The herald., 1895-04-27

have distinguished themselves in either
fiction or art. but they have published a
great number of such works as studies OF
the Superior Inciso,s and Canine Teeth
Of Sheep; Complete History oi the Slave
Question; Origin and Developments OF
Central Nervous System in Lima Maxi
mus: Studies of Bacteria, Personal Char
acter OF Dante as Revealed in His Writ
ings; The Vetoing Power of the Presi-
dent. Johns Hopkins conferred its:highest
deree on Miss Florence Bascom for her
work in petroloy.
Most college women join the ianks OF the
strong minded. and their continually
widening influence has had much to do
with the steadily prevailing trend OF com
mon sense and the ripening M pubic
opinion on the question of equal SNlirl2e
/ here is evidence enough that. gwen the
requisite training and fair field. woman
commands success in any line that she
undertakes; whether in departments oil
learning and skill or in the business
world, We find that women have been
more exceptional in their training than
in Their genius. They have excelied the
average of their own sex simply because
thev have bad more of the ordinary ;td-
vantages of the other sex.
If one generation has seen this ad-
vance. what may be expected when sew
eral generations shall have proflted by
the increasing opportunities Tor training,
and the mental development and str ngth
that result from the broader knowledge OF
the world and the greater contact OF So
ciety that obtains among us today? In
considering the larger field OF activities
now open to women we must emoer
that we are but few decades removed
from the time when men were mobped
for teaching women a trade-when the
man who first employed woman as
bookkeeper almost lost his business
when the first merchant who employed
women as clerks was boycotted by both
men and women: when ministers re-
fused TO occupy pulpits and lecturers re-
fused to speak from platforms where
women had stood when the first women
to study medicine were not only sneered
at by men. but avoided oy women. 1t
was from the pulpit that the vulgaity was
first perpetrated of designating women
political meetings as gatherings OF
Growing hens.
Instead of the standards heretofoe set
up for women, the modern woman recog-
nlzes herself as a child OF God, AID per-
hsps a few steps nearer the throne than
her brother. She needs no priests TO
stand between her and her Maker and
translate to her the Divine intention.
When the Creator implanted in her
breast the instinct of motherhood stronger
than that of life itself, he appointed no
Parkhurst or Buckley or young Edward
Box TO teach her duty to her children. If
her nature is God-given, and SO vastly
superior to that of man, wherefore the
solicitude of these self-appointed guar
dians of her manners and her morals? II
she was tn. browning work of crea zion, as
they are fond of saying. and the Creator
looked upon his handiwork and called 1t
good, he left then no instruction about
keeping it good.
The age of chivalry. with its sloppy
sentimentality and its low estimate OF
women, was laughed to death by the
generation that read Don Quixote.
Woman decided that it was no advantage
to her sir knight 10 ride tilt in her be-
half; that sonnet to he- eyebrow availed
nothing if her Troubadour husband had
the privilege of beating her when the
fancy changed. Having resigned these
ornamental advantages, the threat OF the
modern scions OF chivalry to withdraw
from women certain special courtesies
that still remain-such as lifting a hat on
the highway-has no terrors for women
who are facing the serious problems OF
life. The relations between the sexes
should embody more profound respect,
a more sincere devotion than that in
volved in superficial courtesies. A crust
thrown TO beggar, favor granted to an
humble supplicant or conventional con-
cession to an inferior does not awaken IN
man the highest Keeling OF respect.
Rather let men and women meet Oh the
plane of intellectual and moral equality.
preserving their self-respect on both sides,
and the matter of etiquette will take care
of itself. The modern woman wants no
special attentions based on her condition.
of servilty.
The intelligent woman knows better
than any other what is best and dearest
in life. Her affections are not less deep
because her svmpathies are broader. She
is no more likely to forsake her home and
& L,ra 81, Co. l1 10 or
the merchant his ships. because she
would have a voice in making the laws
under which she and her daughters must
live. 1t is not the advanced woman whose
husband goes buttonless while she en-
broiders slippers for her pastor 1t is not
the strong-minded woman who neglects
her children while she concocts pink teas
to raise money for the minister's salary.
1t is the weak, dependent, clinging-vine
r.ature who has no purse of her own. 1t
the strong minded woman who is an
lpmeet unto her husband. and who
will do him good and not evil all tie days
vi his life. " 1t is the woman with in
''riseth up while it is yet night" and
''looketh we'll to the ways of her house
hold" She herself is not afraid to in
wade the precincts of men, for she de
livereth girdles unto the. merchants; she
''maketh hne linen and seleth it; she
cOnSldereth neid ana Duyeth II; With
the fruit of her own hands she planteth
vineyard" She understands the laws of
trade for ''she perceiveth that her mer
chandse is good. She is given to physi
cal culture for ''she girdeth her loins with
strength and Strengthened her arms.
She is no over-worked drudge in these
days of invention and division of labor,
for ."she maketh herself coverings OF
tapestry and her clothing is purple and
fine silk. Her husband is known in the
gates when he sitteth among the elders
Of the land" Her children rise up
and call her blessed" Tor the inheritance
she has gwen them-mental. moral and
| physical. She is the companion and
| Trend of her husband, for ''he praiseth
her. and Ibis heart doth safely trust in
| her." He hath respect unto her judy
ment. for she openeth her mouth with
wisdom" GIVE unto her the traits Of
| her hands and let her own works praise
| her in the gates. "(fhc words OF King Lem
uel, being the prophecy that his mother
taught him. recorded in the thirty first
chapter Of the Book OF Proverbs.
! Now. if all this is wrong-if it is a
! thing to be deplored that woman should
be able to stand alone then the root OF
| the evil goes back to the time when she
| felt the first glimmering Of intellect.
! Indeed H. Fl. Boyesen tells us that
trouble began in Eden only when Eve
had her discussion on higher education
| with the serpent. IL was wisdom rather
than wit in Marichal, who proposed to
| the first Napoleon in 1901 the promulga-