The record-union., 1897-07-19

she can possess, which, if inwrought
with the feminine impulse, will not en-
hance by so much the disciplinary min
istry she can render her children There
is no Strong -mindedness' and no COM
pleteness of college training that will
unsex her, provided only such possess
sions and acquisitions are dominated by
the feminine instinct and mortgaged to
maternal ends and purposes.
THE MOTHER BETTER PART.
Il am not saying that it is not a good
thing for a mother to go to the polls. /
am only saying that it is a greater thing,
and one requiring infinitely more tact
and genius on her part, to secure in her
boy that understanding Of the world he
Is part of, and that knowledge of the
civic relations in which he will stand
when the time comes that will guaran-
tee his own fidelity at the polls and his
own wise discharge of the obligations
that citizenship will impose.
I'VE have been given to understand
that men are very wicked and very
much disposed to neglect their civic OBJ
legations. l do not want to be un-
gallant, but I venture to remind such
accurserS that each of these wicked
unfaithful men was born of a woman,
and that if his mother had been
better and more faithful mother, the
probability is that he would have been
a better man and a more faithful citi-
zen.
II do not want to be understood as
desiring to contract the sphere Of wo-
mans operations; my feeling is that
he Cy-er
domestic laXity and miscelIaneousness
lie at the root of a good deal of the
worlds current mischief, and that how
ever becoming it may be for the sex
to organize for the promotion of pub
lie interest and for the reconstruction
of the world at large, there would be
a singular felicity In their forming ma
ternal associations, looking to the more
successful administration of their own
affairs as wives and mothers, and to
the more diligent cultivation of their
own specific diocese; and when they
have the intelligence and the heart to
take care of their own boys and girls
it is presumable that the great out
side world will be in a. condition to
take care of itself"
For woman's college education, DR..
Parkhurst believes in one which will
foster her tendency to become a home
maker-a college which is adapted to
workings of the feminine mind. Be
lieving that manhood and womanhood
are inherent in mental as we'll as in
physical conditions, he does not be-
lieve that the curriculum of a mixed
school can be made satisfactory for the
education of boys and girls. He may
find many opponents to his theory of
the reasons which lead young women
to go to college.
GA great many girls go to Vassar,
Smith, Wellesley and Barnard" he says,
because they want to be educated,
and others are going because young
men are going, and it is nice to do
what young men do To which the
thoroughly feminine tendency which he
desires to a woman's college, DR.. Park
hurst would have instructors women.
LET WOMEN TEACH WOMEN.
"I never expect to see the teaching
force of a male college made up in
part of women" he says. "Why does
it any more comport with the fitness
of things that the teaching force of
a. female college should be made up
IN whole or IN part Oh mem! Is IL NOT
pretty clear without argument that
thoroughly Womanly woman can do
more toward helping college girl to
become a woman than a thoroughly
manly man can do? We may become so
wonted to an infelicitous usage as not
to realize it's infelicity.'
Dr. Parkhurst closes his remarks up
on college education, which is the
fourth paper of the series, which orig
inally appeared in the Ladies Home
Journal" and is now published by the
Century Company in the book form
from which these extracts are taken,
with the opinion of woman who has
held an official position in a woman's
college. 1t was a college in which she
was particularly interested, being her
alma. mater, but being brought in close
contact with the young women students,
she finds that there is some influence
or other operating to weaken among
the young ladies the distinctive feat
ure of WomanlineSs.'