Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-08-21
A Great Want Supplied.

EDITOR INTELLIGENCRR:-For the past twenty
five years Lexington has been regarded as The
Headquarters for female education in Missouri.
The Elizabeth Aull seminary, under the control
of the Presbyterian church; the Baptist Female
I College and the Central Female College of the
Southern Methodist church. are all conducted by
gentlemen we'll qualified to discharge their high
md responsible duties, and all these seminaries
are Justly regarded rs first elias institutions, OF
learning. There is no community in the west.
or indeed in any part Of the United State better
! provided with all the appliances of female educa-
| ten, and the liberal patronage enjoyed by each
of the above named Institutions shows that the
parents and guardians of young ladies' through
out the state are fully alive to the importance of
female education. This being the case the
question has often been asked, why is 1t that go
much care has been taken to supply all the ad-
vantages Of learning for young ladies while so
little has been done for the youth of the other
sex : who, as q general rule with some. excep-
tons, are permitted to grow up in comparative
ignorance, or arc given only such advantages as
are obtained in the common schools OF the
country. Thus far no satisfactory solution OF
| this question has been given, and year after year
We have been obliged to witness this injustice.
No first class schools especially for young
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too many instances the result of the
neglect Is painfully manifest in the idle
and dissipated habits necessarily acquired
for the want OF more rational and intellectual
employments. Had they enjoyed the advantages
of IN enlarged and cultivated taste; had they
| received, In youth, q classical and finished
education, fitting them to adorn society and
furnishing u never failing source Of enjoyment
ut home, there would have been few in com
parisou to frequent the billiard rooms and drink
ing saloons, which furnish attractions to so
many, Alas, that 1t should be so : and vet the
| truth cannot be denied. An intelligent female
society alone furn lshes to young men one OF the
| greatest incentives to virtue and morality. anu
throws around them an atmosphere of purity
and safety, which elevates and ennobles every
| instinct of their nature. Deprive them OF thai
influence. and they sink Mt once to u level lar
below what they would otherwise occupy. IL
deprived Of the advantages of education, how
Gun they appreciate and enjoy cultivated anu
refined female society Knowing their in
| feriority they are driven to seek their associates
among q lower and more consenlal class. Par
ents are more culpable than the unfortunate
| young men themselves, who. by their neglect
have been as 1t were, driven beyond the pale OF
virtuous and refined association, which they
have neither the taste nor capacity TO ENJOY.
| All this 1t is to be hoped will be remedied In the
future, and that a community so able to bestoW
these advantages upon their children Will repair
the wrongs ofthe past by using double diligence
in the future.
By the liberality of one OF our citizens an
elegant and suitable building has been purchas-
ed, and is being fitted up for the purpose OF es-
Publishing a permanent institution of learning
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