The Russellville Democrat., 1879-12-11
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THE INTELLECTUAL YOUNG LADY.


 THE INTELLECTUAL YOUNG LADY.
 Is Feminine Culture Dangerous to Both
 Sexes?
 London World.
 Although Lord Burghlev has just had to apologize for the remarks which he made on the subject of the education of the wives and daughters of farmers. there IS no doubt that there are many who, openly or secretly, agree with him. and extend his views beyond the limit of that class to which he made them ap. piicable. To all such the present aspect of the higher education of women" must afford materials for bitter reflec- ton. That not only there should be large and flourishing high schools for glris all over the country, but that in Cambridge there should exist the Cir ton and Nuneham colleges. and that in Oxford an animated effort should have been made to secure liberal instruction for girls over F and IS, must be peculi- arly painful to sensitive males of Lord Burghley's type. Rightly or wrongly. the tendency is to higher feminine cul- lure, and those who are neither bieots nor supporters of female suffrage must accommodate their sentiments to an unmistakeble wave of public opinion.
 Meanwhile there is no very clear idea as to what young ladies of intellect are hke. The ordinary male creed is very nearly summed up ill fear of them be- lore marriage and detestation of them after. The ordinary verdict of sisterlv opinion IS that they have bad manners. large hands and do not care about Paris Ian fashions. The criticism of their eld- CTS IS that they are much too forward, that they know nothing about butchers meat, and probably have never alarmed a stocking in their lives. Much of these aspersions may be true, but they are decidedly old-fashioned It is irrf- tating to find the question discussed as II It was yet an open one at the very mo- ment when the intellectually young lady is living reality. It IS fatuous to doubt the advisability when the thing is done. The phenomenon is to be seen in our drawing rooms, in our published litera- ture, and in our art schools; and many men find conversing with it to be by no means nnpleasat, though how far they like to make it their wife is, of course. another question. The fact is that there are as many differences between edueat- cd young ladies as there are among un- educated The traditional type which represents the lady of culture with cer- tain angularity of expression, and with spectacles, is now only known for it's morbid activity with regard to viyisec- ton and platform rhetoric. To it has succeeded types with more pleasing characteristics, and with destinations which have been known to lower the alarming average of spinsters. The young lady who will talk to you so agree ably and even fiippantly on lawntennis. will after dinner sing some wierd song of Schumann, and overthrow the pessi- mistic paradoxes of Mallock. The bright, quick-eyed damsel. who was first of the year at Girton college, is hurt if you do not also consider her finished yals- seuse. The girl with the wealth of gold en hair, which is the passion of artists, has probably been the author of that Striking criticism on Laplace's nebular hypothesis which made such sensation among the readers of solid "monthlies.''
 But of these modern combinations of elegance and wide learning, the most dangerous specimens are the ar- tisiic young lady and the young lady who is also a philosopher, Probably. the first Is the most dangerous of all, for she not only has the wit to be bewitching, but enough human sympathy to become so. The artistic and aesthetic young lady can attack you on every side. If you have weakness for archaic furniture and wallpapers of the approved Morrison type. so has she; If you own to the at. fractions of Venetion glass, she will dis. course to you about Salviati by the yard; If you are q constant attendant at tho Grosyenor gallery, she will confess to you with a grace which is all the more fascinating because 1t is obviously con descending, that Burne Jones' "Annun. citation" IS the finest picture in the mod ern world. She can play and she can sing; she knows all literature, and has even read Dcssing'e "Nathan der Weise.;, she will show why Theophile Gantier is a good novelist, or what elements of poetry there are in Walt Whitman. If you are a great friend, she will send von some of her own sonnets, full of sp,rit and fire, though possibly with too much insistence on attributes like solemn" or intense" and "melodious-h -heartedn J And with all this astonishing knowledee there is an obvious liking on her nart to sit at the end of the conservatory and forget all about the time.
 Less dangerous, though with gpecial powers of her own. is the philosopb;r young lady. IL is always pleasa mt for a ianguid and impassive manhood to sii at the feet of a Gamaliel espe cially if the Gamaliel be of the sex by corrtes,, called weaker. It is charming to learn from full and eloquent lips that poss.. ble descent from apes does not lower the attributes of q developed hunanitv and that conscience is, on the whole .ap incumbrance, which it is, therefore more worthy" to consider non-existing Besides, the philosophic young lady can always prove to you by her own reading Ii not by experience, that life is worth living for its own sake. and immediate eontiguity to her chair certainly does not tend to lower your appreciation of the fact The abstract labors of meta. physics do not ill the case of youth di. minish the concrete charms of n very | attractive personality; and thougb [, may be doubtful whether Herbert Snen. cer or Compte be right in the classified. tion of the sciences, there is no manner of doubt that pretty woman who dc cides such points in the intervals of A valse IS more than match for your own eelibete philosohy. "
 From all which considerations the con. clusion Is patent that more dangers lurk