Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-02-26
THE COLLEGE WOMAN
SHE Is GOING TO THE FRONT IN
PRACTICAL AFFAIRS.


an works-wbat They Have Done.
In the tremendous momentum of the
movement for woman's advancement in
place and power it is the hand of the col
lege bred woman that controls the lever
1t is not in her value as IA leader. but in her
virtue as a 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 a thing unknown. 1t is not that
her degrees equal those of men in impor
tance but that n 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
sponsibilities 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 parlor 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.
SlX or seven college women are in resi-
dence at the settlement, all busy workers
! in their various callings and devoting their
leisure time to Frightening the dreary
! lives in Rivington street. Chicago has
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
vate pupils free 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 Il delicate child, instead of
consulting the old woman oraces and ex
pcrimenting 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 kingwood farm, which is the
wonder and admiration of the Granite
State.
In the large, perfectly ventilated build
ngs are stalled this famous kingwood
herd, each one with pedigree as long as
an English earl's. Canvas cushions are
provided in the roomy stable for the sleek
beauties to kneel on when they want to
rest. So clean and sweet are the big barns
that u 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 sterlized
and sealed in bottles.
OTHER NEW LINES OF WORK.
A new departure of college women is in
the raising of fruits, large and small, and
in flower culture. One of New York s sue
cessful teachers has invested the capital
accumulated by teaching in IA flower farm
in the south of France. A professional
woman writes from southern California:
II have Il 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 proftably. | 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 be IA double com
pensttion."
Lucy p. Salmon, of Vassar college, is col
Letting 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 o
/ industry, and that in the laws which un
, derlie it II trained mind is essential AND
she argues wisely that the great question
/, for women to study is how homes may b,
retained without the friction and vast,
+ of material and nerve force that attend,
! housekeeping at the present time.
b, Prejudice against the college training o
women is breaking down, and though
/ fathers are still more inclined to educat,
, their sons than their daughters, "A man o
e broad culture said recently IF ! haven
y enough money to educate both my SONS anC
daughters, | shall send the girls to college
because they need it more than the boys
Not that they are less bright than thei
brothers, for think intellectually they ar
more clever, but because the world de
= mands greater skill and better preparation
in IA girl than in n boy.
THE girl is more sharply criticised
meets with greater obstacles and is treate,
g with less confidence in her ability than
n boy, consequently she needs the best start
: Besides, physically she is at II disadvantag
and needs the discipline of the college train
If ing to enable her to work with less eX
;. penditure of nervous force than the un
Z trained woman knows how to work. "-Ney
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