The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-09-28
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register Of the National Association Of Collegiate Alumna for 1889, and his conclusions, although they partake of the unreliablity of all combinations which are deduced from those most unreliable of all things, figures arc not without certain inter- est and sgnihance. They are not conclusive, of course, but they arc suggestive, and since they point to precisely the conclusions every sensible man would have made priori, they are worth mo- thing.
 The great issue which the statistician has set himself to consider Is the effect of collegiate edu cation upon . womanis chance of marriage. He has carefully digested the register aforesaid and his support of the records thus far kept of the alumne of this country. or the entire number of women who are on record as having thus far graduated from American female and co-educational colleges about twenty. seven per cent have married, the general tendency of their educational work being, 90 far can be judged, not only to decrease their likelihood Of marrying, but to postpone the time of wedlock in the case of those who do enter that state, SO that they older when they marry than their uneducated-in the technical of the word -sisters. There is c difference, however, and very marked one, between the graduates of the fe- male college pure and simple and those turned out by that strange anomaly of modern days the CO., educational institution. Among the alumnn of the former the percentage of those who marry Is only twenty -four against thirty four per cent in the latter. The constant sight Of the growing male probably accustoms even the educated young women to the presence of dreadful animal, 90
 
 pared to encounter him without fear.
 One thing is certain, If any reliance be placed upon figures and if the data already accumulated can be considered sufficient to base conclusion on at a that the collegiate education of women greatly lessens the chance or, more properly speaking the likelihood of their marrying; that the chances much greater In favor of marriage In the case of CO., educational institutions than in those where women are educated separately but that in any college women are apt to marry somewhat later in life than those who have not been occupied during the time of life naturally at least usually, that of mating. The figures might be given to support all of these propositions were it worth while. As . matter of fact any body would have known that this conclusion would be likely to be borne out by facts without having investigated the returns. That the enormous decrease in the percentage of marriages among men of the better class Is largely due to the changed condition of women Is propo- sition nobody but woman's and unusually illo- gca st that, would be likely to think of disputng Whether the price which the present time pays for the improved intellectual condition of woman is too high or not is a question which one will be likely to answer in the affirmative the negative accord ing to the value he puts upon marriage and what 1t has been the custom of old fashioned writers to call "the social virtues"
 Of course when one discusses Q question of this sort he is fully aware that whatever Is or Is not said upon 1t makes no manner of difference in the result. What seems likely to happen is that women will go on in the way they are going until the general feeling of the masculine half of the rAce which Is more selfish than 1t is within the power of words to tel Is aroused to sense of discomfort and of profound disapproval. Then the women will go to the wall again, and they will abase them selves into the depths of ignorance If the general feeling of the ofthe happens to require of them. That this Is not likely to happen in 90 ex- treme degree Is ofcourse probable, and onecannot speak of the true condition ofthe problem without appearing cold booded, but the facts of the past the only criterion of the future, and If may judge by these, women will go on with their play ing at higher education only 90 long men are not materially disturbed thereby It may be cruel to women that this is 90, but if it is the cruelty of power higher than that of men.
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