The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-11-22
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THE last half century, says Mn
Jennie Lozier, ex-president Of SorosiE
marks a marvellous advance in tho
education uf women. From the strug.
giles of Mary Lynn of Mount Holyoke
and Emma Willard of Troy to the open
ing of Johns Hopkins, Yale and Har,
ward tG women stretches a period OF
unfagging effort and brilliant success
There have been many similar move
ments in the past when women seemed
about to enter into their rightful inher-
itance. They demonstrated the posi-
hilities of women by their achievements
but the conditions Of society were unfa-
gorable Because of the leisure, wealth
snd freedom of thought which now pre-.
vail as the results of civilization indis-
pensahle to culture we have now an
environment which gives permanency
and vigor to any attainments we may
make There is an axiom that the status
of woman is an infallible index of prog.
ress. This test ranks our civilization
higher than any that has preceded it
Women's clubs have gone into the home
and brought the homekeepers into the
current of affairs. 1t has gathered an
army of good women whose misfortune
was perhaps to have been horn too soon,
women whose education, incomplete in
the beginning, had been completely
buried by an avalanche of shirts and
puddings These women were in dan.
ger of meutal starvation. They needed
some influence to give them an outlook
beyond the walls of home and an inlook
into their own mental condition. This
influence emanates from the women's
Stub.
''A womaas first duty is to make
aerself strong, intellectual, brave and
happy, and then to build her home
train her children, enlighten public ssz
dmsnt and maiakain social purity.
Human Flesh Eaters,
Ii the northern part of Canada theTs
are still several Indian tribes who ate
human flesh. In Guiana and in the
0rinoco we still find Caribbeans whe
have the honor of having furnished the
oame for that terrible custom of eat
ing human flesh. Cannibal comes frors
Caribs or CaTibales, corruptions Of Cali
bis or Canibis, the name Of the inhabit.
ants of the Antilles when Columbus ar
riged there. On the upper Amazon, bS-
tween the rivers and the borders Of the
Bolivia, live the Tupis Guaraniens,
Who manifest liking for human flesh,
Cannibals are common in Australasia
sbe Papuans, Karnkiens and Battakieps
being the most distinguished. Canni'
balis1n is, however, considered the main
trait of the New Hebrides There are
more human flesh eaters in Africa thar
anywhere else.
Cannibalism is not sign Of Low
state Of civilization, for many cannibai
races stand higher in culture than those
who abhor the custom. Many cannibals
live in regions full of ordinary food, but
they prefer human flesh as delioacy
the men forbidding their wives ana
slaves to eat 1t. In northern Australasia
1t seems that the dead are eaten. Herod'
otus tells US that it was the custom In
India for the young to kill the old and
eat them to insure their future saliva.
ton, and we are told that the old folks
desire to be killed before they grow toe
old and less appetizing. st, Louis Post
Dispatch.
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