The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-25
EDUCATION OF WOMEN
u Means a Higher Appreciation OF Life. Its
blessings and Duties.

~ Meahs hfsner appreciation OF Life. Its
blessings and Duties.
The higher education of women,
once frOwned upon as waste of in
structive effort, has become so we'll es-
tablished as an institution that few
whose opinions are valuable can be
found to question its desirability. The
moss-covered objection that higher edu-
cation would take from women many
OF Der simpler and more ingenious
charms has been shown appropriately
to be mOss-cOvered. The right kind of
women. like q flower garden, is the
more attractive the higher her state of
cultivation; and when one is found in
whom blossom the beautiful flowers OF
modesty, truth, natural strength OF
character, and love of the noble duties
of life. it takes nothing from her origi-
nal beauties to set the blossoms of art
beside them.
In ali walks in life intelligence has
taken and is taking the work of subju-
CATION out of the hands of mere force
knowledge is the chief aid of all manip-
ulation and effort. ignorance assisted
only by force is Intellectual nowadays.
The man whose physical strength half
century ago enabled him to pull a
stump up by the roots would have no
opportunity in ont st to-day with
the mechanical stump-puller. The ma
chine has no brains. but it nevertheless
represents brains. The farmer who to-
lay studied the nature of his soil. rota-
lion of crops, fertilization, and kindred
subjects can make more out of an acre
and go better dressed than the tiller
who plants and sOws and reaps on
dozen acres by mOOn-fancies. or super
stltlOusly does his work with reference
to the song of the tree toad and the di-
rectiOn in which the grasshopper leaps.
And if education-knowledge of the
sciences and things in Nature that once
we're generally occult-is good thing
for man and makes his work easier in
thousand fields, it is just as surely q
good thing for women.
A true wOman-the woman in whom
the sweet springs of domestic instinct
and homely affection are we'll ground, d
never will be any thing but a true
woman, no matter how her mind may
be broadened or her brain cells deve-
oped by study. With her it will always
be refining process, a making brighter
and more attractive of metal originally
valuable. The woman of this kind who
Is graduated from a college and enters
the sphere of life which woman has al
ways ornamented can take her knowl-
edge OF chemistry to the kitchen; can
modify her apprehension of the science
OF government and apply it to the
home, and can use the arts she has &C
ton.
The higher education of women
means a higher degree of surroundings,
higher degree of happiness. and a
higher appreciation of life and its man.
fold blessings and duties As woman
rises in the scale of being she lifts those
connected with her. Higher education
must be hers as well as mans, which
will help her to live up to the high
ideal she may have for herself as a
woman. a wife, and a mother. and
when she holds the little ones in her
arms that higher education will de-
scend to their brow and be stamped
thereon with the first kiss.
As dew drops to the summer Leaf
AS ranbOws after showers
so there are souls with whom we meet
AS sunlight to the flowers
Such souls give us this earth-life
fCretaste of that higher
To, true, the beautiful, the good
To which our souls aspire
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