The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1881-02-10
TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOR WOMEN

S'''eyi the washington correspondent OF the |
woman Journal writes Of the recent Senatorial
DEBATE on the bill to establish colleges for indus
trial and technical education:
Suggestions for industrial education Gonna |
largely from the newer States Of the West and
from the South. The amendment Of Senator |
morgan, OF Alabama, was especially interesting
As coming from that section that has been used to
most conservative ideas concerning the sphere OF
women. He proposed "to require each State and I
territory to establish in said colleges schools for
the instruction of females in such branches of
technical education as are suitable to their sexU
Mr.. Jones, Of Florida, objected mildly that this
Dlll was mainly important a means OF "enlight-
ehlng that portion OF the American people who !
were intrusted with the duties and powers of gov
e5nment and that its value would be weakened |
''Dy taking away this fund from the education of
the male portion of our population and devoting it
70 the education Of females" Mr. Morgan re-
sPonded IN manner worthy of the Once-famed
chlvalry OF the South. Said he: az do not think
We shall ever have any men in this country who
are worth anything unless they have good moth !
ers- II wanted to improve the stock of the
American people, should address my efforts first
70 the improvement Of their mothers. l think
shOa3d be able to secure much better develop
ment through the education and improvement of
the women OF this land, than could possibly be
done by bestOwing all we could possibly accumu-
late on the heads of the Of the present gener-
atlOn We have great many wel-edu-
ested, thOroughly-trained, beautifuy-accom-
plished women in the United States, who ought
TO have the means of supporting themselves
almost TO an equal degree with the wisest and
strongest and best-tutored men in the land
without the necessity of being compelled TO follow
after some drunken fellow who calls her wife, and
taking at his hands what he may be disposed to
bestOw upon her a gTatuity act of char
ity. Mr.. President, shall not have even the
men of this country thoroughly we'll educated
and imbued with genuine, manly principles until
means are provided whereby the women can live
loud applause in several watching hearts.
Look at the crowds Of elegant ladies who come
here from all parts Of the United States for the
purpose Of getting employment in the Govern
ment departments. We ought to provide for
them in some other way than by putting them
upon tne mercy of politicians. TIL very
influx of these ladies proves some serious infirm-
ity in the very groundwork OF our educational
system"
1t is a new epoch in the history of civilized
States, it is worthy o. Athens, that Senate gives
up a week to deliberating on popular education.
The Bureau Of Education informs me that
where there is the desire 10 institute technical
training for and not for the glory of exhibiting
one more snowy 'branch," it can be effected in
very simple, inexpensive, but valuable manner.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN-A correspondent of
the CongregationdList tells how George Francis
Train ruraliZes in New York City. On one Of the
settees in Madison Square, swarthy, bare-headed,
arrayed in faded nankeen in Summer, and blue
flannel in Spring and Autumn, he reclines
through all the not too stormy days, reading
newspapers, writing, talking at all times the
trusted guardian of toys and extra garments OF
the children-little girls in particular-whO make
the square their play ground With these he is
the most popular man living. For six years and
more this settee has been bis home, though he
spends his nights IN a little room at the top OF
some house. the location of which he will tell no
one, and whose custodian he says he has not seen
for three years. He has eaten but one meal day,
a breakfast of cereals and fruit with coffee;
tasting fish, flesh, fowl, eggs, milk, butter,
any foods than those first named; nor does he
ever desire others. He never wears under-gar-
ments, and appears, he claims to be- indifferent
70 changes Of weather. Underneath his settee,
with his straw hat, always lies badly-defaced
wallet of ancient form, plethoric with its literary
productions in prose and verse, on a great Vari-
ETY. Of topics mainly passing events OF the day,
and his pencil does sharply pierce not few vul-
nerabe persons and things. These pieces he
kindly reads to such as ask to hear; but he says
no paper dares to print more than one of them ;
'if it did, they would bust it to flinders"
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Angus NJ. Smith, one of Sir John Franklin's
companions in the Arctic regions, lives in Cleve-
land, Ohio. Smith says that he left England in
the Terror, the companion ship of the Erebus,
and managed to reach the DEVILS Thumb. The
vessel landed brOadside against the ice banks and
thrown entirely out Of the water. His party
remained in that region for two years. He finally
returned to England, and wanted to go with
Franklin on his last trip, but his wife persuaded
him to give up the notion.
A gentleman travelling in a railway carriage
was endeavOrng, with considerable earnestness,
10 impress some argument upon fellOw-passen-
GER who was seated opposite to him, and who APP
peared dull of comprehension. At length, being
Slightly irritated, he exclaimed, in louder tone,
why SIR, IT'S as PLAIN as A b Iiae may
"but Pm ID + F."
In Tallahassee and other Southern cities, it Is
usual during the Matching season of the mocktng-
bird to steal the young birds from the nest to be
trained for singers. AS only about two in hun
dred live an early determination of these birds Is
probable: A Florida paper suggests that law be
enacted forbidding the capture Of young mocking-
birds.
''Say, good woman" said a man on a country
here just now ?" FNo didn't see no kind OF q
sickle but just now see a wagon wheel runnn