The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1890-06-21
Owed EDUCATION FOR SOUTH
ERN GIRLS"
,did Essay Read by Miss Mollie
Duval,

bndid Essay Read by Miss Mollie
Duval,
.he AIumnae and a Large Assembly
a Grenada Collegiate Institute.
is no theme more trite than the one
,bosen for my subject this morning.
1mproyed Female Education. 1t is
forth annually on occasions like
metimes serving as a text for the
Girl graduate" who handles 1t daint-
inning it round with words five syl-
onr, at others, pointing the moral OF
,mencement Sermon, or adding new
IN the brow of the "Orator of the
aditor, who turns in despair to his
files, when the dog-days have grown
a monotonous, when marriage notices
and funeral notices are many, when
teet- fights pail upon the public taste,
if he lights upon some old editorial
with the words of distinguished
an of former days. 1--WE must edu-
p daughters. We must educate or
his proves conclusively that, while
is often on the losing side, she has
bst her hold upon the interest Of the
II is true that there are always
|ho insist that the subject receives
ttention than it deserves, that its
hits are eifete and it's claims for at
no longer valid-but it is yain!.
en Butler in politics, or the ghost of
in McBeth, it pops up serenely at
II inopportuue times and rill not
our bidding.
Early years of the 10Th century We're
of propositions that afterwards be-
teat factors in the growth and devel-
of society and the republic,-but-to
Them. will the student of American
in the near future turn with more
than to those ideas and circum-
from which were evolve dthe eman-
of woman. Lest any start at
nidable proposition hasten to say
! in no wise refers to woman's politi-
ather to her non-political condition.
h from me to discus sthe mighty prop
of the so-called "Woman'S Rights"
n. or attempt to break q lance with
buent young orator who has been
to represent this first meeting of the
h Society. In his hands | am sure
Sc of Southern Womanhood will suf-
ling. as he will probably seek to deny
no right but that which they have
bought to claim, viz: that of Citizen
Evolution of which l speak, was that
oke the chains If mentel thraldom,- -
hich bound woman in Il serfdom more
bious than that of the Russian peas
degraded her, not only in the eyes
orld, but, what was far worse. in her
Es
lis bloOdless war which so much
the conditions of our sex, no gun
IA, no treasure wasted, no home made
/, no political system changed, no
bred. no bitter memories born. The
was between ideas and the right
he'd, as the rose blossoms, when its
hes. Great changes occur in the
of q generation even. and the law OF
lty buries our bitterest prejudices in
ne.
buntry's history illustrates nothing
than that great revolutions may be
ID within u period of fifty years.
br less time, a marvellous change
bme over the destinies of the
of America. Up to rather late
some very amusing and fatuous ideas
btertained in regard to the quantity
alty of education it would be safe tc
to the daughters of Eve. We
ln some idea of these opinions, by
the discussions which took place
was first proposed to establish in the
An Institution for the "Higher Educa.
Woman" A gentleman, of magnlil'
rtune, and of such varied learning a.
bnsidered the Solon OF his time wa'
5ched on the subject of helping t.
sh a college for girls. His Response
No indeed, | will not give one dollar
purage such foolishness. All that q
} needs to know is how to darn socks
be New Testament, and make clothe
ldren."
(her said: Neither will l contribute
towards such purpose. l wouldn
he of your graduates for a wife for tn
for couldn't put up even pig-pel
Rlt her criticising 1t and saying that
bt built on mathematical principles.
ly the day has passed when those sa
Fiews found supporters, and the wav
kress which brought with 1t the steam
the cotton-gin and other moder
Eements brought with 1t also the con
b that woman, the mother OF races an
builder of public opinion was destine
hething higher than the mere drudg
at had been imposed upon her.
billy for our sex, man in the flesh is nc
tal and. the generations which S
hd so bitterly opposed any progress
education, which so.gravely and s
ly declared that her only sphere wa
the sewing machine, over the cook
i've, in the dairy and beside the laur
BILE are now lying in dreamless grave
which the sun-dial of Father Tim
I registers in letters Of living light til
word Progress"
Ian, the natural teacher of the rae
100 wise not to impress Il sense OF valr
minds entrusted to her care, an
1T has come to pass that the gener;
which have grown up under her TUT
ecognize the fact that, to decry woman
tlon is to plead guilty to a blind an
ID caste-spirit as much more culpab
erica than in China, as soul-binding
culpable than foot-binding. 1t is no
fsally conceded by all who study IL
problems Of humanity that the state
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