The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-24

Bishop Simpson, in recent lecture TO
the young lady graduates of the Louis
Vile Female High School, did not seek
to impress his hearers with the idea that
their forms were cast in too delicate
molds, that their brains were too soft,
and their muscles too fabby to enable
them TO successfully reach the same
scholastic attainments as their brothers,
but on the contrary, spoke to them of
their natural ability to acquire useful
knowledge; of the necessity of compre-
hending and observing the laws of health,
and of their duties and relations to
society and to home and its surround
ings. In pointing out the mischievous
mistakes made in the education of girls,
he was as eloquent as practical. Begin
ming with the all-important subject Of
health, he mercilessly ridiculed the idea
still entertained by many, that cherish
ing an indisposition and nursing chronic
complaint as a luxury, was ladylike
requirement, while he potently demon
strated that the foundation of true
beauty, the source of social grace and
power, and even the exercise of the
highest religious enjoyment was founded
upon rosy, robust health. The first stag
in the education of young lady was
the education of her body, without a
knowledge of which brilliant endow-
ments and splendid accomplishments
were of no avail.
In speaking of education, he said that
one of the most grave mistakes in re-
gard to it was the belief that education
consisted merely in acquisition or pro-
cess of learning, whereas it should be q
drawing out, rather than taking in. a
quickening and training of ones own
capacities, and preparation of the mind
for future attainments, without which
the results of years of toll become mere
matter of memory, and the mind, like
an old store-r0om, map of chaos and
confusion. Another great mistake fire.
quently made in the education of girls,
was graphically delineated by DR.. Simp-
son, namely, that of thinking they can
learn everything, and forcing them to
pursue certain branches, like drawing
and music, for which they have no tastes
or talents. He argued that in the edu-
cation of girls, like boys, special capaci-
ties, when they manifest themselves,
should be cultivated and developed. In
speaking of home and society, he depre-
Gated the still too prevalent idea that
girls must be educated only as ornaments
to society, whereas society is the excep-
ton and not the rule of life, and con-
cluded his very instructive and highly
entertaining lecture with the following
eloquent and truthful peroration:
One more mistake let me guard you
earnestly against, that brilliancy and
genius are of more importance than
character Let me assure you that even
as condition of success there is nothing
that tells like character. His virtues
were his means, was said of one of our
most distinguished public men. Il
would give $l0,000,' said disreputable
merchant, for character, because /
can make 100000 out of it, But,
above all, for your own sake, be it your
aim to be good rather than to be gifted,
to be virtuous rather than brilliant, to
be worthy of respect rather than re-
spected.
"Thnk truly and thy thoughts
Shall the worlds famine feed;
Speak truly and each word of thine
Shall be q fruitful seed
Live truly and thy life shall be
great but noble creed"
The friends Of woman's advancement
can desire no greater encouragement
than the PRONUNCIATION of views like those
of Professor Huxley and DR.. Simpson,
manifesting as they do the progress
which the educational cause of woman is
making, which eventually must greatly
facilitate and hasten her elevation to that
position of social, civil, political and re-
ligious equality, to which the mothers