The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-01

} smiles of little prattling girls Who bow the
| sunny heads upon your knees at dusky close {
day and lisp the baby prayer you Taught thei
rosy lips to f'shion. Which one of you ca
largament and improvement Of woman's spher
and womans intellect, prated Of he woul
/ willingly have that wife forsake the happy love
lit home to be defled by the foul, revoltin
baby. grown to blushing maidenhood, with NJ
| d. tackled upon her name, within the dissectin
room, holding in the dimpled hands which h
had proudly led along the path of life, some hall
dissected spine, and hear her talking learned
ly about the braehial plerus
We have before us case which will ever be
| luminous spot in the history of our land Mrs
GARFIELD the noble woman who overcame nature
bled constitution. to cheer and nourish back I,
life and love the man whom. above all others OF
Gods footstool, she had sworn to honor ant
obey. Is there one here now who could have
more admiration for this courageous creatur.
| if she had possessed the requisite scientific ed
ucation to probe fer the mur1erons bullet which
in entering that loved form, wounded the heart!
| OF fifty millions free born people
The idea | am feebly attempting to convey is
that educating woman co-equal and CONFORMITY
with nan, and the CONSTANT association therein
entai1ed would undoubtedly have a tendency
to produce too great familiarity aud want Of re
spect, alloying the feminine mind with the dross
OF masculinity, which Is even now attracting th {
| attention of our women to the glittering gener.
alities of the sol disant "reformers and leading
them to seek the public Donors that are antago
nistic to every natural feminine instinct.
For what woman can attend thoroughly to
a professional career aud vet he the guiding
| star of home; deliver er.Idite lecture when
the consciousness that Spring cleaning ought to
be done and that the preserves are working lies
| heavy on her mind and will not down !" or
/ which a
hanga trembling in the balance when she should
be stitching on little lace decked garments that
| are entirely too small for herself and much too
| large for a good sized doll
| One of the greatest authors of the age-he
| who by the magic of his pen could paint the
lily and refine the gold, make strong men
| sob and trembe like tender babes, and call a
| eetlng smile to the lips of sen the veriest sage
has given to tho world Mrs. ,Tcllyby, who
| stands an undying prototype ofthe inevitable
| conflict between public and private life, the
platform and the hearth.
| 1t is the same cry for reform that uncheck
/ ed will slowly but surely UNDERMINE the very
| foundations OF pure society, and It is not diff
| cult to distinguish his connection with such
painful enthusiastically too Commons
! the appearance of women as chief actors in ne
| destrlan contest rowing matches and base ball
| lanes, clotbed-not to put too f,no point upon
livery economically, and displaying the
neither limbs with prodigality worthy of a
better cause.
this, since it has not yet been practieed Grant
ed but would not the throwing together of sexes
Mt time when nature has peculiarly ADAPTED the
girl to be most impressioDable and the boy to
later on in life, lead him to treat her with bone
ean,aradere which would fauiliarize her with
the rougher side of inaseuline nature and aid in
bringing about this derlorable result Z
Our girls hold within tho hollows of their
dainty palms tho morals Of the future.
Educate them, then, to hold womanly modesty
at greater value to be less 'slapey's and more
reserved to he chary OF the little pink Ipissives
Washers and abandon various handke, chief and
fan rtations, and you achieve greater victor,
than can ever be won by encouraging them to
competitions and struggles over mathematical
scientific and political problems,
There is no general need even, that the sexes
saoull pursue identical courses of study The
man is essentially fitted to 90 forth and graphic
with the sterner exigencies of life while the
woman does not need instruction in those branch.
es peculiarly necessary to the masculine i.tei.
ect We now have women In almost everv
profession 1t is true, but they are exceptions to
the rule and while there are so many men to occu.
ply these positions. let ~oman DO content to have
her kingdom encomrassed by her own hearth
stone and to shine supreme there,
I'm tho stiffness
Which most becomes woman, sitting beside
The treside of the heart, feeding its flame /"
So yield the forum and forensic display to the
ruder sex.
Let it not b., understood that advocate the
suppre ssion of woman her total seclusion
according to the Museovite principle which
holds that she is only tit for obedience and
industry. This would be very incongruous
position to take, belonging as dc to an Asse-
cfation composed, with but few exceptions. of the
masculine sex.
1t is Just though not necessary, that woman
should be mans mental equal, and if the
State wishes to make provision to that effect
then let co education mean the pursuit of the same
courses of study, but in seperate institutions.
The rearing and educating of the sexes while
admitting of identical instruction. mast be con
Quoted according to systems totally irrecon-
cilahle with each other. having in view the
dissimar duties which the pupils are called
upon TO perform and the different destinies they
arc fated to fulfill in after life.
Woman is mans physical inferior and her
training could not be governed by the same rule
as that OF her more robust brothers without tend
ing to undermine constitution upon which the
future Of the country depends; for, If The
hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that
rules the world. 40 upon tho excellent
health, the perfect formation, the splendid
greatness of her Unborn generations.
Another and equally as great consideration
that pleads with mute though stirring eloquenee
against the daily and constant association Of tho
sexes which co-etlncation would nec.ssitats is
that it would tend t" drag woman from her lofty
sphere deprive her 81 much Ut that gentle in
fuenre she has heretofore eSertch and increnae
greatly the perverted, hippsnt ,ono which IN.
happily Pervades fonng @siety t" such
While the stilted forIuallti"a of n tiraniison
not necessary i'll our generation still slight
soupcon If the old fashioned courtesy and rrv.
erence of women which distinguished our fore
fathers is greatly needed to restore and preserve
intact that native delicacy which women lose
by habtual and too familiar intercourse with the
rougher SOY.
No one can contemplate for moment a" record
g. md ~, <,f
State education for women. Instruct girls
in every necessary branch, give them full scope
to acquire all that is allotted the masculine mind
If they desire, but educate them apart lest per
feet wO1nanhood be destroyed forever. Let
them be instructed in Literature. for no one
can doubt their capacity to excel in that branch
after considering the achievements of the gifted
Brontes, Mulocb George Elliot and others whose
upon the scrolls of time Medicine, even as DO
woman can ennobe herself more than by gov.
ernins the health of those who are under her
domestic jurisdiction. Let her master Physiol-
ogy and Anatomy. comprehend the nine great
systems, and understand the mysteries and
workings Of tho little being which. sooner or
later, an Almighty Ruler lays within her
arms.
She needs not the capabilitv to diagnose dis
eases so much as the knowledge of the measures
necessary for their prevention, and In standing
beside stricken fellow being. smoothing the
tossed pillow and supporting the bnrning brow
within her own fair arms, she full fills her divine
mission as grandly as the 1eern d Medicus who
counts the pulse beats and notes the temperature
fthe unhappy sufferer Who does not prefer a
Florence nightingale TO Joan OF Arc1
Woman can accomplish more in the condemned
cell than in the room in which the condemna~
ton was pronounced and achieve moro urging
one fallen sinner to repentance than upon
platform before motley multitude and it
must be conceded that there are many places In.
to which public life wond lead woman where
her very seq, far from being a protection would
only provea cause for contnmely and abuse.
As !; powerful American writer has apty put
it We have been accustomed to seeing woman
on tho lyric and tragic stages in the studies of
painting and sculpture and in the sanctum of
literature and poetry Now we sec her in the
pulpit, medical college and hospital common
and libraries, and, to limited extent, at the
polls, while during the past Winter she has been
recognized in the legislation of several States as
powerfully supported applicant for larger
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