The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-10-13
HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN.



iionaire is Doing to Advance II.
The opening OF the Drexel institute in
Philadelphia marks another forward
step IN the enlarged provision for the
education OF women. The institution is
indeed designed for the training OF both
young mon and women but Its adyan-
tages are equally available to either sex,
and the beneticent purpose OF the found
er, as we happen 10 know has had espe'
cially In mind, the enlargement of the
opportunities for women IN the direc-
ton particularly OF manual and kindred
training Ii was gracious purpose
and what has been noby planned has
been nobly built.
No structure for kindred use so
complete and stately, exists today in
this country A vast expenditure Of
money hil- been attended with excellent
taste and marvellous thoronghness Of de-
tail. II elegant and costly surroundings
are themselves IN education in one
sense undoubtedly they are-then those
who are TO be- pupils within the walls Of
the Drexel institute will have daily
stimulus to do worthy work in worthy
way
The range OF teaching runs all the
way from cooking TO bookkeeping and
stenography and includes some eleven
departments more or less kindred to
these Any one who knows what Amer
ican cooking ut Its average point is
will invoke u blessing on this new center
Of sweetness and light and any busi.
ness man who nas striven to uliIster the
lntriracy OF feminine accounts W. kept
by the girl OF the period, Will he glad
TO learn that the Sex Is to learn ut east
that Il checkbook full OF blank checks
does not mean an account with an in
definite balance TO the credit. But when
this is said It is we'll to recognize that
the education OF women, IN its highest
sense, calls for something more than the
enlargement of opportunities for techni
cal training
1t is undoubtedly true that the de-
inand in this country Is more and more
for that kind Of education which can be
converted quickest to some wage earn.
ing purpose, and IN the case OF women
this is especially the case, but what a
people want Is, after all, very imper-
feet measure OF what they need, and ad
mirabe as is every provision which be-
neticence may make for the training oi
women in bread earning handicrafts, II
IL not, and cannot be, her highest train
ing
Whether for better or worse, we have
emanclpated her from the old imita
tions which so largely shut her away
from direct contact with what for wan,
Of better phrase, | may call outdoor
life She has been hidden to stand upol
her own feet, to earn her own bread, Il
live her own life, II no man asks her X
come and be the center of his home anC
share his life with him Ii already
everywhere the ballot has not been pu
In her hand in many places II has beer
or soon will be
She IL IN directories, on school boards
charitable commissions IN edltorla
chairs lnspects amshouses aud lnsan,
asylumA, and, in Il word Is or is likel!
10 be hidden to u great many tasks il
which il will not in the smallest degre
help her that she can handle a telegraph
key or play on typewriter For task
such as | have indicated, women wan
extra scientific knowledge Of the highes
character. training in the habit o
thinking accurately and reasoning log
ically, and discipline Of chose mobiles
powers Of the mind which, it cannot b
denied, ages Of domestic subordinatiol
have done little to awaken or develop.
1t may be urged, indeed, that won
ans lntuitions are usually better an
surer than q mans most labored conclu
sions, and there is truth in such plea
But the subject of intuitions is, unles
some other powers are developed, nc
unlikely to be also the subject Of emo
tions which, for the time being, dismis
mere Intentions wholly out Of the hor
zon II women are given the ballot W
are told that they will use it quite d
often as d weapon to express their III
reasoning dislikes as they will to enforc
their better convictions; and the charg
ia, or easily may be, true, until a woma
has learned enough political and soci'
economy TO realize that her ballot Is
weapon with which to guard both I'll
sanctities Of the state and the hearth
stone, rather than cowhide with whic
to chastise an unpopular candidate.
Henry z. Potter in New York Post.
Wraps and Sundries.
The slender, graceful effects in Dire
now considered most elegant require I'll
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