Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-02-09
CO-EDUCATIoN.
A Pointed Interview With Mr.,
Mason.
The Proposed Innovation Earnestly Op.
posed---An important Bill---Sat-
urday's Event.

A REGISTER reporter nat Col. ]. NJ.
Mason last evening, and asky1 him what he
thought OF the proposed introduction OF c)-
education at the State University. The
Colonel was willing to talk ch the subject,
and gave his views as follows
am mostly earnestly against it. The
less young girl is absent II om her mother
the better it is for the domestic happiness in
after years of both herself aud husband.
The less girl of ardent temperament JOS
ties with promiscuous male association the
better satisfied will be the vile with calico
fiock and her baby in its cradle. Some
girls, like some men, are cold.blooded,
austere and secretive. Such women are apt
to get divorced Some few girls can stand
a great deal without being fatally contami-
mated; these few escape, despite adverse
surroundings, but the exceptions are
very rare. oppose anything calculated to
disturb the freside of the cottage; the pal
ace can take care OF itself If the cottage
be kept free from cant, ,hypocrasy aud tanati-
cism, the body Of society will be honest and
true. Well.meaning enthusiasts propagate
new tangled doctrines which are not toler-
ated by conservative men. 1t is the first
duty Of all conservative men to exert every
influence against the modern doctrines Of
"free,thinkers" Bob lngerson
SHALL NEVER PREACH HIS INFIDELITY
in West Virginia if can help it; q woman
without religious convictions cannot
make a successful wife. In CON-
munities where these modern doctrines most
prevail, wives debate the expediency Of a
divorce precisely as they argue matter Of
business. When public opinion is debauch.
ed, the true relations between husband and
wife are misunderstood the result Is low
states of morals | want my sons reared IN
an atmosphere of morally. / want them to
feel that their freside however humble, will
be free from suspicion and hypocracy.
There is less immortality, less divorce, less
/ domestic unhappiness in West Virginia, to,
day than in any community, which is con-
contaminated by these new tangled doctrines
that propose to make men out of women, and
| want we'll enough left alone.
Co-education in the neighborhood school
is VERY DIFFERENT
| from co-education in a university, because q
| girl lives under the watchful eye Of loving
neisbbors and friends, but send her among
strangers to fight her way with boys, is to
| destroy the very attributes and instincts
necessary to make the true, trusting and de-
voted wife. If girl be reared with proper
surroundings, she takes with her into the
rude and selfish world that consciousness ol
innocence aud truth which is shield the
| brszenfaced woman never carries and never
understands.
But there is another standpoint. Our
Young men now regard women as persons
whom they are to helm to cherish and de
fend. ANY legislation on co-educs
tion inculcales sn idea that girl:
must fight their own way like boys; this
lowers among men the slaniard OF woman
hood, and the result is domestic misery,
The young man whose respect for his sisters
is greatest, makes the best husband. The
man with happy freside always offers his
seat to a woman. In Germany woTen plow
and climb ladders with a hod OF brick or
mortar; | trust will never live to see Wo
men in West Virginia performing this sort
| of work.
/ am firmly persuaded that gentlemen
! WuO idNOI hdNC bCSH NShA'
porsIily misled By the doctrines ofa few en-
| ,husiasts. almost tremble when men ad
vocate those theories which unsex a woman
because, while these doctrines do not affect
sristocrstic circles, they fatally injure those
in the humber walks OF life. Thoughtful
aud conservative men everywhere are try
ing to
ERADICATE TIE BANEFUL SEEDS
planted by modern free thinkers" and it is
incomprehensi5le to me why anybody wishes
| to enerstt these theories on our laws.
| If co-educsttOn be submitted to the popu
lar vote it will be defeated. This is what
call "a Greside subject" and on such sub
iects all men Of conservative instincts fee
alike. "One touch of nature makes the
world kin" The Cotters Saturday
| Night speaks the same language in Jetfer
son, Hancock and Mcdowell
s'I've paced much this weary mortal round,
| "And sage experience bids me this declare
"Loug may tiny hardy sons Of rustic toll,
Be blest with health, and peace, and swse
content!
! And o, may heaven their simple lives prevent
From luxury's contsgion weak and vile!
/ Then, hoWe'eT crowns and cOrouetS be rent,
yirtuOus pOPalace may rise the while
And stand = wall OF IRE around this much love-
! isle"