The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-11-14
COEDUt AXIOM.
The New spoke That Hae Been Put in
lie III Incl of AdXeIse OI.illnn.

The New spoke That HaG Been Put in
the Wheel of adverse Oririop.
Editor Uomdn's Column, Morning Gail:
Solomon said " There is nothing new I'M
der tie sun" but it has b, en- left for one
Mr.. Waterhouse, school-teacher Of Boston,
the hub of the universe, 10 refnte these
words-to put new spoke in the wheel of
adverse opInicn, by asserting that female
beauty is an aGdrd reason against the Co
education Of tie sexes. One young lady WAS
expelled from his school by this chivalric
gentleman because of her beauty. The
School Committee" quoting from CALL
editorial, whence l CLEANED my information
d" did not think beautya htinOus offense, and
lenstated her. Not long after the girls
reinstatement she elOped with one of her boy
admirers, and the two were clandestinely
n arried." Perhaps this latter fact explains
Mr.. Warehouses; tribulati0n. 1t may be
that the gent leman was the victim of
the gretn-eyed monster of uDrpqulted
affection-and it would not be the first
instance in tie history II man where the
teacher has fallen III love with his pupil,
nor yet the first where he has been unable 10
teach her tie rudlmentS OF CupldS lore.
Women and girls are so perVerse sometimes
that ''ihe best laid schemes of mice and men
gang ait agey" The cause of the eXpuI-
sion, moreover, viii be feather in the cap
OF that maiden so long as she lives, and
with the average girl would quite overcome
tie effect of its disgrace. Any seminary
would willingly, nay gladly, furnish would
lie martyrs by the score III such a cause.
Every mothers daughter of them would not
pnlA be ready but eager for the fray" will
ing to carry the war into the eneGy's country,
willie waging it with charms and tongue
instead OF fire and sword.
Poor cc-eds. What an acknowledgment Of
EppsS of rupIF niVOcatpS
make? 1t is enough to make The tender
hearts of the weaker vessels bleed for them.
He, so strong in m, ST things. SO weak before
her, his natural enemy. Girls to the right,
girls to the lett. girls in front Of him, and
such witching girls. Blonde treSsed, with
eyes of heavens own blue; raven locks,
shading sparkling eyes Of jet; mischef-lov-
ing graz orbs, with locks, which, as to cOor,
are "betwIXt and between" as TO style are
curled, banged, frlzed.
No wonder the strong, powerful intellect
Of incipent manhood weakens, or that his
attention waDders from the books which he
should be studying to the louks which he
will be studying, because, forSooth, it IS the
instinct of his nature to do so.
Meanwhile she. the innocent cause of all
his internal commoti0D, sits with pretty
brows wrnklcd, intently porting over some
knotty problem and wondering how Enclid
or some other equally wise parsonage lever
did it," Her heart. steadily pursuing its
natural functions, calmly goes on with its
regular pit-a-pat. while his goes pit-a-
Patrick" Perhaps her concentrated and his
divided attention explains why she so often
carries off the first prize, while he makes
q good second.
Considering the matter seriously, but
from feminine standpoint, of course, | do
not believe that it can be any more detri-
mentally, morally or mentally, for the sexes
as boys and girls. youths and maidens. to as
sociate in schools and colleges than it is for