The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-07-03
WOMAN'S COLUMN.
EDITED BY JuSTITIA.

EDITED BY JUSTlTiA
We bring up our girls as though in
tended for mere parlor ornaments, and then
complain Of their friVOlty.
When a woman declares that Nwomen
are incapable of reasoning we know it is
mere parrot talk or else she judges of the
capacities of other women by her own
The attainment of woman's co-equality
with man is in itself, not an end, but The
means of higher elevation of the race,
without which it never can attain.
When a man is heard to say that women
are not fit 10 vote, he makes us acquainted
with the character of his own wife and
mother as we'll as though We had always
known them
We pity the husband of a woman who
saws she does not believe In womans
rights for it is a sure evidence that she
does not believe in mans rights, and plays
the tyrant over her husband.
The Jewish Rabbis have become inocu-
lated with the spirit of justice and equal
rights, setting worthy example TOR ortno-
dox Christian churches 10 follow, by giving
women the right to to vote upon congre-
gational matters.
The most strenuous opponents OF woman
suffrage are fashionable, would-be fash
naid noe be npond We of Their allies, The
classes arrayed on their side, as the liquor
dealers and their patrons, all the keepers
of houses of i'll fame and the inmates of
them, and all disreputable characters of
every description, are invariably opposed
to woman suffrage
We cannot believe that it is owing to sex
that the many good women working Tor
temperance and moral reform lack the dis
cernInent to see that the ballot in their own
hands would be the most efficient instru-
ment that could be used for promoting
their objects, when we see big-brained,
sagacious men, like the Knights of Labor,
affected with the same blindness and
fatuity, ignoring politics as an aid in
securing their rights, though it is through
political measures alone that their demands
can be oh, aimed. 1t is of some consolation
to know that fools are not all of the fem
mime gender.
The presence of lady type-writers and
StenOgrapherS in counting HOUSES and
offices has done much towards refining the
Men ne elerIs e1npioged in them 1t
has effectually abolished the obscenity and
profanity which previously were so often
heard in those places. The presence of
women anywhere has refining
and elevating influence. The Faculty of
the medical college that admitted the first
female student in America to its classes,
said that hey could have well afforded to
have given her tuition gra'is, though she
paid as other students, on account OF the
propriety and good behaviour that her
presence produced among The young men
students, usually so wild and ydisorderly at
a medical college.
THE REASON WHY.
The Shah, or sovereign of Persia, not
long since inquired of an Englishman,
temporarily there, why it was that when
he wanted steam engine or any piece of
intricate machinery he had TO send TO Eng
land or some other European country 10
obtain it;-why were not his own country
men able to invent and construct such
The Englishman replied that the
reason was that the mothers of Persian
men were not educated, had so little free
dom and were kept so secluded and in such
narrow limits, that they had no field for
the growth of their ideas, and their minds
were dwaIfed by inertia; in fact they were
lAsilsc -ezsGxxsy-aAEsz that such Women never
became the mothers of vigorous minded
men. "Allah is Allah" sighed the mon
arch, meaning that it was the decree of
subject condition, an idea like that of the
Divine right of kings has pervaded
all religions, in all countries, and retarded
the intellectual growth and upward
progress of mankind.
Did any one of my readers ever know or
hear OF an Intellectually great man whose
mother was a feeble minded, weak. friy-
olous woman History never recorded
such an instance. Yet, disregarding this
fact and the lesson it affords, the culture
of mind in woman has been discouraged
through all past ages, even into the present
ira. AT an earlier period education was
entirely withheld from her; and till the last
mn in foa oil -
provided, and she had no inducement to
lcquire it, for it was stigma rather than
redltabIe for woman to be learned
n if under all these disadvantages her
hirst for knowledge impeIled her to gain
n education, she was denied by statute or
ustom the privilege of making use of ii,
lever allowed to enter the sacred precincts
f the learned professions, and if she even
any literary work she incurred
be disparag ing epithet of '|blue stocking"
7hile in the higher ranks of society such
bases were dinned in her ears as these:
the weakness of woman is her sweetest
harm," and 'fller dependence is her surest
rotection," and ''strong minded'' was,
nd is, used as an opprobrious term, while
} be self-supportiDg was to lose caste, and
nder the pressure of all these influences it
not strange that women to court the
lvor of public opinion often affected to be
lore weak, silly and useless than they
'dIlg MOIcS bulS Things
as not yet been entirely outgroWn.
Children inherit not only the natural.
ut acquired capacities of their mothers.
he Spartans, a nation whose only bust
ess was war, who lived in an age when
lccess in battle depended upon strength
muscle and activity of body, understood
lis and subjected their young woman to
e most severe gymnastic exercise; not
at they were to be made warriors, but to
AXE them able to transmit strength and
ppleness to their offspring. Now, when
ccess in the battle OF life depends not on
avn and muscle, but brain and mind.
csc should be cultivated in young women.
r the sake of posterity, if not for them
Ives.
1t is often asserted that girls cannot en-
ire the severe study of college life. Sta
tics disprove it. They show, that where
bjected TO the same course, more male
an female students break down f ON
lat is assumed to be the effect of hard
ldy. Mental activity, the application IF
Ought to books and l. aiming, believed by
fticieht physical exercise, leally tends Ii
sorcus health, for it keeps tie mind
althy, it from dwelling upon
NE slight illness or imaginary ailmen,.
oughts which If long continued, actually
oduce the di> ease that existed before only
imagination. s is les also prove that
enty per ent more ciIildfen # mothers
10 had leen educa' ed at college, survive
perllS of infancy and early childhood