The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-10-22

| oeeu nlleu Dy man, ana the IaOor IHf'
has hitherto been performed by man, ia
o loan the graces and charms and virtu
md usefulness to woman, then they ar
not intended by her Creator for her, am
| ,he is out of her sphere when she is
recting her energies to them.
There are certain vocations that bot
sexes seem alike adapted to. Especially
is this the case in regard to teaching
but in this, as in so many other things
We find mans selfshuess cropping out
! lie says to the woman who has made
! thorough English scholar of his child
| 1t is only worth about half as much a
| if the same amount of knowledge ha'
been impaired by a man. This is al
wrong. 1t Is the great wrong that is t.
lay being imposed upon woman. Com
pensation for labor should be the sam
for one sex as the other. The true de-
fender of Woman's Rights is he who con
tends for equal compensation for tn
same labor | acknowledge with humil
iation the opposition that the profession
of medicine as a profession, has mad
against women becoming doctors of med
icine. View it from what standpoint
you may, the conviction will fasten itsel
upon you, that doctors are afraid thai
Woman will capture their profession and
monopolize it. Consider for a moment
the great number of medical colleges
that refuse to admit women as students
of medicine. The State Medical Socie
ties have passed resolution denying her
right even to be represented in them
The American National Medical Associa
ton, during its session in San Fran cisco,
offered formidable opposition to Prot
Thomas having a seat in the Convention
because he was teacher of medicine in
Woman Medical College. Falling,
resolution was offered declaring it the
sense of the National Medical Associa-
ton that no member of the Association
should consult with woman physician.
1t was a little amusing to see the vigor
with which Prof Horatio Belamy Steven
supported this resolution His great az
gument was that she was physically in
capacited. that she was not strong enough
/ There Were lady physicians listening to
him whose physical strength would have
been a match for pair like him
| stated that had seen women perform
ing almost all kinds of manual labor
But whoever heard of a coal HEAVIER max
ing strike because woman filed her
cart along side of him. Or of the Gran
gers resolving that they would not buy
or sell commodities grown or raised by
woman. 1t is just as certain that there
ls,.l Il
tors They have not offered such resolu-
tions because they know that woman was
I physically incapacitated to heave coal or
till the soil with her hardy sOns-that the
( innovation was an exception; likewise
should our profession have done. Quick
! ly would woman have demonstrated to
herself by actual experiment, that she
Was out Of her sphere. have not the
least doubt but that she will finally do it.
The very opposition Oegot fascination
in woman for the profession of medicine,
that it Will take ye rrs to dissipate.
Woman has shown herself much less
selfish in this respect than man, when
test, d. You have all heard of man-mil-
liners. of man -mantaumakers.. but you
never heard of a miiliners ring of wo-
men, or a mantaum ll<er 5 ring OF women
resolving that they would neither wear
pattern after the devices of a mans
brain, and the manipulation of his fingers
for woman's dress They accepted the
innovation with grace, knowing that it
was out of mans sphere, that time would
send him back to his proper field OF use
fulness.
The intellectual faculties of either man.
! or woman are equally as sensitive. They
alike glory that they were created in the
likeness and mIge of the Infinite, with
Il: i
in all that has been given US of good,
that as
" Grain within grain successive harvest dwell,
And boundless forests sIumber in a she'll"
SO may the mind ofeither man or woman
unfold in bOundless realm of thought,
leap from crag to crag, and laugh back
the storm.
A few thoughts for the young woman
Of this period, and | have done. | say
young woman, because there are no girls
now w-a-days. 1t is either baby or lady,
diaper or hustle. 1t is either shrinking
tmidly in her mothers arms, or taintin
in their lovers. repeat it. there are no
.irls nowadays. There is a couplet in
an old English ballad that says,
1.-THE girls c"urtesiei so low
They hid their ankles 'neaIh their gowns"
Girls don't have ankles now. The trans
lGlOn Is So faplu from DOOu 10 WO-
manhood, that there is really. practically
no time lett for maturing the mnd-tor
filing it with solid, useful matter Young
ladies, girlhood to you is all IA tn. You
can remember when you were babies, but
none of you can remember when you
We're little girls That which should have
been the happlest periods of your lives
is to you Al myth. 1t is not your fault,
and yet the responsibility lieth some
where. Some one is responsible for the
want Of perfect physical and mental de-
velopmrnt in woman. Whether the
error rests with your mother, your grand
mother, or your great, great grandmoth-
er, the facts and the results are still the
same. 1t is tor you to say that this chain
which fashion and time has so strongly
rvited around you, shall be burst asunder.
That this yoke, now CALLING the necks OF
the whole people shall be thrown oti, and
you assert your rights to girlhood, to
romp and play, to study, to think, to
learn, TO develop physically your forms,
to tighten every mental string, to fill
your storehouse of reason with intellec,
tual jewels, as a legacy for the coming
young lady. Then, it she wishes, let her
don the latest fashion. | must confess,
that, old as | am, / still have little
weakness for seeing upon a lady's head
love OF a bonnet, upon her form fash
ionable dress, with flowers and f1ounces,
and laces, and Iringes, and ruhles and
Outings. And while it is the style, CHG
Mons and waterfalls, curls and lrizzes
but, for the sake OF the future woman,
keep them of of little girls. Let their
dresses, however elegant, be plain and
simple. have seen little girls scarcely
longer than shingle so covered over