Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-10-29
EDUCATION or MoMsh.
u Means Higher Appreciation OF Life, IL
blessings and Duties.

10 Means y Higher Appreciation OF Life. IL
blessings and Dut,s-.
The higher education OF women.
once frowned upon as waste OF in
structiye 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 her simpler and more ingenious
charms has been shown appropriately
TO be moss-covered. The right kind of |
women, like . 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 all walks in life intelligence has
taken and is taking the work of.subiu-
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
a century ago enabled him to pull
stump up by the roots would have no
opportunity in a contest to-day with
the mechanical stump-puller. The ma
chine has no brains. but it nevertheless
represents brains. The farmer who to-
day studied the nature OF his SOIL rota-
ton 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
stitiously 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
were generally occult--is good thing
for man and makes his work easier in
a thousand fields, it is just rs surely q
good thing for women.
true wOman-the woman in whom
the sweet springs OF domestic instinct
and homely affection are we'll ground,
never will be any thing but true
woman, no matter how her mind may
be broadened or her brain cells devei-
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 college and enter.
the sphere OF life which woman has al
edge of chemistry to the kitchen; cal
,, modify her apprehension of the scienc,
OF government and apply it to thu
, home. and can use the arts she has &C
quired for the adornment OF her habita
ton.
The higher education of wome
means higher degree of surroundings
. higher degree of happiness, and
: higher appreciation of life and its man
fold blessings and duties. As woma
rises in the scale of being she lifts thos
y connected with her. Higher educatio
. must be hers as we'll as mans, whic
}, will help her to live up to the hig
- ideal she may have for herself as
u woman, "a wife, and a mother. an
> when she holds the little ones in he
u arms that higher education will d.
N scend to their brow and be stampe
% thereon with the first kiss.
r As dew drops to the summer Leaf
n AS rainbows after showers,
l. So there are souls with whom we meet
n AS sunlight to the flowers.
" Such souls give this earthife
3, A foretaste of that higher
,e Tn true. the beautiful the good
4 To which our souls aspire.
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