Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-24
WOMEN IN GERMANY.
A Young Girl in Berlin University
German TyDes.
From the Neqo York Tribune.


BERLIN, Aug. 3.-Women, 1t is well
and universities OF the German empire.
Both men and women look with derision
and disdain upon the girl aspirant to aca-
demical honors. They do not consider
women capable of advanced training and
are the bitterest opponents OF coeduca-
ton. Girls schools are laughably eIe-
mentary. History and languages, 1t is
true, they have at their tongues
end; but that is all. The ''three
RS form the Rubicon of their pro-
gress. Young men are taught from the
very cradle to say THANK God that ] was
born a man." Nursed with such ideas.
growing up under such opinions, it will
be easy to fancy the excitement caused
among them by the appearance of young
English lady in the "chemcal" lecture OF
the celebrated Prof. Hoffman, few days
ago. The German students have pecu-
liar way of expressing interest, satisfac-
ton, admir- alton or pleasure-a boisterous
stamping of the feet. But it is reward
coveted by the obsequious professor and
the only measure of his popularity. This
peculiar applause greeted the feminine
candidate as she took her seat--"in ele-
CANT costume and hat" ii is said-On the
bench fronting the decent. In the labora-
treated with great Difference, escaping,
too, the fines levied upon the inadverten-
cies of her masculine mates. She has. of
course, not matIIculated, but received
permission from "His Magniticence," the
rector, to attend the course as ''hospes."
1t was difficult to obtain even that priyi-
lege in conservative Berlin, aud 1t was
only accomplished by dnt OF powerful
letters from Cambridge, where the young
lady is tutor In NEWMAN College. A
German lady of the emancipated school
attempted 10 brave public opinion q few
wears ago and attend the lectures OF Prof.
Du Bots Raymond. She was so ANNOYED
by ogling students, who one and all iXed
their monocles on her classical features
and let the words of the teacher go by
UNDECIDED that she had 10 be screened from
their impertinence and finally leave the
room. A rather pathetic story is told OF
| woman in Leipzig who tried to
overcome the laws. She was a poor GIRL
| and disguised as a young man entered
the VARSITY" with honors, and took her
| place in the laboratory as a student of
chemistry. She applied herself assidu-
Ously during three years, and distin-
guisbed herself beyond her fellows. Her
| popularity was great. though she was
innocently called the "lady" because of
| her feminine appearance-the students
little dreaming how near the truth they
came. But her sex was discovered on
| the day of her final examination, and de.
| spite prayers and entreaties she was not
allowed to graduate. Her expenditure of
time and money went Tor nothing.
Prot. Rudolf Virchow, the learned
surgeon and physicist, has lately pre-
pared some interesting tables concerning
the color OF the hair. eyes and skin among
the German school children. Six million,
| seven hundred and titty-eight thousand
| eight hundred and twenty-seven pupils
were examined, being nearly four.iiiths Of
all the youth OF "A b g" age. OF these
2.149, 021-3I.0S per cent.-belonged to the
blonde type, 949, S22-l4.05 per cent.--to
the brunette, aud 1868, 91S-54. IL per cent,
to the blonde-brunette or mixed type,
distinctly showing that more than one
| half OF the entire number are in the latter
| category, two-thirds OF the remaining 4G
per cent. being blondes. The territorial
division of the principally types corresponds
accurately to the geographical boundaries
of North, South and Middle Germany: 81. 3
SO per cent. of the pure blondes being
found in the northern districts, 32.5-2S.3
per cent. in the middle. and 2i.5-lS
per cent. in the southern ones. The
river Main thus becomes an anthropolo-
! g.cal line of Significance. In general, the
further south one goes the more brunettes
he meets-South Bavaria mastering but
IA per cent blondes. Among the 1886
Hebrew children the mixed type predomi-
mates also, the pure brunettes outnum ber-
ing the pure blondes, however, three-fold
Whereas the relations 0fthe blondes to the
bruuettes among the Christians is 81. 3 TO
il, that among the Jewish children is as
| 1929 to ~. The gray-eyed and dark
haired predominant in the mixed type
Many other results were brought to light
OF more interest, however, 10 Geyma ny,
than 10 the world at large. Prof. Nir-
chow has devoted years TO study of this
nature and his deductions may be ac-
cepted as categorical
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