The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-11-30

privileges. The history otthe string
giles for an education of a noble
woman who recently died in Boston
is a thrilling example of the heroic
ordeal through which the female as
pirant for collegiate honors had to
pass fifty years ago Her brother
was helped through college, but her
request for a similar advantage was
met with the response, rs the child
crazy?" Nevertheless she persevered,
teaching a country school for
fraction OF the salary paid u male
teacher, and by the time she was
twenty five she had earned enough
to take her to Oberlin, then the only
college in the country that admitted
women.
At Oberlin, she earned her way by
teaching in the preparatory depart
ment, and by doing homework in
the Boarding Hall for three cents an
hour. Most of the students were
poor and the college furnished them
with board at dollar week, but
she could not afford even this small
sum, and cooked her food in her own
room at acost OF less than fifty cents
a week. She had only one new dress
during her college course, a cheap
print, and she did not go home once
during the four years. How many
girls today are willing to make such
sacrifices fer the sake of an enduca-
ton? Yet the broadening and
deepening influences of "a university
life are as much needed for a girls
intellectual development as for that
of her brother, and surely the ad-
vantages for training along special
lines are to be had only in our higher
institutions of lea rning.
A Springfield girl recently took the
degree of electrical engineer at the
Ohio State University. She is said
to be the first woman in the world to
receive this degree, yet Edison says
women are especially fitted by their
delicacy of touch to become expert
electricians
An English woman addressing
Sorosis, the famous New York Club,
the other day said: "There never
was a country where brains and
leas were SO much appreciated as in
America. I'd rather come to America
to make my living with my brains
than go anywhere else in the world"
she also added that while there are
a great many more educated women
in America than in England, our
education was superficial as COM
pared with that of the educated
English woman who ''goes into it
deeper, reads more and studies more
in school, at home and all her life. :"
The American girl has the brains.
She has demonstrated this in myriad
and various instances. She also
has the opportunity and she does
not lack energy in other directions.
The charge of superfciality may be
true of the many, and thanks to our
our system of public instruction, it
undoubtedly is. A partial educa-
ton, we hold, is vastly better than
none. The question, however, re-
mains, are the majority of girls living
up to the their privileges? Are they
making the most of their advant
ages? Thoroughness of education is
the measure of woman's success. On
it she must rely to sustain her in the
march of progress she has under
taken. The girl who marries needs
her education in the management Of
her home, the care and direction of
her children, and in her relations to
society. The higher her ideals and
standards the more beneficial and
elevating will be her influence. The
bachelor girl who earns her own
living needs even more the benefits
of a thorough training in the profess
sion of her choice. Woman's work
to compete with mans must be
thorough as mans. For value
received" is the demand of the
world.