The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-06-30
EDucATIoH OF WOMEN.
l.. w. DICK,


EDucATIoE OF WOMEN.
John Ruskiu says, 1--WE have driven our
women mad, SO that they ask no moro for
love, nor for fellowship with us but stand
against US, and ask for ',justice."
One Of the great events that will make |
this year, 1898, memorable forever, might |
recently have been beheld in the Hall of
Columbus, Of Chicagos Art Palace, where,
side by side, sat women delegates, repre-
sen,ing q hundred societies from twenty
different nations. Spain and Greece, Ice
land and Austria, Finland and Germany,
sent their wives and daughters to sit with
their spiritual kinswomen of France, Eng
land and America, in Worlds Congress of
representative women.
This Congress was divided into eight
These were, education, industry, literature,
art, philanthropy, charity, moral and social
| reform, religion, civil law and government,
soieuce and philosophy. This congress gave
program Of 7S meetings for the seven days
- spreading a feast bewildering in it's cx-
| tent aud variety.
| Wnen We read tho papers aud telling
speeches of some of these representative
women, earnestly and eloquently pleading
for equality with men asking only for ga
fair field and no favor fand then, when we
find from other sources, that some Of the
young women who have been granted this
"fair field' are equaling and surprising
| s. -
Dennis, lecturer on botany. mineralogy and
geology, at Chautsuqua, and Miss Philippa
Fawcett, who lately outranked all the young
men at Cambridge University, and took the
highest educational honor ever won by a
woman. we are constrained to admit that
womans education has been kept too much
in the background.
| rejoice that this relict of barb,rism is
fast giving way and this enlightened age is
fast percei1ing what woman's life should
be. Woman's cause is mans; they rise and
1t is expedient that ours, one of the
leading nations Of the earth in civilization
should grant 10 women their proper sphere
"A high, adorning, but useful education,
that will fit them to become the help
meet aud true companion of man.
Some philosopher has said that women,
always on the extreme, are either better OF
worse than men.
Woman is human being and as such has
duties TO other human beings. She must
show her respect to her country's laws, by
understanding and improving them. Why
not take higher view Of politics and a
broader view Of what O woman's life should
be, and allow her TO be ooaT ersant with Ia.
political issues of the day? She will then
see that The State does it's duty rather than
spend her strength taking up its undone
duties as matters of philanthropy. verify
believe that the suffrage of our noble edu.
Gated women would be good for woman
} good for the home, good for the State and
good for the whole world,
l was painfully impressed by the recent
declaration of n minister and teacher, that
"some of our higher institutions Of learning
were i'll qualifying our young women fol-
the grave and responsible duties of life !"
Higher education should be practical, fitting
woman for the career for which she posesse.
aptitude.
The Almighty makes no mistakes, and Il
lie endows the particular woman with an
aptitude for any art, science or profession
she is as much entitled to it as the particular
man. let it will always romain true tha,
men as n class are better fitted for bread.
winning than woman. And till the end o,
the world the woman's real crown of glory
and her highest distinction must be mother
hood and for the simple reason that the
world must always depend upon women for
its mothers.
WIZ LioI---i--s--s
cate woman to become the intellectual as
we'll as the social companion Of mau, then,
and only then, will their high purpose be
accomplished. n G. L.