The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-29
WONANOFTHEFUTURE
She Should Be Educated, indie
pendent, Sef-Reliant.
NO NEED OF So-cAIIED RIGHTS
The Pointed Address OF Mrs. j. w.
Moore Before the r. e. o. Club
ct Chautauqua.


last Wednesday was supplied by the
p e 0. Club. Of this city. The p. z.
o. Club, though well known in the East
ern and Middle states. is almost a
stranger IN TEeNorthwest Originally a
college organization. including only un-
married ladies, IL D as grown until now its
members reside IN every state in the
Union. and many OF the states contain
active chapters. Several states have
grand, or state. chapters. and two years
ago these various state organizations
sent representatives TO Waterloo. Ia,
where was formed what is known as the
Suprerne Grand Chapter OF p. Z. O.
The main object Of the organization OF
these societies - the development of a
general culture and refinement. and IN
the attempt 20 secure this, literature,
music and art are combined with the
highest neral ma social aims. All the
Influences are interviewer which tend TO
the forma ton % a well-roundsd moral
character. charitable work finding a
well recognized place among these. Feb
ruary ., 1898. Mrs. J. ". Moore. p. E.
O. of a Nebraska chapter, organized the
chapter here, known as Chapter A, Of
WASHINGTON. This chapter is now COM
posed OF twenty-five working members
and includes some OF the most cultured
ladies' OF Seattle. The programme on
Wednesday, besides readings by Mrs.
Alice Augustine kyer and general dis
cussion OF woman as she is and the ideal
one she Is to be Included the following
address by Mrs. John W. Moore:
What Is Education.
.sThe common conception OF the term
education IS the amount OF learning from
hooks that is acquired in the years of
ones school life, when in reality il forIas
but a part. and very small part. Of a
real education. OF course, book learning
is a very essential part OF an education.
hut IL is by no means the most essential.
School education develops our reasoning
faculties and memory. but there are many
faculties which lie dormant and TO
amount of book work Will ever develop
them. Ten years study of place VIII
not give you the real knowledge OF that
place that Will one years residence
there and so it is in our education: we
lack experience TO develop, through Their
use. the powers OF mind which are innate.
sIt Is a weli-known fact that an organ
of the body which is allowed to remain
inactive will eventually become useless
powerless. So with the faculties; from
inactivity from generation TO generation.
there are women especially who are
never developed, and IL Is reasonable to
presume. as evolution shows in physical
things. that there comes time when
these particular faculties do not exist at
all This is the application or the OFT
quoted Bible text: For unto every one
who hath shall be given, and he shall
have abundance: but from him that hath
not. shall be taken away even that he
hath
"Facuities are powers or capacities in
herent In the human mind, as under
standing will, judgment. memory, mag
nation and the like We all know per-
sons who seem devoid of one or more of
the above-named faculties, though We
can not affirm that they do not possess
them. kindergarten work had done much
10 develop in children faculties which
neither they nor their parents seemed TO
possess. which shows that the faculties
existed. but for lack of cultivation, edu-
cation in this line, IL was useless.
'~rhe average woman is treated as a
child in important matters of life be-
cause the faculties whose development Is
necessary to understand those things. are
not Observation-Disclosures. She Is not ox-
neeted TO understand financial conditions
in a sense she has no right to; hence, she
Is not consulted. Her husband does not
tell her OF the rise and fall of stocks,
perhaps TO shield her from worry; more
probably because she would not under
stand anything about IL IL he did tell
her. The woman who can properly and
promptly fill out check or understand
ingiv purchase a draft Is an exception.
D1rinr three years work as assistant
cashier of a bank can honestly say net
one woman in fifty upon whom / waited
could do one or the other.
Woman the Fqual of Man.
eff a woman Is found who can do this
thing cieverly is she considered by men
stronF-rninded or unwomanly? No. DO
not lay at the door Of man the sin OF the
hfndrance Of broader education OF wo-