of their necessary
duties. Culture never diminshes manhood
nor will it ever diminish true womanhood. IT.
will invest it with a higher charm as it clothes
it with superior power There is nothing
in broad, exact and scientific learning to unfit
woman to be good wife mother and
teacher With the best education she could
manage household, bind wound, teach
child or engage in womanly work, as well as
the most uulcarned woman Of her day We
welcome every tendency Of the age to advance
to the very highest grades, female educa-
ton. We believe in it ms one of the most
efficient Of the remedies for the evils to which
women are subject 1t would deliver them
from many Of the trials and inequalities of
which they justly complain, and for which
they are seeking remedy in another
quarter.
Miss Liiian Edgartoa and Catherine
Beecher have struck the key mote of the mu-
sic to which women will march to their best
status and their poblest usefulness. In ad-
vocating, as these ladies do, aud as we most
certainly do with them, better aud more cx-
act training for women, we are not to be sup
posed. however 70 imoc;ne that mon and wo.
mo, ara hy cducot;o, 10 bo ,oo1o olil-o -. ava
intended to fulfil most Of the same Offices.
We think the law Of scy RIM. tlrouob tho
entire structure or man ord Woman ,na ,bo,
there is boundary line existing between
tbcir intelocts which cannot bo n,sso1 ovo.
from either side The same training onnl;od
to both would therefore inevitably pro5nco
dissimilar results. No education conl5 mako
them Ike and eoual to each other So we
have M fc,r that the Same educ,tion o,rr;od
to ifs bicbcst limits would mako bom nm.
nleas,ntIy alike If would No, ,ron.la,, ,ro.
mons f,cultic. into mons I, would orly
make more Of their own Tbore oro soma
things which FRO alike cood far all ,reos cha
LIGHT. air and moisturo of heaven the rich.
ness and strength or tho soil bri ~, ono ~
pects nv furnishing similar ADVANTAGE. 70 al
the trees or tbe orest IN tnrn -, ool into
mamie or n cedar of I.eb,non into nalr,
treo He wonld only ovnoc, 10 m.lo ,ho
most of each. lis nv an eonol and rorc.c,
education that the heat Of eacb soy NAV bo
produced. There are some natural dig.roncos
tbat conld not bo cbon,oa Thoro o,o son,o
peculiar faculties that lie dormant in either
sex and if wonld do M harm If tboy oor,d
be BROUGHT ont and fosterea II wo,Id h. o.
no ipiury 10 men 10 have n lino Of tbo native
tact and refinement which belono 70 voron
1t would be of no harm IN women 70 bo,o
small portion of the cool iudgmont and corr
age which belong TO men If in tbo oduc,
ton of the sexes there shoull he similar
curriculum il wonld cultivate both n ,r;eo
against the crai, and tbu. their o,rn natural
gifts might be carried 70 n bigbcr norf.ot;on
Delicacv woula not he tbe los. # II was ;o;noa
10 n disnossiono,o and ovoo, r.oson -;
tions wonld be ouito ,s ,iLoly 70 ho r;.h, ;cl
connecied with , sohor ira,,,,e,, So..s...n,
in man would reacb a Iog,ior G,r.o ~ :, ~os
married to refinement and warm omot;on.
Ii would hinder no legitimate ofIi.o Of women
if she should bo trained n nhys;ool ondnr
ance and COURAGE If ism great mis,,te 70
suppose that hardness must 90 with ,ood
common sense. and th,, tho b,oon 81 I'll.
ness and sweetness will he snoilod hS v;,o.
and courage Courago add. = now obo,n, -
feminine character There i a ro.,lior r.,.o
and dignity in the lofty beroism with whioh