The Osceola times., 1888-08-11
TALMAoe ON EDUCATION.
fhs brooklyn Divine's Earnest Plea fos
Woman and Her Interests.


The Brooklyn Divins's Earnest Plea soe
Woman and Her Interests.
The sylphs. the dryads, the naiads,
the gods, have gone out of business.
l'ongfellow turns out to be better
poet than Homer, and Bancroft better
historian than Herodotus, and we have
fifty orators who can beat Demosthenes.
The absurd halo has melted from the
brow OF the ancients, and the old phi
losophers could not keep up with class
in our Polytechnic or Packer have
more respect for the moderns than the
ancients. Washington got angry and
pitched q negro servant out OF the win
dow at Mt Vernon, and in the biog-
raphy OF Thomas Jefferson we find that
the signing Of the Declaration OF Indc-
pendence was FASTENED by the fact that
next to Independence Hall, Philadel-
phia, was livery stable, and that the
horse-Aies left their perch one day and
attacked the American Congress, and
bit and stung the members so that those
who could not before get their courage
up to sign the tremendous document, at
the intolerable annoyance Of the flies
hastily penned their names so as to get
out and away from the cutaneous irri.
tation.
Collegiate education has been revolu.
tionized, and the mind OF the student Is
not so stuffed with the baggage Of Latin
and Greek that he has no room for
practical everyday information. Look
at the graduate OF this season and you
will find vast improvement in physique.
BY regetta and baseball club and
gymnasium and military drill. classes
Of healthy men are launched from the
dry-docks instead Of those crazy crafts
that were loaded to the waters edge
with physical infirmities enough to sink
them before they got out as far as
quarantine. In many of the institutions
a great achievement has been made in
the fact that male and female education
go side by side just as God intended 1t.
He put the two sexes beside each other
in Eden. He puts them beside each
other in the family. Why not side by
side in the colleges? This land will not
be what it ought to be until woman has
equal opportunity for thorough educa-
tion with man. She has greater re-
sponsibilities. Certainly she should
not have less opportunity.
The mothers decide the destiny OF ma
tions. Men mean and small-souled and
inefficient had mean and small-souled
and inefficient mothers, but good and
grand and useful men had mothers OF
good heart and stout sense. Mother
wit, or lack OF it, decides almost every
thing.
Naturally qualified by the Lord with
higher qualities for attendance upon the
sick, why should women not have all
possible advantages of improving her
especial faculty in that direction? Many
OF us would have been dead long ago
had it not been for maternal or sisterly
or wifely nursing. II is time that the
world stop deriding the female medical
colleges, as every spring they hand out
their diplomas TO their graduates. We
want more womanly lawyers added to
the catalogue OF those who are already
pleading in the courts Of this country.
No one surely could plead for woman's
life like woman. Our laws about
dowers, about divorce, about defense
against husbandly squandering OF
estates. about the holding Of property,
will never be what they ought to be un-
til there are greater number of women
with severest legal acumen, able to
shape statutes and confront courts on
these questions.
Yea, we want female preachers. Sure
ly she who was last at the cross and
first at the sepulchre ought to be able
to tell the gospel story with surprising
effectiveness. The pulpit has already
had its Miss Smiley and its Lucretia
Mott, and the law in the Presbyterian
Church which arranged a clergyman as
a criminal il he allowed woman to
preach has been modified to let every
Presbytery do as they think best. The
doors Of our colleges, now set ajar to
let women crowd in, must be swung
wide open. hail the improved con-
dition Of manly education as revealed
in the annual commencements, and the
improved prospect for womanly achiev-
ment, notwithstanding the vote of
celebrated medical society against the
admission OF women to membership.
T. DeWiM Taimdge, in Philadelphid