Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-09
WOMEN OF TO-DAY.
To Please Men, Woman Must Study Something
PeSidps Dress.

To Please Men, Woman Must Study Something
Pesldps Dress.
Lady Catherine Mines Gaskell rom
tributes q paper on this very interesting
topic to the Nineteenth Century for No
vember:
No one, says her ladyship, will deny
that the education of women has n
creased and grown enormously during
the last few years. A different standard
of perfection has been raised, add, above
all, strange and new requirements have
been added to the old code. Woman
is still to retain her charm; all
that art can do in dress,
grace, and refinement, and seduction
of manner are as keenly appreciated as
ever. But, besides these light and airy
graces Of the old school, it is now felt
that the more grave aud serious parts of
education must not be found wanting in
a woman. She must do more, from q
literary point of view than specifically
glance down the columns of u newspaper;
while the susceptibIlities of her frIende
require greater artistic eXcellenos
than was eVinced by her mother (wheu
she took the captain s heart by storm
some thirty years g by singing a few
popular airs of the day; and as to her
wster-colors they must be better than
her aunt s roses eutwined with auriculas,
hicb were considered such works of art
at that time. If she is to exercise artis-
tie faculties it is only powers of the first
order that her acquaintance will greet
with favor. 1t is now found indispensa-
bic that every woman should take q part
in charitable and even in political or
ganiZations. To obtain prof.
cheney in these objects, it is requisite
that she should acquire business-Iike
habits, and be aLle 10 write, and even to
speak in pnblic, if not brilliantly, ct
least with tiuenCy aud to the point.
Added TO these new tests of education, a
woman is still expected to be a good lin
guist. II is thought absolutely necessary
that she should be able to read and to
express herself with ease in several Ian
guHgeS.
RUBBISH
1t does not excite establishment that q
man should q v spent most of his early
life at a public school, and then at one
of the universities, nominallv learning
AT AIN "ICChy dlO at u ~ VI
mat he Is pleased to call his education
be guiltIess of being able to translate a
stanza of Horace or q line Of Homer in
t%eIligibly.
MORE B STILL.
On the other hand, it would be consids
cred extraordinary that a woman in So
ciety, who had traveled in France, or
Vrha bod hoA fbo od - n Of N ENrannh
governesf as a child, should not be able
to express herself in French with ease,
talk If necessary to u French attache at
a London dinner party, or write correctly
to her modesto in Paris. Added to all
this, the athletic developments of
a woman's education must not be
forgotten to be mentioned here.
The same critical faculty Is brought to
bear upon her ability as a lawn tennis
and a cricket player; and if she does not
shoot, at least she is expected TO show
the same endurance as a man when she
walks over miles of heather or through
fields If turnips. To all these grares,
accomplishments aud physical exercises
are added her old duties of wife, mother.
housekeeper and hostess. The woman of
the present day is to be little short of al
Admirable Crichton in petticoat5.
THE AULINE DOCTRINE.
Mothers impress upon their daughters
that they are to be all things to all men.
''If you do not like hunting, you are to
affect to - says mamma. lyon must
listen to Capt. Breakneck' g stories ut
dinner, laugh in the right places, and
ask intelligent questions about his
steeplechasers.' "To-morrow you Will |
sit by Professor DrYasdust; do
not forget to look through his
three volumes on the evolution of
thought. so that you may impress him as
an educated being. Next week you will
meet the bishop of Middlesex, and re-
member to talk to him about his mission
i'll the East End. This afternoon we are
going to Nine. LIE Jour's party, where we
shall meet artists aud foreigners, and I
shall expect you TO talk to all if neces-
sary.' After a London dinner it is
often possible, before the men come up
stairs, to hear bright and lively discus
sions OH literature, art and politics. Men
and women are beginning to meet in lit
erature and thought on equal terms, !
whilst women are begin ming TO be able to
be interested in lines of thought and
creeds freed from personal considerations
and Influences.