The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-19
THE EDUCATED WOMAN.
Instead of Being a Bore, She Gen.
orally Is an Influence
for Good.

The woman whose intellect has been
| trained will not be necessarily a
pedantic bore or an overpowering
force in the family; the better her
training, the better her balance; the
better her understanding of her house
holds needs, and her ability to meet
them, the better will she know how to
retain and increase the affection once
secured, and to make her home all
that the ideal home should be.
Beauty will still be beauty. charm
will still be charm, and academical
honors cannot strip ome of Ell
| Their; and the love that is attracted by
them when accompanied by thorough
intellectual development is q love
which will outlast that captured by
the tricks and arts which kindle but
a temporary flame, for the develop
ment of the mind develops and en-
larges all the rest of the being,
other things being equal. 1t is
we'll known that there are no bet
ter mothers, MOI more faithful wives,
nor more accomplished house-keep-
ers, MOI more delightful guests
than can be found among orr
present cultured, learned, and literary
women. All the education in the
work will not eradicate from the
| feminine nature the household in
stincts or the love of home and child
rem. Nowhere is real intellectual
training found to weaken tile feminine
type; but, ON the contrary. homes are
finer, richer, more exalted, and hap
pier under it's power. 1t brings about
a perception of mutual rights that
does not come to the ignorant;
it prevents encroachment; it rem
ders due honor; and it knows
how to produce comfort and
joy and puts the knowledge to use.
When at last any wide number of
women thus trained for generations
have married-for if marriage is not
to be the aim of these women, it is,
at any rate, the destined end of these
as of all others--and have married
men who did not suffer themselves to
be outstripped, it can only be a
mighty race of men and women which
will be born and reared, compared
with whose achievement all that we
have at present will seem rudilnent-
ary.-Hd7per's Bazag.
An Old Writer.
Probably the oldestliving authoress
in this country is Mrs. Elizabeth
Cakes Smith, who was very promi-
nent before the war, not only as a
writer but as a lecturer. Although
she is still a contributor to one OF the
literary weeklies, both in prose and
verse, her name is rarely seen else
where, and the general impression
doubtless is that she has passed away.
The standards of criticism are SO
different now from what they were
thirty years since that her work
poems, novels, tragedies and miscel-
lanies-would not be ranked nearly
so high as formerly.
Born at what is now Cumberland,
Me.-her maiden name was Prince
she was married at sixteen to Seba
Smith, author of the once famous
Major Jack Downing letters. She be-
came a widow some twenty years ago
and has been living at the small town
of Hollywood, N. c., neal the coast,
where at e~ighty-four she is in excel
lent, vigorous health. She was one
of the early advocates of woman's
rights, speaking on the subject in all
the larger cities and contributing
various articles to the magazines of
the day. "Woman and Her Needs
published forty years ago, attracted
much attention and elected warm
commentator. Mrs. Smith has wit
messed extraordinary changes IN the
republic and has survived nearly all
Of her contemporaries, manyof whom
occupied exalted positions in her
youth and have passed into OBJ