The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-06-13
WOMAN EDUCATION.

EDITORS CLARION: ! have read the
able articles from the pen of a 'Missis-
sippi Woman" with pleasure, but in your
issue OF November l, 1882, occur these
words: IF women are educated as men
and with men, they are apt to become
mannish and unwomanly, desiring to do
a mans work In support of this may
be cited those females, in States where
eo-education is practiced, who are clam
oring for the ballot, and pressing their
way into professions exclusively designed
for men,
l think my friend has formed her
Judgement hastily and from a few iso-
lated cases-fcw compared with the mil
lions who never enter a schoolroom ex-
cePt where the sexes are taught in the
same classes.
The reason that some in some States
clamor for the ballot, etc, is not from a
wrong system of education. but is rather
the outgrowth Of the various isms that
have infested those States, and from the
mistake some Of the clergy have made
in thinking they were called to preach
politics, instead Of the gospel. Of course
as politics issued from so high a stand
point, no wonder that some of the weaker
sex should have pressed forward for the
forbidden fruit which were to make them
so powerful to cope with the evils of
the day, but the great majority of the
refined and cultured mothers and daugh-
ters even in that section are content to
WELD the home sceptre and leave for
stronger hands the political arena
Farther on the in her article she saws:
GLOW can a christian mother pray lead
us not into temptation and yet send her
daughter at this formative period of her
life TO be surrounded by youths and
young men from all parts of the eoun-
try" If she had turned a few pages
back in holy writ she would have found
these words; at is not good for man to
be alone" He who fashioned our
frames and planted within Us the germ
of immortality, never makes mistakes,
never utters an untruth, but with ON
niscient ken knows what is best for His
handiwork under all circumstances
But could we at will waive the fiat of the
Almighty, and select period in life
when the sexes should be separated to
my mind and | speak from a wide OPP
portunity for observation and the expe-
rience of nearly half a century at
this period of all Others they should be
thrown together. Very much of the
glamour and illusion that so many Of
! the Young weave in regard to each other
would be dispeled if they met on an equal
arena in the class room; then if young
lady or gentleman was habitually idle
and neglectful of their studies, their
true worth would be apparent, and each
would stand on his or her own merit.
| would be sorry for any Christian
mother, aud must feel that she had orig
inally failed in training and developing
her daughter, if when she had attained
the proper age and mental culture, to
enter any college or university she could
not send her forth feeling that the puri
ty of her heart and life wasan impregna
| BILE wall about her, and that herintluencC
would ever be elevating, and refining
clothing all who came within her circle
with her own spotless garment of purity
Another correspondent 'Eyder," il
speaking Of the opening of our State
University to ladies said, "a few who
were brave enough entered the lists.
Allow me to ask the simple question
how much more bravery does it require
to enter the classroom and recite under
the eve of the teacher, than to attend {
sociable, picnic or ball, and perhaps
dance with young man she would no
receive in her parlor?
Sir Wm. Matthews, LII. D., author O.
some valuable works, says: "The sexe'
were made for each other; it is from thu
other, that each gets the most, and tn,
best, of the material for its culture, and
no scheme that ignores this truth cal
ever succeed, because the sentiments
the instincts, the irrepressible longing
of human nature are all against it.
A MOTHER.
CLINTON, Mss, June /, 1883.
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