The record-union., 1892-06-17
CoLLFGg-BRED WOMEN.
She IS More Practical Than Her Hon
or Society-Bred Sister.

She IS More Practical Than Her Home
or Socfety-Bred Sister.
The sends ng of our daughters to college
10 make them practical is an idea that it
may take iong time to implant in the
average parent's mind. The dreamy girl
gradual With her head in the stars and
her feet stumbling over the difficulties of
everyday life is as much out of fashion
as the delicate, sentimental woman of the
Byronic type. No doubt some girls will
be impractical in spite of a college train
ing, as conservatory course will not
is that, other things being equal, the col
lege-bred woman is more practical than
her home or society-bred sister.
Take the matter of executive ability.
See the college girl run a society, or, TO
partlcularize, conduct meeting. The
meeting is called to order and, what is
more, held in order in proper parlia-
mentary fashion. There is no branching
off to other subjects than the one under
discussion. There is no irrelevant talk
on the same subject. She has been trained
to an appreciation of the value of time;
she knows the utmost that can be got out
of a certain number of minutes. She has
discovered the elements necessary to an
efficient committee, and the proper ap-
of each member. She herself can work
Systematically and harmoniously with
her colleagues. She has learned to sub
ordinate personal considerations to the
general welfare of the undertaking. 1t
is nothing to her whether she sells pea
nuts or flowers, provided the entertain
ment is a success; she will act as Biddy
or maid as cheer fully as Araminta, mis-
treSs and heroine. She has acquired in
genuity, originality and experience in
the many projects she has had to engi-
neer in her college life, with no aid,
financial or advisatory, from father or
brother. She can engage a band or a
public speaker.
OF course, there are fathers, old-fash-
ioned perhaps, who do not want their
daughters to direct women'S exchanges
or century clubs. That is not the ques-
ton here, however. We are considering
only the increased power of the college
girl to do whatsoever her hand findeth to
do.
When she marries, she may not know
what cut of beef to buy, but she has a
mind that has been taught how to learn.
If she has been to Wellesley, she has
studied domestic science under Miss Tai
bot, and can discover defective drainage
without an attack of typhoid to point it
out. She can discover it and also remedy
it, her studies in the principles and prac-
tlce OF drainage and plumbing having
made her master of our common enemy
and autocrat, the plumber. She has
studied methods of ventilating and heat
ing, house-furnishing, the chemistry of
cleaning, methods Of preserving food and
detecting adulteration, household art and
domestic service. If she TAX es an active
part'in the administration of local chari-
ties, her course in economics has taught
her the benefits of well-directed charita-
BILE and social efforts, and the evils COM
ing from ill-advised and Utopian reform.
When she has children she can take more
intelligent care Of them for having fol-
lowed in her alumne association the in
vestigations of Mrs. Annie Howes Barus.
Mrs. Frances Fisher Wood and others in
infant psychology and physiology. Sir
William Gull of England bears witness
to the practical value of college studies,
at the same time that he pays tribute to
the superior health of college women, in
saying that the benefit derived from a
university education makes women and
their children stronger and better, and
that The percentage of childless marriages
is less with educated women, and the
percentage of children that survive in
fancy larger