The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1891-12-23

WOindnt nus dD dTllCiC III the OINft
in which she asserts that women
entirely lack the creative faculty
Thus she says
"'It may be stated as a general
proposition that no woman has ever
done anything in the intellectual
world which has had the germ OF
Immortality 1T would scarcely
be overstating the case to say that
all men possess genius in some form,
and no woman ever possessed it in
any form.' No woman has ever
written or spoken q word that has
become immortal women would
still be pounding corn between two
stones If men had not provided
mills to grind it, women left TO
themselves would have remained
in utter barbarism owing to their
inability to create anything"
Gail Hamilton, writing about n
woman's department at the Chicago
Exposition, expresses herself al
most as strongly rs Miss Seawell.
"Let men have fairs" says she,
"Corliss engines, monographs and
rn-shellers-they can be judged
at Chicago. IL woman has liz
vented a sewing machine by the
way, let her take hor chance and
her prize with the rest. To set of
woman's mechanical devices against
mans is only to demonstrate that
man is far ahead. Undoubtedly,
the woman's department will show
much skill, art, enterprise; but the
inventions of all the women in the
world-their mechanical contriv-
ances, their material achievements
ARE few and small compared with
those of men. Every machine de-
vised by woman might be blotted
from the memory of man and not
be missed. Not one wheel of the
worlds movement would roll back
ward. Blot out mans devices and
we should all be savagcs.
The college authorities at Ann
Arbor, Mich, seized the November
number OF the university magazine,
the Islander, and would not allow
any copies TO be issued until an ar
ticle cOndemning co-cducatiOn was
expunged. The article said
1.-THE admission of women was
soon followed by q decline IN at
tendance upon the university, by a
considerable decline in numbers at
tending the literary department, by
a large decrease in the male academ-
ic attendance, by Il serious and still
continuing diminution in the num-
her Of male classical students, and
by a noticeable reduction in the an
nual number Of male academic grad
uates, many classes being smaller
than their predecessors of ten or
fifteen years bef re. The medical
department. where many women
have studied, has lost men, while
the law school and the school ui
pharmacy, two schools where few
women enter, shows q very large |
growth"
Jacobs then quotes many figures
to prove his statements, and con-
tinues "CO-educatiOn has caused |
the name of Michigan University |
to be stricken from lis place among
like Yale, Harvard and
Princeton, and it is now listed with
Oberlin, Hillsdale, Gcnesce and
Times Democrat.
'I should like 10 make a call that
would reach every woman in the coun-
try," writes Airs. Henrietta Russell.
~Lift up your chcstl Lift The chest,
keeping the shoulders down. until il is
on linc with the toes, and thus throw
The tension on the centre of the body
where ii should be. leaving tho heart
and lungs to have free play. Close the
lips, draw the air in through the nos
trils until the pressure against the
ribs Is iniolerablc. Hold the tension
firmly, steadily, as long as you can,
then gradually LET the breath out
through the lips. Try this breathing,
Inspiration, retention and expiration At
night whom the body is free,and in the
when you dress. This les
SON in correct breathing when thor
oughlY learned Is certain cure for
and shyncss, aud gives
command, freedom ofmotion and sense
Of power to the most sclf-consciOus
and hcsitant natures"