Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-08-28
Education OF Women .

Our modern life is in some respects
drying up, and our young men are too
often mere sticks, without living idea
Of generous inspiration. They some
times do their utmost to spoil young
women, and young women repay the
folly with added grace and assiduity.
The true womanhood in its quick per-
ccptiou, ready wit, flashing intuition,
personal devotedness, and high fidelity
must come to the rescue. She must
show US that under her Interpretation
reason is not cold and heartlcss ra-
tionalisnl, tut genial, loving wisdom,
with ray as glowing as it is luminous
for our pathway and our home. She
can teach US that virtue is not hard
law, q dull Journalism, harsh negation,
but a living inspiration, drawing power
from the eternal love, and going forth
in healthful freedom to its couflict and
to its peace. All men moy confess for
share of weakness to the ring Of
pretty girls who are found almost eve
rywhere trying to make mediocrity
charming, and to keep up the old rou
tine of empty show aud petty clique.
We understand in some degree the
power Of that ring of eraces when they
pass into favored establishments, the
pet wives Of husbands whose princi-
pies and aspirations arc not always bet
ter by this charming pctticoat govern
ment. But among the girls and mat
rons VIC have seen enough Of what a
true woman can be to make us wish and
strive that she may be moro frequent
fact and power in these new times that
threaten dangers as we'll as promise
privileges, and call upon men and wo-
men to study together the science and
the art Of the social order which they
are to suffer or to enjoy together. We
often call our time the age of mechan-
ism, but it ought to be the millennium
of ideality and faith. for within all the
facts Of nature and history mysterious
forces move, and over all the supreme
love presides. If men arc too often
forgetting tho more humane and divine
view Of the universe, and becoming as
soulless as the machiaes by which they
make their money, women do not tend
that why, and even their faults vindi-
cate the emotions, and do not wholly
deny the ideal sphere. The true cul-
ture under the supreme guidance will
give woman due power for mems sake
as we'll as her own, and bring the mar
vclous quickness Of her perceptions,
the Hash OF her intuitions, aud the
richness of her genius into the true life.
She has more genius than man in pro-
portion to the measure of her faculties,
and Hartnlon we'll says that young men
should associate with women for the
best incentive, for you can find men in
their books, but women must be seen
in actual society to be appreciated. They
have ccrtainly done wonders in our age
by their books, and the century that
has given US Corinne, Consuclo: and
Ron'o1a may, before it closes, show us
a type Of society worthy Of the woman.
ly fascination that appears in. those
pages. If they con do SO much ia
print, where so much Of their form,
movement, and spirit is kept back, what
will they not do in society when full
culture is given to their powers, and
full sweep is allowed to their graccs and
charms? Perhaps there is danger that
they will have too much power, and
inperil masculine sense by their witch
ing art. If SO, tho remedy is in more
education, not less, and new day will
come when women will have science
enough to check their frequent folly,
and to bring tar-seeing wisdom to the
service of their beautiful tastes.-Har-
pcr$' Magazine for September.