The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1890-06-21

or the representative ideal woman who is
born to live and train others under our free
institutions in these latter, fateful days of
the 10Th century
1t requires first, lofty ideal of what con-
stitutes a wellrounded well-developed,
symmetrical, womanly character. Not the
intellect alone requires cultivation. The
heart, the head, the hand,a AL need the watch
full care which we SO often bestow upon the
| head alone. True education moves along
| three great lines, books morals. industry
In following all three SUCCESSFULLY many
erroneous ideas will have to be eradicated
from the public mind. One of them is the
popular conception of woman's work and
woman's sphere, both noble phrases but
which have been handled so carelessly as to
| render them disgustingly commonplace. We
must educate our girls up to the standard of
believing thatwoman's sphere is that state Of
| life into which it may please God to call her.
whether high or low. and that woman's work
| is simply doing with all her might the work
which God has called her to do. Surely there
will be found none so captious as to quarrel
with this definition of "Woman's Rights"
Woman's call to a given work is generally
plain enough as to the circumstances which
shut her in Whether it is to be aleader in
fashionable society, teaching it to be less friv
olOus and more sincere, whether in some
chosen art or profession which nobly fills her
soul to the exclusion of all that is base and
sordid; whether in happy home Of which
she is the centre and adornment, or, whether
In hos thn4p bpipbtS where
''old maids like Frances E. Willard stand to
make the world better and happier, she is
best fulfilling her destiny. and occupying
her sphere" who does best the wo rt assign
ed her. To this end must improved education
in woman come.
We, of the South are a long way from the
millennium in education-especially in
woman's education. The ideal young
woman of the past has been the one who
with hands unsoled bv contact with labor
and reclining in inglorious ease has pro-
pounded to her mirror the vexing question:
Useessly, aimlessly, drifting thro' life,
What was born for? Somebody's wife?
The typical young wOman,Of to-day would
reject with scorn an education that pointed
no farther than to the Coming man." Thus
teachings of former education and we must
educate still further along these lines, We
must bring our girls to such u state OF inde-
pendence and self-reliance that they may
actually come to believe that fifty dollar
woman, may refuse to wed ten dollar man
without losing her own self-respect or the
respect of the community in which she lives,
and that she can afford to wait until she has
elevated herself TO o social plane which Will
defy osrracism on account of single blessed
ness or. until she can demand the best the
matrimonial market affords. We must edu-
cate our girls to the point of believing WORK
the desideratum power to do DO the hlghes1
cu]ture,-to be useful, the highest aim-the
greatest value-as Il member OF the mousse
hold. of society of the worlds slsterhood ana
brotherhood And then, when the great
question comes, they will be free to choose
and will either marry wisely or not at all,
Love. based on esteem will bear the tests of
life and time If they marry, 1t Is we'll II
not, still well, they will find theirtrue places
in making the world better. With a well ae-
fined purpose, fixed aim,every woman may
he happy. Let us teach that the home Is the
great center and palladium OF our salety'
| and that the womans work is all that goes W
| make up its publication, its wholesome ois-
cpline, its inspiration and its hope. NO
woman should be homeless, and happily
few are destitute of human ties and claims
To some. home is and ought to be enough
hands and hearts being full OF home-cares'
the first great duty
| Others find leisure when all is well-donc
in the immediate home-centre to ask ana
and continue to study the larger problem OF
"Iord." Who is my neighbor? some must
90 forth to bear the burden and heat OF the
dov. to work and labor until the evening III
less sheltered fields, but the duty is where
most good can be done.
If is ours, fellow teachers, as educators, TO
make the rough places plain and to strength-
ON the will and hands Of those that are feeble
Tat nc educate those that are committed to
our care in such way, that they shall ap-
,,rooi,te themselves and consider her, most
fortunate who has work of the most consen-
;ol kind TO perform and the consciousness
that she is prepared to perform 1t acceptaoiy
pishon Haygood in his "Plea for Progress
sovs tive men it seems to me, should nave
done with speaking in pompous patroniz-
irg wav of "Woman's Work" complimentlne
her hest efforts as we would do the toy slate
drawings of our children. 1t Is stupid OF us
+hot we have been nearly two thousand
veors IN finding out that mans work ana
woman,s work are coordinate and that hel
work is altogether as necessary as MS
We must educate girls to the belief tha'
..no honest labor is vile, tho laDorers viz
there be." 1t is matter of surprise that II
, a republic like ours so many sensible peopl'
, should despse labor.
u II is NOT always the case that we can ge'
not tho work we want. Failing to 40 thls
yyo r,ust take the next best thing that pre-
= sents itself. A great many people thlhF
. that "Woman's Work" is no work, or inc mex
, thing to it. Let us teach them better py auop'.
. inc the motto that is as old as it good VIVA.
Is worth doing at all is worth dong well
. rbep when we have learned to 40 the
a worlds work in the best, possible manner VIZ
! will teach the public not only to apprccia''
: IT but to pay for it. There can surrey W. II,
treason to either sex in saying 'ia''
I, von,op,s work is of the same quantlty aho
4 ouo,ity as a mans her sex should noV ooo.'
a hor from receiving the same price for IT, AZ
$ before said, 1t is not only the hc"" VIC"
" mpst he trained for the solution Oh i'ie
n prohlems. A one-sided intellectualiS"l' ID
q r,or CONTINENT for life's duties. TO c"''l-
d, -. .Lo omotional nature III accOruuHc'