New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-17
THE WOMEN'S CONGRESS.
ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF
WOMEN.

hail ana the corridors crowded. Mrs. L. b. ooheI
invoked the divine blessing after which the Rev. An
gnsta e. Bristol spoke on Enlightened Motherhood hrs
+. q. Lowering Of Concord n H. and Mrs. Elizabeth
Churchill Of Rhode Island followed On the samo
subject,
Mrs. Henry b. Stanton asked what would be thought
OF an artist who should f his studio with distorted
forms, and yet that what American mothers were
doing. They were filing the world with orippes and
monsters Men had taught that woman's greatest
glory TO bear children but John Stuart Mill said. IL
greater to give the world one hon than ten Jack
asses They must teach the rising generation OF girls
that numbers was not their glory, but quality IL was
not the duty OF every and woman TO be parents
and that was why infaDticide common. IL was
easier to create type Of noble manhood than regen-
crate the present type
Mrs. julia Ward Howe would DO deeply mortified d
any sanction OF infanticdo should go forth from that
meeting. Mrs Stanton hoped that the majority OF the
audience did not understand her to speak in favor OF in
fanticde. She only spoke of it fact There was as
much Of 1t as ever and would be until every woman
was the sovereign OF her own person II woman was
diseased, II she had q husband who was incorporate
and licentious the fewer children she the better
Elizabeth Peabody of Boston, who introduced the first
Kindergarten into the United stases explained briefly
the nature Of the institution Mrs. Socum spoke on the
necessity OF enghtenng mothers as TO their RESPONSE
bilties Mrs Churchill read paper prepared by Hrs
Elizabeth b. Chase OF Rhode Island Prison Reform
Mrs. Caroline A. sOuo Of NewYork read compre-
heDsve paper on the necessity Of professor
ship in mixed colleges. Tho speaker said that at the
OF a. when left a widow with five children except
for her academic she would have had ~ JOIN inc
great army OF seams,Tesses clearinghouse keepers
Instead OF that having been taught her intellect
her pen had become lever with which she had elevated
herself out OF the pit OF poverty and misery. hail
education was the curse OF the world. IL was not t
educated, but the uneducated woman who should DC
terror The most highly educated woman considered no
labor beneath her dignity God never meant TINS Word
be great Shaker house. with the one Sd'
and the women on the other In the mixed COLLEGES
there ought 10 be at least woman proessoI
ships. The mother element must be blended win the
father element and tho students, male ana Ieua.e'
would then have continued 10 them in college the ostf
ing influences Of home.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The afternoon session began with paper on " The
Higher Education OF Woman" by Prof. Maria Mitchell.
She referred to the condition OF education IN England
where the poorer classes OF women are more Ignorant
than poorer classes in America, and the highly edu
Gated more highly educated than best educated IN
America. She brief history Of woman education
England. and OF the attempts made To gam women
admission into the Universities. Grdoh NOHtge ~
specially selected for the education OF women us
professors all senior wraugers OF Cam jriako wi
yersity and already three students have passed exam
inatOus which IN Cambridge would enutle young man
10 degree Cambridge University, however, refused
Girdou as one OF ts colleges bnt oy anu ~
when Girdou has achieved reputation, AZ II asHurey
wi-fOr already its students have become ilusrlnIs
tbot Old conservative seat OF learning VIII b.
proud to take the college under Its piOtec,
non In America woman students have not reached
me highest GRADES of educa on as In England. Thor
progress there however has been the work OF ne ana
nine years ago, IN social science congress, grave uu
learned men solemnly discussed the question TO the
adySaOllity Of educating women beyond CERTAIN HtiSt'
In this country the good work u going on ana Jus. us
women will be ready 10 take advantage or IL ana snow
that they able TO approach and master tne ZANE
studies those with winch thclr more fortunate uIoih
ers had had the credit OF being solely able TO con
Ms Henry h. stanton read paper on "Tle Coednca-
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the States thrown open 10 girls or should fresh col
Lees Inc raised for themI IL would be easier to throw
opeu the colleges that did exist. Nothing but the
cochet5 of few distempered minds stood III the way
bows and ouIy four girls. While over S6,oOoOGO i,
expended the education OF boys only ntte over
S aoC COO Is devoted to the training OF girls She adyo
Gated the opening all the colleges in every state 10
girls IA wen as boys But SOME are dy 70 oagect
that it would have deterorating efect on tue srs,
while al the same time II would tend to distract the
boys from their Legitimate work II the morals OF the
colleges are bad ~ these o.Dectors wOulu lnaAe
them appear, why do they send their boys % such
abodes OF iniduityi Ii it would be bad tor the
t slTi' tbe bows to be there Tue truth
s,tha the Introduction OF women into the oolleses
would have ciVilizing and moraizng influence on tc
male students. Wherever cOeducatOn las eAIs'eu II
has been found 10 WORK admirably. The one sex sthu-
late ana help the other. They SIT side ~ sde anu e
college thus becomes pervaded with sacred nome hnl
cnce which will be wanting II women are eAcIuleui II
has also said that girls not ~ competent pnl
icay 10 undergo college studies "a boys Ihdt his nor
been proved and moreover, the same movement ti
advocates the elevation of tho studies OF women
also aims at relieving them from the tamne!s
of dress and social obseryances which now 9ppress
them and prevent their physical growth, Ine feai
something 10 do Numbers OF American giils are are
at this moment IN unatio a. lums, Simply D.faus -, ~
have been driven to lunacy b. having nothng 10 90
When the higher branches Of study are spteNl out "
fore girls, their ambition and nat 10Y, Vi ~ @ ,
VIII be excited, aud they Will suffer iIOh no note ~
haustng emai. The truth is that tho old 1ea o. We
inferOry OF the female sex stl holds sway. WOMAN -
Inferior 10 man. ana therefore is 10 he shut OUT ron
places OF learning where man can acquire te MN
branches Of science But what 90 you seel 80
college where women have had fair chance Oh com
cnng with men they have S6 t DeI'e dav and it is
the girls turn now. II there Is any nch | ,n az
in the audience who ls gong 10 de ana eIse g
a college, she had better pause. II enc le1 ~
money college that excludes women rom us man,
she herself deserves Do excluded from that Ms"oS'
sphere Of education in the world TO come. or
Mrs. sarah j. spencer. President OF the BOARD t
tees OF tho Girls Reform school ashstn' 49, me
lowed tue subject shortly after she peSan' 'o
Congress adjourned until the evening
EVENING SESSION
At the evening session Mrs Spencer continued her al
dress She argued that was Of the SOUL ana was AZ
indestruotible as the soul itself The TINE eApreu"'4
the paper not finished.
The Rev. Celia Burieigh read a paper on The hei1'
tions ~ Woman TO her Dress" Women be free TO
adopt any style Of dress that they may choose 9
has subugated woman. and made her unable to meet
man on an equality Even the ballot can do niue lot
her unless she be emancpated from Inc ylaim2
Of dress The present dress Is ugly unnatural anu iii
paper on the needs and claims OF women teachers,
prepared Jointly by Harriet Beechcr stowe and CathTe
Beecher, read by the President Mrs Cnaroi,e
wibour, President OF s1rosis, read paper on we u,
yiulabe Home" she opposed the custom OF jaIlios
residing IN bOardi nghOuses aDd hOtrt Inc seSsIoh
was then adjourned until ths morning.
To-DAY's PROGRAMME.
The programme for to-day IS ne follows Morning ses
sion-Helen D. Potter, the Art Education OF Woman
the Rev A Blackwell. on the Relation Of Womans "orA
In the Household her Work outside; DR.. T. Jaeop'
on the social Aspects Of the ReadissOn OF omen NV
the Medical Profession; Miss L. H. Chandler, on MOeI
hood. r.or
Afternoon sesson.-Nrs Frances @. willard Dean
OF the University, EvansJowD. ILL.,, the New Deps,
ture IN WUmans Educatou Mrs Elizabeth N Chureu..'
on the Duties OF Woman in the Temperance cause MI,
Harriet n. Austin NJ ID, the Effects Of Dress Oh
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