The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-11-07

Thonghtfuily Discussed For Careful
Readers.

Thoughffuily Discussed For Cafefnt
Readers.
The women Of the future are being
educated in very different fashion
from the women OF our yesterday.
The training of the colleges is large
" supplementing the home training
that was once considered all-suffi
cient The reign of goverhesses in
the families of the well -to-dois about
over, and our girls are entering conf
petitive examinations, and placing
themselves in the way of vigorous
mental exercise and wholesome, thor
ough mental drill without a thought
that they forfeit in the slightest de-
gree their womanliness.
In no part of our country is this
more marked than in the South,
where for so many years the greater
part of nearly every woman's life was
spent on an isolated plantation.
There was opportunity indeed for the
development of home virtues, and the
southern women were the product of
their environment, tender, loyal, low
ing natures, distinctively delightful
in prosperity, but trained TO be help
less, though brave in contact with
adversely. Thrust rudely forth from
their quiet country life by the over
throw of the southern, social struct-
ure, they have struggled on toward a
plane of broader culture, and to-day
the daughters of the bluest southern
blood fill their industrial schools to
overlooking, and are to be found press
ing forward into every field of activi-
ty presented them. In the Nesc Eng
land Magazine Mr. Mayo says, speak
ing from twelve years experience in
educational work in the South, "A
more attractive, inquisitive, 'plucky'
crowd of young women is not to be
found in this or any other country"
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Although 1t has only been about
twenty five years since the first col
lege in the land was opened to wo
men. forty thousand women are re
ported to have entered upon col
legeate training this year in this
country, and this number would
doubtless be vastly augmented if in
all our State institutions they were
allowed along with their brothers,
the advantages of free scholarships,
books or any other of the economical,
masculine privileges. However, in
West Virginia we are yet too young
in our effort to admit women into
our own University, and too timid
and trembling about the result of
our first feeble venture to criticize
with good grace the hardness of any
sister State.
1t is interesting, to women at least,
to note that the honors of entrance
into the University of London were
recently carried off by Scotch girl
twenty years of age, in competition
with sixteen hundred male students.
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"Green fields, where silvery ripples fade,
With cattle resting in the shadej
Far mountains touched with purple haze
That, like a veil Of morning mist,
By CLEANS of golden sunlight kissed;
Seems but breath OF bygone days"
The painter of this autumn picture
looked out across the New England
hills, but in the glowing coloring of
our own broad mountain slopes, in
the deep blue of our skies and the
bright CLEAN of our sun touched riv-
er we may feast our eyes ON kindred
beauties.
l believe if the world were canvas
ed, we should find more people who
delight in the fruitful loneliness of
the autumn days than of any other
during the year.
1t is true they have in them the
failing leaf and fading flower" but
there is such rich glow over the
woodlands, such yellow light in the
sunshine that no notion of decay
mars the beauty.
There are queenly chrysanthe-
NUNS, the royal flower of japan, there
are bright-faccd dandelions in the
grass, and such wealth of nuts and
rosy apples, and such busy squirrels
collecting winter store. There are
crimson vines clinging to the rough
barked trees, and bright red berries
on the bitter sweet. There are dusky
clusters in the wild-grape vines, and
purple astors blooming, and here and
there lingering spray of golden rod,
and over it all the yellow light that
seems like nothing else so much as
sunlight melted into air."
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