Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-21
EDUCATE THE GIRLS.

Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer lectured re- the Chicago Association of Collegiate Alum nae, upon "The Influence of College Edu- cation Upon Our Homes." The education and training of girls she declared to be "the highest blossom of modern free civ ilization." "Nothing," she said, "so grieves aching hearts and heads as to be eternally bored" AS remedy for this parents should place before their daugh- ters some worthy ambition, goal that must be reached through energy, perse- verence and patience. In conclusion she said: "The girls must bring music and art the cultured and beautiful side of life into our homes. To them are often left the finer duties which the sterner ques- tions of life prevent man from attending to. Life calls upon the girls for its best, therefore educate them to answer the de- mand."
 Prejudice against college education for girls is rapidly breaking down. Said a man of broad culture and progressive ideas: eff haven't enough money to ed ucate both my sons and daughters I shall
 
 need it more than the boys. Not that they are less bright than their brothers, for think intellectually they are more clever, but because the world demands greater skill and better preparation in a girl than in a boy. The girl Is more sharply criticised, meets with greater obstacles and is treated with less confidence in her ability than boy, con- sequently she needs the best start. Be- sides, physically, she is at disadvantage | and needs the discipline of the college | training to enable her to work with less | expenditure of nervous force than the un. trained woman knows how to work" | The best equipment for the girl who wishes to be self-supporting, the most sen sible provision against reverses of fortune is thorough education. In the profes sion of teaching the possession of college diploma is becoming indispensable, while if overcrowding of this calling is to bt remedied, it must be by the means ths gives to each the opportunity to develop her individual bent and fits her for thor ough and commendable work in the chosel occupation. AS for those who take ul "woman's distinctive and most valuable work" statistics prove that the proportion of marriages among college bred womel not only compared favorably with ths among other women, but that ihe rate steadily increasing. That they do not con slider marriage failure is shown by tn fact that divorce is practically uuknowl among them. Moreover, a greater propor tion of the children of educated womel survive the perils of infancy. The ancien myth that higher education unfits wome, for the great responsibilities of wifehoo, and motherhood will soon be forgotten since the college girl leaves th when she entered it, ready to take ul the duties of life in an earnest, conscien tious way, and bringing to bear upon thei smallest details the strength of an enlight ened and disciplined mind "It is too lat in the worlds history" wisely says Presi dent Dwight, "to think that a woman mind is not of as much consequence as mans mind, or that, whatever may be he peculiar sphere, she is not to be richly broadly, thoughtfully educated, as we'll 6 he."
 SOME WISE WORDS.
 The value of good advice, it appears, not lessened by age. It Is almost twenty six years since Florence Nightingale wrot, in a private letter, some wise things COT corning women's work, and it applies wit as much force and good sense to-day as
 did to the workers of @ generation ago. The value of her own work we know and the beauty of her self-sacrifice, an though she did not wish her name to r, main the world would be much the poore for forgetting it. She speaks of herself 6
 @ woman of very ordinary ability, with D particular gifts, led by God in strange an unaccustomed paths and always helped b him to do the work that, because of hs natural shyness, was distasteful to he "God has done all, and nothing"
 By one so devoted yet 50 unassumin advice is given graoiously and kindl, Here is some of it, and it is we'll wort needing:
 q can honestly assure any young lad