, 1877-08-04

thus accomplishing something toward
the elevation Of the race.
Those who tear that women will un-
sex themselves hy entering the learned
professions are the very ones that drive
them TO it, by forcing them to become
servants and hirelIngs for less wages for
doing the same labor as is paid men.
The sad way in which women unsex
themselves need not DC named, But
when we drive them to the factory, to
the sewing room, to the shop ard the
kitchen do We not pave the way for them
to unsex thcmselvcr. They must per,
70 m this drudgery or starvc. They are
not as \ class sufficiently cultivated to
assume IA higher rate. There is no es-
cape from it but in matrlmony, and nine
times out of ten, marriage Is only eX-
changing hard contractor to become
the bond servant of still harder task
master.
A vast majority of men when they
marry do it for selfish motive; tor
economy's saGe; to have their tritiing
wants attended to; because they arc
tired of hireling servants; they want II
nurse; q servant; they want ownership
in somebody; It's not wife, compan-
ion, an equal they are looking for; so
when they tiNd some poor young girl,
who Is sick of the restraint Of an un-
happy home, or one homeless, toiling for
the pitance of her daily bread and
scant wardrobe; whose lack of educa-
tion units her Tor my high and nobler
calling; who sees no way to better her
condition than to accept, the two be-
come one, that is the man is one and the
wsman is the cipher; the former con-
tinues the same round of life as before,
seldom curtailing an extravaganza or dis
carding his darling vices, but cxacts the
most rigid virtue and faithful service
from his better half, often narrowing her
life and making her service more un-
bearable than hireling's.
Now there 10 remedy for all this
false, hcartless life. The universities ol
Europe are open to women. There are
over eighty female students in the Uni
yersity Of Paris alone. In Austria, Hun
gary anu Russia particularly, female
doctoresses are well patronized and re,
markably successful. There is no reason
nothing but prejudice, to prevent them
from succeeding in all the professions,
all the sciences, the fine arts, in fact all
the higher callings OF life, il they will
take the same course Of study that men
take to fit themselves Tor 1t.
But without this preparation, this
study, they cannot succeed. Because
they are women does not fit them for
doctors or anything else. A female i'm
poster is entitled to no more considera-
tion than male. A quack in petticoats
is as contemplate as one in pants.
They both make dupes of their victims
and business for those who by education,
training, practice and experience have
fitted themselves for their calling. There
is NO intuitiVe way Of entering any of
the nobler occupations. Thorough prep
aration alone opens the door.
Seldom do men or women, when
properly trained for their calling, tail,
unless overtaken and overwhelmed by
disaster. 1t is dishonesty in business,
sham in the professions and shoddy in
society that makes lamcntable and ridic
ulous failures. Trained intellect wins
and rules everywhere. If women really
wish to succeed in any profession or
calling they must go through course
OF preparation.
Professional men are not honored be-
cause they are men. 1t is their trained
intellect and acquired talents that COM
mands homage. We cannot long afford
to keep the doors of our learned institu-
tions closed to women. There are too
many of the sex already, whe are com
PEELED to earn their own living, to permit
men to monopOlize all the desirable oc-
cupations because they are trained for it
and women not. Our universities will
follow the EurOpen example. Several
have done SO already. When women