The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-04-07

mastered arithmetic and algebra, sci
ence and literature, must learn how to
| instruct and discipline. Were she to 90
on acquiring theories for twenty years
and fail to apply them she would prob
ably be total failure. knowledge that
falls short of application is productive
of little good
1t is frankly admitted that in their
clubs and societies and conventions
women do make some absurd plumbers.
But there is no quicker method of learn
| ing how to do the right thing than to
blunder in the face of an audience that
will not fail to observe and comment.
1t is like child putting its hand in the
Gre-panful, but sure to prevent a
repetition of the fault
Women have morbid horror of be-
ing ridiculous, and when they misapply
the principles of parliamentary rule
and see the mistake graphically de-
scribed in the morning paper, whatever
they may do, or whatever offense they
may commit, it will not again be Just
that particular one. They learn more
in one session of a convention than they
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Roberts Rules of Order" and, in fact
it is the only way in which they can
learn.
The same is true of clubs Observe
any club of several years experience,
how much more dignified have the pro-
ceedings become, how much more COM
prehensive is the programme, the
themes selected and their manner of
treatment. How thing really appears
can never be proved until it is submit
ted to the disinterested. Our friends,
our relatives are not competent to pass
an unbiased opinion upon either our
speech or deed. Their affection blinds
them and their partially warps their
Judgment The stranger has no such
sentimental scruples. He sees, hears
and knows the stern reality. The OBJ
lection urged against women in con-
ventiOns and societies was also pro-
nounced upon the woman in journalism
1t was charged that she had had no dis
cipline. that she had never been trained
to think, to observe, judge judiciously
and dispassionately; hence she should
not be permitted to write of anything
but the chance and change of fashion, |
and how to make home happy. But if |
she is not turned loose to stand or fall |
by her own efforts she will never be |
able to think, to see or to decide. She |
will have to make mistakes, take sharp |
reproofs, suffer humiliating defeats, but |
this discipline is necessary, and it is |
possible only in the actual pursuance of |
her TNr-nfaCClnp aESIIraH1tr M in 1
the coy library of the special, or in the |
classroom of any school of journal |
ism" When she has violated the poll |
icy of her paper once or twice. failed |
of the commission, forgotten the as
and received her reproof or |
discharge she will have learned more |
than she could acquire in lifetime at |
home or in an eternity at a school of |
journalism. The learning lies in doing |
the work over and over again-profit-
ing by the failures and blunders as
much as by the success and the reward. |
And the woman who is to be shut up in |
the four walls of home and never go
outside them will never learn and is
doomed to hopeless ignorance.
1t is said of an eminent oculist that /
he spoiled hatful of eyes in learning
how to perform the operation for re-
moving cataract 1t is sad TO think of
the scores that suffered that thousands
might be benefited, but the knowledge
could be obtained in no other way.
There is one fact that might as well
be faced and accepted by conservative
DIRECTORS, and that is. that the age in
which women remained secluded N
their houses, thinking and knowing
nothing of the world around them, has
passed forever. They are now merely
in means and methods,
and two decades, or less, will see them
applying with wisdom and without
fear or reproach that which they are so
painstakingly learning. Already, where
they have had any experience, that ex-
perience has been worth to them pre-
cisely what it was to men Only few
years ago one of the largest national
of women in the United
States was an unwieldy, unmanagea-
bic mass To-day it is a dignifed, ra-
tional, and disciplined body, with
president who is said to have no
equal as parliamentarian in congress.
1t has already been shown, with these
little digressions in public affairs, that
the home has not disintegrated; that
there are still to be marriages and
births, and the domestic machinery
moves along much as it did before
This is one great point gained. The
need of coming in contact with human
ity, the ability to consider grave ques-
tions as they should be considered, is
just being tested. The final benefits
will be indisputable and widely diff
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