New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-18
THE WOMAN'S CONGRESS.
HIGHER OPPORTUNITIES SOLICITED.

TiilkD DAfS SESSION or THE ASSOCIATION FOR TIN
AsEfIoRArI0S or woMEs-EssAYs BY MRS. L.
CINDA b. CHANDLER MRS. ANToISBTTE H. BLACK
WELL MISS HELEN L. d. POTTER, AND oTHERs
The Congress of the Association for the Anne
Iteration OF Woman held its third days sessos yeste
day in theaer OF the Union League Club. The
Mrs L0zee opened with prayer. BY IOs q. m. every
available scat occupied. Mrs Lucinda r. chandler
read a paper on Motherhood" THO foundation Of an
enlightened motherhood, she said. lay Of her
responsibility. This must be ante-natal well
post-natal In this, man mus! aid che woman.
Man buIt FOR outward use for Inward capacity
power and happiness Mans strength was In wain
and muscle woman's in brain and soul. hotherhooo
was not appreciated respected Her power In con
sructing completing the mental and moral qnahnes
OF the child uDdreamed Of with increased nentai
dey elopment. she protosted a0ainst being iaennhod
with the maternal Office Motherhood must DO enlght
ened through physiological teaching In school, inoludsg
everything that physiology could teach For the cure %
all social OWLS the world must await enlightened
motherhood. Religion. science and philanthropy coui
DO the world higher good than thus 10 exalt woman
hood
The Rev Antonette b. Biackwol's paper in the reia
ton woman's the household 10 womans WORK
outside next read. The work nearest and dearest
10 woman was that within family boundaries, work
which OF them would like 70 resign But did It Sl
low that there work for them ousidet Taey bo
eyed in State Rights properly administered. the sats
OF matrimony included Is utter destruction for
any human beng 20 DO compressed within any human
mold. II the majority o. women could DO hommoG In
| by home duties, It woud DO destruction Bet
| ter indulge In outslie dissipation. Think
mother shut hours in the nursery. occupied
practiclng the beattudes teaching them 10 her shn
drenl Should we then say that had enough to
do in the household without going outsldee Certainly
not. Every woman was In imperative need Of daily
distinct change OF thought and employment. n was
very poor and unskilfu better go out and pick rags
|
hours every day. and the husband DO humanised ty
| Ing bis hand at breadmaking and babytendng They
needed regular redistribution IN the apporttonnoDt Of
duty Each had right 10 choose her work
apporioning 1t TO home needs. Whatever work was mes
detrimental to the home life, woman might follow. Tho
cooperation OF must reach into science. art reii
ion. and the State Tenderness was not incompatible
with intellect. and men and identeal-as-
5Ocistes and not rivals.
Mrs Julia Ward Howe read letter from ladys-tbe
editor Of Italian paper published in Fioronee-e1-
pressing sympathy with the CODgress The Art IN
cation OF Woman" noXtdisousset in paper by Mis-
Helen L. D. Potter She advocated the establishments OF
industrial and technical schools in every town. Why
should the most skilled work be done in Europe or BIZ
foreigners when and women OF as good abilities
we're waiting for occupation heref The time was nss
distant It 10 be hoped, when Americans would Do
able to compete with Europeans IN art aud Industry
Industrial art and high art in America far behsd.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe thought. that. when Americas
was held up to satire and condemnation 1t was won
also 20 give IL due credit what 1t had done. Sho
ferred Sir. Benjamin West and 20 Mr.. Bradford. an
American artist in England. In Rome thore vere
5crmau Italian studios prominent as slose OF
American men and women. great deal OF 'ne cheese
sold English IN England came from America
/ Domestic architecture had made great progress here
The mass of people had better weings than In any
country the earth As the speaker went through
brush so great wasthe hlth Russell Quincy said 10
the speaker recently that there were no dwellings As
English waterlngpaces equal to tue maenlhceht villas
| at Newport.
Mrs. Re6ecca Morse thought thot America had not
given sufficient attention 20 the Industrial arts, aud
hence there had been slow progress Ihe lady aru.ts
| Of New-YOrk not banded to help one another
Many young aspirans had been met and crushed By IN
! Just criticism at the very outset
been able take their pictures into the Royal Acad
envy. Many women last year put mems names 10 thei
pictures and sent ill., and wore put high up at
once She urged her hearers not TO despair Du1 0Wsk
and hope for the result
AFTERNOON SESSION
At D. m. the Executive Committee met TO consider
an the Constitution 10 the effect that any
woman who paid s. and signed the Constitution should
be admitted to membership. As 1t believed tirat
this proposed by the Rev. Celia Bureigh and
onded BY Mrs Isabella Beecher Hooker with a view
10 Introduce a certain element Into the association
great interest manifested in the result OF tina
Committees deliberations. At D. IN. the theater
and adjacent hall aud corridors were crowded
large number of school teachers being in the audience
The result Of the Committees deliberations not
social Aspects OF the Readmission Of Women into tbs
Medical Profession" was read by Miss Kate Hiniard-
The argument maintained that wOman's function
mother did not exclude her from outside occupations.
In early times the industrial occupations were carried
on In the house by the mother and her mai1ens. wne
the were employed In lighting. SUI later, while
the husbands and Orot hers were welding the sword
The women pled the agrcutural inpemehIs
Women were at the present. engaged In number
less ayocations apart from their maternal duties
II it assumed that women ought not 10 work, IN
order that they might bear more children, theunswer
that 1t had been proved that women who worked
bore children than those who did The
VI women IN the medical profession would profit them
IN every department. They would then be regarded
capable for any other occupation; tney would Dc con
sidered worthy OF better pay, and 10 would be in
The enlightenment Of mothers and the hap
piness OF children would be greatly extended
Oy the larger introduction OF into the medical
profession fhe success OF woman IN Intellectual labor
was the rorerunner OF her success IA natofal la
governing before they mad acquired high intellectual
standing. When 1t was shown that women were OK
Guided from the medical schools OF NewYork. Boston.
andPhiladepha, was II any wonder that those women
who practced medicine did not the confidence Of
only be expected tor women when eqnss
time. money, and intellect had been expended
higher red education must be endowed The Michigan
University, the Female Medical College OF Philadelphia,
were the only duly recognized medical schools that
admitted women. Yet women needed all the appliances
II was required ut for intellectual work whs
had hitherto been limited TO rouiine 10 prepare Tor the
highest intellectual functions women hitherto confined
the lowest; to render capable OF the hardest sen
reliance In the most difficult emergencies women
hitherto accustomed 10 rely on other peoples
train TO exact observation women whose poreeH
reasoning women habituated TO vague intutions TO
force impartial scrutiny OF facts women who had pre-
ferred TO ia back on thelr moral sehs. 70 Is
OF knowledge to give scientific discipline ana eru
dillon unacquanted with themeest rodtine %
scieuce 10 educate in the difficult the most com
pick the most extensive the most necessarily growing
OF all arts-the art OF medicine women nearly
destitute OF any education, deserving 70 be called
superior in word to raise to one OF the highest POSI-
lions the gift Of society women VINO always mad hed
subordinate