Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-05-29

the Cary sisters. Notwithstanding the
women should be accomplished without &C.
complishing anything, they had kept at
work and been steadily getting ahead.
The men have got to take measures i'm
mediately or else it will be too late. He
would have the work begin this evening.
The women should be excluded from the
Unity Club. How delightful the meetings
would then be. The women have crowded
the men out of the club, out of the
churches, out of the magazines. He thought
they must be annihilated in the sense the
good preacher used it when he prayed that
the beloved queen might be annihilated.
Judge Hall said the good old forefathers
saw the difficulty ahead of having the
women acquire learning. 1t was $50 years
before women were allowed in the public
schools Of Massachusetts. It's only 20
years since the girls were allowed in the
high schools of that state. The judge here
read what Cato once said to the old Ro-
mans GAS soon as ever they are equal
they will be above you"
Mrs. c. C. Hunt was the next speaker,
responding to-: ''Should Women Have
Been Allowed to Acquire knowledge of
the Alphabet"
Mrs. Hunt had found herself in doubt as
to the scope of the query. After various
speculations it had occurred to her that
possibly some of the lords of creation, in
solemn council, had feared that with the
privileges accorded, woman had been in
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possibly before the nobler sex was totally
eclipsed, these special favors should be
withdrawn.
have hindered her acquiring knowledge.
Men have written gallant things about her
intuition. Shakespeare said: "Make the
doors upon womans wit and twill out at
the easement; shut that and twill out at
the keyhole; stop that and twill fly with
the smoke out at the chimney" Assum-
ing that the question was a challenge to
establish proof that the results accruing
from the education of women were justify
ing the permission accorded her to make of
herself all that is possible, Mrs. Hunt
traced the progress of women from the
patriotic, missionary, philanthropic, liter
medical, legal, social, etc. Notable women
who have achieved success along various
lines of work were named. The response
closed with Elizabeth Stuart Phelps words
concerning Mrs. Mary A. Livermore at
is good to have her power, her wisdom, her
influence and her fame. 1t is better to
have her tenderness, her self-oblivion, her
human happiness and her home. 1t is best
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these qualities and quantities with a grace
which has not fallen short of greatness, and
that she has accomplished greatness with
out expunging grace" This should be true
of every woman who becomes prominent in
any public activities.
Mrs. Hunts paper was bright in every
line and sparkled with wit.
A piano solo by Mrs. Brickett was the
first and one of the most delightful of the
musical selections.
Mrs. Frank r. Partridge read a very
clever and sensible paper in response to the
question, "Does it Pay the Average Man
or Woman to Keep Informed as to the Cur
rent Popular Literature?"
She said she had never attempted
this and could see no good in delug-
ing ones self with such flood of
matter. Keeping posted she considered
worse than useless. There were published
in this country last year, 90 900 magazines
and periodicals.. In other countries, $4,000.
She felt pleased that in the schools efforts
are being made to cultivate literary taste
and love for the best books. There is much,
however, that is helpful in current litera-
ture, and which future generations will
read with pleasure and profit. How much
better to read these and the grand old books
than attempt to keep posted on all the pass
ing literature. Some Of the books doing
the most good are not the most popular.
She was willing that others should first
read, weigh and dissect the new book, and
if it stood the test she would read it.
Among the current books she thought it
well to keep thoroughly posted on and
whose contents should be carefully exam
ined, is the pocket book.
Master Stanwood beautifully rendered
flute solo, Miss Stanwood accompanying on
the piano.
Prof. A. H. Brainard's subject was
"The Aptitude of Boys and Girls for Lit
erary Studies"
There 10 natural aptitude in all nature.
Brooks have an aptitude to flow, birds to
sing. Individuals have an aptitude for
drawing, for mechanics, for farming. In
many cases it amounts to talent. But
there is an acquired aptitude, the result of
surroundings. In the majority of cases
there is a natural aptitude for literature,
just as there is for beauty, grandeur or
music.
But this will lie dormant unless cult
waited. Every animate object depends for
its existence on self and surroundings. The
development of self by those surroundings
determines the value of the object. A tree
will not grow if air, light and soil are taken
away. The natural aptitude will not.' be-
come all that we would wish unless it 10
made to grow.
How can this be done? In the same way
muscles are made strongly exercise-by
placing in the hands of boys and girls the
classics. There are books to suit all sges.
The beauties of the thought. style and ex-
preston must be taught, as we'll as histori-
cal facts and moral lessons. The seed thus
sown will engender taste for the best lit
erature and distaste for trash.
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