The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-04-04
Education Of women.

Speaking generally, the training
and discipline that are most suitable
for the one sex in early life are also
the most suitable for the other (;
and the education and culture
that fill the mind of the man
will prove equally wholesome for the
woman. Indeed, all the arguments
which have yet been advanced in favor
Of higher education for men, plead
equally for the higher education of
women. In all the departments Of
home intelligence will add to wOman's
usefulness and efficiency. twill give
her thought and forethought, enable
her to anticipate and provide for the
contingencies Of life, suggest imprOv-
ed methods of management, and give
her strength in every way. In strong
er mental power she will find a
stronger and safer protection against
deception and imposture than in mere
innocent and unsuspecting ignorance;
in moral and religious culture she will
secure sources of influence more pow
erful and enduring than the physical
attractions; and in due self-reliance
and self-independence she will discov-
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fort and happiness.
But while the mind and character
of women ought to be cultivated with
view to their well-being, they ought
to be educated literally with a view
to the happiness Ofothers. Men them
selves cannot be sound in mind or
morals If women be the reverse; and
If, as we hold to be the case, the NOR
al condition Of q people mainly de-
pends upon the education of home,
then the education CT women Is to be
regarded as q matter of national impOr-
tance. Not only does the moral char
acter and the moral strength of man
find its safeguard and support in the
moral purity and mental cultivation
of women, but the more completely
the power of both are developed, the
more harmonious and well-Ordered
society will be-the more safe and
certain its elevation and advance
ment.
But while it is certain that the char
aeter of a nation will be elevated by
the enlightenment and refinement OF
women, il is much more than doubt
full whether any advantage is to be
derived from her entering into COM
petition with man in the rough work
of politics. Women can no more do
mems work in the world than men
can do women's. And wherever wO-
man has been withdrawn from her
home and family to enter upon other
work, the result has been disastrous.
Indeed, the efforts of some of the best
philanthropists have of late years
been devoted to withdrawing women
from toiling alongside of men in the
coal pits, and factories, nail shops and
briekyards.
There is, however, one special de-
partment of woman's work demand
ing the attention of all the female re-
formers, though il is one which has
hitherto been unaccountably neglect.
ed. We mean the better econOmizing
and preparation of human food, the
waste Of which at present, for want o.
the most culinary knowledge, is little
short of scandalOus. If that man Is
to be regarded as a benefactOr of his
species who makes two stalks of corn
grow where only one grew before, not
less is she to be regarded as a public
| benefactOr who economies and turns
to the best practical account the food
products of human skill and labor
The improved use of even our exist
ing supply would be equivalent to al
extension of the cultivable acreage
of our country-not to speak of the
increase in health, economy and do
mestic comfort. Were our female re.
formers only to turn their energies il
this direction with effect, they would
earn the gratitude of households, anC
be esteemed as among the greatest o,
all practical philanthrOpists.