Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-22
THE COLLEGE WOMAN
SHE is GOING TO THE FRONT IN
PRACTICAL AFFAIRS.

With Added Intelligence College Erred
Girls Are Model Mothers Original
Lines Along Which the College Wom-
an works-what They Have Done.
In the tremendous momentum of she
movement for woman's advancement in
place and power it is the hand of the col
lege bred woman that controls the lever.
II is not in her value as leader but in her
virtue as Il moderator that her greatness
lies.
The Importance of the college woman's
influence in this question is not in the mat
ter of superior scholarship. even though
Phillippa Fawcett has written her name
above that of the senior wrangler of Eng
lands great university OF great value is
it to the woman's cause that she has taken
off her corset and built her gymnasium,
and comes out of college stronger woman
| than when she went in. with a better
chance for the future in what she has
learned of hygiene rather than of Greek
Statistics show that while the proportion
| OF marriages among graduates not only
| compares favorably with that among other
women, and is constantly increasing di-
vorce is thing unknown. 1t is not that
| her degrees equal those of men in impor-
| lance, but that a greater proportion of the
children of the educated women survive
infancy than do those of other mothers
lacking the college training which has
| been popularity believed to unfit women
for motherhood. 1t is that she is bringing
to bear upon the smallest details of the
practical interests of life the discipline and
enlightenment of scientific thought, thus
| refuting at every turn the time honored
traditions that college life and business
| training unfit women for the greater re-
| sponslblities of wifehood and motherhood
COLLEGE SETTLEMENTS.
| Over in Rivington street has been DEM
| onstrated most successfully the college
woman's idea of practical philanthropy,
which is not of the almsgiving or fancy
fair fashionable kind The philanthropists
| of the college settlement invite the little
| children in to swing in the big swings and
play in the sand heaps of their yard. They
ask the tired women over for a cup of tea
in nice, neighborly way in the afternoon.
| They coax the boys and girls into their
| bright parlGs' in the evenings and give
them games to play and books to read
They have clubs for sewing and cooking
| and dressmaking. lessons in hygiene his
| tory and science.
| Six or seven college women are in resi-
dence at the settlement, all busy workers
| in their various callings and deyoting their
leisure time to Frightening the dreary
| lives in RiYington street Chicago has "A
| similar settlement called Hull House.
| where college men and women teach in the
| classes and enter into the entertainments
! provided for the people The graduates Of
the Order of Kings Daughters take pri-
waite pupils fret of charge and assist them
in the university extension work
| Leaving the field Of philanthropy for
| that of industrial pursuits most unique
| among them is the Kingwood farm enter
| prise under the management of Frances
! Fisher Wood. Confronted with the prob
! lem Of feeding a delicate child, instead Of
| consulting the old woman oracles and ex-
! perimenting with patent foods this college
woman studied the matter OF infant food
thoroughly from the best medical books
| written on the subject. As the result Of
her scientific experiments has been estab-
lished the kIugwood farm, which is the
wonder and admiration Of ;he Granite
State.
In the large. perfectly ventilated build
ings are stalled this famous Kingwood
herd, each one with a pedigree as long rs
an English earl'S. Canvas cushions are
provided in the roomy stable for the sleek
| beauties to kneel on when they want 20
| rest. So clean and sweet are the big barns
that woman can sit with her needlework
| in their passageways. And the old farm
ers are never tired of telling how the milk
| will keep for years after it is once stcrlized
and sealed in bottles.
| OTHER NEW LINES OF woEE
A new departure of college women is in
the raising of fruits, large and small, and
in flower culture. One of New York sue
Ell Il I
accumulated by teaching in a flower farm
in the south of France. A professional
woman writes from southern California:
Il have small tract of six acres of orchard
and garden, where have filled in all my
spare time for the past sixteen years most
agreeably and profitablE. l am satisfied
that women can earn comfortable living
with few acres of land. and the cultiva-
ton of the mind and development of body
which an intelligent person can derive
from such vocation will he a double COM
| pensation."
Lucy p. Salmon, of Vassar college, is col
lecting statistics on the great problem OF
domestic service in the hope that some
way out of the difficulty may be found
She urges that domestic labor while hav.
, ing features peculiar to itself is amenable
| to the laws which control other forms OF
industry and that in the laws which un.
derlie it a trained mind is essential. And
she argues wisely that the great question
for women to study is how homes may be
retained without the friction and waste
of material and nerve force that attends
housekeeping at the present time
Prejudice against the college training oil
women is breaking down, and though
fathers are still more inclined to educate
; their sons than their daughters. a man OF
| broad culture said recently: IF ! haven't
: enough money to educate both my sons and
daughters, | shall send the girls to college
: because they need it more than the boys
Not that they are less bright than then
brothers, for think Intellectually they arc
more clever, but because the world de
mands greater skill and better preparation
in girl than in boy.
The girl is more sharply criticised
meets with greater obstacles and is treated
with less confidence in her ability than a
bow consequently she needs the hest start