The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1894-05-23

words, with so much prnhclencY only
IN singing and playing as will insure
| livelihood. AS an 0rnamenf it will not
be taught at all, and those lacking Ir
specIai talent will not receive tuition
| init But done understand me as
| meaning that We intend only to hf
those who enter the Industrial depart
meprs for making their own support.
| We will have a iauhdry, where the
girls do their oGu washing a9d ironing.
-rhe CHEMISTRY and practice # cookery
| Glll be t1ught ard everything conuec'
| I'd with Housekeeping. The dining
room ard ore, smaklng depart mtrts,
,ud all 'har goes 10 make up thos-
| fhousaDd aod one things which d
| WOmAs hnS - do - m ake pie ssHn'
home vii; tx tau&h IN the best MAD
LIT possible. T5ey &I'l De taught ny
haVing them drnr BY the students
then selves, for We will have no ser.
| wants except for the drudgery work.
| AL he ois luciopS OF wealth will be
do8e aWa4 with Every pupil in th-
school will b. TeQui. ed TO wear uIl
| torn and q g,rl's whole c!othi0g on'h'
| FIR d wear Will cost not exceeding S2O
Pn geLIlng Ill neep water here, 1or L
am not aitogether skiilHd IN 'hlS de-
vart ntut, out | kn0S every father AMI
bushaud VIII sympathlZo VlCh our as
OiraG0Gs along this line, and l Will
SIMPLY say as corollary that have
daughter off at boarding school who
baS ben gone nearly year. she car
risd cE big Saratoga trunk full and
Der muIheT has sent heI so many dress
| rs since she lett that she will have to
buy smother trunk to get back home
wlth. And We are determined that no
girl shsli leave the winthrop College
With or bring 10 it Saratoga trunk.
There will be 10 conflict or rivalry De-
tween the normal and industrial de-
partmenis. In fact the normal stu
dents will be required to take indus
trial training in order that we may be
able to have manual training taught
By the Winthrop graduates in our tree
common schools, when this feature
shall be grated on 10 our school sys-
tenn. rs we hope to see done ere long.
Now I'm going TO do some very plain
talking. While our aspirations and
ambitions are all in the direction OF
fitting women for self-support, both as
the teacher and as folio Wers of indus.
trial ayocations, l want 1t understood
that I, at least, am irrevocably opposed
TO anything being doDe or taught here
that will tend in the slightest degree to
rub the bloom off the peach. God for
bid that this school shall ever send
forth a woman who has been ulsexed.
We would have the clinglng, helpless
creature able to stand erect aud walk;
we would have the bird il necessary
given wings to fly from home sick ave-
nues of inden eudence; but never, new
er, never have any of the daughters CT
South Carolina, who shall be trained
within these walls, by reason of the
strength and self-respect which we
hope to impart here. become other than
helpful wives and happy, self.respect-
full mothers. Wom9n's special PROV
ince in life is that of home-maker.
Her greatest glory, her proudest dis
tinctioD, the object Of her creation, in
fact, is thst of metherhood.
"Womsu, Gods last, best gift to man,
is associated with all that is brightest
and noblest and best in mems lives. AS
daughter, sister, sweetheart, wife,
mother, she is an inspiration and so.
lace. AS wife, she doubles mans
joys and halves his sorrows, simply by
sharing them; but the hollest, purest
most self sacrificing love in the world
is that of a mother. Il is to fit women
to be mothers-high, noble, properly
trained mothers, the natural and prop
er guardians of chiloren-that this
school is founded. We will start it In
that path, give il the bias and direc-
tlon to which it should DO held, aud
thus Cest discharge the h,gh duty lm-
posed roOn US by those who have
placed usin control.
Contrast the picture have drawn Of
d woman trained in all the domestic
arts and economies and some bread
winning occn patton; self-r-liant and
strong, yet Wilhal modest, self-respec.
ing and Iadylke, with what we some
times see, oftener read ao0ut-a strong
minded, bold, brazen, pert, selr.assert
lug female. .pratiDg Of "Woman's rights"
mans tyranny and selfsbness,the degra-
dation of uurSIng children, and go On
adnauscam-tne fest picture to fus-
rrate Words 0or;h's noble lines:
"She was phantom Of delight,
When first sne cleaned upon my sight,
A lovely appa ition, sent
To be moments ornament;
Her eyes as stars Of twilight fair.
kiEe twirghts. too, her dusky hair,
But all things else about her drawn
From Max. time and the cheerful dawn.
"a creature not to bright CT good
For human natures daily food;
For transient SORROWS. simple wileS,
Praise, blame love, kisses tear and smiles,
The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight st,engh and skill;
A perfect woman, nobly planned,
10 warn, to comfort, and command"
OF The other have 10 fit description,
fer poets have never sung her praises,
but ner position in the estimation of
all right thinking men and women can
be pretty well set forth in the last line
OF piece Of doggerel brought home
from school few days ago by my lit
tie six year-Old daughter, who took
great delight in repeating it:
81 know little girl
With little curl
Hanging right down her forehead,
When she is good.
She is very, very good.
But when she is bad she is horrid."
These composite, unnatural, unsexed
women, striving to be like men, and to
do like men, have lost all of the finer
graces and charms which have always
made men the slaves of the sex, and
have gained nothing in exchange ex.
cept their own morbid self. esteem.
Such women are simply "horrid," and
it will be the ambition and care Of all
friends of this College that it shall
never send forth and harbor one of
these "horrid" creatures. Every true
man acknow Wedges the existence and
pays dae respect to "woman's rights"
Words worth gives her the right to
command, and all men since Adam set
us the example in obedience, even to
do evil, have obeyed when the behest
was given by true woman in wom-
anly way.
The young men who will be trained
at Clemson in the manner have ind1-
Gated will naturally look higher and
oooE onoopr tho stD6an%e Dho will 70ck