, 1874-08-02

To ut Editor Of the Afn |oyk Tribune:
SIR: Horace Mann once said: II hold it
morally impossible for God to hare created. in
the beginning, such men aud women AZ We find
the human race, in their physical condition. now
to be-" Ii God didn't make them, WHO then
did is the question which becomes prominent
in the search for remote and predlspohing
Causes. There come from day to day to every
practlcing phys can creator or less
number OF women who ere suppGauts
for the elixir Of health women who in
all their physical conditions are vory remote
from that being which comparative anatomy
places at the top round Of the ladder OF creation.
What Is most surprising is the number OF girls
and young wives who 60 to make up tuis list !;
indeed many ct than are from the ranks Of late-
ly graduated schoolgirls. who are duly bound in
parchment, and finished OF according to the lat
est edition from this OF that "Fomafe 1nsti-
tute." "a the phrase goes. How far is the
medical profession indebted to these '' Fo-
nalo Institutes" for tho evolution Of
can didates for it's multiplication tables
This is the question which occurred
to me recently while observing the commence
ment exercises OF one OF these colleges. Have
these young girls had 4 lair cbance to do and
become their best? True, they ars tied up ia
the very best quality OF white lace, siIr. and
satin bindlnsB. II they ever come to the mar
riage altar. they can have no finer paraphernalia.
Their faces are as colorless NJ their frocks.
Their frocks aro ued back Ia mode, 30 that
locomotlon is as graceful as that OF an unru1y
COW Which IL fettered to Keep it from jumping
fences. Is that the object Of tho tied back
skirt? The modiste has done her very best
to strap down the air passages and
cheat the blood OF the oxygen which, If
admitted, would substitute q rose -co1ored face
for q white one. Tae mir being shut OF from
the bellows, the clocutionist lus attempted to
cultivate voice over the vacuum. I wonder il
any organist could have played h,s solo il lie lad
tried that experiment on the organ. They tell
us how sweet and potent il low, soft voico in
woman, and indeed it's hard to dud anything
more persuasive amoug vocal sounds than tho
natural voice Of true woman who has some
thing good to say. aud pair OF ell-dlled lungs
by which to set her vocal chords in vibration.
Such voice will mako itself heard and felt,
even in tho Academy of Music, aud that to its re-
motost recesscs without tue suspicion Of that
most odious ct souBus-a scream Miss Cllsll-
man has ptoyed this
Recently one OF our preachers indicated very
forcibly tie difference betaeen "inssructing," :"
filling ill., "cramming," and educa1in3-de-
velopng. The S.rasbourg goose is instructed,
l. c., shut up aud crammed. 1t3 life is short and
sickly- The wild goose is educated, developed
By its own needs. aud is proverbtal'y tough and
long Lived. Ii it construction or education "
which rushes girls through school in sixteen
years at high-preEsure rates, and then lands
them in the doctors Office 2 Pat WAS shoveling
his rt-load when the boss came along and
told him 10 dump it. Down went the load. cart,
md horse over the embankment, while Pat CON-
placently remarked !: !" It's mighty convAuient
but trying to the beast" It's very good for the
doctors, bus trying for the elE]s.
MARY j. STuDLEY, IL. D.
NEW YonK, July Is, 1871