The age-herald., 1897-10-24
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 we talked, about the result of the high CT education on w6man. And now, for some time, we have had the so called higher education for woman And with what result? Many a mother looked al her young daughter and thought: IT had only had the advantages that she shall have! If when I was young woman, I had only been taught little more, why, I should have been better wife, because I could have talked better. l should have been better housekeep- CT because I should have understood the why and wherefore of everything and I would have been a better woman all around"
 And then, this old fashioned mother denied herself her new black dress, freshened up an old bonnet, made the younger children's clothes all answer for another season, so that there might be money enough without bothering fa- ther to give the oldest girl the ad- vantage of college education. After her first year at college much was not expected of her. She told of the big buildings. of the learned professors, of her own special friends, and if she lin gered rather more lovingly over her &C., count of a game of basketball or the sports in the gymnasium than she did over the account given of her studies the good mother thought it was because it was all new to her.
 Next year she didn't come home for the vacation, but as the loving mother worked away busly at the winter ward robe sine thought with delight of the new friends her child had made, and did boast little to her neighbors about the fine folks that Jennie was visiting. II hurt her bit when Jennie wrote that she'd better not bother about making her dresses any more, as her methods were rather countrifled, but to send her the money instead And she wondered if Jennie forgot that, while she could find time to sew, it was not so easy to get ready money. But the next girl, who lacked Jennie's ambition, so they said, gave up her music lessons that the money might go to the pride of the family.
 The next summer Jennie seemed a bit of a stranger. She was d stylish look ing young lady, whose mother was bound to feel proud of her appearance. but who was forced to confess that she was afraid that Jennie was not quite so proud of the home folks Then came the time when Jennie was home for good. The younger sister. who was supposed to lack ambition. though busy teaching away in kindergarten so that she might have money for those dearly loved music lessons, found time, nevertheless, to make Jennie's room look like dainty nest, waiting for this bird that had flown so far away from home.
 And when she came, There was no ap- preciation for the pretty curtains. She threw her dusty bag. did Jennie. on the pretty, white draped bed and her self into an easy chair, with scarcely a greeting for anybody. And then-well, then-nobody knew what to do
 Here was a strange young lady, a young lady who might know great deal as far as books went. but who knew very little as far as good manners were concerned. The stay-at-home sis ter had a great piece of news for her. there was to be a vacancy in one of the large schools, and the entire neighbor- hood expected it to be offered to the girl who had been to college and who represented that higher education of women But this young lady announced that she didn't intend to bury herself in any country hole.
 This Jennie was a strange one to the l people about her. She did not hesitate | to correct before other people the mis- l takes made by that dear mother, and l she hesitated less at snubbing every | girl who hadn't had the same advan- tages as she. She forgot that as the years went by it was by no means un- usual, especially when the heart did much loving and the heart continually taught the brain the lesson of unself- ishness, that those earlier lessons
 
 And the mother who had denied herself many of the necessities of life that her eirl might be properly taught shed many bitter tear when she learned that her daughter was ashamed of her. And the others. who had hoped to be 50 proud of her. learned 10 dislike her because she continually found fault-be- lieved that there was nothing good ex- ccpt that which came out of her col lege.
 Oh, how tired everybody got hearing about her college. And yet Jennie was not a well educated girl. Her knowl- edge, like that of many another girl who was proud graduate of Jones' col lege or Thomas Brown university, was entirely superficial. She could not write well, she knew little of geography while her brother of 12 could correct her spelling and arithmetic.
 You think I don't know what I am talking about Here's a truthful state- ment for you: Out of 800 letters written by graduates of various colleges in this country, 800 in writing and spelling would have been a disgrace to a girl of 12 years who had attended the public school.
 can't tell you whether the trouble is with the college or the girl, but the av- craze graduate of the feminine sex is seven times out of ten either a bore or a cad. Her corceit Is unparalleled. When she poses as a learned lady she is n laughing stock to people who know better. When her fame in college has been great as an athlete, she is as tire some as a boy telling of his prowess in the ballfield. without his youth and wit as an excuse for him.
 The athletic college girl is awkward in any except the semimasculine get up. She finds 1t difficult to look. move or act like lady. Being in the habit