Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-05-30
WOMAN'S KINGDOM.
The Tendency in Modern Eduea-
ton, Which Trains Mind
and Hand.
"Deplorable Accidents" and Their
Place in Domestic and
Public Affairs.
Modern Education.

Education becomes more and more /
practical. The schools and colleges |
seem to feel the need of sending graduates |
into the world provided with knowledge. !
which not only implies culture. but which |
shall be of use in the proSaic work of |
bread-winnirr Greek mas been Sacri- |
fed TO the modern languages, and in many |
instances stenography. telegraphy, and |
tvpe-writing are included in the college |
course. In one university a school of !
journalism has been established that |
young men and women may be trained in |
the art of paragraphing and editing.
Polytechnic schools, schools of technol- |
ogy, Misunderstanding schools are Springing |
up everywhere, and their extensive patron |
age gives evidence that they supply |
popular demand. Every young man who |
graduates need not feel now that he must
either preach, teach, practice law or medi-
cine. There is field for scientific farm
ing and stock raising, while the yiStaS
that widen before the aspiring engineer
and electrician are seemingly endless.
On the other hand. the young woman
who donS her white gown, delivers her
graduating address and marches off the
stage with her blue beribboned diploma
may also dream her dream of a career.
feet its speedy realization. Indeed the
very theme she chooses gives evidence that
she thinks: that she can do her part, and
will, wherever it may lie, at home or with
out the home, as fate may determine
Thirty years ago she would have read in
deferential tone an appoIogetic essay on
Female loneliness. or The Pleasures
of Hope" or The Vision of Life" Now
she speaks without referring to her manu-
script and it is ahoat the Duties of
Citizenship, or conditions of National
Growth, " or a kindred subject. which has
been well considered beforehand. Until
recently the best manual training schools
have been for boys almost exclusively;
this is changing, and girls are beginning
to share their advantages. The women of
the future will without doubt. handle her
tools with skill and dexterity. and be in
dependent of the carpenter in the matter
| of making small repairs about the house
She will use the hammer and the screw
driver as naturally as she wears her thim-
BILE, or wledS her scissors, which she will
not discard on this account
The visitor to polytechnic school on
| commencement day. Is shown the gradual
| progress of the pupil. There are the first
beginnings in wood work in metal work
dynamo, wonder of beauty and intri-
cate mechanism. 1t is one of the most
| forcible of Ill the Illustrations that can be
given of the capacity of human intelli
| gence. The beginning is ignorance; but
step by step, hand, eye and brain are
trained until acknowledged has increased
their functions almost incidentally. What
| is possible to the intelligent boy is pos
| sible to the equally intelligent girl. The
| time sittered away in crochetting, spent in
manual training, would have made her
| brother equal. Every once in a while
one, in Out-of-the-way places, happens up
on girl who possesses great natural me-
| chanical skill. 1t Is never developed, and
| is useless. A gentleman engaged now in
| business in d western town spoke recently,
| of little schOolmate, child whom he had
| known forty years ago. He had expressed
| great desire to learn what had become of
| her. 'She was the daughter of potter, y
| he said land was queer little creature.
! But she could take up a handful of clay,
| and with a few manipulations mold per-
| feet animal. She would amuse us as we
went home from school when we stopped
| to play by the roadside, and cows. pigs
and horses were made with equal skill, as
we demanded them. She was a genius,
| DuG udS pIOpdoly uitllItu VI ulc'l
| and nothing ever came of her wonderful
! talent"
To-day it would have been utilized.
She would have found ways and means of
education.
Perhaps there is no more striking evil
| dence of the inspiring change that has
taken place than the alteration of curri-
cuIum of the Catholic schools for young
women. Since its institution the church
has depended upon the energy and ability
of its women, but they have been subject
| always to the advice of their spiritual
| counsellors, whether as wives and mothers
or as members of religious communities,
| and there has been no recognition of any
life outside these. The routine in these
schools is still much the same as it was
twenty-five years ago, and what are the
accomplishments - French, music, draw
ing, painting, and embroidery still have
their former prominence. But in the cat
alogue of one of the leading schools in che
west it is now stated that especial atten-
tion is given to shorthand and biography.
for which competent teachers have been
employed.
1t is the strongest commentary that
could be made upon the all-pervading
progress of the times. With facilities for
broad and thorough culture, for the means
to acquire that which shall be of the high
est and most lasting value, with the new
ideas which inculcate regard for health
and physical strength, the woman of the
future will be indeed
| ''Noby planned
| To warn, to comfort and command"
| NJ. H. X.