The San Francisco call., 1897-04-29

shoulders TO all kinds of wheels whereby they
have learned the value of trained hand di-
rected by a trained mind. the pleasure OF
broadening horizon. until they have given the
impetus to the many women who now seek
wisdom for wisdom's sake.
With all that can be said pro and con of the
movement that has swept woman in the direc-
ton of higher educa tion and independence,
with all the ahsurditieS and attendant follies,
with all the unlovely, unwomanly extremes,
the movement that will give US broad minded,
trained women is essentially sound and
healthy and in the right direction. In 1t lies
no menace to men, there is no barbarian
horde OF women prepared 10 descend upon the
Holy Roman Empire of positions which meC
should occupy. The great bulk of women will
not be bread-winners but mothers. Whatever
influence the workaday women will have
Will be an equalizing one. II is a better cond!-
tfon OF affairs where 100 men are employed at
81 day tnan where fifty men are working for
S2 day. When necessity adds women to the
number of provioers she adds them to both
equations, and the fact remains the same.
do not mean 10 say all women who are occu-
pied are lmpeIled by sheer necessity. Some
ind they are happier in the employment OF
their faculties.
TIRED OF THE TALKING WOMAN.
But there is too much said about women. l
think the woman question has been discussed
ad nauseam. AS I have said before, the great
bulk OF women will not be bread winners but
mothers, and any system OF education that
fails 10 emphasize this end of educa-
tional means swells the number OF women
freaks. Any system of educa ton that does
not put halo about the name OF home and
mother defeats itself, takes away life's mean
ing, takes away the power OF knowing the
truth and OF seeing things as they are.
We are tired OF the women who talk for
talks sake; we are weary OF the woman who
uses the woman question as means of rush.
ing herself into pI Iominence that she has not
earned and does not merit, one who has no
right to an opinion or the expression OF il.
There are practically no restrictions on
ha irpi ifafi -
nature has imposed upon her. UnQuesuon-
ably she has the opportunity of getting all the
training she wants, all the education she can
carry. The few universities VINO are trying to
be unique in Carrying conservatism into the
twentieth century Will open their doors
when superior trained women ask admit
come universal 1t will take the women
who wear frizzes and false hair, who
cons ult mediums, who buy stocks and
lottery-tlckets and clamor for their rights,
longer TO accomplish anything than for a
bloomer brigade 10 build he Panama canal.
Nobody feels kindly toward the man who
whistles one tune necessarily. If this were a
common practice among men the great bod "
OF lawmakers would have a seance or two and
there would appear a notice alongside the
sntl-expectoration notices-there would even
be posters on the fences against the man who
whistled continuously tine Huckleberry
Coon" 81 Want Yer, Ma Honey" or any other
such specimen OF musical literature.
MERIT VS.. SEX.
l never could see the sense in having a
woman's building at the Worlds Fair II a
woman be a painter let her hang her pictures
in the art building, not the woman's building.
If woman do any piece of work let it be put
into competition with other work of the same
kind and stand or fall by reason of its own
merit, and not put a premium on it because fl
has been done by the fair hand OF a woman
The TACT that woman made a certain broom
would not recommend ii TO anybody buying a
broom If 1t were not a well-made broom; and
this fact holds good in the brain markets of
the world.
have not time to speak OF higher education
to-day. believe in il if the price be not too
b gb. man pays too high a price for an
education when he sacrifices his mothers, his
fathers or his own health. The doctrine of
something FOR nothing'i is q bad doctrine; so
IS the doctrine OF something for too much"
There will always be men and women n,
long as this movement for higher edu cation
lasts, who will strain every nerve to go 10 coll
lege, and should have gone TO work whose
parents have been improvident Of unfortunate
or poor, and who have not earned for them a
privilege which, if they wish to enjoy. they
must earn for themselves. If an education
come later there Will be but training ADDED
TO experience. If it come not at ali at is
better TO have loved and lost than never to
have loved al ALL" These educational para