The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-09-24
EDUCATE.
A Fair Writer Speaks
ElOquently
TO THE DAUGHTERS OF COBB
And Urges Them to Educate Them.
selves at Any Cost as a Pre-.
paratiOn for Life.

The time has come when it is as
necessary that the daughters bave
the higher intellectual training that
tor ages past the cons alone have
had the pleasure of obtaining.
In former days the daughters were
treated as an inferior class of peo-
pie. 1t was thought by the majority
of men that they were only capable
of preparing ailments for the sus.
tenance of the physical being and
making garm ents for the same. TO
do these things it was not necessary
TO obtain any instruction beyond
that which their mothers could give
them. These mothers not having
the higher intellectual training it
was natural that women we're kept
ignorant of their capacities.
The father says, 81 will give my
some collegiate education, but l
can't afford to send the girls" 1t is
conceded chat they will not mount
to much under any circumstanc es.
So the world has rolled On for ages
past. Not only the fathers but the
State also said the same in action
until recently.
A faint cry was heard in the
wilderness and the chain which long
has bound woman to common place
things has been broken, and she is
being educated alongside her wise
brother. How grateful we should
be to Mrs. Atkinson for suggesting
to her husband the possibility Of
establishing a State University for
the girls.
j Seven-eighths of the teachers in
our public schools are women to- day.
Why is it so? Is it because they
are better qualified for this line OF
work? No. If that qualification
consists OF acknowledge. Yes.
If that qualification implies quick,
ness OF perception, intuition and
aptness. But you say, 81: takes all
of these qualifications mentioned to
make a teacher worthy of being
called such " So it does. Then il
nature has done so much for the
female teacher, why not acquire the
other essential qualification and be
worthy OF the profession. This truth
is being manifested throughout these
United States. Our beloved State
of Georgia is coming to the front in
this line. Not in teaching only but
in many other professions success is
browning her efforts.
Fathers and mothers educate your
daughter as well as your son, tor
you know not how soon the strong
arm that now supports her will be
cold and stiff. Oh! but you say you
expect to leave her property enough
to support Ter, or, she has brothers
who can work Tor her and there will
he no necessity to prepare her for
any kind of business. Yes, that
may be very true, but fortune may
be swept away in day. This is no
excuse, but good reason that she
should be educated, that she may
manage her estate so as to make it
remurerative. Brothers do not, as
a rule, always work for their sister
but some other fellows sister. Well
l hear you saying she will marry
J too. You don't know what: she will
, do:
J 1t might become necessary tor her
, to obtain a homo that way if you
neglect to give her the proper train.
ing, that she night win her own
bread and butter in a way, perhaps
, much more preferable to her.
, Ii you have no talent tor teaching
there are many other occupations
by which women may make an hon.
est living.
To be successful in any profession
we must acquire some knowledge o.
how to perform that work so as tC
excel many in the same line O.
business.
The Georgia Normal and Indus
trial College afford the best training
in the State for a girl, it patterl
not what sphere in lite she may
choose, whether it be to teach, sew
cook, sing, play, draw, paint, nodle
write shorthand, be a telegraph
operator or a book-keeper. These
industrial arts are taught il c9nnec
ton with the collegiate course
, These studies are not pursued a
the expense of moral and physica
culture, but a high ideal of whar
woman should be, is ever kept be-
fore the pupil, not only in words
but by living examples. Tho mora