Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-08-03


legislature of the State of New York in 1918, on
the recommendation of Gov Dewitt Clinton.
This distinguished statesman, acting on the sug-
gestion of Mrs. Emma Willard, recommended that
appropriations be made to female as we'll as male
schools.
Concerning female education in England, Ma
cauley says: "During the latter part of the
Seventeenth century the culture of the female
mind seems to have been almost entirely neg
lected. Extreme ignorance and frlvolitv were
thought less unbecoming in lady than the
slightest tncture pedantry." Speaking of
period in the Nineteenth century Mckenzie
says: "Of all the persons who came to be mar
ried 60 per cent of the women were unable to
write their Names" This was in England only fifty
years ago. The wife of President John Adams
says of her youth, "that female education went no
further than writing and arithmetic. And in the
city of Boston less than seventy years ago girls
were allowed to attend the public schools only two
hours day, except in the summer months when
there were not boys enough to fill them and they
were sent to fill up.
The world was long in recognizing woman's
ability to teach-and what wonder?
Who is not familiar with the career of DR.. Eli
zabeth Blackwell. College after college closed its
doors in the face of this brave woman.
cannot see how intelligent woman can consider
these facts without sentiment of righteous indig-
nation kindling in her breast.
However, the clamoring has been so loud and
persistent that the college doors are at last opened
and woman has proven her ability to fill position
in the front ranks.
She now asks one think more-The Ballot
Nothing develops character so much as response
bity The world lacks character sadly. Its de-
velopment has been left to the men, and they
seem to have made poor Roadway. Nothing much
has accrued at woman's door but the blame, and
this has rolled up in large installments. For CEN
turtles woman has accepted this compliment I'M
compainlngy, but now she has risen, and she
says: If am to be responsible then | will look
about for remedy. How much of thought she is
devotng to the subject was well illustrated in the
great International Council of Women which took
place in Washington City last year. Her capacity
for organization is no longer doubted and when
you regard the fact that the attention of these good,
noble women, women from all parts of the world,
is riveted upon the specific which is to make the
world better, that council may be regarded as the
greatest the world has ever known
Somany objections are held up against the hal
lot for woman Such little feeble obstacles, when
lighted by the intelligence of the better half of
the world.
The voice that is to-day crying out for tenn
perance and social purity, and is being heard
above the din OF the worlds discord, is a woman's
voice. 1t is mothers voice. Is it unwomanly
that she shall wish to save her sons and daughters
from the great sea of iniquty that is closing in on
every side? You may say, ''let her warn them"
yes she has warned them, but to no purpose, and
at last she says, 1--WE will remove the sea-" and
she has set herself to the task.
For centuries she regretted and wept, then she
dipped awhile with teacup. How long has she
labored and prayed? But mans necessity is Gods
opportunity, and when she is at last aroused to
full sense of her responsibility, the clouds will
be parted and the sunlight of reform will stream
down, the waters will disappear, the bow of