The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-05-13

Mrs. Perryman will give an enter
tainment upon the closing Of her
school the 2Sth instant.
The Hanna Blanks was welcomed
TO our port and corps of our town
inspectors having examined her, pro-
her good. We did not go
aboard, but will take their word
she's beauty.
Can young ladies 10 admitted to tho
State University ?-Alonroc Bulletin.
We reluctantly enter the lists of con-
trovelsy upon Il question at once SO del
icatc and important as the above, yet
our consideration of tho subject leads
their co education at our State institu-
ton. We must, therefore, coincide
with the views entertained by the
editor OF the Bulletin, and rciterate the
non-provisional character of any
statuatory enactment, looking to such
an end, us we'll as endorse his pertinent
remarks in reference to the sphere Of
| woman, as far rs this cO-educatiOn is
concerned. In SO doing, we do not
| trench upon her beauty, lovelincss and
intelligence, and especially the latter
in its adaptation, as well as its innate
receptivity to the higher or even the
highest branches of learning, but our
glorious civilization has placed her in
that lofty position of dignity, grace
and reverence, which finding a happy
similitudc in the lovely attractiveness
and powerful persuasivcness of her
illustrious protolypeN melted the heart
Of the Father of our race and caused
him by his self sacrificial Offering to
entail "unutterable wocs'' upon the
human race.
1t is thus to-day We love, admire and
revere her, and in the modcsty which
adorns her feminincss, we behold the
pure nugget OF character, free from the
dross of nasculinity. Therefore,, we
arc not of those who would place her
| in the same institution of learning to
become even approximately contami-
mated by Il view of the rough edge of
mans nature. We would rather clois-
ter her among her own scX and from
tho
"Yc modest, tipped ilowcr,"
let her burst into all the rich maturity
of maternal attractiveness. This idea
does not preclude her education to the
very highest degree, nor docs it offer
any opposition to her education by
State legislation. On the contrary, we
regard it as the absolute obligation of
the State, and, Furthermore, we are of
the Opinion that the State should go to
greater measures TO educate her be-
cominsIy in her sphere. But the plan
Of Introducing her into our agricultural
| and mechanical institution witha view
| to becoming Il farmer or an out door
| laborrr, or Il civil engineer, winding
her way with Il thcodalitc and chain
amid the glad.s and muck of our for
ests, bcgcts Il thought too rcvoltin. and
yet cnmical for soberness. We con-
ceivc likewise, that the State Univcr-
sity with its departmental curricula
representing the learned professions
offer objections like the above.
The legal profession, with its ncces-
sary surroundings, its forensic disputa-
ton, its adduced testimony largely oh
jeclionablc at times as far as its :rthcti
cal character is concurred, holds out, rs
we think, no allurcmCnts for the gem
tier sex. The role of Il soldier, it is
| true, has immortalized the names of :,
SemiramiS, who first rs Il martial
queen employed her Egyptian cohorts
in her conIucsts, and Il loan of Arc,
who dnnninS the habiliments of Il true
son of Mars, by her enthusiasm and in
trcpidity led t" the victory Of Orleans.
Molly Stari>'s name, too, adorns the
| history of our own revolution. But,
Notwithstanding, military life and dis
cipline are both rcpu:nant, and
| illsuitCu to female character.
The profession of medicine alone Of
rrrs to womaukind an occupation
more in conSonancc with her true posi-
ton, but here, too, there are many OBJ