The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-30
DIR. Mayo on Woman,s Sphere.

DR.. Mayo, tho distinguished friend O
education, who is now travelling through
the South in the interest Of schools and
general culture, paid a visit recently to
tho Charleston Female Seminary, and in
an address to its pupils, of which the fol
lowing is brief synopsis, gave them
some very good advice, and many ration.
al thoughts on questions which are o,
great national Importance.
He fist called attention To the fact
that everywhere in our land the girls
were coming to the front, and nobly
maintaining their position there, That
the educational customs Of the country
have changed since the days ofou grand.
mothers, for then all the advantages were
on the side of the boys; they continued
In school or at college until they reached
manhood, while it was customary for
girls to finish at about fifteen. Now the
order OF things is reversed, and with the
exception OF certain number of young
men, who by collegiate course are fit.
ting themselves for q profession, there are
@ greater proportion Of girls than of bows
who attend school after thoir fifteenth
year.
The force Of circumstances requires
hat boys should by this time engage in
the actual duties Of life, and while they
are busy in the basement story OF the
structure Of American society. coming
Its money, tilling its soil, digging its
mines and sailing its ships, to tho girls
OF our land belongs the setting in order
ci the upper part of our National house.
Their first duty is in the American
home; there they may all be queens.
Let them learn how to make home and
how to keep it bright and cheerful. be
accomplished in all its details, from the
cooking of breakf fast to the decoration
OF its walls. Let the mothers and sisters.
cousins, aunts, all. be refined and be ed.
ucated, and the influence they exert on
the generation which will make future
citizens will only bo productive of the
highest good.
Another flight of stairs leads us to the
story IN the Palace of Society, where the
work Is carried on by women, and where
.hey III themselves for the place which
tney hold i'll the American schools.
1here are about five million children in
our schools, taught by seventy five thou
sand teachers, Of whom at least three.
iolrths are women. Just see what nm
influence can be cxertcd there! For
though we may learn many things after
we are twelve, the ideas of right and duty
which will sway our whole lives will have
been fully impressed before we have
passed this age.
In the next story we find woman pre-
pairing herself to sway Alright tho innu-
| ehco That she exerts in the Church, for
she does all the work and all the good
accomplished here. Al the front stands
| the minister, but the minister. or the
oishop III his robes goes down if it is tho
verdict OF the good women Of his con-
gregation that he is not fit to stand ns an
example and q teacher to their children.
Vanderbilt University is one of the re-
suits of the efforts Of good women, aud
The lives of good, true women everywhere
preach living sermons and elevate all
nearer their Creator
In the next story Of our building wo-
men study how best to use their power in
society. Here their will is the only reg.
ulatlon and holds supreme control
| Are myriads of homes made wretched
loving hearts broken and bright hopes
crushed because the father or the son for.
sakes the paths of right and buries him
sell IN vice? We mourn over this. Let
us instead rise up to the idea that we can
cause reform. Let the girls of town
make their friends understand that he
VINO yields to the temptation to drink or
10 40 anything unmanly, removes him
sell by each act further from the centre
OF refined society. Let the American
women and girls denounce this evil and
night against it, and soon its terrible pro
portions will be greatly diminished.
Woman has now been considered in her
four fold sphere-the light of the homo.
mistress of the school, inspiration for
good in the church and soul orsociety :.
IN all these positions she exerts unboun.
ded influence and moulds the opinions of
our future men. So let those who dc.
nounce this rs an age of oppression and
say that woman Is down trodden and de-
based. reflect that if such is the case it
must result from errors first made by the
women In the education of the bows.
and that es they SOW ideas ard thoughts
INTO youthful minds SO must they reap
when time hes ripened the seeds into ac-
lion. Hence the necessity Of properly Ell.
ucaIting our girls so that they may nobIy
fulfil these duties.
1t is fortunate fact that fashion has
now ordained that it is correct for girls to
Sc to SCHOOL ms long as possible, for du.
ring all these years they may bo forming
themselves into such lovely characters
that they will make women whom it will
pea Liberal education TO love-" and when
their school days are over they will 90 TO
purify and bless the world around them.
a WHITE RULER IN AFRICA
Dunn, one of the thirteen kinglets among
whom, by Sir Garnet Wolsely's agency,
Iululand was divided, differs from his,
twelve brethren not only in being pure.
blood European while they are stark saw
ages, but also in reserving to himself in
an especial way privileges of cutting tim
Der, with the right to mine and seek for
minerals, divert streams, cultivate un-
plowe1 lands, advance or retard trade, in
such and SO complete way that he has,
as 1t we're, the right of ingress, egress and
regr,ess everywhere that his authority ex-
tends. His country, next to the Tugela,
and bordcrered to great extent by the