Daily Republican., 1884-04-08

To flaw, or cen to sever,
ii 30 lot our love as endlest prove,
And pure as gold forever.
II, EDUCATION OF WOMEN.
Ono Of the most important socia
questions of the day Is the higher edu
cation of women, upon the expedienc!
of which there is great diversity o
OpiniOn. But while some universities
are discussing the advisability OF OK
tend ing the educational advantages en-
Logged by men to them, and others are
strenuously opposing the same, the Uni
versity Of London, setting great exam
pie TO it's comp ers, has thrown open IT.
doors and placed women on the samt
EDUCATIONAL bsis as men. The result
OF recent examinations ut the same
uni vsrsity clearly proves that, given
the same educational advantages, wO
mems capabilities for the requirement
and retention Of knowledge are equal
In every respect TO those Of the sternt
sex.
1t has been admitted that, however
employed, AZ healers of the sick, al
G lshiers, post-office clerks, or compost.
tors, In every situation requiring IN, n
tai application, the duties of the several
occupations are as we'll performed by II
males AZ males, and only In employ
ments which require great physical
strength IL woman interior TO man.
Many are opposed to what they some.
times term " the entertainments Of
women on the privileges of men," and
reason absurdly enough that women
should remain subservient to and re-
c,ive an inferior education to men.
Why should women enter our profe T.,
sions, indeed ?" they indignantly ex
claim or, Have they not enough
70 do to look after their domestic af.
fairs ?" il derisively asked.
The former may be held to be sign
Of weakness, for it may be argued, that
II no fear existed that women wou d
sometimes lead In the professions, there
would be little or no opposition TO
such education as should At them for
the same. To the latter it may be
answered. that as the female element
predominates over the male in point of
numbers, SO women cannot enjoy that
domestic felicity Tor which they are 80
eminently adapted; aid this being 80,
she would better her condition rather
than sink into the despised condition of
old maidism, whose only solace IL the
pruverbial cat! What better course,
then, than an earnest endeavor to fit
themselves for come honorable occupa-
ton?
Goethe has said, " If there exists an
actual necessity for . great reform
among the people, God IL with IL and
it prospers. There has long existed
the necessity for the higher education
of women, and at last it is given her
the change We have looked Tor has taken
place, and 1t prospers. In q just cause
the weak subdue the strong" wrote
Sophocl.s. and the exclusive right of
penetrating the great, mysterious laby-
rinths Of knowledge 10 no longer held by
man but oman, his co-heir, in all
things shares it with him and accord
ing TO great mans speech not long
ago, bestows grace and brightness on
the hitherto dull routine of the schools.
In demanding educational reform,
women but Ubsyed that impulse of
that higher nature, tending ever toI
the pure and good she would soar
with man into the highest regions of
thought and culture, instead of stand.
ing in the valley watching him gain
the summit of the bill. Far too long
she has sometimes been the slave-at
best the upper servant of man. What
wonder that she should crave for a |
higher, purer existence? She would /
be his friend, intellectual companion |
and helpmate in the fullest and noblest
sense of the term.
"Honor to women to them is given
To garland the earth with roses
of heaven"
sang Schiller, and 1t is we'll known that
women do much to make or mar the
world-much to make or unmake hu-
man happiness. The more reason, then,
why she should become az enlightened |
and cultivated as possible. Cultivation
of intellect is, too, Q great personal
bsautifier-the beauty of the mind
beams from the countenance this Is
exemplitied in the inhabitants Of large
cities, where there are educated facili.
ties, having q more refined caste of
than those Of villages
with but recent educational advan-
tlges.
The question arises, does the highest
possible cultivation Of women's intel
lectual powers unfit them for w0men's
duties Not 60. 1t must
give them higher appreciation of the
sacred Il utiss OF wife and mother. The
lufant receives its first and most impor.
! mt education from its mother By her
tae foundation stone of the future mo-
raj character of the man or woman is
aid to her IL assigned the responsible
position of training the infant to take
his or her place in the great battle of
life for, as the infant il the father of
The man." 80 Is its early training indeli-
bly, stamped on the after character. AS
wives, too, in their homes, the greater
amount ofscentifc knowledge woman
las, the better for the health OF the oc-
,upants of that house.
But, fancy l can hear some miser-
lble Old bachelor object, where will the
darning the cooking, busting,
md washing be?-there will be no time
or all that? Wrong, indeed for the
natural effect of education is refine
nent and her scientific requirements
will enable her to reduce all these to
he minimum labor required for each,
aving time in execution. 1t will make
Ter econmical in knowing the exact
mount of nutrition to be derived from
certain foods. In short, the higher edu-
at on of women, the mothers of future
means raising the moral
of man, better and more re-
ined order of things, and, finally, The
Elevation of the whole order of hu-