San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-02
EDUCATION FOR WOMEN.
Members OF Sorosis Discuss Question
That Interests Womaniind.

Members OF Sorosis Discuss Question
That Interests Womankind.
Sorosis sat down to her December ban
uuet in the new white and gold ballroom
at Sherry's, with Lady Henry Somerset
as her honored guest. All the Sorosians
were present. from Jenny June and her
contemporary veterans down to pretty
little Miss Demorest and her coterie of
intellectual buds. Besides the regular
members there were present many guests
of note, including the wife of Max
O'Rell, the wife of Bishop Simpson, the
wife of Colonel Roebling, of Brooklyn
bridge fame, and Mrs. Davis.
The chairman of the day, Mrs. Mar
garet T. Jardley, presented for discus
! sion the question: what kind of educa-
ton will best fit women for the duties Ut
! life" She pointed out and classified the
| duties of woman's life as religious, per-
sonal and social, adding:
sour personal duty that we owe our
! selves, that we may make the best OF
| ourselves, is to be chaste temperate,
| truthful, brave and free in the condition
| God intends for men and women. Our
social duty is simply the broadening out
of our personal duty to our families, our
neighbors, society, the state and the
| country. Social duty is the fulfilling of
| the law, to do unto our ueighbors what
we would have our neighbors do unto us
with love in our hearts"
Jenny June presented the advantages
of literary education as preparat.J IN
for woman's duties, not as professional
means by which to make a livelihood IN
writing or teaching, but for its discipline
and development of all faculties.
Mrs. Jennie Lozier, the president of
| Sorosis, advocated the Importance of
medical or physiological study as prepa-
, ration for womens duties, because ''the
4 peculiar duty of woman, one she can
4 not relegate to any one else, is the care OF
herchildren, and the indispensable prepa-
ration for this duty is health for herself
and health to transmit to her offspring,
and such knowledge as shall enable her
to retain it for botn."
Mrs. Terhune Marion Harland) argued
the domestic education as pre-eminent in
Importance to women, and that while
the morals of the community and the in
! tegrity of the nation depend upon the
| manner in which the home is kept,
| practical knowledge of what underlies
home comfort is absolutely essential to a
well equipped woman. Mrs Ella Dietz
| Clymer said that she would answer the
! question in single sentence, for the kind
of education that best fitted woman
| for her duties was the education of the
heart.
Then Lady Somerset spoke in her rich,
| melodious English voice, and said: "The
world is waking up to the great differ
ence between woman's position now
from the position she formerly held. No
one would dare utter now in public the
prayer of the old Scotch minister, we
thank thee, Lord, that thou hast given
us women to make US comfortable The
old order changes, and woman's educa-
ton embraces a wider outlook than ever
before In considering the question of
woman's sphere and the kind of educa-
ton which shall best prepare her for its
duties we must look upon her as a life
giver and law giver, of which the first
is paramount. Many of the ills flesh is
heir to might be overcome and obliter-
ated if this idea could be kept before
women. The most sacred duties of life
are presented to people when they are
poorly prepared to find the solution of
its problems. The mothers education is
sort of moral tobogganing, The chill
dren are sent out into the world to land
where they will. But we have passed
beyond the old idea that ignorance is in
nocence and knowledge necessarily vice.
1t is the duty of every mother to gather
her girls around her and tell them all
they should know ,all God meant for them.
"The moral tone of the world hangs
upon the moral tone of its women. When
all women realize their power they will
not tolerate the evils of the present-will
not allow the public work of the states
men to give the lie to their private lives.
| They will demand that men shall be
! good and pure even as women are brave
| and true. Until women take an intelli
! gent interest in politics the best men will
stand aloof from political work. New
| York Sun.
Heredity and Health.