Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-06
THE COLLEGE WOMAN
SHE IS GOING TO THE FRONT IN
PRACTICAL AFFAIRS.

with Added Intelligence College Bred
Girl Are Model Mothers - Original
Lines Along Which the College wom-
an Works-What They Have Done.
In the tremendous momentum of the
movement for woman's advan cement in
place and power it is the hand of the col
lege bred woman that controls the lever
1t is not in heryalue asa 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
Philippe Fawcett has written her name
above that of the senior wrangler of Eng
land great university. OF great value is
it to the womans cause that she has taken
off her corset and built her gymnasium,
and comes out Of college a stronger woman
than when she went in, with 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, DIS.
vorce is a thing unknown. 1t is not that
her degrees equal those of men in impor-
lance, but that 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
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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 q cup of tea
in nice, ncighborly way in the afternoon
They coax the boys and girls into their
bright pHrlor in the evenings and give
hem 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 calings and devoting their
leiSuHe time to frightening the dreary
lives in Riyington street Chicago has
similar settlement called Hull House,
where college men and women teach in the
Glasses and enter into the entertainments
provided for the people The graduates of
the Order of Kings Daughters take pri
waite 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 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 Kingwood farm, which is the |
wonder and admiration of the Granite |
State.
In the large, perfectly ventilated build |
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 Ito !
rest. So clean and sweet are the big barns |
that IL woman can sit with her needework |
in their passageways And the old farm
ers are never tired of telling how the milk |
will keep for years after it is once sterilized |
and sealed in bottles.
OTHER NEW LINES or WORK.
a new departure of college women is in |
the raising of fruits large and small, and |
in flower culture. One of New Yorks sue
cessful teachers has invested the capital |
accumulated by teaching in flower farm
in the south of France. a professional |
woman writes from southern California:
Il havea 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 proAtably. | am satisfied |
that women can earn a comfortable living
with IA lew acres of land, and the cultva-
ton of the mind and development of body
which an intelligent person can derive
from such vocation will be "a double COM
penSation."
Iucy 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 of
industry, and that in the laws which I'M
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 Of
women is breaking down, and though
fathers are still more inclined TO educate