The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-07-21
CONCERNING WOMEN.

A woman a. Troy, N Y, Mrs. Elvira
Crabb, has taught little private school for
fhy years Though now over eighty, and
partially paralyzed, she keeps up her school.
She has taught four generations of one fami-
ly.
Married women, says an English journal
list, who are deserted by prohigate husbands,
nav start in business, and not only rear their
families decently but become admirable citi-
zsns. '.Yet as things are now arranged, the
law affecting their property and their hus-
bands power over it binders them in pursu-
ing this estimable career of Independence"
The mother of several children says: 81
devoted myself to the charge of my nursery;
/ attended IN person to the physical and
mental needs Of my young children. The
work was laborious but it has repaid me;
They are healthy, brave, honest. and frank.
thew are cursed with none of the small vices
contracted by intimate intercourse with per-
sons of inferior intelligence, and they are
selfsustaining at an early period. Neither
pert nor precocious, they ripeh early to judg
ment and common sense, and l believe that
the careful tillage Of my own little field has
produced a harvest worth the labor"
Miss Alice Bennett, NJ D., of Philadelphia
received from the old University of Penn.
svlvania at the commencement last week the
degree of Doctor of Philosophy. She wore
cap and gown. She is the first woman who
has been graduated with any degree from
the University OF Pennsylvania. Miss Ben
net was recently elected female physician
to have entire charge of the female depart
ment of the new Hospital for the Insane in
Pennsylvania. and she is the first woman
who has been assigned to duty of that kind.
She has been q professor in the'P Philadelphia
Medical College for about five years
A GOOD woman never grows old. Years
NAV pass over her head, but if benevolence
and virtue dwell in her head she is as cheer
full as when the spring of life first opened to
her view When we look upon a good wo-
man we never think of her age; she looks as
charming as when the rose of youth first
bloomed on her cheek. That rose has not
faded vet it viii never fade. In her neigh
borhood she is the friend and benefactor
Who does not respect and love the woman
who has passed her days in acts of kindness
and mercy-who has been the friend of man
and God-whose whole life has been scene
of kindness and love and devotion to truth?
We repeat, such a woman can not grow old.
She will always be fresh and buoyant it spir-
its. and active in humble deeds OF. mercy
and benevolence. If the young lady desires
to retain the bloom and beauty of youth, let
her not yield TO the sway of fashion and
folly: let her love truth and virtue; and to
the close of life she will retain those feelings
which now make life appear garden of
sweets fresh and ever new.
Rev. B. X. Pierce thinks the higher educa-
>tion and enlarging sphere of women will
have good result proper intellectual
training neither drives a woman from the
marriage relation nor units her for manual
service; but it enlarges the opportunities and
sweetens the sorrows and tolls that fall upon
her. The present era Is the hour of the high
est development of the race in society. In
the remarkable modern Struggle with social
evils, every one is called upon to bear his
portion of the burden. In all woman has
more than an equal interest. Her mental
training renders it impossible for her to re-
main unmoved during these discussions which
affect her most vital interests and the well
being Of society. She can not remain idle
and preserve her self-respect, SO she is press
ing out in all the lines of activity and useful
ness. For a time 1t may not seem clear Just
what business or profession she may properly
enter. She will try the experiment, and
there is no danger, for nature is stronger than
art or convention or usage. There has been
no evolution manifested from wOmanhoo1
toward mankind; the woman of patriarchal
ages was much ike the woman of to-day,
though customs have changed, and the social
position of woman has been wonderfully af-
: fected by Christianity. She will never be
aught but woman, if she practices IN the
Courts, becomes the experienced physician,
breaches from the pulpit, votes for School
Committee or President, edits a newspaper,
or keeps hotel. We have no doubt the out
come of the present intellectual and social
movement among women will be benign.
The world will gain workers in all lines of
charity. Men will have more cultivated
wives, and children better mothers, and
mothers healthier children, whom they will
inspire with more manly and Christian am
bition."