Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-29
CON NUM- Arioss.
Some Defects In Professor Ukita..
Vision.

f1aioR.
To the Editoror the JOURNAL AND COURIER.
AS an American woman and fellow
s.uden. of Professor UkIia at Yale upI-
vereiiy, would like to call the attention
of the readers of his recent criticism to
soms of the fscts concerning womAnhood
which be has overlooked. From reading
Professor Ukits's article. and especially
his criticism relative to woman, / infer
that hs has not come iuto intimate SC
qusintanee with many of the nobler Amer.
lean wives aud mothers. Ac uAl obssrva-
ton In their homes for con.iderKhls pc
riods of time would be necessary, and even
then q mothers holisst duties are not oS-
servpble by a gue.t Lscklns sneh &C
qusin,sncs and observation, Professor
UkIta is unaSl. to iajge fairly Of ths
moral ideals Of American mothers.
In the FIRST plsoe, ne ovsrlonks the fact
that in New EaSlsnd tas women outnuul-
Der the men, 20 that o geodly number Of
the latter cannot become wives and moth
ers. believe that many w0msn lssdiug
independent lives are not doing 60 from
preference. Some are unmarried from the
sbsence of men who come up to their
ideals of what q husband and Gather
should be. Some are working because of
the failure IN duty or the death or .lloess
of those who should have been their pro
tectors, some to aid ovsrourdened fathers
or brothers struggling To obtain sn educs-
ton. Even where the obi cot is not worth
the sacrifice the nobility Of the sacrifice
remains.
Professor UkIta alec misjudges the edu-
cation of American women. That very
righteousness which ennobles family life
Is aided by the education he cTiticlses. 1t
is an omen of good ths: an ever increasing
number of our TO be wives and mothsrs
are seeking higher education, and that the
tendency of Euch education is more and
more to at women for their noblest calling,
motherhood. Sociology, physiology, biol
ogy, the moral and social sciences in gen
ersl, even ''domsstio science" !" are coming
more and more into promiuence, and this
especially IN the colleges where women are
found as students. Thess courses Of study
are not only training woman'- powers
more sucoessfully to deal with this prob
lens OF child -d-vrlopnent. bat they are
tending TO mske woman c0lsidc: more
carefully the responsibilities involved be
fore undertaking pasentage. hope
the day Is not far distant when
every woman who hes received as an
inhsritsncs sure tendencies to certain dis
easep, physical or mental, will refuse to
transmit them to unborn generations. i
know of women who have borne q o life
long sorro< the consciousness that for them
motherhood would be a Elm Snd that the
self-sscrihee exemplified In the life and
death of the great Founder of Christianity
demanded abstinence from the joys of
motherhood. The educated woman Is
| coming more and more to see that the VIC
lation of Psychological lave relative to par
| entaSe is . deep seated evil responsible for
much misery in all lands woman ua-
trained to accurate thinking can never
/ come to a right appreciation of thsse lava
A woman may well consider whether II is
righteous for her 70 bring into 8 world
| xhuse every occupation is overcro Ed' d
/ we.kl!ngs unable TO b-sr the strain of LIE
Il is calculated by President TnwiBg of
i the Western Re=erv. university that City
/ per cent. of the women graduates Of ouF
colleges eventually marry, sud considering
/ that collegiate education has been available
/ to women scarcely Q quarter Of q century.
| se may txpe CT the number OF college edo
Gated mothers TO be largely increased
could call Professor Ukits's st'enii1n &c q
i growing msss OF literature intend-i 10
| render wcm.n's beet devslepnsnt Inost
| available for the bst,err1snt Of the home
The family is the o-<sn of progress. The
broadly educated woman - necessary for
that progress. a. long sgo ss 1885 tie
Massachusetts bureau of lEbOT s;a'is.
tics published tables showing that ihs
college cnune had b-en bet eaeial rather
than detrimental to the heath at the
women graduated previous TO 1852. aud
that their children were in very healthy y
condition, only one eighth Uf these children
having died while ore fourth Of she in-
fsu,s born of mothers In general die dur
ing the frst Eve years uf life, infant NOR
tAiity bsiug highes. where education Is
least prevalent and msrrisges occur earl
lest.
There is no doubt that men and women
are inclined to overestimst- toe importance
of money, but 1t is hkswise true that q
| moderate amount of money Is al essential
for heslihily developed family i know
| many women who have married men IN
moderate and even poor circumstances,
sometimes sacrificing much, and this is ss.
peoially true Of college women, who oftensl
marry professional than business men.
The higher education of woman In its best
form makes woman q better because more
Intelligent wife and mother. In individ.
usl cases, where the result may appear
other wise, some hidden cause spsrt from
the higher education may usually be dis
covered. In many Gases trained execntlvt
| s0iittite are worm more foT the comfort nl
home than much practice In the detail.
of Housekeeping. and tkese detsils are very
readily mastered by ihs aid of q trained
mind.
As to political life, believe that very
few of our most intelligent women desirs
1t and In very many cases women who de-
desire 10 are animated by tie idea that they
can remove some of the svils thst threaten
the home. Ny acquaintance among ou'
educated women has been somewhat ex
tensivs aud know of scarcsly any who
desire political equality with msn- The
, late Lucy Stone Blackwell often expressed
, her regret that the college women of thii
decade did not desire political privilege
| 1 believe that the fact is due to an educa
tiou broader and better than that Luel
Stonr recetyed In her western home and In
| the Obelip of her young womanhood-
Professor q Ukits calls theAmerican womsI
\ talkative, critical, social rather than do
D mestic. In many csses the easy adaptable
: meas of the American woman bides benea,l
social case, trus and deep thoughts an
1 feelings. The social In apparent vhsr