The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-12-26
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Education Of Womsn,


There i "a awakening among the 70
3 men Of Mississippi 70 their need Of /
= broader. higher, more practical educa
2 ton. The future efsTs great opportu
= mites for usefulness, and promises riet
/. rewards for good labor, Il only We kner
how % do the work. Tbs need 81 know.
! womea We do not lack intelligence, bur
o re do confess our ignorance Of husi.
ness-Iike education. The social stric-
/. lures that hare heretofore been visited
upon the heads OF women who work for
living are weakening, and the percep-
) ton that labor and refinement ere COM
: pa;ibIe. and that useless IiYes are sinful
/. lives, Is rapidly gaining On the minds Of
our women. We have lifted up q few
) Toices IN appeals 70 the State for help
? In our need. We have begged that Z
college for the education Of young wo-
men be given us az the expense Of the
state, but these cries hare been unheard
; or drowned in the clash of political fac
lions. Now We again ask for help. Is
there need for US TO speak Of tho injus-I
tice Of a State that gives free education
to her white and colored men, and leaves
her weaker children 10 grow up in igno-
rance, untitled for the demands made
upon tenn By the times? Shall We :. ask
for bread and be given stonef The
laws Of the State have made women in
many respects equal with men; they |
can buy and sell, sue and be sued, are |
| responsible for their own acts, managers |
| Of their own property. Yet the State |
/ refuses to teach her daughters how to /
exercise the privileges she has granted
them.
Sixty-three years ago New York voted
a small endowment to the Albany Free
| Academy" for female education, which
was practically the first high school for
women in this country. Honor be to
herl In some few of the other States
there are free schools for women. There
are at least twenty-five colleges and uni
yersfties in the United states where wo
men obtain an education in every re-
spect equal to the best provided for men,
ard their high status in these institu-
Cioas has raised the standard of educa-
ton for women in schools of every de-
gree. In these twenty colleges and
universities are upwards of hundred
and fifty women professors and instruct
ors, many of them graduates IF women
;elegcs, nearly all OF them possessors of
me or more degrees, and many occupy
ing positions which il has been coHsid p
.red extremely unlikely that women
could ever fill.
Il has been said by some writer that
ignorance and fear have degraded VIC. II
men; knowle 'Se and the strength which :,
I brings vii spcipate them. There Y
5 a tendency his democratic coun
ry towards a 81 &gle for ofAce, and
many are rnscruD gus of the means
sed The desire of many is place,
'hether fitted or untitled. Educate the -
'omen of Mississippi and We will have 10
lothers who can and lciU teach their
)ns pure patriotism, that if the State
eed3 them, they may be capable of serv- 81
ig her; not to aspire to be legislators,
snators, governors or presidents, but to
e good enough and wise enough TO fill
lese offices if called upon. The mothers
lust be educated in order to refine and In
evate the children, quicken their in
sllectual sense, stimulate and train the
lolal qualities and teach them that
Dod lives are useful and unselfish lives.
here are some men who will oppose
ne appropriation by the State for fe-
laIe schools To such old fagies we say,
on ought to have been born in the
Dark Ages" or at least in some coun-
" where there are no railroads. no u
-eamboats, no telegraphs, to telephones,
o electric light, no nothing. We advise D.
lch men to emigrate to Soudan, where =
ley will be up with the times. r
ave say to the Mississippi Legislature
81, that it deyolyes upon you to vote
leans for the establishment of free
Ollege for young women. The eyes of