The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-11-30
!ueation. For. it defrauds one sex or the other

as en but is no proof that they have had should have
the kind of training Is it proof that they des
woman subjected masculine training, arranged for the de-
velopment OF masculine organization equal man. she
ought excel him educated by feminine training arranged
to develop feminine organization.
important fact that apt be overlooked
that many of our brightest girls break down, not during but
the excemento school life has passed away certain proportion
all school girls predposed mental deange
ment The girls apt to be quick, brilliant ambitious
and persistent study and need stimulation but repression
For the sake of temporary reputation for scholarship they risk
their health the susceptible period OF their lives This
has been the where the competition only with those
their All how many women within our recollection
who school girls of promise that bankrupt
health and doomed drag miserable existence attempt
ing do womans work mansway But add to the
already pursued the element OF emulation as would actually
exist between the their identical coedueaon re-
qures scope of the imagination to take in the result of still
greater wreck and
1t is one thing to put up goal long way o-fve or SIX
months three four years dStanand tell boys and girls
each in their own way their separate schools to strive for
and quite different thing put up the goal at the
distance and obhge each the for side
side, the road daily competition with each other and
with equal expenditure of force at all times This would be
identical coeaHaoH involving
ing weakness and final sacrifice of noble lives Put boy and
girl together upon the of study with the
ideal before em and hold up to their eyes the daily indictments
of comparative progress and there will be awakened within them
stimulus unknown before and that study does
The unconcouS fires that have their seat deep down In the
of their separate organizations will fame through every
tissue permeate every vessel burn every flash from the
ngle the bran stream from the hngerS and work the
whole complex machinery at the gheSt pressure The intense
interest and mental activity engendered by this spirit of emulation
constitute the lights which this patcal idea
education sailing into popular favor false system that
prompts youth the tasks of sober study with the
wasting force of intense excitement 1t to be expected that
labor viii yield brilliant though temporary results
The fire is kept alive by the vital of the SYSTEM and
burns up its The first to suffer in this exhaang and
costly competition be tie that cannot atO1k h tie
o,e at all M becomes an unfair and cruel contest when
the forces that keep the working ability diverted from the
brain the instance and not in the other The price that
bound be paid for this high pressure system of education
fearful increase of exhaustion broken constitutions and
shattered nteects The human system does do things
well the time One the other suffers from henegC
when the attempt is made.
Identity training the what many this time
be working for and praying for appropriate educa
sble devouty to be desred identical
the two sexes crime before God and humanity
physiology protests against and that experience weps
With especially exercise and repose equally ndpen
sable mental vgor deficiency of exercise
deficiency of rest, disease.
But there this deeper and dangerous
meaning than first appears The equilibrium lost Is
difficult restoe-here fatal persistence in the morbid
1t general law of the animal economy that when the
vital powers are from any cause, depressed below certain
point they easily and sometimes repaired
profound exhaustion whatever the cause may be- entails e
upon the constitution which viii last for years. perhaps for life
From the luxurious Street and the palaces
Fifth Avenue down through all classes and pursuits be found
numberleSs pae weak neuralgia dyspepc hysterca and
menorraghic girls and who living illustrations OF the
truth that the noble women the pride of olden me is
daily lessening and in their stead the fragile, easily
gued anty anguid girls of this boasted modern age The
delicate boom early but rapidly fading beauty and singular
pallor of American girls and have almost passed into
proverb The first observation of European that lands upon
shores is that feeble and II he IS
physiological observer he to add "Ihey will bring up
feeble of well women Whatever be the causes
of this extreme eemnacy they are sufficient to excite the
gaves alarm and to demand the serious attention OF every intel
igent and phlanthropic citizen.
careful observer whose professional experience shoue
ente his opinion to great weight has remarked t these
should continue for the next halt century, and increase
the ratio the last fifty years. requires prophet
oree that the wives who be mothers in republic mus
be drawn from atlantic homes The old story OF unwlVe
cent scale by the young men of America
i German lady, family holds high and honoe
place scientific circles in writing friend in this country
says cit has seemed to often, that the difference IN tn
education girls America and in Germany regards the
physical training that in America IS marked by grea
degree of recessness while in Germany the errlng can
called errng the side of anxious, extreme caution There
FORE beautiful American girls fade rapidly while the Germa
girls, who do not possess the same natural advantages 40 W
se rule good permanent health which goes handn-han
! ! Ewith happiness and enjoyment of life
Now the verdict of reason, experience and humanlys CIV
girls chance yes, equal chance with the young me
our State and they will be able in after le with reasonab
care to the demands that may be made upon them
Build for them institution adapted to their nature and tn
crying of the State Secure for them proper PhyS
deyeopment at home and at school, well social and int
ecuaI culture and you viii have laid foundation deep an
broad upon which be reared social supersucre OF SUI
passing strength and maches beauty, eevang and adorn
the present race and transmitting its benefits with ncreasn
force and blIancy succeeding generations In treating
this important subject have but krted upon the Shore pckn
UP here and pebble SHE'LL and holding up to view
indicative of what lies unexored in all the length and Dreadt
and depth beyond <
In conclusion would say desirable at this late da
enter into any doubtful dpuaon about the vexed question
the relative intellectual endowment of the anon
the things settled by experience that woman, equal not equ
lin talents the she from the dominion OF 1orc
If suffered unfold and exercise her powers IN her
legitimate sphere shares with the Scepter OF influence w"
out prestnng from him visible authority yet by 70
mere force gentle nature she silently directs that authority
and rules world Mind be weighed in scales
must be Judged by and influence As well might yo
undertake balance the comparative value of he ocean an
the the green of the earth and the blue OF the sky as
which of the to the other In ID
great and aervadng law of motion which holds the unves
together the grasp Of the Almighty there are no adusun
crews by which the cenpel and centrifugal forces are brougf
up to their working level They simply exist perfect and pc
petual harmony Each IN its place as It opp
site to the other and neither could be boed out without the los
and destruction hesoher In regard to the let tn
ruth be practically acknowledged that the cannot be exate
At the expense of other Neither the depart from
lnroper sphere of without dement the whole soc
system When woman orsakes the gener duties of domes
life for the public abors and professions and ambitious pursul
of man. always descends from her bright station
to ascend that Of She falls between the two and tn
I, world gazes at her as exactly woman quite
nlexed in what category of natural history classify her Lk
IA meteor she may with dazzling blancy the
public attention. only sae and astonish for
ent and 20 darkness Woman has her posito
and her influence assigned her the great system of humanity